I invite you to turn in the scriptures this morning to Exodus chapter 16, Exodus chapter 16, as we are, this is the second part of our sermon in this particular chapter, so I'm going to back up and read since there's really, it's one major event and one major flow here, we're going to read the entirety of the chapter, the text will be verses 22 through 36. This is the word of the Lord. Exodus, second book of the Bible, chapter 16. They set out from Elam and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elam and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. And the people of Israel said to them, that we have died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger then the Lord said to Moses behold I'm about to rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day that I may test them whether they will walk in my law or not on the sixth day when they prepare what they bring in it will be twice as much as they gather daily. So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel at evening, you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt. And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we that you grumble against us? And Moses said, when the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him what are we your grumbling is not against us but against the lord then moses said to aaron say to the whole congregation of the people of israel come near before the lord for he's heard your grumbling and as soon as aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of israel they looked toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the lord appeared in the cloud and the lord said to moses i have heard the grumbling of the people of israel say to them At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God. In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine flake-like thing, the finest frost on the ground. When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? But they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded. Gather of it each one of you as much as he can eat. You shall take an omer according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent. And the people of Israel did so. They gathered some more, some less. But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. And Moses said to them, let no one leave any of it over till the morning but they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning and it bred worms and stank and Moses was angry with them. Morning by morning they gathered it each as much as he could eat but when the sun grew hot it melted. Now our text. And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told moses he said to them this is what the lord has commanded tomorrow is a day of solemn rest a holy sabbath to the lord bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning so they laid it aside till the morning as moses commanded them and it did not stink and there were no worms in it moses said eat it today for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there will be none. On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. And the Lord said to Moses, how long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? See, the Lord has given you the Sabbath. Therefore, on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Moses said, this is what the Lord has commanded. Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of egypt and moses said to aaron take a jar put an omer of manna in it and place it before the lord to be kept throughout your generations as the lord commanded moses so aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept the people of israel ate the manna 40 years till they came to a habitable land they ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan and Omer is the 10th part of an ephah. May the Lord bless the hearing of his word. Well, we have really learned and been studying how difficult wilderness life really is, haven't we? This has really been a moving study for me to understand as we've already somewhat considered today the life of sanctification likened here to this wilderness way, this wilderness journey on the way to the promised land. You'll notice the end of that said that the Lord sustained them on this bread all the way until they entered the land, the goal. The most troubling thing that we have witnessed in our study so far of them out in the wilderness is their desire to return to Egypt, their desire to go back. You remember last week, oh, that we had died, in verse 3, by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and we ate to the full. you brought us out into this wilderness to kill the whole assembly with hunger i mean what a just astonishing charge which shows the problem of a grumbling human heart that is just something that constantly comes out of us the book of numbers helps us and tells us that what had happened to israel was that they had become discouraged along the way and the real thing that we're learning from Israel is that this wilderness life is hard. It's full of pain. It's full of sorrows. It's full of tests. It's full of discouragements. Little did they expect this. What was in their minds? What did they think it would be? And so they were constantly looking back to Egypt and looking at this in a larger picture in theological terms. They were looking back to their bondage. They wanted to go back to their bondage. They wanted to go back to being, Romans 6, slaves to sin. Bondage to another master. And that is why it was just so terribly evil. So what we're seeing here is that this life of sanctification is learning to believe and to trust the Lord regardless of circumstance, in the tyranny of circumstances. In other words, you could say it this way. We say we're justified by faith. we're also learning that sanctification is by faith the whole way through. Trusting the Lord's promises. Trusting what the Lord has said. Learning, as Paul said, in whatever state I am, to be content, he said. I will be content. I've learned how to be abound into a base. We should rest on His Word. We should love His commandments. All of His truth should drive our actions. All of His gracious promises and the way that He's treated us. What more could He do for us than what He has done? And yet He still