The Rest Our City Longs For
Weekly Reading
Monday: Genesis 25:19-34, 1 John 3
Tuesday: 1 John 4-5
Wednesday: Genesis 26, 2 John 1
Thursday: Genesis 27, 3 John 1
Friday: Genesis 28:1-9, Jude 1
Saturday: Psalm 137-139
Sunday: Hosea 4-14, Joel 1-3, Amos 1-2
Tuesday: 1 John 4-5
Wednesday: Genesis 26, 2 John 1
Thursday: Genesis 27, 3 John 1
Friday: Genesis 28:1-9, Jude 1
Saturday: Psalm 137-139
Sunday: Hosea 4-14, Joel 1-3, Amos 1-2
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: Matthew 11:25-30
Colossians 1:16-17
Matthew 18:3-4
Matthew 23:4
Exodus 33:14
Matthew 7:13-14
1 John 5:2-4
John 16:33
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
5 TRUTHS OF REST
"Our time-saving devices, technological conveniences, and cheap mobility have seemingly made life much easier and interconnected. As a result, we have more information at our fingertips than anyone in history. Yet with all this progress, we are ominously dissatisfied. In bowing at these sacred altars of hyperactivity, progress, and technological compulsivity, our souls increasingly pant for meaning and value and truth as they wither away, exhausted, frazzled, displeased, ever on edge. The result is a hollow culture that, in Paul's words, is "ever learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth" (2 Tim. 3:7). Our bodies wear ragged. Our spirits thirst. We have an inability to simply sit still and be. As we drown ourselves in a 24/7 living, we seem to be able to do anything but quench our true thirst for the life of God. We have become perhaps the most emotionally exhausted, psychologically overworked, and spiritually malnourished people in history." - AJ Swaboda
"Our hearts are restless until they rest in Him." - St. Augustine
"There is not one maverick molecule if God is sovereign. He controls all things—great and small—for His glory and the good of His people." - RC Sproul
"All the hard obstacles that looked hard before we came to Christ, suddenly begin to look a whole lot easier when we realize that Jesus has overcome the world, that Jesus is carrying our burdens for us, and that Jesus is leading us toward our eternal home in glory." -John Piper
When peace like a river, attendeth my way
When sorrows like sea billows roll
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say
It is well, it is well, with my soul
- "It Is Well with My Soul" by Horatio Spafford
Colossians 1:16-17
Matthew 18:3-4
Matthew 23:4
Exodus 33:14
Matthew 7:13-14
1 John 5:2-4
John 16:33
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
- Come Early
- Come Close
- Come and Behold
- Come to Jesus
5 TRUTHS OF REST
- Jesus promises rest for our souls – this is the rest we long for most.
- Finding soul rest in Jesus begins with acknowledging and trusting in the sovereignty of God.
- Finding soul rest in Jesus requires that we come to Jesus with humble child-like faith.
- Finding soul rest in Jesus involves taking off your “labor and works” and putting on his yoke of grace.
- Soul rest is found in the person of Jesus, not a practice!
"Our time-saving devices, technological conveniences, and cheap mobility have seemingly made life much easier and interconnected. As a result, we have more information at our fingertips than anyone in history. Yet with all this progress, we are ominously dissatisfied. In bowing at these sacred altars of hyperactivity, progress, and technological compulsivity, our souls increasingly pant for meaning and value and truth as they wither away, exhausted, frazzled, displeased, ever on edge. The result is a hollow culture that, in Paul's words, is "ever learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth" (2 Tim. 3:7). Our bodies wear ragged. Our spirits thirst. We have an inability to simply sit still and be. As we drown ourselves in a 24/7 living, we seem to be able to do anything but quench our true thirst for the life of God. We have become perhaps the most emotionally exhausted, psychologically overworked, and spiritually malnourished people in history." - AJ Swaboda
"Our hearts are restless until they rest in Him." - St. Augustine
"There is not one maverick molecule if God is sovereign. He controls all things—great and small—for His glory and the good of His people." - RC Sproul
"All the hard obstacles that looked hard before we came to Christ, suddenly begin to look a whole lot easier when we realize that Jesus has overcome the world, that Jesus is carrying our burdens for us, and that Jesus is leading us toward our eternal home in glory." -John Piper
When peace like a river, attendeth my way
When sorrows like sea billows roll
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say
It is well, it is well, with my soul
- "It Is Well with My Soul" by Horatio Spafford
Discussion Questions
3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?
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