How does taking a break make you smarter?

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Acquaint Yourself with God

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Knowing God as Creator

03 Knowing God as Redeemer

04 Higher than the Highest

05 Unselfishness and True Development

06 Adventist Education

07 Education and Character

08 Education and Faith

09 Education and Sabbath

10 The School of the Sanctuary

11 The Schools of the Prophets

12 The School of Life

13 The Revolution of Jesus Christ

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, Welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now, here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

An activity that is resurging in popularity is Sabbath keeping, where you take 1 day out of the week and you take some rest.

You turn off your phones, you turn off your devices, and you spend time with the people that matter most to you, and especially in your spiritual development with God.

In the studio with me is our Sebastian and Jonathan, and we have Callie with us somewhere on the...oh, there she is.

And we want to welcome our friends on this episode on education and the Sabbath.

We are in this quarter, in this season, on the topic of education.

And education is not, again, we're going to sound like a broken record we are not talking about degrees diplomas and detention we are talking about spiritual development and the purpose of life so sebastian can you pray for us as we start this episode off.

Heavenly Father, we know that thousands of years ago when you created the world, you decided to set aside a day for us to rest, to know you and to follow your example.

But Lord, it was also not as 1 who was weary.

And so Lord, we pray that now as we discuss these things, that you may open our minds and our hearts, that we may understand you, that we understand your purpose and why you gave the Sabbath for our development is our prayer in Jesus name amen amen amen Jonathan we you've been with us on some episodes and some episodes you've been you've been you've been resting and keeping the inverse Sabbath yeah What are some high points that you remember from this quarter and keep us up to sync us up here?

I love this topic of education and as you said it's not about school so much.

It's more about the broader perspective of how we are developed as human beings in a spiritual sense from our brokenness into the image of God and then of course what God's purpose is for us.

So I've been blessed really by every episode that we've been doing, looking at different aspects that God teaches us, you know, through the sanctuary, this blueprint that God gave us to understand how he transforms our lives.

Looking at how that impacts the way we interact with others, how God has given us so many ways, and we're going to look at 1 of them today, to reveal Himself and His character to us, and how that transforms our lives.

So it's hard to pinpoint 1 thing, because this concept is so broad and all-encompassing, but it's been a blessing.

Yes, yeah, we're looking at now the biblical philosophy of education and specifically that God has given us the gift of the Sabbath, yes, and how the Sabbath, how as I said in my teaser, how does taking a break, how does resting impact in your development?

Usually in this rat race that we're in, development is like do more and be more active, but God is saying no, take a chill pill, rest, and go sit down.

Exodus chapter 31 verse 12 through 18, and Callie, if you can read that for us.

And Callie, if you can read that for us, Exodus chapter 31 verse 12 through 18, please.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death.

For whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Work shall be done for 6 days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord.

Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever.

For in 6 days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.

And when He had made an end of speaking with Him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses 2 tablets of the testimony, Tablets of stone written with the finger of God.

All right, so this is an awesome passage, but some heavy parts in there.

Let's sync up with maybe some people who may not know about Sabbath keeping.

So when you think about the Sabbath, it is something that was given in creation, right, when Adam and Eve were created.

And what that kind of lets us know is this was not a Jewish thing or a cultural thing.

And not only was it a human thing, it was God's ideal, right?

He didn't institute the Sabbath after sin.

He created it there as a part of that original foundation.

Now that Sabbath keeping, which we believe biblically goes from that sunset on the sixth day to the sunset right from evening to evening, As the creation account tells us, evening and morning were the first day.

And as that guides us through, this day was set aside for us not to rest unnecessarily from any sort of activity, right?

This was more so about taking time to move away from our work and to enjoy the completed work of God, because God himself rested, but he obviously didn't rest because he was tired.

So the Sabbath ends up becoming this weekly reminder of the completed work of God.

And that should be our focus and all our activities on the day.

What's so beautiful about the creation account is that, you know, God created, you know, for 6 days and he created this time and space and filled it with, you know, all the things he created.

But the seventh day he created time and space, but he filled it with himself.

The Sabbath really is the gift, the present of God's presence.

And so he has integrated his special holy presence into the weekly cycle, as he said, from Friday night to Saturday night.

And this is part of the blessing of what it means to be alive and be connected to God.

This has been going on for thousands of years.

Every Sabbath, God is especially present for us and with us to sanctify us and change our lives.

It's just a beautiful thing that God has put himself, so to say, into the creation cycle.

In a previous episode, I don't know which number, but we looked at the sanctuary and the Lord placing His presence in terms of space.

Well, here we're talking about the Sabbath and the Lord placing His presence in terms of time.

So, He is in the space-time continuum with us, and you've got to ask yourself, how does an infinite eternal being do that?

And there's many people who will argue, like, hey, if He were just to appear, He would...but how does an infinite being do that?

And these are vignettes that we see of God and also in the incarnation of Jesus as well, but before we see these little incidents happening of God manifesting Himself.

So, Callie, what does education have to do with Sabbath keeping and Sabbath?

Are these 2 connected and what can we glean from this message?

I think it really speaks to that question.

It says, speak also to the children of Israel saying, surely my Sabbaths you shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations.

This is the key part, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

1 of the most beautiful things about the Sabbath is it reminds us who does the heavy lifting in our salvation, who does all the work, and also who continues to sanctify us.

And so education, you know, we've talked about that education, true education, is a refinement of our character and making us more like Christ.

And on the Sabbath is when we're reminded, oh yeah, God is the 1 who is making me like Christ.

We have our effort, you know, we do our things, but really none of it even happens without God's hand itself.

And so the Sabbath, you know, you kind of said it a few different ways, but what I love about the Sabbath as a workaholic and perfectionist is God chooses the day to tell us to not do anything, to say this is the day that I'm the 1 who's doing all the work.

So the day that God calls holy is the day that he tells us to rest, which shows that our our activeness, our busyness does not create holiness.

God himself is holy and he shares that with us.

I think it's very important that there's 1 specific day and not 1 of any 7 days but 1 specific day that he is late.

It's not the legality that's the emphasis but it is that it's based on a relationship with him right and there's many who want to de-emphasize that relationship and say well you know he really just meant 1 of any day, 1 of 7, and so it doesn't...you can choose and then the human body can just kind of rest and that's...but that de-emphasize, it's kind of saying, you know, to me and my wife, like, hey, we can just celebrate any day for our anniversary, but it really depersonalizes it.

And so here, and as Kelly, you're sending in verse 13, and this is a sign between God and him, a memorial.

This is a, the personality factor has to be seared into this.

Otherwise it does become a legal activity.

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

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