continues to provide. That's what we've been seeing. Deuteronomy gives us a little bit of purpose into this in Deuteronomy 8 when it says, So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your feet, your foot swell in these 40 years. You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. Purpose. You must learn to depend. You must learn to trust. You must learn to stop going in your own strength. You must learn to stop using your own human wisdom ingenuity you must learn to be satisfied with my leading and the bread that i supply for you and that gets to the heart of the test this morning that gets to the heart of the test that's before us as their complaint grew so did this test it grew the lord was testing them and the scene we left often last he has rained down quail from heaven like fine dust all over their doorsteps it has landed before them he has rained down manna from heaven he is providing for them he's caring for them but now he interjects a new kind of test it was the test of the sabbath specifically mentioned there what we see is that the sabbath was intended to be a blessing and a refreshment for them in their wilderness way it was to to be a time of real joy and refreshment in resting in his provisions we look at this today and i suppose that's a good way to begin to look at the intention or the blessing of the sabbath to look at the test that god used with the sabbath and then to to look at what their breaking of the sabbath really exposed so the blessing of the sabbath the test of the sabbath and the breaking of the sabbath if you go back to verse four what we read a moment ago then the lord said to moses behold i'm about to rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day that i may test them whether they will walk in my law or not and then verse five on the sixth day when they prepare what they bring in it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, Evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You'll notice down in verse 22, on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread. Two omers each. And when all the leaders of Israel came and told Moses, he said to them, this is what the Lord has commanded. tomorrow is a day of solemn rest a holy sabbath to the lord bake what you will bake boil what you will boil and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till morning so they did it now here they are at the beginning sort of of their wilderness way but what we find is is rather shocking god somehow along the way has made it really clear to moses that israel was to sabbath They were to rest. Now remember, everything is different for them. They're no longer in bondage. They've been used to, and you sort of have to put yourself in their shoes for a moment. They've been used to a whole way of life. They've been used to a rigorous work routine, haven't they? They've been used to a rigorous work schedule. Bricks without straw was the end of the whole thing. Whips and beatings. There was no day of rest in Egypt. there was no sabbath in egypt do you think the israelites ever got to break from the cruelty and rigor of their work you think pharaoh said oh it's the lord's day of rest let me give it to them no it's cruel bondage bondage in egypt was fierce work was hard work was stressful it came with beatings If you didn't meet your quotas, you think you're stressed. There was no practice. So what's fascinating here is that the Lord breaks their bondage. He shatters the bondage from sin, we know, is the major teaching. He delivers them. He passes them through. He baptizes them in the sea. He resurrects them to a brand new life, passing them through. This is the whole way the New Testament applies, this great story. They sing the song of salvation, which is ultimately the song of the Lamb, Revelation 16, you remember. But ever since then, they've been fighting the old nature, haven't they? They've been craving for pots of meat. I don't think it was that good. You know the nostalgia of looking back to the past. It all represents their cravings for sin. They're craving for the former way of life. And the Lord's been teaching them to trust him in the wilderness, to depend on him, to live by his word. It's in this connection that the Lord now says, you need to rest. You need to stop on the seventh day. Every seventh day, I want you to stop from all of your traveling, your working, your provision, everything that you're doing. I want you to stop and I want you to take a delight in me. I want you to pattern me. What do you mean? Well, the Lord lavishes down upon them another gracious gift in the wilderness. The Sabbath. Another gracious gift. The Sabbath was this anticipation, and you'll notice this rooted in this text. It was the anticipation. Hebrews is really working from this pattern here. It is the anticipation that they would no longer needed to be provided food in the wilderness because they will have arrived. You notice that's the end of this whole section. They got there. They no longer needed manna, but he gave it all the way until they entered the land. Well, what was the land typifying? It anticipated the eternal rest. This is how, again, the whole New Testament has applied these things and looked at these things. They had entered the land. This is verse 35. And the children of Israel ate the manna 40 years till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of Canaan. As soon as they passed over, manna was done. In fact, Joshua says, then the manna ceased on that day after they had eaten the produce of the land. And the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. So all of this was in anticipation of arrival. All of this was provision to get there. So they were sustained on the manna until the day they would enter the land and have no more need but eat freely off the land with no more enemies. Well, that's designed to teach you a lot about wilderness life, isn't it? It's not so hard to figure out. Canaan is a type of the new heavens and the new earth. The land was to be cleansed of all enemies. they were to inhabit it it was the land of milk and honey it was promised to Abraham and you know that you're looking for something you're being sustained in the wilderness until you get to the day when you enter glory