SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

If we know Jesus, our call is to demonstrate radical love to others.

Content:

1. Often if we seek to make a point outside of relationship, we create a stand-off.

2. Loving from the heart (v. 22) is difficult; we need to work at it as if life depended on it.

3. What Jesus looked like working out this exhortation was with compassion and tenderness. He healed the bleeding woman’s broken soul as well as her body and called her “daughter.”

4. Due to humans’ inherent depravity, loving others from the heart is possible only because we have been rescued by Jesus. (v. 23)

5. When we’re born again, we’re changed, and we have this capacity to love. We have a new spiritual DNA and God empowers us with supernatural love.

6. On our own, we can’t obey God’s call to love deeply. In Philippians 2, it says that God gives us power and a desire to do what pleases Him.

7. The way to eradicate the “poisons” that keep us from loving is to repent – turn from sin – regularly.

8. When we walk out our salvation with this new DNA of deep love from the heart, we start acting like Jesus. He hung out with “sinners” and loved people who would ruin His reputation.

9. Loving others deeply from the heart should cost us dearly and will hurt. Jesus sweated drops of blood; His death and the events leading up to it were emotionally, physically and psychologically painful.

10. Romans 2:4 says that God’s kindness leads to repentance. We need to mirror that kindness.

11. Colossians 3 says to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and to forgive others.

12. We need to give up our “attack” language and fight for people’s souls, not against their behaviors. Listen to people and hear their stories.

13. As Billy Graham said, it’s God’s job to judge, the Holy Spirit’s to convict, and our job to love.

14. 1 Cor. 13 opens with the first two strands of our new spiritual DNA in Christ: love is patient and kind. Kindness is the linchpin of every salvation story, and patience is the linchpin to how we grow in Christ.

15. We need to have the poison of sin removed from our lives. Jesus came to heal the sick, not those who are already well enough.

Application Questions

1. What are some practical ways you can show love to your family members? Co-workers? Neighbors? Strangers with whom you cross paths?

2. Describe a time when you loved someone else so much that it cost you dearly and hurt.

3. Do you love people more than your convictions? Describe a time you showed that you did or didn’t.

4. How does your affection for Jesus feel? Describe a time it’s been cold and aloof. A time when it’s been on fire.

5. Are you ready to have the poison of sin removed from your life?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

Embracing change includes being like Christ in the world. This requires a different mindset, or way of responding to others in the world, desiring a different outcome in our relationships with those in the world, and living with honesty and humility.

Content:

1. Primary audience of Bible are people who believe.

2. Standards of moral and Christian ethics are built on a relationship between God and man.

3. Our society is changing from how it once viewed Christianity; don’t fight it, embrace it.

4. Peter mentions three directives on why and how we can embrace this change. (1 Peter 1:13)

Different mindset

Stephen Covey, begin with end, or outcome, in mind. (E+R=O) Set HOPE, Jesus is returning!

Choose to win the battle, or win the war. Lord’s Prayer, His will will be done.

Learn to make a difference, rather than making a point.

Different action plan

(1 Peter 1:14) Children, learn obedience and be holy.

Hinge point is leaving ignorance! The ignorance was that people didn’t know God was in Christ!

Being holy is different than natural inclinations. (1 Peter 2:21-23)

Different gut check

(1 Peter 1:17) Live out your time here in reverent fear.

Since God will judge, remember that includes you.

Two emotions: honesty and humility, we need to strike this tone with others.

(1 Peter 4:17-19) Judgement begins with God’s household.

(1 Peter 1:18) Redeemed from an empty way of life.

5. Focus on the eternal: being right with God.

Application Questions

1. How does knowing that the Bible was predominantly written to believers affect how you respond with your Bible understanding to others in the world?

2. Since ‘outcomes’ can be shaped and influenced by our responses in events/situations, how clear are you on the outcomes you desire in your relationships with others?

3. What battles have you sought to win in relationships while perhaps ending up losing the ‘war’?

4. What are some lines we draw in the sand that jeopardize or end connections with others because we are focused on making a point on an issue rather than making a difference?

