The Sabbath

Psalm of the Day: Psalm 88

Psalm 88 ESV

A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you. Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. O Lord, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me? Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together. You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

Scripture Memorization: Genesis 50:19-20

Genesis 50:19–20 ESV

But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Scripture Reading: Matthew 12:1-8

Matthew 12:1–8 ESV

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

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Well once again, and as always. Good morning church. I was happy when they said to me. Let us go and Worship in the house of the Lord. When they said so to me. On the Lord’s day, the days set apart for worship and honor and praise to God. Well, this morning, we will be looking at Genesis chapter 2, verses 1 through 3.

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If you’re starting to feel like in Genesis, it’s a little bit of, you know, fits, and starts, and we. We do a half a verse. We do a couple verses. We do a whole chapter. We’re down back to three verses. Yeah, that’s sort of what we’re dealing with here.

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And the reason why I think is? Because Genesis is the book of Beginnings, and here at the beginning of the book of Beginnings, there’s a lot of topics that we have to cover and deal with. There’s very big things that are going on and each subject and each portion that we’re tackling here.

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It feels like. We have to approach these things just a little differently. Last week. We dove into. A very long text, and I tried to boil it down to a very short way of approaching it, and we looked at all of chapter one through the lens of two Hebrew words, tohu and bohu, formless and empty.

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We looked at how God created the Earth perfectly by the power of His word, such that it was Genesis 1, 31, very good. God saw everything that he made. He saw all of the works of creation. He saw the the light that he spoke into existence, the separation of the waters from the waters, the dry land, and all the vegetation.

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He saw the Sun, the moon, and the stars, the birds, and the fish, the living creatures. He saw man that he had created, and he looked and said, this is very good. God’s good works, bring him glory, honor, and praise. As God took care of as God’s remedied, the tohu and boh.

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That existed. So we, we took the big chunk. And I try to go real small in how we approached it. Well, this morning is in many ways. The opposite. Instead of diving deep into one little text and look for Clues and hints. We’re going to read. A text, take a step back, and try to figure out what we would call the biblical theology or another way to put it.

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How this thought has? Grown and been understanding throughout what we would call Redemptive. History. And as we talk about Redemptive history, I just want to help you out to understand what I’m talking about here. The history of redemption is sort of a a history. Of how God has interacted with?

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His people, and in particular. How God has redeemed his people, hence the name Redemptive history. And so, when we look how Redemptive history plays out differently. Before Genesis 3 that it does after Genesis 3, because in Genesis 3, we have the fall. In Genesis 2, where we’ll be looking today, Redemption.

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Isn’t necessarily even in the cards. Now, it kind of is because God is Sovereign and knew all things the end from the beginning. But as we look to this, we can’t read into it. Oh well, man’s already falling because they haven’t. And then after Genesis 3. It’ll be different.

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And then we get to to Noah and the noaic Covenant, and it’ll be a little different. And then, how God interacts with Humanity changes in Genesis chapter 12 when God comes in covenants with Abraham, and we’ve now entered a new stage in Redemptive history. Which will change again when Moses comes on the scene in Exodus, and God gives the law how God is interacting with his people, is changing as we go through Redemptive history.

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And then the people they get a king, and now they have King David and God will come in Covenant with King David and how God will interact with his people in Redemptive history. It’s going to change a little bit. And then people go into Exile, and I think you’re getting the point and it changes.

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And then, ultimately, Jesus comes. And Jesus is here. And now we have another stage in Redemptive history, and now we live. In. Enter adventil time. The time between Jesus first and second coming, and that’s another stage in Redemptive history. As we look forward to the consummation when Jesus returns and the end goal of all Redemptive history.

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But, so, this morning, we’re going to approach these two verses. With a theological look at how exactly? Does this work out and it’s no surprise? Hopefully I’m laying all the cards on the table based on the title of this week’s sermon. We will be looking at the Sabbath. And we’ll be looking in particular at the Sabbath over the course.

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Of Redemptive history. Our passage for this morning, Genesis chapter 2. Starting in verse 1, we will read through verse 3. Thus, the heavens. And the Earth were finished. And all of the host of them. And on the seventh day, God finished his work that he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

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So, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it, God rested from all his work that he had done. In creation. These are the words of the Lord for us this morning. Let’s open. With the word of prayer. Dear Lord, we do. Thank you for. Your goodness!

