Unplug Talking Land
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Tim Elmore in the book Generation Z Unfiltered writes about kids being empowered without wisdom.
He says
Over the last decade, I’ve read too man unbelievable stories of people-usually young people under twenty-five (but not always)-who became consumed with their portable devices, to their own demise.
I’ve read about young people who drove their vehicles into a lake or river because their GPSs told them to do so. In 2018, “a driver in Vermont steered his car right into Lake Champlain… The driver says he was using the navigation app Waze, which apparently insisted that driving into the lake was the right way to go,” according to the New York Magazine. That year, “a guy drove into a lake in Massachusetts and blamed his GPS.” The fact is people have been doing this regularly since 2012 when GPS became the norm for drivers.
Elmore says,
Believe it or not, in 2015 there were eight shark-related deaths, but twelve selfie-related deaths in our world.
By 2018, we progressed to five shark-related deaths - but twenty five selfie related deaths.
Despite the overwhelming amount of research and data available on the hazards of smart technology and video games for kids, we still don’t seem to get it. Psychologists have published the damaging effects of too many hours on the screen, be it video games or social media, but kids do it anyway because it’s jus too addictive. It’s as if when our technology became smart, many of us stopped using our smarts or thinking for ourselves. As technology became common, too frequently, we lost or common sense.
Unplug
We all long for 7th day rest!
The beginning of the story in the book of Genesis tells the end of the story about an eternal 7th day rest.
The 7th day is the day of fullness or completeness.
Creation is filled with God’s presence and power.
Creation produces abundance. Humanity can rest and rule in God’s presence and trust that everything is going to be ok.
In Genesis 1 we see God bringing life and order out of darkness.
On the 7th day God blesses the 7th day and makes it Holy. His presence comes dwell or settle in with Humanity.
Last week, if you recall we talked about trusting that God’s provision on the 6th day is enough to provide for Sabbath rest. Sabbath becomes a time where we can trust that God’s provision is enough.
I want to draw your attention to something in scripture for just a second. After God finishes each day, it ends with this statement
Genesis 1:25 (HCSB)
25 So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
God says of days 1-5 he saw all that he had made and it was good.
Now look at day 6
31 God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.
Day 6 God saw all that He had made and it was VERY good. Scholars have focused on this word VERY as God providing enough on the 6th day for the 7th day.
We saw God’s provision for the Israelites before the 10 commandments is given.
The Israelites are freed from the bondage of Slavery and they cross the Red Sea on dry ground.
After God does this amazing act, God’s people begin to complain about Him. They need water to drink. We saw last week that God gives them the instruction that in the Wilderness or desert that they are to gather every day the bread God provides from the sky but on the 6th day they are to gather enough for the 6th day and the 7th day.
This became a trust issue that God would provide enough on the 6th day for the 7th day as well.
Moses is given instructions to build the Tabernacle. I would once again encourage those who want to learn more to check out the Bible project podcast. In episode 5, they lay out a detailed description of the building the Tabernacle. Guess what pattern this scripture follows? It follows a pattern of 7. Moses goes up to meet with God and waits 6 days and then meets with God on day 7. Moses meets with God 7 times. The description of the building of the tabernacle is laid out in 7s as well. It is fascinating and will grow your love for the Word of God.
So he completes the Tabernacle then this happens.
34 The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
35 Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
36 The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.
37 If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up.
38 For the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey.
This is a tent of meeting and God’s presence has created a problem.
What’s the problem?
Moses is unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
22 The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”
23 So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
24 He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.
38 For the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey.
Moses can’t go in. God’s presence has created a problem for rebellious people.
For people to experience the Eden ideal then God’s people must be transformed.
This is what the book of Leviticus is all about.
Let’s talk about the land
9 You must not oppress a foreign resident; you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
10 “Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.
11 But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
The word work is the same Hebrew word for Slave. When you are working the ground, you are making it serve you.
You are subduing the land. You make the land serve your will.
verse 11 during the 7th year you are to let the land rest and leave it uncultivated, So that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave.
Eden ideal in year 7. The land rest and it works for you.
12 “Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.
13 “Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
6 days do your work but
Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbath):
It means that you STOP or to cease from
Nuakh:
Rested or settled in
Nephesh (Refresh):
Life, mind, heart. To be alive or have life.
God has given us the land to serve our needs.
The Land is not ours. The land is the Lord’s and it is on loan to us.
2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the Lord.
3 You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.
4 But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the Lord: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
5 You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.
6 Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you—for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you.
7 All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.
9 “I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.
11 I will place My residence among you, and I will not reject you.
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
God will stroll among them.
13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.
What if they don’t
14 “But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands—
15 if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,
16 then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
17 I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.
18 “But if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.
16 “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18 Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.
19 “This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
21 But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”