5. How do the emotions of humility and honesty affect our ‘being holy because I am holy’?

6. How do humility and honesty strike a tone with others?

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Main Idea:

We need to gain a hearing with people around us, make in-roads relationally, and respond in ways that further God’s agenda, which is to make Jesus attractive.

Content:

1. We can feel angst in “Oz”, the world around us, which is becoming more negative, antagonistic and hostile toward Christianity.

2. Jesus said that we should expect persecution. The church in its early years thrived despite the persecution.

3. Persecution of Christians in this country is somewhat new and disturbing.

4. Christianity is being marginalized and ostracized; it’s often viewed as hypocritical, bigoted, judgmental and irrelevant.

5. The world we’re living in today is getting closer to the world we read about in the Bible.

6. Following Jesus is an earthy, visceral experience; it impacts all of life.

7. Some people look at the future with despair and disapproval. But Jesus followers’ perspective about the world should be informed by more than changing norms or nostalgic longings.

8. Peter’s words here speak not to the world that’s changed, but to us who are in it but no longer of it. They are written to Christians who were living in places they had called home, but now they feel like strangers and exiles in their own country.

9. We see the world differently than others because it sees us differently, and if we follow Christ, we are different.

10. Our responses should promote the cause of Christ, not hinder it.

11. You’re experiencing new life because you believe and embrace the Easter story. (v. 3)

12. Living as a Christ-follower offers us new life, new hope, and eternity. We receive a new inheritance. (v. 4)

13. This new life is secure and we don’t need to worry about losing it.

14. You’re experiencing struggles, trials and pushback (v. 6), people not being positive toward you or toward the Christ you follow.

15. As American Christians, we’re not used to persecution. Some people wonder if it’s a sign of the last days. We want to not tolerate it and demand our rights. Peter tells us to expect it. (4:12)

16. We often don’t know if trials are tests from God or attacks from the enemy. The Bible uses the same word to describe temptations and trials. Don’t focus on where they’re coming from, but on the why — what they’re doing inside us, to our faith.

17. You’re experiencing new responses (v. 8-9) – change and transformation as a result of your relationship with Christ, so you have unnatural emotions and expressions.

18. Our attitudes change as our point of identity shifts to Someone different.

19. If our responses are Christ-like, we gain a hearing, a door opens so we can make a positive contribution about Christ to other people.

20. Our whole life changes when we say that Jesus is Lord. (3:15) We need to be prepared and know what to say if people ask us about Him.

21. We’re appalled that Christian values aren’t dominant in our society any more. We’re no longer the majority, and we fuss about it.

22. The New Testament has great insight on how to impact and influence people. Those Christians changed the world without being on top.

23. The sooner we come to grips with how to respond, the sooner we’ll see an impact on people’s lives and they’ll see that what we have is real.

24. Four areas this series will look at as we discuss how to navigate them and keep our focus on Christ:

government and society, work and associates, marriage and family, friends and community.

25. Christianity has spread not by making sin the issue, but by making Christ the topic. We do that by revering Christ as Lord in our hearts. (v. 3:15)

26. We don’t like some of the changes in the world, but those are external issues. Our number one concern should be that Christ is the center. Don’t speak until He is, or what comes out won’t promote Him.

27. What changes the world is the thing that changes the person: Jesus Christ.

Application Questions

1. Has there been a time you’re felt like a stranger in the world? Describe.

2. How do you view the future? (near future, distant future, eternity)

3. What kinds of changes have you seen in society since you were a child?

4. Do you think people see you differently than others?

5. Describe a time you responded in a way that made Jesus attractive, promoted Him. A time when you didn’t.

6. Describe a time you’ve been persecuted or looked down on because of your Christian beliefs.

7. How are your attitudes different as a Christian than they were before?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

If we believe the stories the disciples told of Jesus’ life, then we must also believe the stories of his death and resurrection.

Content:

Our culture is OK with the teachings of Jesus, but not always OK with the resurrection of Jesus

- So why should we believe the people who wrote the story? Acts 2: They were witnesses.

- If the disciples lied about the Resurrection, why would you believe anything else they wrote?

- Faith is rooted in REALITY

1 Corinthians 15:14 - 15, 17-20, 58

* If Christ isn’t risen, what’s the point?

