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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy

It is a holy day ordained by God for us to rest from our daily labors and worship Him. How would you explain the purpose of the Sabbath day to someone who does not know about the Sabbath?

What Does Observing The Sabbath Day Look Like Under Grace? And Should You Observe It?

Jesus taught that the Sabbath day was made for our benefit see Mark 2: The purpose of the Sabbath is to give us a certain day of the week on which to direct our thoughts and actions toward God. It is not a day merely to rest from work. It is a sacred day to be spent in worship and reverence. As we rest from our usual daily activities, our minds are freed to ponder spiritual matters. On this day we should renew our covenants with the Lord and feed our souls on the things of the Spirit.

Think about what you can do to keep the purpose of the Sabbath in mind as you prepare for the day each week. The seventh day was consecrated by God as a Sabbath in the beginning of the earth see Genesis 2: Since earliest times, the tradition of a sacred seventh day has been preserved among various peoples of the earth.

Keeping the Sabbath day was also a sign that the Israelites were His covenant people see Exodus However, some Jewish leaders made many unnecessary rules about the Sabbath. They decided how far people could walk, what kind of knots they could tie, and so forth. When certain Jewish leaders criticized Jesus Christ for healing sick people on the Sabbath, Jesus reminded them that the Sabbath was made for the benefit of man.

The Nephites also observed the Sabbath day according to the commandments of God see Jarom 1: From that time on, His followers observed the first day of the week as their Sabbath. In both cases there were six days of labor and one for rest and devotion. How can the remembrance of the Resurrection influence our worship on the Sabbath?

The Lord asks us, first, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Second, He asks us to rest from daily work. This means we should perform no labor that would keep us from giving our full attention to spiritual matters. Our prophets have told us that we should not shop, hunt, fish, attend sports events, or participate in similar activities on that day. Kimball cautioned, however, that if we merely lounge about doing nothing on the Sabbath, we are not keeping the day holy.

The Sabbath calls for constructive thoughts and acts. Healing was a work of mercy, and Jesus, portrayed as Lord of the Sabbath , was merciful. Consequently, criticisms of healing on the Sabbath were unjustified. 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. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath. He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.

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Or haven't you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent? I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there.

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Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand. But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. The Catholic Church views the commandment to "remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy" Exodus Sunday is distinguished from the Sabbath, which it follows. According to Catholic teaching, ceremonial observance of Christ's resurrection on the first day of the week replaces that of the Sabbath.

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Sunday is described as a fulfillment of the spiritual truth of the Jewish Sabbath and an announcement of man's eternal rest in God. He gave you six days in which to work and one for rest and devotion and to tender your help to the poor and assist the Church. Martin Luther taught that with regard to external observance, the Sabbath commandment was given to Jews alone and not strictly applicable to Christians. Luther did see wisdom in voluntary observance of a day to rest from labor and pay particular attention to Christian duties of reading the Scriptures, worshiping God, and prayer.

He thought that this need not occur on any particular day, but should continue on Sunday the Lord's day , since this was the long established practice, and there was no reason to create disorder by unnecessary innovation. Luther emphasized that no day is made holy by rest alone, but rather by the individual seeking to be holy through washing himself in God's word.

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For the Word of God is the sanctuary above all sanctuaries, yea, the only one which we Christians know and have…God's Word is the treasure which sanctifies everything, and by which even all the saints themselves were sanctified. At whatever hour then, God's Word is taught, preached, heard, read or meditated upon, there the person, day, and work are sanctified thereby, not because of the external work, but because of the Word which makes saints of us all.

Therefore I constantly say that all our life and work must be ordered according to God's Word, if it is to be God-pleasing or holy. Where this is done, this commandment is in force and being fulfilled. From Martin Luther there is also the following comments on the reason for, importance of, and continuing need for the seventh-day Sabbath, specifically, found in Luther on the Creation: A Critical and Devotional Commentary on Genesis God did not sanctify to himself the heaven nor the earth nor any other creature. But God did sanctify to himself the seventh day.

This was especially designed of God, to cause us to understand the seventh day is to be especially devoted to divine worship. For that which is appropriated to God and exclusively separated from all profane uses is sanctified or holy It follows therefore from this passage, that if Adam had stood in his innocence and had not fallen he would yet have observed the "seventh day" as sanctified, holy and sacred; that is, he would have taught his children and posterity on that day concerning the will and worship of God. Further by this sanctification of the Sabbath it is also plainly shown that man was especially created for the knowledge and worship of God.

For the Sabbath was not instituted on account of sheep or oxen, but for the sake of men, that the knowledge of God might be exercised and increased by them on that sacred day. Although therefore man lost the knowledge of God by sin, yet God willed that his command concerning the sanctifying of the Sabbath should remain. He willed that on the seventh day both the Word should be preached, and also those other parts of his worship performed, which he himself instituted; so the end that by those appointed means we should first of all think solemnly on our condition in the world as men; that this nature of ours was created Here one does not find Luther saying the Sabbath command of Genesis 1 is something that could be dispensed with.

It was the command of the Creator of the universe and had a specific purpose. John Calvin taught that since Jesus Christ fulfilled the Sabbath, binding observance to the Sabbath was abrogated for Christians.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy

However, he emphasized that because Christians are buried with Christ in baptism and raised from the dead to the glory of God the Father Romans 6: Consequently, the pattern of weekly observance established by God is useful for the church to emulate. This church practice is not to be in the manner of Jewish observance of minute formalities , but rather one of ordering church life in a useful and predictable manner to serve the body with opportunity to hear the word, receive the sacraments , and participate in public prayer.

The Westminster Confession of Faith describes the Sabbath day as being the seventh day of the week from the creation until the resurrection of Christ, and as being changed to the first day of the week with Christ's resurrection. Neither prayer, nor any other part of religious worship, is now, under the Gospel, either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed: As it is the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in His Word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, He has particularly appointed one day in seven, for a Sabbath, to be kept holy unto him: This Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations,[Exodus In Methodism , an "important aspect of the pursuit of sanctification is the careful following" of the Ten Commandments.

For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity. Theologically speaking, for Methodists, Sunday is "the special but not the only day for worship, it is hallowed by God, recalls creation and the resurrection, requires release from earthly toil and responsibilities, and anticipates the eschatological day of the Lord that is the hope and desire of all believers.

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