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For your mercy, your kindness towards us. We thank you for your word given to us that we might know you that we might love you and serve you. And we ask that you would use your. Convict our hearts this morning, teach us to live according to all that you have said.

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Wash us and cleanse us. Through your work. May we be good soil. May it take deep root. I pray this morning that you would speak through your servant. It’s in Jesus name that we pray. Amen. And amen. So, as we walk through and look at this passage through the lens of again Redemptive history.

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I, I just want to look at the different times. And understand. The different times that these things? Come up. Because what I don’t want us to ever do? Is, come and say. Well, that Genesis 3 stuff it doesn’t matter. Right, and you can even sound very eloquent, you know?

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Well, that’s a different stage in Redemptive history, so we can ignore Genesis 2. It doesn’t matter. We can ignore all the X’s stuff. We can ignore all this stuff with. We can ignore all that stuff. It doesn’t matter. That was a different time in Redemptive history. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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And so what he teaches and what he’s showing and how he’s presenting these things to us are important. And in fact, the better. We understand how these things are presented and given to us and taught to us in different stages. Help us to better serve and know and love God.

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That’s my goal today. And so we start with the passage in front of us. And we need to understand the Sabbath. In creation. What is going on here? Why is this happening? What is going on in this text and why in the world? Would Moses put this here? Why does it matter?

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In a lot of ways. What God didn’t do? On the seventh day. We spent a lot of time last week. These are the six days and day one. God made this day two. God made this, and we get to day seven and in a lot of ways, and God didn’t make anything.

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But that’s not the right way to approach it. But there’s a Temptation. So, what is happening? What’s going on here? Well, we can use David’s trusty trick. You all should be very familiar, but we brought it up. Last week, we brought it up. If you went to Grace group, we’ll bring it up a million times before.

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We’re done with the Book of Genesis, especially. This is Moses probably favorite trick. The emphasis. Moses will let you know what the emphasis of the text is because he will emphasize it by repeating it over and over again. So, what repeated thoughts do we have in these three verses well?

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In 2 verse 1, the heaveners were finished. On verse 2 on the seventh day, God finished part of the important part of what is being presented to us in the Sabbath in creation. Is that God was? Finished. This Harkens back to the end of chapter one when God looks and says it’s very good.

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He looks to his creation. There’s no need to add anything. There’s no need to take care of any Loose Ends. He made it. It was good. And so God was done. And so, in one sense, the first thought that we need to land on. Here is, why is the Sabbath important because it marks that God was finished?

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Unlike us. We go and do work. This came up in our Grace group conversation this week as we talked about sort of the areas we have dominion over. Well, I have dominion over my front yard. I should take care of it, but here’s the problem. I take care of it, and six weeks later, there’s a bajillion weeds again.

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And I finish things. But I’m never fully finished, right? I finished writing a sermon, and you know what I have to do next week? Write another one. And, and when we are never finished God, on the other hand. Finishes. He made, verse 1 tells us. The Heaven and Earth, and all the host of them.

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I partly think this is a joke. I have a very fancy Bible study program. It helps me write sermons. It has tons of resources and all that stuff. And one of the things it does is when you hover over any word on sort of computer programmers. I have them hover over any word in the Bible.

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Did sort of a pronoun or a reference to something. It’ll tell you who it is. Right. So, as you’re reading through Joseph and you get to the point where Joseph is speaking to his brothers. You know, the the ESV tax will say Joseph said to his brothers? Or, or even the the text.

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We are memorizing, right, and Joseph said to them, you would hover over them and this pop-down box. It’ll tell you who’s them, and it’ll actually list all of the the brothers of Joseph that he’s talking to. So, it’s a pretty big box. Well, if you hover over all the host of them, I think that this might be a joke by someone who is programming this program, it literally just populates a box that doesn’t fit on the screen.

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Almost of all the things because it’s literally everything that God created and everything in it. So you’ll pop it out and say bird, Sun, Moon, stars, animals, fish, oxen, sheep, goats, man, Adam. It just lists everything that would be included in all the host of them. Because here’s the point God finished.

