REST Part 3

1. 1. The Resistance was formed to battle the
oppression of a vast evil empire.
2. What began as a number of small cells
became a movement.
3. Though the rebels were small in numbers
and passionate about their cause, they also
were under-trained and under-resourced.
4. Against all odds, they were victorious.

2. Unconventional Tactics

3. Unconventional Tactics

4. Unconventional Tactics

7. 1. Invite God to rest in the
very center of our lives.

8. 1. Invite God to rest in the
very center of our lives.
2. Receive from God the
provision we need for
our lives.

9. 1. Invite God to rest in the
very center of our lives.
2. Receive from God the
provision we need for
our lives.
3. Resist evil.

10. 3. Resist evil. • Stress
• Worry
• Anxiety
• Fear
• Grumbling and complaining
• Jealousy and greed
• Lack of self-control
• Lack of contentment
• Dishonesty
• Arrogance
• Power and control
• Violence as a means to an end

11. Ephesians 6:11-13
Put on the full armor of God so
that you can stand against the
schemes of the devil. For our
struggle is not against flesh and
blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the
cosmic powers of this darkness,
against evil, spiritual forces in the
heavens. For this reason take up
the full armor of God, so that you
may be able to resist in the evil
day, and having prepared
everything, to take your stand.

12. I John 2:15-16
Do not love the world or the
things in the world. If anyone
loves the world, the love of
the Father is not in him.
For
everything in the world — the
lust of the flesh, the lust of the
eyes, and the pride in one’s
possessions—is not from the
Father, but is from the world.

13. “In our own contemporary
context of the rat race of anxiety,
the celebration of Sabbath is an
act of resistance…because it is a
visible insistence that our lives
are not defined by the
production and consumption of
commodity goods…”

14. “In our own contemporary
context of the rat race of anxiety,
the celebration of Sabbath is an
act of resistance…because it is a
visible insistence that our lives
are not defined by the
production and consumption of
commodity goods…”

15. “In our own contemporary
context of the rat race of anxiety,
the celebration of Sabbath is an
act of resistance…because it is a
visible insistence that our lives
are not defined by the
production and consumption of
commodity goods…”
“Such an act of resistance requires
enormous intentionality and
communal reinforcement amid the
barrage of seductive pressure from
the insatiable insistences of the
market.”

16. “In our own contemporary
context of the rat race of anxiety,
the celebration of Sabbath is an
act of resistance…because it is a
visible insistence that our lives
are not defined by the
production and consumption of
commodity goods…”
“Such an act of resistance requires
enormous intentionality and
communal reinforcement amid the
barrage of seductive pressure from
the insatiable insistences of the
market.”

17. 1. The Resistance was formed to battle the
oppression of a vast evil empire.
2. What began as a number of small cells
became a movement.
3. Though the rebels were small in numbers
and passionate about their cause, they also
were under-trained and under-resourced.
4. Against all odds, they were victorious.

18. 2 Corinthians 10:3-4
For though we walk in the world, we do
not fight according to this world’s rules of
warfare. The weapons of the war we’re
fighting are not of this world but are
powered by God and effective at tearing
down the strongholds erected against
His truth. We are demolishing arguments
and ideas, every high-and-mighty
philosophy that pits itself against the
knowledge of the one true God.

23. 1. Invite God to rest in the
very center of our lives.
2. Receive from God the
provision we need for
our lives.
3. Resist evil.