The deep sleep in Jesus

By the circadian rhythm, in deep sleep from 10 pm-2 am, our bodies are healed. Free radicals are constantly produced from regular metabolism of food, and by oxidative stress (or, stress causing an imbalance of antioxidants and free radicals) and excessive-chronic adrenaline. Free radicals, which bounce around from one cell to another in pin-ball machine fashion, and thus damaging them, are corralled during deep sleep and destroyed. This natural and automatic recovery of the body’s health happens nightly during deep sleep. The hosts of white blood cells mobilize and go on a search of enemy bacteria and viruses and other foreign invaders. They travel throughout the uttermost reaches of the body to rescue it from slow death. Deep sleep gives the rest that remains for the children of the disobedient and the obedient alike, our Creator and Designer loving us so. “He giveth sleep to His beloved.” (Ps. 127:2). This deep sleep restrains the advances of aging, and gives us renewed vitality and immunization against the environment’s bombardment of disease.

But, not everyone gets deep sleep. Many go to sleep too late to catch the 10p-2a window of opportunity. People either don’t know, or don’t care, about the healing and rest that comes from going to bed early, around 9 pm. “Early to bed” is necessary because it takes time for the brain to settle down before going into deep sleep, 30 minutes on the average. Melatonin begins to pour into our brains around 10 pm.

From https://www.doctoroz.com/blog/kulreet-chaudhary-md/sleep-and-longevity

Scientists are just beginning to discover the antioxidant role of melatonin. Your body produces numerous natural antioxidants that prevent cellular and DNA damage, which ultimately causes disease. One of the powerful nocturnal antioxidants produced is melatonin. As you sleep, your body is removing the effects of free radicals that have been produced by stress throughout the day. This natural, nocturnal clean-up crew maintains physical balance without any effort. All you need to do to benefit from this process is to sleep when your pineal gland sends the melatonin signal. 

If you are awake past 10 p.m., this process of free radical removal becomes interrupted, and your body’s ability to remove the effects of free radicals is significantly impaired. First of all, most people who stay awake past 10 p.m. are usually working on the computer, watching TV or reading. All of these activities result in an exposure to light and therefore interrupt the production of melatonin. Secondly, the metabolic energy that becomes available at 10 p.m. for the removal of free radicals is expended and now unavailable. It gets dissipated in the “second wind” phenomenon and is lost as mental energy rather than used as metabolic energy for the purpose of removing free radicals.  So rather than allowing our bodies to maximize its natural cycle of repair during sleep, we interfere with it. This results in a state of night vigilance where you are alert during the night and groggy during the day. This cycle is extremely harmful to health.

Unless we go to bed early enough we miss the melatonin dump. From then on our deep sleep period is light sleep, and afterward the only thing left is REM sleep. This REM—Rapid Eye Movement—sleep is the brain’s time for organizing its thoughts, its plans and memories. REM sleep represents brain work, and therefore does little for healing the brain and bones and blood. We wake up the next morning not rested, and have difficulty getting out of bed. Our brains are flat-lining and in need of artificial stimulants, as in caffeinated drinks and sugary pastries. The time it took for our bodies and brains to get into a condition for the melatonin trigger for deep sleep, thus forcing us to take much longer to get into deep sleep, caused us to miss some, or all, of the carved-in-stone 10-2 circadian window of brain, body, and nerve healing. Many tell themselves that they must wait until Sunday morning to recoup the full week’s deficit of necessary healing sleep, because they can sleep in. But, that late morning sleep is just more REM sleep. It doesn’t constitute deep sleep that only comes during the 10-2 window for healing that they need every night of the week.

So, every evening, we must lay down, turn out all lights, turn off all sounds, cease all stimuli and sensations. Lacking all, or any one of these beneficial deprivations will disrupt the settling down process. Be rather stimulus deprived, than be rest deprived, health deprived, energy deprived, alertness deprived. The benefits of rest far out-weigh the pleasures of late night music or entertainment, or even news. Turn off the TVs and computers! In the long run, who cares if you can’t chime in on the next day’s conversations about “Did you see that scene in the movie where they…?” “Did you hear so-and-so comedian say, ‘Blah, blah, blah…’?” “This Hollywood celebrity or that sports star did this and that!” Gossip, it’s all just sophisticated gossip. And empty.

True, it is conversation and exchange and friendship and camaraderie. It might help in the work environment and organizational climate. But, everyone benefits more when they get their rest, and a good breakfast, and bring a good attitude and a smile to work. It never works out to do as man does; but it always works best to do as our God and Creator does.

So, hit the ground running, and give your organization or business the 110% it wants and requires and needs. Go to bed early. Then spend all day talking about wholesome, excellent subjects. Cheer and edify and accomplish the morning away! Then do the same for the afternoon! Life is too short to take all morning to wake up and take off, day after day. Late-to-bed-and-late-to-rise becomes a cycle that needs to be broken, the cycle of a late start in the day, dragging into work, getting up to speed around 10 am, finally flying high by 6 pm, and not able to wind down again until 11.