* But if he IS, it changes EVERYTHING.

Call: If you believe in your heart that He’s alive and confess with your mouth that, because of that, He is Lord, you’re saved - in a relationship with God. The conception of that relationship happens in a moment, as all conception does.

Application Questions

1. What areas of the resurrection story do you struggle to believe? Can you share any ways that you’ve tried to explain it - to yourself or to others?

2. Do you also consider yourself a witness to Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection? If so, how?

3. If and when you came to believe the resurrection to be truth, what changed for you and how?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

Psalm 95, How do we really feel towards God and His rest? Am I enough? Is God enough? Entering God’s rest is acknowledging that, yes, God is enough!

Content:

A. Promise Land Rest Heb. 4:5-6

1. God called it His Rest. Deut. 4:12-15

2. God would create a non-slave culture. This culture would declare our (your) RIGHT to rest.

3. It was a declaration of freedom, our freedom AND the freedom of others.

4. But if we resist this rest it could be an indication that we still see ourselves as slaves.

5. Receive this gift AND extend this gift, “lest you become just like the Pharaoh I delivered you from.”

B. Creation Rest Hebrews 4:4

1. Sabbath allows you to embrace your limits, to acknowledge God is in control. Mt. 6:25-26

2. God is always working; He only rested once! Hebrews 4:9-10

3. The work that is below the rest here provided is self-justifying efforts.

4. Word of God is alive and active, headed for thoughts and intentions of our hearts, reaching our motives.

5. The Gospel offers us rest…in Christ alone!

6. Word of God exposes who I really am.

7. We are clothed in GRACE, not good works.

8. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. Hebrews 4:7-9

Application Questions

1. Why is it so hard to separate ourselves from work? (In America we are the most over-worked culture. Discuss technology and American culture.)

2. What is the ‘eternal murmur of self-reproach’?

3. Are you ever satisfied?

4. Do you ask yourself, “Who’s going to handle responsibilities if not me?”

5. Do you really believe you are more valuable than the ‘birds of the air’?

6. Can you see that your work is a part of His work? Does this bring enjoyment?

7. What do we say to others to self promote ourselves?

8. How do you feel toward God? Are you enough? Is He enough?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

The Sabbath is not only for us, a gift to be enjoyed only for ourselves and as we neglect the needs of others. When Jesus says The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath, he is telling us to watch how He uses the Sabbath for something greater, something more.

Content:

1. After God created the heavens and earth and everything in them, He rested. God made two statements about the Sabbath. It’s Holy—separate, set apart, and different. It’s Blessed—deserving of special attention.

2. Sabbath is time to rest and remember that there is a Creator who started it all. By stopping we are acknowledging that God’s ultimately in control and that we can trust Him with our little part of the world.

3. Sabbath allows us to enjoy the work we’ve done, appreciate our part, our contribution in this grand work of God. It reminds us to thank the God who grants us strength and ability to work. It puts a healthy boundary between us and our work.

4. Sabbath is a gift—but it is not just for you, it is for everyone. It is a day to love your neighbor. (Matthew 12: 1-14.)

5. Sabbath centers us physically, personally, spiritually, and relationally. Relationally, is a lot of what Jesus is driving at through his instigation, through His controversial actions — picking and eating grain, healing and caring for people on the Sabbath. (Matthew 12:8)

6. The Sabbath is important. In this 24/7 world, nothing is or seems off limits, and we can be interrupted and intruded upon any time or any day of the week living with unsecured boundaries. Sabbath is a gift that changes that, by saying you are worth it, you matter more than the endless list of pressing items that’s squeezing the life out of you. We need to recognize that time really is our most precious commodity and it is important to give time to what’s important.

7. The Sabbath is a day to love your neighbor. Part of the reason Jesus healed on the Sabbath was to bring us back to why it was given in the first place—to provide rest and relief, to lift a burden, and lighten a load. Sabbath is a time to restore health—body, soul and spirit.

8. People all around us are in need of a touch from God and yet we tend to think it takes away from our own pursuit of God if we make some effort, some adjustment, do some “work” on the Sabbath so they can come, so they can experience something of the rest we enjoy.

