I. THE SABBATH
AT CREATION
- A. THE SABBATH WAS MADE AT CREATION
- GENESIS 2:
- 2 "And on the seventh
day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which he had made."
- 3 "And God blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his
work which God created and made."
- NOTE:
- The last of verse three tells why He blessed
and sanctified the seventh day: ".... because that in it He had
rested from all His work which God created and made." HE IS OUR
CREATOR!
- NOTE:
- Sanctify: means to set apart as holy or for
a holy purpose; consecrate.
- TEXT OF INTEREST
- 1 CHRONICLES 17:
- 27 "Now therefore let it please thee to
bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever:
for thou blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed for
ever."
- MARK 2:
- 27 "And he
(Christ) said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the sabbath:"
- NOTE:
- God rested on the
seventh day, not because He needed rest, but to set an example for us.
God knew that we would need a day set aside from our hard work in which
to rest, worship Him, and to gain spiritual strength. The sabbath was
created to be a blessing and a joy to man. "The sabbath was created
for man".
- B. THE SABBATH
IS A MEMORIAL TO CREATION
- i. MEMORIAL TO THE
CREATION OF THIS EARTH AND MAN
- EXODUS 20:
- 8
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
- 9 "Six days shalt thou labor, 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 (or because) 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."
- NOTE:
- Dictionary says
"memorial" means: Something that serves to keep in memory a
deceased person or an event.
- EXODUS 31:
- 17 "It is a sign between me and
the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed."
- NOTE:
- The seventh-day
sabbath is to be a day in which to remember that God is the creator of
this world and mankind; and that He is worthy of our worship because He
did create us. (see chapter section I. C.)
- The seventh-day sabbath is the memorial of
creation or the day in which we are to remember creation and our
creator. Our birthday is the day on which we remember or celebrate the
day of our birth. Would we be satisfied with just any day, or is there
something special about a specific day?
- ii. MEMORIAL TO THE
CREATION OF A NEW HEART AND MAN
- EPHESIANS 4:
- 24
"And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness."
- PSALMS 51:
- 10 "Create in me a clean heart,
O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
- 2 CORINTHIANS 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."
- EXODUS 31:
- 13 "Speak thou also unto the children
of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a
sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may
know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you."
- EZEKIEL 20:
- 12 "Moreover also I gave them my
sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know
that I am the Lord that sanctify them."
- C. WORSHIP GOD
BECAUSE HE IS OUR CREATOR
- REVELATION 4:
- 11 "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honour and power: for (or because) thou hast
created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created."
- NOTE:
- God is
"worthy" of our worship because He has made us and all things.
There is no better day on which to worship Him than the day that is a
memorial to that creation.
- REVELATION 14:
- 7
"Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the
hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
- PSALMS 95:
- 6 "O
come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our
maker."
- ISAIAH 40:
- 26
"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all
by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power;
not one faileth."
- JEREMIAH 10:
- 10
"But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an
everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations
shall not be able to abide his indignation."
- 11 "Thus shall ye say unto them, The
gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall
perish from the earth, and from under these heavens."
- 12 "He hath made the earth by his
power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath
stretched out the heavens by his discretion."
- NOTE:
- JEREMIAH 10:10-12
Speaks of the difference between the true and false gods. The true God
is the one that "made the earth by his power" and the
false Gods are the ones "that have not made the heavens and the
earth".
- D. THE SABBATH
WAS MADE LONG BEFORE A JEW EVER EXISTED
- GENESIS 2:
- 1
"THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them."
- 3 "And God blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his
work which God created and made."
- NOTE:
- The seventh day
was "blessed" and "sanctified" at the creation of
this world. Mark 2:27 says, "the sabbath was made for man".
That sounds like everyone, does it not? Sabbath is not just for the
Jews! (see chapter V.)
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