and you are going to partake right of the tree of life this is the story point is they hadn't gotten there yet You haven't gotten there yet. And the Lord wanted them to rest to anticipate this. To go in His strength. When they would no longer have to gather and no longer have to work. Now maybe work has been so good in the U.S. and we have so much free time, we don't really know what work can be anymore. Six days, He would rain down bread for them and every day they were to go and work and gather the bread, the manna. And they were to only take according to their need. And on the sixth day, the Lord would rain down twice as much for them. So day by day, they were taught to trust. Give us this day our daily bread. That's the prayer the Lord has taught us to pray. In the wilderness, the bread from heaven. And then on that day, they would rest anticipating the day when they would no longer ever have to go out and gather again. They would enter their rest. Now the Sabbath would be the key defining mark of Israel. What's so striking is that the command did not just originate at Mount Sinai. Now that's really important this morning because I often hear with the Ten Commandments that the Sabbath was just for Israel. And what we're finding here is that it was before the giving of the law on Mount Sinai. Sabbath before Sinai. And the reason for this is because God had rooted this in creation. Normative for everyone. At creation, God Himself rested, remember? what Genesis 2, 1 said, thus the heavens and the earth and all the hosts of them were finished. And on the seventh day, God ended His work which He had done and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Was God tired? No. He neither faints nor becomes weary. But God taught us all something. He delighted in His work. He enjoyed the work of His hands. The seventh day was a day that then God, after saying, it's good, it's good, it's good, he sanctified it and he said, this is the rest with which people are to anticipate and enjoy. One of the most amazing things about creation is that God created us in his image so that we might pattern him. Now, the end of creation is the glory of God. The resting signifies the fact that his work is completed and he is glorified through it. Sin came. Jesus said, my father and I are working until now to complete the project again. The point is, Sabbath was intended to be a major blessing in the wilderness. Listen to the intention in the law that I read this morning in Deuteronomy 5. And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore, the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath. I delivered you. I pulled you out of there. I need you to stop and never forget this. So I'm giving you this rest. I want you to rest so that you would remember you've been delivered from your sin, that you've been delivered from your bondage, that you've been set free from all of your misery, the cruelty of Pharaoh, the tyranny of the devil. It's broken. But you're seeing the problem with the human heart after, right? Sanctification's a mess. So put this together. I know your wilderness life's hard. I know you're all beat up. I know that you're going through major discouragements. I know right now many of you are greatly discouraged about many things. The Lord is. This is the Lord's word to you. I know that. I understand that. So I'm going to provide for you. I know you're going out six days and you're working. Think of how this is still our structure. I know you're out there six days. in your daily work in your daily gathering i'm going to provide you ask me you come to me every day i'll provide for you give me this day my daily bread i'll supply if a man asks his father for bread is he going to give him a stone i'll sustain you but i want you every seventh day to stop now later on i'm going to go and explain for you why we do this on sunday as opposed to saturday some of you are thinking about that and we'll look at that not going to do that right in this sermon but the principle of a work rest principle is all throughout scripture i want you to put aside your wilderness struggles i know they're real i want you to step away from it and i'm going to give you a time to completely reflect upon me and my work for you i'm going to give you a time to glorify me because I know your mind's race. You can't stay focused on much of anything. You're running around everywhere. I'm going to give you to come and sit, calm you down, without crows. I'm going to give this to you. And I want to send you double food on this day. I'm going to give you double food. For what purpose? I want you to know that I love you. I want you to step away from it all. I want you to be fed with the true bread from heaven. Looked at that last time. I'll provide. I want you always to rest. Remember, I delivered you from all of your sins. I brought you out of Egypt. I've loved you. I've delivered you. I'm plundering and I'm going to complete the work. Those whom he justified, he glorified. I want the seventh day always to teach you that an eternal rest is coming when you enter the land. The new heavens and the new earth that you'll never have to work anymore under the cursed Adam. Now, the Jews' typical Sabbath was observed this way. The Talmud describes the traditional Jewish practice. They viewed the Sabbath, this is what they would call the Sabbath, every time it would arise, they would call it a beautiful bride that would come and be greeted every week with joy. So they would speak of the Sabbath as a she. she's coming in fact here's one of their prayers come let us welcome the sabbath and joy and peace like a bride radiant and joyous comes the sabbath it brings blessings to our hearts workday thoughts and cares are to be put aside the brightness of the sabbath light shines forth to tell that the divine spirit of love abides within our home in that light our blessings are enriched and our griefs and trials are softened. They would have Sabbath blessings pronounced in Jewish homes, four of them. A Sabbath meal was shared and then they would have prayer services and they would have a ceremony that then said goodbye to the Sabbath. It was called the Havdalah. Separation. It celebrated nightfall. Yes, they worshiped at night in the Jewish