Let me dive in to thou shalt as we continue this look at the 10 commands we're going to read from the fourth commandment tonight.

And then I'm going to pray and dive in as we look at the commandment that is given more airtime or there are more words on than any other command as God just goes through the list of, hey, these are the things that I want my people who were just set free from slavery but don't know how to live free to be able to do inside of their life.

So this comes from Exodus chapter 20 verse 8 through 11. It's where we'll be tonight and I'm going to read that and then we will pray and dive it in says this God speaking in the nation of Israel says.

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Six days you shall labor and do all of your work but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God on it you shall not do any work neither you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male or female slave or servant nor your animals nor any foreigner residing in your towns for in six days the Lord made the heavens in the earth and the sea and all that is in them but you rested on the seventh day.

Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy let me pray we'll dive in.

Father would you teach us from your word would just these instructions that were given thousands of years ago to your people minister today to the hearts of your people and lead and instruct our lives would you break through just the distractions fighting for our attention break through the hardens of your life.

Through the hardness of heart that our own sin and just the reality of having a sinful heart can create.

And would you give us eyes to see and encounter the living God and the life and abundant life the free life that he wants for us to experience we love you amen.

Well when I was in college I had a chance to be part of the track team where I went to college and I did I was a part of the field part of track called Javelin which is not very impressive there's like four people who do it so not a lot of conversation if you know you know anyone wants to be in a collegiate sport environment so I was a part of this team and every single year one of the things that we would do as a training or a part of training was this day would come called the obstacle course day and it was my freshman year I never heard of the obstacle course.

I didn't know much about it but as the semester progressed everyone would talk about the obstacle course it's the worst day of the entire year just get ready to have your entire body filled with lactate acid and it's just going to be miserable it's the hardest training thing that we do and so I'm like man how hard can it be what's it going to look like.

So today finally comes and I begin to see what the obstacle course is where they're at the track stadium and the coach begins to say here's what you're going to do each one of you will essentially do two laps of this obstacle course where you will perform a series of running and jumping over these different hurdles and you will run over to the stadium bleachers and you will snake four sets of bleachers carrying a 16 pound weight and then carrying a 30 pound weight.

So you're up to 16 pound weight up run back jump around the run around the lap around the track jumping over the hurdles grab a 30 pound weight carry it with you and jump over the hurdles again carry it over there and snake the bleachers he looks at me so David you're going to set the pace so I was a young new guy didn't exactly know you know what this would look like but he's like you're going to set the pace so you're going to kick it off and start it for all of us and I'm like man all right show time here we go show moves boss okay and so I get ready I'm mentally trying to think through what my strategy is here and he says go and all of a sudden I take a

break off and I am just like I don't know if it was a drill in or nerves but I'm just in a full out dead sprint and I'm carrying this shot put and I'm going over the hurdle and I'm snake in the bleachers and I'm running up things and I'm like oh my gosh I think maybe I was born to be a sprinter I was made to do this I am like I'm breaking records I can see the coach over there showing stop watch and and I can tell like man things are really going good set down the shot put begin to snake the bleachers again which just means to run up them and run down I'm in case you're not following me and and I go back pick up the 30 pound weight

and I begin to start lap number two and all of a sudden it's like everything in my body was like we gave it all we had shut her down okay and like I couldn't move I'm climbing up stairs and my legs are beginning to wobble out and I can barely feel anything and I I go from a dead out sprint like you saying bolt to just I'm just walking and carrying the weight and like literally to the point where I mean like crowds that track team is now gathering around being like oh my gosh this is I haven't a pity party for like

so many put it put him out of his misery what is this man doing here he clearly doesn't belong here and I'm running and and I had to walk the entire thing and I and I finally finish and I get over there and I just collapse on the ground and the coach comes over and he goes man that was the fastest first lap I've ever seen

and he had like this thick accent I won't even try but that was the slowest second lap I've ever seen and I got last place I mean I got last beyond every all the shot put people everybody I came in like minutes and minutes behind them

because my pace had caught up to me and it cost me that I hadn't thought through and just the pace that I ran at eventually caught up to me and it cost me

and the reason I start there is because tonight we're we're talking about this idea of Sabbath and kind of rest and we live in a culture that just like that I mean it is no mystery that us has really a nation of society

just in our generation we are running at a pace like no one has ever run before I mean with technology and with you know the advancement and work and with the ability to kind of constantly be on and checking email and constantly be available you and I are running at a pace that if we're not careful we like much of America is experiencing right now it is going to catch up to us and it is going to cost us I mean stress being overwhelmed is the number one cause of health and I'm not sure if we're going to be able to do that

of health and mental issues in our country think about that America is the most overworked developed nation on the planet I mean we just as a people we just like we run at this pace and here's the challenge or here's the problem because I think all of us nobody is like yeah I want to run at a pace where I you know it eventually comes up to me and cost me I don't think anybody wants to but it just feels like everything like the world around us is just running at this pace like I'm barely even keeping up with everybody you know life is just so crazy and hectic

and work and you know everyone around me is is climbing the the corporate ladder and doing better and and so I'm not keeping up in any arena let alone I can't slow down I need to do more I mean I'm not making enough money I don't have enough time to you know exercise I don't

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