The Contagious
Adventist: Seventh Things Second
Supplemental Links and Study Guide
To realize the value of one _______: Ask the ________ who __________ it.
CONTAGIOUS REASON #2:
The __________________ is ____________.KEY TEXT #1—The Sabbath is rest: Genesis 2:________
Three actions of God on the seventh day in Genesis 2:3
He ______________________ the seventh day.
He ______________________ the seventh day.
He ______________________ on the seventh day.The word "____________________________________" means "_________."
U.S. News and World Report (Oct 16, 2000):
"Each weekday night [Americans] get an hour and six minutes less, on average, than the _____ hours that sleep experts recommend, each weekend night half an hour less. By the end of the year, they are short ________ hours—______ full weeks—of rest. They are the great unslept, somnam-bulating [sleep walking] through life on the verge of sleep bankruptcy."Ken McFarland (Signs of the Times, Feb 2002):
"Look around you. Nearly everyone seems to be in a huge rush—walking fast, talking fast, eating fast. People race through the day at breakneck speed, repeatedly pressing elevator call buttons that are already lighted, finishing each other's sentences, impatient with even the fastest computers, multi-tasking to get more done in less time, driven by what author Charles Hummel called ‘the tyranny of the urgent.'"Our world is "ripe and ready" for the __________ _________ news of God's gift of the ______________ ___________!
KEY TEXT #2—The Sabbath is rest: Mark 2:__________
The Sabbath was made for ________, and not ________ for the Sabbath.
Before it was a command, the Sabbath was a ____________.KEY TEXT #3—The Sabbath is rest: Exodus 20:________
God loves to ___________ in a ____________________, which is why He gave us the seventh-day ____________________.
KEY TEXT #4—The Sabbath is rest: Matthew 11:______
The invitation of the Lord of the Sabbath is:
"Come to me, and I will give you _________.""And that is why I am a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, because I have found in Jesus the ________ of a ___________, a forever friendship with my Creator."
Subtexts:
Heb. 4:1, 4, 9-10—"A Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God."
Isaiah 30:15—"In returning and rest you shall be saved."
John 19:30—"‘It is finished.'"
Luke 23:46, 56—"Having said this, he breathed his last. . . . On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment."Even in death, Jesus __________ on the seventh-day Sabbath—as both Lord of _____________ and Lord of the ____________, so that we in turn might _______ in him by _________ forevermore.
Steps to Christ portrays the spiritual rest in Jesus the Sabbath symbolizes:
"A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstacy of feeling, but there should be an abiding, peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might. So you are not to look to yourself, not to let the mind dwell on self, but look to Christ. . . . Talk and think of Jesus. Let self be lost in Him. . . . Rest in God. He is able to keep that which you have committed to Him. If you will leave yourself in His hands, He will bring you off more than a conqueror through Him that has loved you." (70, 72)
KEY TEXT #5—The Sabbath is rest: Jeremiah 6:16.
"Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ___________ paths, where the ___________ way lies; and __________ in it, and find __________ for your souls."
The Creator's rest can ultimately come only through his ancient and good gift of the _______________ .