Day 47

Day 47

Biblical Principle - Absolute truth from God’s Word:

The sabbath day commandment is so much more than not working on Saturday. 

Today we worship the Lord on His day the first day of the week, but the commandment is still a Biblical principle of absolute truth.  The “do” of this commandment is not the key but the truth being taught.  We need to stop and remember God is the God of all creation.  He owns it all.  He is above it all.  When we begin to love the Lord with all our heart we must realize how big God really is and our love is no small.  

Exodus 20:8-11Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Practical - Works that apply Biblical Principle:

This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.

In the Old Testament they paused on Saturday to remember God’s creation of all things. The commandment was a picture of greater things to come.  In the New Testament we pause on Sunday to remember the new creation (creature in verse below)  It is all about God’s ability to save us from our sins.  If he created all things then surely He can save all.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.