A series on rest ends by defending work. Pastor Adam takes Proverbs 6 to the ant, separates work from toil by way of Genesis 3 and Colossians 3, and argues that sloth and overwork are two versions of the same refusal to live inside a design.

Leviticus 25 gives the land itself a Sabbath. Pastor Adam defines stress three ways, all of them a mismatch between load and design, and puts the test bluntly: if you are not taking a Sabbath, something is already wrong. Things that do not rest break.

You will rarely see a shepherd running with his sheep. Pastor Adam works Psalm 23 into a question about which voices a restless person is actually following, and lands on contentment as a key to rest rather than a reward for achieving it.

God finishes the work and then stops. Pastor Adam opens the Rest series in Genesis 2:3, arguing the world was created into deep stillness rather than activity, and that rest and sleep are not the same thing: without the capacity to rest, sleep does not arrive.