Awesome Sabbath
Sabbath is quite simply AWESOME!! It is a Joy and a Blessing. PTL! #takeyourSabbathrest
1. Sabbath is all about Jesus
---Eternal rest in Messiah, which cannot be 'worked' for
---Memorial not only if creation, but our deliverance from slavery - Egypt. Deuteronomy 5:15 'remember God brought you out....therefore God commanded keep the Sabbath Day'
2. Jesus and Apostles kept the Sabbath
Acts 13:14, 42,44. 16:13. 17:1-2. 18:4
---no Scripture shows a change. Only change of Sabbath day happened outside of Scripture therefore it is not a command of God but rather by man. Matthew 5:17-20
---even the least of the commandments were to be taught and kept if we are to be great in heaven
Luke 4:16.
3. Any disputes in btwn Pharisees and Jesus was never about keeping Sabbath, but about HOW to keep it.
---overly focusing on man made traditions of how to keep takes away from the true blessing of rest.
---if your efforts increase your stress and cortisol, think twice, kneel, and pray for wisdom.
---Christ wants us to follow His example 1 Corinthians 11:1
4. Sabbath is quite simply AWESOME!! It is a Joy and a Blessing. PTL!
---a big break from our high pressure fast paced culture
---this allows us weekly to re-prioritize what's most important in our lives, our God, our families, and people we love.
---we were not created created work our lives away in drudgery
---weekly, we get a glimpse of what life will be like in God's Kingdom