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In this sermon Asleep in the Light, you deserve a break today. It has a certain allure that catches our attention. I do deserve a break today. With the pressures of school, work family, and busy schedules we feel like “Yes I do deserve a break today. As believers we are promised a time of rest. We are promised that Jesus Christ will be the peace of our lives. In times of struggle we can go to the rock that's higher than I and find a place of refuge. Indeed rest and peace are marks of the Christian life. These are distinctive's which set us apart from the rest of the world. In the world you can find no rest. The Bible says the wicked are like the troubled sea which cannot rest; whose waters cast up mire and dirt. But in Jesus Christ you can find rest and comfort and peace. There is another sense in which the word rest can be used. It is a carnal rest or a fleshly rest.  I am talking not about confidence in Christ, but about a hardening of the heart, a callousness to the things of God. Not about the security of one who is on the rock, but about the abandon of one whose house is on the sand. Not about the peace of God which comes with the knowledge that you are being used of God, but about growing lazy and apathetic to the cries of a hungry world. The message of the book of Amos speaks to the people of God concerning the danger of growing apathetic in our walk with God. [Read less]