Teaching | Sabbath as Resistance | Sabbath E03
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
“Sabbath is an act of resistance, a prophetic act over against the accomplishment and accumulation of our society.”
In a culture that is addicted to the twin drugs of accomplishment and accumulation, sabbath is how we “fight” back against Egypt, Pharaoh, and his empire. John Mark continues his biblical theology on sabbath with an exploration of work and rest in the story of the Exodus.
Key Scripture Passages: Exodus 20v8; Deuteronomy 5v12-15; Nehemiah 13v15-22
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the Sabbath practice. |
| 0:13.0 | I love Christmas, |
| 0:19.0 | I love Christmas, |
| 0:21.0 | haters gonna hate. I know it's less of a thing with each passing year, but I love it. |
| 0:27.0 | As a dad, I love to give to my three children. And every Christmas I give and this is honestly more for me |
| 0:35.7 | than for my children but I give Star Wars Legos even to my daughter who doesn't |
| 0:40.2 | really care but hey just I'm all for it, right? |
| 0:43.5 | Gender neutrality right there. |
| 0:45.8 | And I mean, just think about that, |
| 0:49.2 | Star Wars and Legos together. It's like two of the best things in the universe in the same place. |
| 0:56.0 | It's fantastic. |
| 0:57.0 | This last Christmas, I went in with my parents and my little brother in the back |
| 1:02.0 | and we gave Moses, 10 year old boy the |
| 1:05.4 | Millennium Falcon which is like that's an expensive set right and not the one that's |
| 1:09.6 | been around for years the new one from the Lando Calrizian era when it was white and blue |
| 1:14.6 | before it was all beat up in the Kesselron just beautiful and he was over the |
| 1:20.6 | moon he is still a month later literally sleeping with it next to his bed. |
| 1:26.0 | But you know we all know there's a dark underbelly to Christmas and that is the way it's been capitalized on, literally as in capitalism, by the kind of rampant materialism of our society. |
| 1:41.0 | And I watch this dynamic unfold every single Christmas where I buy a Star Wars |
| 1:46.5 | LEGO set for one of my kids or all of my kids and then they start to put it together |
| 1:51.2 | and it comes with a direction packet. |
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