Why I Believe What I Believe
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.
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