homes at church. We know this from Psalm 92, where they gathered in the mornings at the tabernacle and they gathered at night at the tabernacle. Anyone who says that's not biblical is out to lunch on Old Testament worship. Everyone departed and would say, Shavua Tov, a good week to you. The Sabbath was not about rules. It was a festive enjoyment of God. That doesn't sound like a lot of bondage to me, does it? It's a time for the Lord to teach you about gospel. It's a time for the Lord to teach you about freedom. Anticipating rest in your wilderness journey because your discouragements are very real. Who wants to deny that? So what happened? Well, verse 27. On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather. But they found none. And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? See, the Lord has given you a Sabbath, a gift. Therefore, on the sixth day, he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. Look, it was blatant disregard of the commandment. It was just blatant disregard. We just don't want to do it. Why? What did the Lord think about this? some deliberately go out and break the commandment. There's a little ominous phrase there that should really stand out in the text. And they found none. They went to gather. No bread was there. All the people had to do was rely on the Lord to provide. All they had to do was trust the Lord, his love and his provision. All that they had to do was to come and enjoy him. All they had to do was stop working. Think about this. All they had to do was stop working. He wasn't putting a burden on them, was he? Stop working. Stand still. He's been telling us this. I want you to rest. but they went out because they did not trust the Lord to provide. They were not willing to let the word be first. Are we so different? You notice how bothered the Lord is here? This is a test, of course, but it's almost as if he holds the whole community guilty. Look at this. How long will you continue to disregard my commandments? This is what the Psalms record. You're wearying me already with your law breaking. You get it there. Why is the Lord so hard? Because it's almost as if the whole community is okay with this. No one seemed to care. In our terms, they just didn't want to be so legalistic, right? They didn't want to say anything to the Sabbath breakers. Isn't it something that of all commandments before the giving of the law, this one is the one the Lord puts the spotlight on? Isn't it? Of all the commandments in the wilderness before Sinai, He takes a giant spotlight and holds it right over the fourth. What has essentially happened today? What is the first thing when we hear you should keep the Sabbath? Immediately we're told we're being legalistic and so we're programmed to think today that Sabbath and commandments are legalistic. We sort of hang our hats on what the Pharisees did, right? We hang our hats on what the Pharisees and it becomes a cop-out. A grand excuse that we don't have to because of that Pharisaical problem. What do they do? Jesus and his disciples were walking through the grain fields on the Sabbath and the disciples were hungry and so they plucked heads of grain and ate and immediately the Pharisees charged them with breaking the Sabbath. You know, Jeremiah 17, if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I'll kindle an unclenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortress. Boy, they took that and ran with it. And the Pharisees did what? Well, they said no one's able to carry a load then on the Sabbath. For instance, the Pharisees compiled entire books of laws and 30 different categories of work were prohibited on the Sabbath. One of them explicitly said that one is not to travel on the Sabbath. When you explore what they meant by that, when you look at the Jewish writings on that, which was such a distance from what I read about the celebration of its intention a minute ago, one of their laws said the Sabbath forbids work fair enough statement Sabbath forbids work what did they mean by that the laws against the Sabbath went something like this and I quote Boyce here a man's out walking he spits does that work well it depends on what happens to the spit if it goes into the dirt and kind of rolls that's plowing i'm not kidding if it hits a rock and breaks up it's not work careful you're spit today now i emphasize to show what we do to god's commands see what we just did to god's commandment that wasn't the intention of the sabbath so we either do that or we cast it off completely that's why antinomians and legalists are two sides of the same coin i immediately get from question uh people questions about the sabbath and they they say well what what can be done on the sabbath and when i get those questions i just refuse to answer i don't want to do that to the sabbath is it a list of do's and don'ts you've already lost it Let me ask you a different question. First, who's first in your life? Who are you serving? Let me illustrate. What is before us? Many went out on the Sabbath in complete disregard from it. And we read, those who went out found none. What did it expose? You know the human heart. You know the human heart. They were all trying to get ahead. It was greed. they wanted to store up more for themselves that they were planning always planning always planning always planning this is the human heart we're always about getting ahead being successful taking more more more more here's my question are people happy today you've seen a wholesale abandonment in your day and many of you in the older generation have seen this abandonment of people walking away from worship and the church being dumped right in front of you. Churches are empty. We don't have very many Eric Liddells anymore who won't run on the Olympic for the sake of the Sabbath. That's craziness, isn't it? You know, for all the gadgets and all the comfortability and all the tools that we have, just go to Lowe's. You ever stopped and asked why everyone is as tired and busy as they are? we never seem to have enough time for anything. We're running around everywhere. We're just always on the run. And what is our complaint? Oh, oh, I'm just so busy. If I say that, just slap me. I know I say it at times. You know one of the characteristics