Keeping the Sabbath “God’s Big Ten”
- Fourth Commandment: Calling for _____________________.
Genesis 2:1-3, “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done.” Exodus 20:8-11 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son nor daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, not your animals, not the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
- “Sabbath” literally means to __________, to _____________.
- “Holy” means something that is ___________,___________, _________________.
- “Labor” has to do with our regular ______ and daily _______.
- Doing something “to the Lord” means that you dedicate it ____________. God is __________into the something.
How Do We Call for Time?
Mark 2:27, “Then He said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.’”
Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.