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Episode 639: THe Value Of The Sabbath For Mandkind
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GOD KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR US TO OBEY TO RECEIVE BENEFITS
The selfish side of human nature wants to go its own way. We think we know what is best for us, but God is the one who really knows. HE DESIGNED US. Everything God commands us to do is good for us. When we accept this truth we are at the door step of true wisdom.
Psalms 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures..
Naturally this includes the longest and most descriptive of all the ten commandments the fourth one.
Mark 2:27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
This revelation from Jesus our Messiah is one of the most value pieces of deep understanding in all the Bible. We hope to expand on this revelation. Keeping the Sabbath has major benefits which include first our spiritual health and well being. Secondly our physical health and third, our mental health are all improved by keeping the Sabbaths.
THE SABBATH IS VALUABLE FOR OUR SPIRITUAL HEALTH AND WELL BEING
In order to develop a closeness to someone we must spend time with them on a regular basis. We must stop and give our Creator some of our time in a rhythmic basis. The seven day week is the only order that works. Revolutionaries have tried things like the ten day week and they failed. Obviously giving God one day in seven will make us closer to Him.
Genesis 2:2 NKJV 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
God knows it is good for us to stop and rest in the spiritual embrace of the Creator. Embrace Christ during the resting period and benefit thereby.
Matthew 11:28 NKJV 28 “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Hebrews 4:4-9 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”.. 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
Joshua led the people of God into a physical promised land but when we enjoy the Sabbath we have a small foretaste of the coming paradise of Christ’s thousand year millennial reign. This we enjoy every one day in seven. Six days of a badly run world with a one thousand year paradise coming at the end of the week- this is a model of mankind’s history.
ALLEGIANCE TO GOD IS BENEFICIAL TO BELIEVERS.
Men in general have done the exact opposite of loyalty to God. We create divinity of our own.
Romans 1:25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Keeping the Sabbath is a sign of ‘who is your God ‘ the Creator of time and our world or other gods. This sign identifies us as the people of the true creator God.
Exodus 31:13-14, saying: ‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 14 ‘You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death;..
Luke 9:26 “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.
God takes this loyalty to Him seriously because He knows that if we follow spiritually poisoned weak and deceptive leadership it will harm us. Conversely when we follow the true God it is beneficial for us. False gods bring detrimental things to any society. What people follow matters enormously. Like horrible infant sacrifices come with the god Molech.
SABBATH KEEPING IS BENEFICIAL TO OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH
God built man to need a physical rest every seven days and any effort to alter this have failed. Note the failed experiments with this inside the French and Russian revolutions.
Isaiah 40:28-29 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.
The Almighty does not need the physical rest we do, and He designed the Sabbath rest for us so we can become stronger. We must learn to stop all the noise of this world and relax with God.
Deuteronomy 5:12-14 ‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God…do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Note slaves and servants also rest- all are free, free people rest. Sabbath says work is good for us physically and with a seventh day complete rest for all even animals.
THE SABBATH REST IS GOOD FOR OUR MINDS AND FAMILIES
Positive family relations will be strengthened by proper Sabbath keeping. This links the Sabbath binding the next generation to God’s goodness and better ways of living.
Deuteronomy 11:19 “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
People will work better and sleep better if their family and most of the community was at rest on the Sabbath. They would work hard then rest and it would be a healing of the mind and body. Suicides among the young are vastly increased and this is partly because of deteriorating family relations. A family that prays together stays together more so, and this augmented by family Sabbath traditions is even stronger. God includes seven annual Sabbaths that can help families build strong bonds and traditions. 1. Passover/First day of Unleavened Bread ; 2. Second day of U.B; 3. Third Pentecost ; 4. Fourth Feast of Trumpets ;5. Fifth Atonement ; 6. Sixth the Feast of Tabernacles ; and 7. Seventh the Last Great Day.
Exodus 12:26-27 NKJV 26 “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 “that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’” So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
This was a model for the real lamb of God- salvation provided for all years later by Jesus of Nazareth. Children would learn that the lamb they ate on that evening was the price of freedom and safety. It will calm their minds.