The Sabbath Day
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
9/14/2014 AM
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Text:
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Mark 2;
Lord's Day 38
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Psalters: |
225, 336, 408, 350 |
- Its permanence.
- First, that the Sabbath is permanent and universal is seen from its origin as found in Genesis 2:1-3.
- Second, the Sabbath's permanence and universality is also based on the fourth commandment.
- Third, the Sabbath is permanent and universal because of our Lord Jesus calls Himself the Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28).
- N.B. that while Scripture declares the Sabbath's permanence, it did not identify it with any particular day of the week.
- Because the Sabbath was set apart by God's authority we "sanctify" it or "keep it holy."
- Consider Jesus' behavior on the Sabbath: Luke 4:16; Mark 3:4; 2:27).
- First, we sanctify it by cessation and rest, separating it from other common uses, from other days' activities.
- Secondly, positive sanctification consists of inner worship (meditation, self-examination, heart-prayer, sorrow and joy) and outward (vocal prayers and singing, reading the Bible and other books, hearing the preaching), secret or public.
- Thirdly, the Sabbath (the day of Christ's triumphant resurrection) celebrates His victory over sin and death.
- Then our weekly Sabbath is an anticipation of heaven, where the joy of permanent communion with God is identified as the eternal Sabbath.