Now, about Jesus. How does this relate to Jesus? What would it be like to be in the calm and health maintenance of deep sleep all day long? What would it be like to live continually stress-free. Nothing bothering you. Nothing ruining your day. Wouldn’t that be nice? Jesus had that. He had it all day, and He had it every day. Of Jesus it was said, “God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him” (John 3:34).

“In the heart of Christ, where reigned perfect harmony with God, there was perfect peace. He was never elated by applause, nor dejected by censure or disappointment. Amid the greatest opposition and the most cruel treatment, He was still of good courage.” Desire of Ages, p. 330.

Jesus not only walked in perfect harmony with God, but he walked in the sunshine of His Father’s love. “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand.” (John 3:35). A conscience filled with His Father’s love was what caused Him to walk in harmony with His Father. “God sending His own [‘dear Son’ (Col. 1:13), ‘Thy holy child Jesus’ (Acts 4:27)] in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit [‘of His Son’ (Gal. 4:6)].” (Rom. 8:3,4).

This is what Gabriel meant by “the Messiah the Prince” (Dan. 9:25), and “the most Holy” (vs. 24).

And we can know His same divine love and harmony and peace as we interact with the Son. If we stand before the Father’s Law with which He invests His Son, then we will need the uttermost forgiveness and acceptance through the Son’s intercession before our great, and greatly to be feared, Father. Our wrestling with the Schoolmaster’s Law, as Paul did in Romans 7:14-19, will end in our wrestling for the Son’s mediation as Galatians 3:24 and Genesis 32:24 spell out. This is our first work. We must labor before the Law of God in order to find rest in His Son at the breaking of the day.

Jesus will justify us and clean us up, and then dub us children of the heavenly King. We will walk in the sunshine of His love, and possess peace with God. And we will have the rest that remains for God’s people.

But, we must first expose ourselves to who we really are. We must know ourselves, and our great need of redemption. We must look into the perfect Law of liberty that is like a mirror exposing our deficiencies and deformities, our malice, our selfishness, our self-sufficiency, our less than perfect love for every brother and sister of the human race. We must see ourselves as God sees us, in order to know the loathing and frustration and sorrow that we cause Him and holy angels, before we can appreciate His gracious forgiveness.

“Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.… For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, As I have sworn in My wrath, [they shall not enter into My rest].… There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. ” (Heb. 4:1,3,9-11).

Failure to sleep deep in Jesus is possible, and means eternal failure.

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36).

“It remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom [the gospel] was first preached entered not in because of unbelief.” (Heb. 4:6).

There is a work not to do; and there is a work that we need to do, “the first works” (Rev. 2:5). The work to do, the first work, is to stand before the Law of God, the word of God, the Testimony of Jesus. It will be to us “quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” (Heb. 4:12,13). The Law will manifest for us the horrible defects in our words and actions and thoughts. The first works will show us that our sinfulness is transgression of the Law.

During the investigative judgment in this time of the end, our first work is to go to the Testimony of Jesus, which is the Spirit of Prophecy for our “special work of purification” Great Controversy, p. 425. The dispensation of the Law for reproof is the first step in our justification, per Galatians 3:24. For the Law of God, or word of God, must be given through His authorized representatives. The prophets were holy men and women of God, moved by the holy Spirit of Jesus. Only they will give the true, honest presentation of the character of God in His Law and word, exemplified through His Son. Only prophets of the Lord will represent His true expectations, instead of varnished golden calves that today’s prophets of Baal still substitute for the stern, fatherly, unvarnished truth from the Law and word of God. The earmark of false prophets is lightness and lawlessness. “Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and [ who recount] them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their lightness…, saith the LORD.” (Jer. 23:32).

The people on the wide road to destruction love their prophets of Baal.

“[An astonishing] and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and My people love to have it so”, “which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.” (Jer. 5:30,31; Isa. 30:10,11).

The true prophets were not wishy-washy, but sober and full of Jesus’ fatherly love.

“When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.” (2Cor. 1:17,18).

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (2Tim. 4:2-4).

But, if we will humble ourselves before the rebuke of God through the word of God, then will we receive the reconciliation of God and the witness of His Spirit. Then will we have the peace that overcometh the world. We will have the peace of deep sleep. We will have deep rest like Jesus had it, and deep joy, even while He was in constant activity and in crashing storms. Through Jesus and His word, we will have deep rest and be of good courage, all day and all night. “When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.” (Prov. 6:22). Stress will be absent, and all the damaging excess free radicals will never be freed. We will have heaven on earth.

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.” (John 3:36).

“He shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” (Jer. 17:8).