Sabbath isn't a reward for a productive week. It's a declaration that you're already free.

In week three of Get(ing) Out of Work, we turn to Deuteronomy 5 — where Moses restates the Sabbath command and adds something Exodus doesn't: a reason. Not creation, but liberation. God commands rest because he already got you out. To Sabbath is to remember who freed you, and to refuse — again — the identity of a slave. Sabbathing, it turns out, is a defiant act of freedom.

Questions for Reflection:

• What does your relationship with rest reveal about what you believe God requires of you?
• In what ways does the culture around you function like Egypt — demanding your productivity, time, and identity? How does Sabbath resist that?

Scripture References: Genesis 2:2–3; Exodus 20:8–11; Deuteronomy 5:12–15; Mark 2:27

Voices/Quotes: Eugene Peterson, Tell It Slant

Sermon Notes & Liturgy

We take a month or so every year to consider, together, the rhythm of creation according to God's design: Sabbath & Work This sermonette was a recorded during one of our regular Sabbath meals, where we gather together, around a table, to rest in Jesus,

Christ City Church gathers every Sunday at 10:10 AM at 642 Brookhurst Dr., Dallas, TX 75218; in the chapel at LHB.
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Work isn't what's broken. We are. And that changes everything about how we show up on Monday.

Tracing the Genesis narrative through the Fall, Noah, and the Noahic covenant, Pastor Jeremy Pace shows that the pain and struggle we experience in work stem from twisted human hearts, not from work itself. Work is our good, not merely a means to good things — it is our specific human contribution to God's ongoing creation and to the common good. The antidote to mis-loving work is Love itself: only when love is put on as our essential nature, not as a feeling or an outcome, can we "work from the soul, as for the Lord."

Questions for Reflection:

What are we missing in our love(lessness) of work?
Where — and from whom — have you witnessed love at work, work from the soul?

Scripture References:

Psalm 90:14–17
Genesis 2:1–3, 15; 3:17–19; 4:22–23; 5:28–29; 6:5–18; 8:20–22; 9:1–17, 20–25
Colossians 3:10, 14, 17, 23

Voices/Quotes: Irenaeus, Augustine, Julian of Norwich, NT Wright, Dorothy Sayers, Tom Nelson

Sermon Notes & Liturgy | Get(ting) Out of Work

We take a month or so every year to consider, together, the rhythm of creation according to God's design: Sabbath & Work

Christ City Church gathers every Sunday at 10:10 AM at 642 Brookhurst Dr., Dallas, TX 75218; in the chapel at LHB.
Come rest in Jesus. Learn more at christcity.life

Genesis 2:15; 3:17-19; 5:28-29

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