9. Jesus is the Sabbath we need. The Sabbath rest isn’t ultimately found in a day; it is found in a person, Jesus. This is the real rest—the peace with God, ourselves and others. This is the rest that assures us we are loved apart from productivity or unproductivity, relief from my burden of guilt and regret, and respite from the exhaustion of stress and anxiety. (Matthew 11: 28-30)

10. There is the greater end to your rest and restoration. It is being a part of God granting rest to another weary soul.

Restore our relationship with God

Forgive us of our sin

Comfort us in our grief

Heal us in our sickness

Guide us in our confusion

Support us in our struggle

Settle us in our anxiety

Assure us in our doubt

Draw near to us in our loneliness

Lift us up when we feel down.

Questions

1. What does it mean to you, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice”?

2. When have you said or thought you are too busy to help your neighbor, your friend, or even a family member?

3. What could you do to help and love your neighbor?

4. List some of the many ways you can serve within our church.

5. List some of the many ways you can serve your neighbors.

6. Is your hope evident to those you encounter?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

The Sabbath is meant to be a time to calm our bodies and rest.

- On the Sabbath, however, we can realize how quickly our minds want to shift focus to working and feeling the need to be productive.

- Sometimes we have to fight through so many distractions to reach that place of peace and quiet.

- Don’t panic in the quietness of Sabbath. Be still and listen for God’s voice. “You will find your joy in the Lord…”

1. Keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath (Watch your step!) - Exodus 20:11

- Sabbath is a day of RESToration; “Remember” the Sabbath, because we so easily forget!

- What choices are you making on the Sabbath? Are you pursuing your own interests or God’s? Is Sabbath just a speed bump you continually speed over, then wonder why you’re out of alignment?

- Eventually you find that not keeping Sabbath doesn’t break the Sabbath, but rather that it breaks you.

- Matthew 11:28-29 (NLT) - Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”

2. Call the Sabbath a delight and honorable (Watch your heart!)

- Sabbath is a gift from God! We cannot earn it in any way. It is meant for His honor and our enjoyment.

- Hebrews 10:25 (NLT) - And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of His returning is near.

- Coming together as the body of Christ is one way to honor the Sabbath. Find joy in being connected with the body, as well as being the body to others.

- How we rest on the Sabbath and find ways to connect with God will be unique and special for everyone. Not sure how to rest and honor the Sabbath? Ask Jesus!

3. Don’t go your own way or as you please; don’t speak idle words… (Don’t bring your work into it and watch your words!)

- We live in a world that is always on the move, always needing to be somewhere, doing something. The world never rests. But receive the rest that God is giving you!

- Deuteronomy 5:15 (NLT) - Remember that you were once slaves in Egypt, but the Lord your God brought you out with his stong hand and powerful arm. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to rest on the Sabbath day.

- We are human beings, not machines. We are not made to function 24/7! We are meant to have a day of rest, to refuel, recharge, recuperate. The Sabbath is a day given to us to be refilled with the power of the Holy Spirit and God’s love and grace.

- Mark 8:36 (NLT) - And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

- Sabbath rest will seep into our work if we keep our work from seeping into the Sabbath

Closing

- Psalm 62:5 (NLT) - Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him.

Application Questions

1. In what ways do you find rest on the Sabbath? How have you experienced God’s presence and peace when you honor it?

2. The worries of tomorrow can cause us to forget to rest on the Sabbath. What do you tend to focus on instead of resting? Why do you think your mind refuses to let those things go? Ask God for peace to know that He is taking care of you and give your worries/concerns/to-do list to Him.

3. Why do you think God “commands” us to honor the Sabbath and keep it holy, rather than asking us to, or hoping that we do it?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

As a follower of Jesus, you are working in your calling, with others, for Him on purpose. Approach your work in a way that puts Jesus, others, and your purpose first and see the joy your work can bring.

Content:

Introduction - Lent is a time for remembering Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection by removing distractions.

Sabbath is not just taking a day off. There are guidelines. Sabbath is spiritual REM sleep for your soul.

