1. The Rejection of the King
Matthew 12

2. LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Sabbath Rest
LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”

3. LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Sabbath Rest
LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Genesis 2:2–3 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

4. LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Sabbath Rest
LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Isaiah 58:13–14 “...call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word, then you will take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth....”

5. LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Sabbath Rest
LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
Genesis 5:29 Now Lamech called his son’s name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

6. Sabbath Rest
FOUND IN JESUS ALONE

8. Sabbath Rest
FOUND IN JESUS ALONE
Matthew 23:4 “They [Scribes and Pharisees] tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.”

9. Sabbath Rest
FOUND IN JESUS ALONE
Acts 15:10 (cf. Galatians 5:1) “Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?”

10. Sabbath Rest
FOUND IN JESUS ALONE
John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”

11. Sabbath Rest
NEVER COMPLETE TODAY
Hebrews 4:9 So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

12. Application
When life is not what you expected... trust and hope When life brings good gifts... enjoy and give thanks At all times... give and keep giving

14. The Rejection of the King
Matthew 12