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Open your Bibles to Exodus 20:8-11.
•We are on our final week studying the Christian
Sabbath.
(Though, I hope it is but the beginning for you
of keeping the Sabbath every week.)
•This morning we come to Part 2 of Keeping the Day.
Last week we considered what is forbidden on the
Lord’s Day.
•And we saw five major principles that guide us to
determine what we should not do on the Sabbath:
1.
We should not work.
2. We should not make others work.
3. We should make sure that those under our authority
do not work.
4. We should do works of necessity and mercy.
5. We should not engage in worldly recreation.
And that now leaves us with the question, “So,
what should we DO on the Lord’s Day?”
•A helpful reminder: When the Scriptures forbid
something, they always command the opposite.
And
when the Scriptures command something, they always
forbid the opposite.
•As Isaiah 1:16c-17a says, “…cease to do evil, learn to
do good…”
•So then, the Sabbath is not kept by merely ceasing
from our work and play.
There is a positive element to it.
•MC Briggs said, “If Sabbath means rest only, then the
man who suspends exertion and consults ease keeps it,
and he who slumbers most keeps it best.
But is it
possible to seriously think that such a use fills the
Scriptural intent?
An ox keeps its consequent Sabbath
by browsing in the meadows and ruminating in the
shade.
A man profanes the day by resting only.”
•Brothers and sisters, there is much for us to do on the
Lord’s Day.
God doesn’t tell us to cease work and recreation
for the sake of a merely physical rest.
•He intends us to FILL THE DAY with better and higher
things than we’re used to doing on the other six days of
the week.
•The Sabbath is a day of God, for God, and to God.
•The day is for worship of, fellowship with, and
meditation on God.
•It is a GODWARD DAY.
•Hear this and remember it: We forsake work and play
SO THAT we can worship the Lord.
So then, how do we keep the day holy?
•Our Confession, in Chapter 22 Paragraph 8, says,
•“The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when
men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and
ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only
observe an holy rest all day, from their own works,
words, and thoughts, about their worldly employment
and recreations, but also are taken up the whole time
in the public and private exercises of His worship,
and in the duties of necessity ad mercy.”
•Amen.
That’s a good summary.
•And that’s what I intend to draw out for you this
morning: Preparing for the Sabbath in our hearts and
common affairs, and being taken up in the public and
private exercises of worship.
Most people only focus on the prohibitions of the
Sabbath day.
And that’s a really unbalanced view.
•They focus on what you shouldn’t do and neglect the
beauty and goodness of what we ought to engage in.
•Some people worry that they’ll get some kind of
“Sabbath cabin-fever” because we are not allowed to
work or engage in recreation on the Lord’s Day.
And so,
they panic at the idea of a day with no work, no sports,
no worldly television, and the rest.
•But you shouldn’t worry.
There is still plenty to do on
the Sabbath.
And the activity of the day is glorious and
good.
•I believe that once we understand all that we should
and can do on the Lord’s Day, the question will not
be “What can I do?” but will instead be, “How will I find
time to do all that I’d like to do?”
Please hear me: The Lord’s Day is more about what
we are blessed and privileged TO DO than it is about
what we should not do.
•Remember this and your whole perspective on
Sabbath-keeping will change: I am blessed to be called
away from work and play IN ORDER TO DO BETTER
THINGS.
•And, by God’s grace, this morning we will consider
what those better things are.
•May God bless the preaching of His Word.
If you would, and are able, please stand with me for
the reading of the inspired, inerrant, and infallible
Word of God.
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