Commandment # 4

Keep the Sabbath Holy!

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1. The Purpose of the Commandment

Rest Redemption

1. The Purpose of the Sabbath

Rest Exodus 20:8-108 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labour and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God.”

1. The Purpose of the Sabbath

Rest Worship

1. The Purpose of the Sabbath

Deuteronomy 5: 15 Redemption15 ”Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.”

2. The Implications of the Sabbath

Work Exodus 20:10On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do. 

“You show me a nation that has given up the Sabbath, and I will show you a nation that has got the seeds of decay."

3. The Blessings of the Sabbath

Deuteronomy 5:16, Exodus 20:11

• Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

• Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

4. The Extension of the Sabbath

• One day a week

• One year in 7

• Every 50 years

• The Sabbath was not made for man, man was made for the Sabbath (Jesus)

4. The Extension of the Sabbath

“The spiritual rest which God especially intends in this commandment is that we not only cease from our labour and trade but much more-that we let God alone work in us and that in all our powers do we do nothing of our own”

4. The Extension of the Sabbath

“Sabbath as that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing”

5. The Practise of the Sabbath

• A balance in life

• Rest from work

•Worship

• Read Christian literature

• Time with family/Church family

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