of being in bondage? There's no peace or rest for the wicked. Could it be that our busyness indicates we're really reaching back toward Egypt? Could it? It's pretty evident when we're looking back, isn't it? Might I suggest that we're living in the age of the greatest amount of depression, anxiety, stress, problems, medicines. It's because everyone is frantically running around, sports, and nobody's resting. And I'm not talking about just getting a nap. Have we no time to enjoy the Lord anymore on the day that He has made for us? Even from a natural law perspective, I think it was Russia years ago, tampered with the workday and they made a continuous work week with disastrous results. Isn't there a reason everyone's not happy? Burned out and dissatisfied, never having enough, never having enough, always wanting more, more, more, more. Is it not because there is serious disobedience when it comes to exactly what God was teaching Israel in the wilderness about honoring the Sabbath. Taking a day to rest in Him. Meditate on your deliverance. Be fed with the bread of heaven. Be fed with the gospel. Look at the people who value worship. Look at the people who love to be in worship. Look at the people who look at the Sabbath as a delight. I'm going to show you some of the most productive people I've ever met. Loving God's house for worship. Why? Because they've learned to go in His strength. That's what this is all about. People today have essentially said, well, we just need less of the Lord today. And what are they doing with their time when God's people meet? Who knows? My guess is watching TV. It's a school day tomorrow. I'm tired. Got a big work week ahead of me. Well, then you should be here. With the true rest you need. I have a hard time pounding on this. I do. I have such a hard time pounding on this because it should not be. But how else do you do it? Let's be clear what's going on. You're really trying to rest from the Lord. He's become a burden to you. The Sabbath is the greatest test in Scripture as to where you are spiritually. It's a commandment that tests and exposes and shows your heart. That's why it's held out this high. God is saying that before the law he'll provide for you the true bread from heaven. Before he even gave this command for Israel because he knew what people would say, it's just for Israel. Jesus and his disciples worshipped on the Lord's day and they loved being there. It's a free gift and in the busyness of wilderness life, he wants you to rest in him. So what then do we conclude about the Sabbath? It's one of the most blessed gifts that God has given to you in your wilderness struggle. But it's going to take a lot of opening of your eyes by the Spirit for you to see it and appreciate it. Because ultimately what it's doing for you is as you come in simplicity, worshiping the Lord, resting in his promises, he is sustaining you until you get to the border of the promised land, until you come to your dying day, and then you get to see the bread from heaven with your eyes when you're raised. Don't consider it a legalistic thing of rules, but a way of freedom to rest and love Christ more, to feed on Him. It's designed to satisfy your hunger. It's designed to fill your hunger and thirst with what is most important. Participating the day when you're going to enter into glory. And no longer need all of this. You'll be with Him face to face. You know what Isaiah 58 says? If you turn your foot from the Sabbath, from doing pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight. I'm trying to imagine putting that in legalistic terms. Call it a delight. The holy day of the Lord honorable and shall honor him not doing your own ways nor finding your own pleasure nor speaking your own words. See, it's a test of dependency. You or God. Listen to this. Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the Lord has spoken. Listen, I don't know what it's going to be like to ride on the high hills of the earth but I want to do it. That's one of the most beautiful things stated in Scripture. When we delight in the Sabbath, the Lord is going to cause me to ride on the high hills of the earth. Those who willfully neglect this day that the Lord has given us are saying to the Lord, I still really want Egypt, Lord. I really want Egypt. To dishonor it is to work for Pharaoh. And the Lord Jesus Christ says, I've set you free from the tyranny of that devil. Come to me, says Jesus, all you who are weary and heavy laden. What am I going to do for you, said Christ? I'm going to give you rest. Rest. You'll find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. I'm not making your life hard. I'm wanting to feed you and help you in your struggles. therefore there remains says Hebrews a rest for the people of God for he who has entered his rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from his let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience don't reject his rest until we're home you're in the wilderness may you never neglect what the Lord has given you to feed you with the true bread from heaven I pray you treasure it today. Let's pray. Gracious Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us rest. Thank you for training us to long for what's ahead. Thank you for sustaining us in all of our afflictions, trials, distresses. Would you remove this terrible thought that says if we're tired, we need to stay away from you? I don't know where that came from. It came from the devil. Please take it away. And give us hearts that sincerely love you, love to worship you, love to fear you, love to be fed with bread that helps us. We just need ultimately a confidence in your word. We either believe these things or we don't. That's what this comes down to today. So give us faith, sanctification by faith. And thank you for giving us a rest where we rest in the promises of Christ and his gospel, anticipating eternal rest. We will be, Lord Jesus, with you face to face in this land that you've prepared, this glory that you've set out for us. We bless the name of the Lord today for giving us rest. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Let's sing together number 320 in the Blue Psalter hymnal safely through another week. 320, let's rise together and sing.