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*Thomas** S. Myers*
*THE 4TH COMMANDMENT*
*WHY DO WE WORSHIP ON SUNDAY INSTEAD OF SATURDAY?*
*Exodus 20:8-11** *
*8** **"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 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 or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your*
*animals, nor the alien within your gates.**
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*11 **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.
(NIV)*
* *The 1st commandment tells us who to worship.
The 2nd commandment tells us how to worship God.
The 3rd commandment tells us we are to worship God sincerely.
The 4th commandment tells us that we are to worship God regularly.
I don't know if you have noticed it or not, but the 4th commandment is the longest of all the commandments and it is probably the most misunderstood of all the commandments.
There are some groups that make the 4th commandment the cornerstone of their doctrine.
There are some who gauge acceptance on what you do or do not do on the Sabbath Day.
I want to make it very clear that Sunday is not the Sabbath Day.
Saturday is the Sabbath Day.
We worship on Sunday not the Sabbath Day.
No where in the Bible is Sunday ever called the Sabbath.
*FIRST -- THE EXPLANATION OF THE SABBATH.**
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*1**A.
some MAKE the Sabbath day a day a day of burden and misery.
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You can read accounts about that in the early days of our country.
For example in New England a sea captain had been away for 2 years.
Upon his return his wife ran from the house and hugged and kissed her husband and they promptly arrested her and put her in jail for running on the day of worship.
God never intended His day to be a day of burden or a miserable day.
And even today some will take the Sabbath (Saturday) and will add rules and regulations.
*B.
THE MEANING OF THE WORD SABBATH.*
The Hebrew word "Sabbath" means rest.
It refers to a ceasing from labor.
It refers to a ceasing of work.
Sabbath therefore means rest.
Sometimes someone will ask, "Do you observe the Sabbath?"
My answer would be, which Sabbath's are you talking about?
Because, when you study the Bible you will discover that there are 6 different Sabbath's found in the Bible.
* **First*, there is what I will call the initial Sabbath.
You will find this Sabbath in Genesis 2:1-3.
That is the Sabbath where, the Lord had created the heavens and the earth, and the Bible says God rested on the seventh day.
He set the seventh day apart from all other days.
That is, God made the seventh day a special day.
Now when the Bible says God rested,
that does not mean that God was weary.
The Bible says:
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* Isaiah 40:28 *
*28 **Do** you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
(NIV)*
* *So when God rested on the Sabbath Day, it was a celebration and a climax of all His creative work.
That is the initial Sabbath.
*Second*, there is what I will call the temporal Sabbath.
In Exodus 20:8-1 & 31:16 we are told about this temporal Sabbath.
Look at Exodus 31:16 and notice that the Sabbath Day was given just to the children of Israel.
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*Exodus 31:16*
*16 **The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.
(NIV)*
You will find in the New Testament all the other Ten Commandments are given in some form or another.
But you will not find the Sabbath Day reiterated because the Sabbath Day was given specifically to Israel.
There is the temporal Sabbath.
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*Third*, there was the festival Sabbath.
In Leviticus 23:23-26 we are told there was a festival Sabbath on the seventh month on the fist day of the month.
*Leviticus 23:24-25** *
*24** **"Say to the Israelites: `On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.
25 Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the LORD by fire.'"
(NIV)*
Notice something about this Sabbath day.
It was to be observed on the first day of the seventh month.
That means this Sabbath day could fall on Monday or Tuesday or any other day of the week.
*Fourth*, there is an agricultural Sabbath.
In Leviticus 25:1-8 God commanded the children of Israel that they were to work the land for 6 years but on the 7th year the land was to have a Sabbath rest.
That is once every 7 years the land was not to be worked.
Do you remember that the children of Israel spent 70 years in captivity in Babylon?
Do you know why they spent 70 years in captivity?
Leviticus 26:32 & 35 tell us.
*Leviticus 26:32** *
*32 **I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.
35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
(NIV)*
What is God saying to the children of Israel?
He is saying that there will one year for every year they failed to observe agricultural Sabbath.
That's why they were in captivity for 70 years.
There was the agricultural Sabbath.
*Fifth*, there will be a millennial Sabbath.
In Isaiah 66:22-23 we are told that during the millennium the children of Israel will once again restore the Sabbath.
*Sixth*, is the eternal Sabbath found in Hebrews 4:9.
*Hebrews 4:9** *
*9** **There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; (NIV)*
This is the Sabbath that every believer in Jesus Christ has.
It is the resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
If somebody were to ask you, "Do you observe the Sabbath," your answer should be, "which Sabbath are you talking about?"
Since there are 6 Sabbath's found in the Bible.
That is the explanation of the Sabbath's.
*SECOND -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SABBATH.**
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*A.
THERE WAS A TRANSFORMATION OF THE SABBATH TO SUNDAY.
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