Sermon 2016 # 4 rest and restedness

ROBIN LIEW | 30 OCT 2016

SSMCSUNGAI WAY-SUBANGMETHODISTC H U R C H

R & R: REST (anapauó)

RESTEDNESS (katapauó)

REST (anapauó) &


REST (anapauó) Mark 6:30-31

• ‘ana’ ~ up, motion from lower to higher plane, completing a process that intensifies i.e. a process that tires, exhaust

• ‘paou’ ~ pause, to put to stop

30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.“context …. Mark 6 : 7-12

REST (anapauó) Mark 6: 30-31

• Jesus was aware the apostles and were tired, exhausted, wearied from the ‘works’ they have been doing. They needed ‘rest’ (anapauó). To rest from weariness, tiredness.

• Purpose of ‘rest’ (anapauó) is to regain strength, to be refreshed to continue

REST (anapauó) Mark 6: 30-31

28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

REST (anapauó) Matthew 11:28-30

LESSONS about REST (anapauó)

1. Rest is ‘sacred’ - the purpose is to rest from weariness. Biblical worldview KOG - no secular vs spiritual , no physical vs spiritual.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God

1 Cor 10:30

2. Rest is important. God wired us to have ‘rest’ regularly and at intermittent periods. In science (chronobiology) – biological clock and circadian rhythm are in built-in.



Biological Clock and Circadian Rythmn

3. Our responsibility to take care of this “temple” that God has given us. In the Biblical Worldview, Christ restored 1. Vertical Relationship

2. Horizontal Relationship

3. Internal Relationship (with SELF)

4. Other/External Relationship (with CREATION)


4. Different forms of “rest” - engage with the

purpose to refresh/ renew/restore/ refuel us


5. Pace yourself and identify the warning Indicators Stressed Depressed Physical ailments Feeling ‘numb’ - aimless and directionless ‘Fogginess’ – unable to make coherent and

good decisions


Question :

Do you need to rest (anapauó) ?

• REST (katapauó) the opposite of REST(anapauó)

• ‘kata’ - motion from higher plane to a lower plane, down with reference to absolute end-point (CEASE because it is finished)

• ‘pauo’ – to pause, to put to stop

REST (katapauó) Hebrew 4: 1-11

• Bring down completely - Calming down of the winds

• To make to be quiet, to cause to be at rest

• To settle down, to colonise , to abode

REST (katapauó) Hebrew 4: 1-11

• REST (anapauó) - cease from our work for rest

• REST (katapauó) - not cease from our work but ‘in’ work i.e. to trust and be rested in God (His works and promises).

REST (katapauó) Hebrew 4:1-11

1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his reststill stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.


3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.

4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his work."


5 And again in the passage above he says, "They shall never enter my rest." 6 It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.7 Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before:"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."


8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;

10 for anyone who enters God's rest also restsfrom his own work, just as God did from his.

11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.


1. It is of God (my rest, God’s rest)

2. It is for us who believe – relationship

3. It is supernatural - quiet and rest , a restedness and confidence in all situations (Phil 4:7)

Psalms 23/ Psalms 131 / Isa 30:15

Lessons about REST (katapauó)

Psalms 1311 My heart is not proud, O Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great mattersor things too wonderful for me. 2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. 3 O Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore.

CONCLUSION

REST (anapauó) &


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