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The Sabbath in the Time of ChristJohn 5:16-17
Excerpted from: The Fourth Commandment (Part 1)The issue is the Sabbath. God does NOT stop working on the Sabbath. But He is not laboring in a steel mill. He is not laboring bending over an engineering table. He is not laboring by doing work on His automobile, or cutting His lawn, or anything. But what is God doing? Psalm 74:12 tells you that God is working salvation in all the world, and that work does not stop on the Sabbath.
Jesus was justifying what He did on the Sabbath by the fact that He was doing the same thing that God was. He was expending His energy in God's creation; and, therefore—because God works at this—it was also justifiable for Jesus to work. So, creative acts—creative work—of the kind that God is involved in on the Sabbath does NOT stop just because the Sabbath arrives.
John 5:16-17
Excerpted from: Four Views of Christ (Part 3)We see a situation similar to this in John 5:16-17. He does not appeal to what David did, but because of what John is writing about, Jesus said instead, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working." He refers directly to His Father, God, not to David.
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