February, 26 2018

February  25, 2018

Sabbath day 

Big topic. Best place to start with what it says in the 10 commandments 

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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

10 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:

11 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.

Exodus 20

And then the Savior gave us some information about the sabbath. 

9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

LUKE 6

26  [David] went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Mark 2

Sabbath, Sunday, is a special day. The Lord gave it to us to do his work. To focus on him. It is for us to remember our Heavenly Father and His Son. 

There are lots people who must work on Sunday; doctors, nurses, police, military, bus drivers, the list is longer. Point being they help, do good. 

There are things we can do during the other six days. Some businesses started being open on Sunday. They say it is for convince.  For who? You or them.

Is what we need to do only able to be done on Sunday. Can it be done any other day?

For example, the super bowl. Many people love it. Personally, I would call it entertainment. True the super bowl only happens on Sunday. Anything that happens on Sunday for entertainment by itself...... I knew somebody whose family would record the game and them watched it at midnight, so it was technically Monday. Personally I don’t watch sports of any kind, not because I don’t care, but the more time passes, I care less and less about sports, part of it may be that I can’t play. That’s a different story. Point. We can find entertainment any day. Sunday is just an excuse. Granted it has become a cultural event, if you can call football culture. Still Sunday is the Lords day. 

One thing that I came to realize after class and lesson. “full purpose of hear“ is the key. We can’t be half baked.