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Sunday During the Dark AgesExodus 20:8-11
Excerpted from: Sabbathkeeping (Part 4)In Exodus 20, the rendering of the commandment lays down the basic rule concerning the Sabbath's use. It says:
No other day is hallowed in the way that the Sabbath is. It is set aside as holy to God. It belongs to Him. It is time for Him. And so the basic rule that the commandment lays down is that God requires that each person set aside this day for the worship and service of Him. There is nothing here that even begins to indicate that this commandment is merely ceremonial in nature. I say that because that is one of the reasons that the Protestants say we don't have to keep it, that the Sabbath is just a ceremony. But there is nothing here to indicate that it is only a ceremony.
Just like the other commandments, its function has to do with relationships. One set of relationships—the business and work-a-day, world ones—are broken off (stopped). They end on Friday at sunset. And another set of relationships—the spiritual ones—are emphasized. In addition to that, the commandment, as it is rendered here in Exodus 20, looks back on creation. It identifies the reason that we are to keep it is because God, the Creator, set it apart at creation.
Exodus 20:8-11
Excerpted from: Keeping God's StandardsQuoting from the Forerunner Bible study (and I trust that you are all doing those because they are exceptionally fine and they are encouraging): "Because God rested after six days of labor, the Sabbath is also our day of rest and a memorial of Creation. He wants us to remember, not only what He did in the physical creation, but also that His spiritual creation continues in us now."
That is what this world is going to find out. For us, we have to keep the Sabbath holy. God blessed it. He sanctified it. He made it holy. He set it apart for us and for His use. And we are instructed to keep it holy. Of course, this means we are going to keep it holy from sunset Friday through sunset Sabbath—not doing our own thing, going to work at our employment; or to keep it holy by our dress, by our conversation, our activities. In every way we are to put forth effort to learn more about God each Sabbath.
Exodus 20:11
Excerpted from: The Fourth Commandment (Part 3)Now, in the last few sermons, [we saw that] the Sabbath law commands one to cease from one's normal work activities on the seventh day. But it does so with two very definite goals, purposes, or ends in mind. Here in Exodus 20:11, it says:
There is the first reason that the Bible gives for the keeping of the Sabbath day. That is, that one is to use time to reflect on Whom it is that we worship. It draws our attention that our God is the Creator. So the Sabbath is a memorial of Creation. That's reason 1 that has been established so far.
Exodus 20:11
Excerpted from: God's Rest and the MillenniumIt obviously refers us back to the creation, "for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth," and then it says, God "rested the seventh day." Would you not think that God would have put shab'bat there? Because, this is indeed the Sabbath commandment, but no, it is nuwach, the one that means, "rest, repose, lie down, take it easy, and lean back." This could make your head spin.
Exodus 20:11
Excerpted from: The Fourth Commandment (Part 1)There it is firmly established as law, to be kept. Yet it is very clear (as I stated earlier) that, when it is established as law in Exodus 20, the law has its roots in Genesis 2:1-3. That is, in the example that God set in what He did. He rested, and He blessed the seventh day.
Exodus 20:8-11
Excerpted from: Holy GroundNow, in verse 8 and in verse 11, this is the same word that is used in Genesis 2, sanctified, to be set apart, to be consecrated.
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