Step 1 (last week): Recognizing your limits. Leaving it unfinished and having faith. The idea of stopping work is only possible if you see it as God’s work.

Genesis 1: 26-28 - Work is a blessing from God.

One definition of work: The expression of creative energy in the service of others to the glory of God.

You will not have a meaningful life without work, but work is not the meaning of life.

Only 23% of people report seeing their job as more than just a paycheck, and usually for one of three reasons: (1) they like what they do, (2) they like who they work with, or (3) they like who they work for.

So, how to enjoy your work?

1. Like what you do. Jeremiah 1:5 and Ephesians 2:8-10.

Your work is your calling. (YOU)

Your work is a calling, a vocation. Your life has divine purpose - your work is His assignment for you.

BE where you are - be fully present.

2. Like who you work with. Philippians 1:25-26 and Titus 3:14.

Your work is about people. (OTHERS)

Meeting needs, touching lives, bettering the world.

It can be God’s work. Start giving to others, start giving of yourself.

If questioning whether it is in God’s plan to move you, look at your Ability, Affinity, and Opportunity to do so.

They are in your path for a purpose, which is to make Christ known.

3. Enjoy who you work for. Colossians 3:23-24 and Philippians 2.

If it’s good work, it can be God’s work. (JESUS)

Every Christ-follower is working for Christ.

What is God’s glory? God’s agenda? Promoting Himself, like any other business. Your work is about God’s business.

Whatever you do, do it well. With Quality, Character, and Witness.

You are an advertisement for Christ.

J for Jesus, O for others, Y for you, spells JOY.

Other Scripture: Exodus 20:8, Psalm 46:10, Psalm 8.

Application Questions

1. Do you see your work as God’s work or, at the very least, good work?

2. What are specific things you can do this week to see your work through that lens? To see it as God’s work?

3. What are specific things you can do to put Jesus and others first in your work?

4. How would you define the word “calling” or “vocation”?

5. Can you share a time when you really felt your work was God’s calling for you? Why did you think that and how did it make you feel?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

We shouldn’t let fear and worry drive us to an unhealthy pace, but trust God to provide for us because He loves us and knows our needs. Keeping a Sabbath is one way of doing that.

Content:

1. Sabbath is an old concept, but still relevant today. It’s a day to re-charge, begin again, have a mini-vacation.

2. As Jesus said, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27)

3. Observing the Sabbath gives a rhythm to life: 6 days of work, 1 day of rest. Why this 7-day cycle? Because that’s what the Creator did.

4. The day is holy, set apart, unique.

5. What was it that God called holy? – a specific time. God’s presence is in time, not space like objects are. It’s the closest concept we have to His essence. That’s why it’s wrong to make an image of Him or restrict Him to any one time or place.

6. Time is one commodity we can’t get more of; we can just use it. We have to spend it to do things.

7. We all have 7 days in a week; we all can choose to make some time holy (different from the rest).

8. Slaves don’t get time off, but rich and powerful people do. So when God granted this gift to the Hebrews, they treasured and guarded it. Through the years, they even became neurotic about it. They didn’t just keep the Sabbath; the Sabbath kept them.

9. We have to start somewhere and designate a certain amount of time different from the rest. Lent is a good time to do that with its tradition of giving things up, narrowing our focus, removing distractions, and stretching ourselves spiritually.

10. We can usually leave some things unfinished and not respond to every request made of us. We need to have margins and set limits.

11. We all have limits. We can’t buy or do everything we want or know everything that is important. But we think we can handle a little more and know more, that we haven’t reached our limit. People equate busy-ness with importance.

12. Limits can sound like weaknesses. We think we need to push past our limits, that our grasp should exceed our reach.

13. We all need something to balance our drives and ambitions, to remind us that we’re not God and put us in a place where we’re under His care. He’s in control; give our cares to Him. That requires trust and faith, which doesn’t come naturally.

14. Observing the Sabbath is a practical, tangible way to grow in faith and trust.

15. Sabbath is a faith-building exercise. When people talk about stopping or leaving things unfinished, some of them panic because of responsibilities and pressures.

16. Fear is the main thing that keeps us from engaging in the Sabbath:

Fear of missing out – I (or my family) might miss out on something.

