Remember the Sabbath Day, To Keep It Holy.

Remember the Sabbath Day, To Keep It Holy.

Exodus 20:18-11 (NLT)

“Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. You have six days each week for your

ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. On

that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters,

your male and female servants, your livestock, and any foreigners living among you.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the

seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Number one.

This is the longest commandment.

God gives more of an explanation on the fourth commandment than He does any other

commandment

Number two.

This is only one of two positive commandments.

Number three

The fourth commandment was one of the two signs of the old command of the Old Covena

The first sign was circumcision.

(Genesis17:10-11)

This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be

circumcised. You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and

you

Exodus 31:13–17 (NLT)

Tell the people of Israel: ‘Be careful to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the

covenant between me and you from generation to generation. It is given so you may know that I

am the Lord, who makes you holy. You must keep the Sabbath day, for it is a holy day for you.

Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from

the community. You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day must

be a Sabbath day of complete rest, a holy day dedicated to the Lord. Anyone who works on the

Sabbath must be put to death. The people of Israel must keep the Sabbath day by observing it

from generation to generation. This is a covenant obligation for all time. It is a permanent sign of

my covenant with the people of Israel. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the

seventh day he stopped working and was refreshed.’ ”

Genesis 17:1-2 KJV

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto

him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant

between me and thee...

A bilateral covenant is a covenant which both parties have obligations. God had certain

obligations towards Abraham and Abraham, had certain obligations to God.

So in this bilateral covenant, God required two things from Abraham,

1. To walk before Him.

2. To be perfect.

Romans 2:28-29 NIV

A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.

No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the

Spirit, not by the written code.

Deuteronomy 30:6 (NAS)

Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to

love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.

Exodus 20:8

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Genesis 2:1-3 (NKJV)

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day

God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work

which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested

from all His work which God had created and made.

Number 1

First of all, it is a day that is unique because “the heavens and the earth were completed, and all

their hosts. "That's the first verb - the whole work of creation was finished.

Secondly - verb rested.

verse 2 “by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested,”

verse 3 “He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”

Isaiah 40:28

“The Lord does not grow weary,”

Isaiah 40:28 (ESV) The psalmist says He doesn’t slumber or sleep.

Genesis 3:21

“The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them,” and then He

drove them out of the garden.

Hebrews 1 says, He had to uphold by His power His creation because it was now subject to

decay

Nothing is said about this day being a day of worship.

Exodus 31:12 (NASB)

As for you, speak to the sons of Israel saying, ‘You shall surely observe My Sabbaths; for this is a

sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who

sanctifies you.

Exodus 31:17

“A sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever.”

Matthew 12:1(NIV)

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

12 At that time Jesus went through

the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain

and eat them.

Luke 14:1-4 (NASB)

“It happened that when He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the

Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching Him closely. And there in front of them was a man

suffering from dropsy. And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it

lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?’

“But they kept silent. He took hold of him and healed him, sent him away.

Why, under the New Covenant do we worship on Sunday and not Saturday.

Colossians 2:16-17 (ESV)

Let No One Disqualify You

16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a

festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the

substance belongs to Christ.

Acts 20:7 (ESV)

“And on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began

talking to them, intending to depart the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.”.

1 Corinthians16:1-2 (ESV)

“Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you

also. 2 On the first day of every week let each one of you put aside and save, as he may prosper,

that no collections be made when I come.”

Revelation 1:10-11 (ESV)

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a

trumpet, 11 saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus

and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to

Laodicea.”