Fear of falling behind – comparison trap – people will pass me by.

Fear of not mattering – we want life to count, want to leave a mark, a contribution.

17. Accepting limits can feel like a setback or restriction. We wonder what people will think if we show we have limits. The Sabbath gives us permission to do that.

18. If I don’t do all I could do, but instead choose Sabbath, God will bless all I did do.

19. Fear also keeps us from believing.

20. Sabbath can open us up to a new level of peace and progress as we experience what God can do for us. (Matt. 6:25-34) Trust God to provide; seek His kingdom and righteousness first. Sabbath is a powerful way to seek God first.

Application Questions

1. Do you observe a Sabbath? How?

2. What are some things you can leave unfinished?

3. Give examples of times you waited to stop and pushed things to the limit until you were stressed out. How did it affect your health or relationships?

4. Do you think God is giving you permission now to stop doing something or slow down? What is it?

5. How do you react when someone suggests stopping something?

6. Are your fears driving you to unhealthy limits? How?

7. What can you do to seek God first?

8. What are you afraid of if you stop doing ___________?

SERMON NOTES (click arrow to the right to open)

Main Idea:

To focus on what the Sabbath is and why we need it.

Content:

1. The first time we hear of Sabbath in the Bible is the story of creation. God sets out to create beauty and order and purpose with BOUNDARIES.

2. God describes this glorious act of creation as work. The first six days, God works, and gives us the capacity for and the amazing gift of WORK.

3. On the seventh day God rested from all his work. No, He wasn’t tired (Isaiah 40:28). The word translated REST is Shabbat in Hebrew. More accurate translation is “Stop, already!”

4. God was creating and honoring boundaries all the way through creation. The final boundary He set up was the Sabbath day.

5. The most fascinating and most ignored of creation boundaries –the Sabbath.

6. The Sabbath is the very first thing in the Bible described and declared as holy.

7. Work is a profoundly Godly activity. When we work—doing what we were made to do—we experience the deep joy of being like our Creator God.

8. Work is a gift from God. When you use your God-given strengths, talents, and capacities in partnership with God and others around you, you bring heaven down to earth. You give thanks to God for the gift of work and do your work with all your heart. You are serving God.

9. The trouble is we tend to use work to push past the boundaries God placed us within. When you are driven by your own ego, selfish ambition, self-centeredness, and hunger for power, wealth, fame, and pleasure, then work becomes your idolatry.

10. When work is no longer partnering with God and is oppressive, hurtful, dehumanizing, and soul-destroying—you become a Pharaoh. Pharaohs have no use for Sabbath. (Amos 8: 4 -7) Nothing gets in the way of pursing your self-centered work dreams and your false god. Work is soul-crushing, depressing, unbearable burden and your life is filled with stress, fear, anger, and despair.

11. Another way work can corrupt us is when we work for Pharaoh in Slavery. (Jeremiah 6:13-16) Work becomes a soul-crushing, depressing, debilitating curse.

12. Sabbath is that holy boundary in time that God puts in place to protect our hearts from being corrupted by this wonderful gift of work. Stop, already! Listen to God. He can heal your heart, mind and soul.

13. The next time we encounter the Sabbath in the Bible is in the Ten Commandments. The first three commandments focus toward what it looks like to love God: Worship God alone. Don’t reduce God down to anything. Take God seriously. The next priority in the commandments is to Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. The last six are all about our relationship with those around us.

14. In God’s kindness and mercy, God gives us the Sabbath gift, the Sabbath rest. Only then will we find our hearts changing, find healing and wholeness again. Sabbath offers us redemption.

15. Sabbath will move us toward generosity, trusting God to provide, giving thanks to God that you can give to those in need.

Application Questions:

1. What are we talking about when we talk about Sabbath?

2. Do you give the special boundary that God placed between work and non-work a second thought anymore?

3. How can you focus on loving God and those around you on the Sabbath?

4. Give examples of Sabbath violations in your world.

5. Explain how Pharaoh and slaves are not very different in terms of the condition of their hearts.

6. How do you think observing the Sabbath can be life-changing?