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Making everything. He finished. Another word that’s repeated. This one’s repeated three times. On the seventh day, God finished. His work that he had done. And he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. Verse 3, so God bless the seventh day and made it holy because God rested from all his work that he.

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Had done. His work. That he had done. What did God finish? His work. God’s work. Because God did it. God did it all. He finished he did it. God alone did it. And so God finished it. So then, what did God do? On the seventh day, God finished the work that he had done.

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And he rested. Verse 3, so God bless the seventh day and made it holy because on it, God. Rested. What other repeated thoughts God finished? God finished his work that he had done. God finished his work that he had done, and he rested. What is the point of the Sabbath in creation?

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It’s to show us who God is. What God has done? And then how God operates. So, we have to be careful. Does it mean that God rested? Did God pick up his feet? Just be done. And this would be what we would call the deistic thought of creation. Yeah, God created everything he set the world in motion, and then he’s done.

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He. He’s no longer involved in creation. It’s now arrested here means. God did this. What God did in resting was one ceasing from his work of creation. As we think of God’s work. One of the things we can think of is he is the creator. And the sustainer. For from him and through him, and to him, are all things he holds the universe together.

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We’re God to cease to hold the universe together. It would cease to exist. So, God rested from his work in creating everything is creating. But still, he is the sustainer. So this isn’t just like God’s not doing anything. So, let’s pause there. So, what is God doing? Well, now we get to verse three.

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He blessed the seventh day. And. He made it home.

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He looks to the seventh day. And this is baked into creation, right? This is before the fall before all of these things before anything else occurs. This is the first thing we get to. God creates everything and now what happens. He blesses one day, the seventh. And he makes it whole.

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Holy here, meaning set apart. And different. Baked into the fabric of creation. Is this idea some things? Our Gods. They belong to him. And therefore, they are set apart, Sanctified holy different. And we should honor God for them. God did it, he finished. He finished his work that he had done, and so he rested.

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And he said, I’m resting on this day, pay attention.

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Here, we don’t have our command yet. That many of us think that we think of the Sabbath. But we do know this this day is different. This day is special. This day is worthy. Of time and attention. This day. It’s God’s day because he finished his work that he had done, he rested.

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He blessed it. He made it holy. This is God’s day. But what do we do with this special day? Well, as Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the garden. These things might have been apparent to. Stay soon! And so God saw fit to explain to us even more the value.

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Of this one. Set apart day. If you have your Bibles flip with me? Not a lot here. Let’s go to Exodus chapter 20. And let’s understand the Sabbath now. In the law. This is what’s known as the fourth Commandment? Exodus chapter 20. We’re going to start in verse 8.

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I’m going to read it to us today. 8 through 11. Side note. I should just say this. The word Sabbath? Means seventh. There’s nothing magical about the word Sabbath, it’s it literally is the word seventh. They’re synonymous. So? When we read, remember the Sabbath day, which we’re about to read in Genesis 8, it’s the same word when God said in the seventh day.

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It’s the same words how we know we’re talking about the same thing here. Exodus chapter 20, verse 8. Remember the Sabbath day? To keep it whole. Six days. You shall labor and do your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it, you shall not do any work you or your son or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant or your livestock or your soldier who’s in your Gates.

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For in six days, the Lord made Heaven and the Earth and the Sea in all that is in them and rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day. And made it holy. The Sabbath. In the law, God takes what he did for himself. He rested.

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And in that was teaching us something about things being holy and set apart in this special day. And God says this day that I made this holy and set apart day. It’s not just for me. It’s for you!

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God blessed it and Sanctified it. That’s what we read in Genesis 2. Okay, just to remind us again. So, God bless the seventh day and made it holy. And God comes to the people. Moses comes down the mountain with the Ten Commandments on a tablet of stone, and he comes, and he says you, you remember the Sabbath day, and you keep it holy.

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God made it holy, you keep it holy. What does this look like, well, six days you shall labor? Do all your work? But on the 7th. It’s a Sabbath, and you shall not do any work.

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Let’s go back to the repeated thoughts in Genesis 2.

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finished. His work. That he had done. Part of why we don’t work on the seventh day God is saying is I didn’t? So you shouldn’t? You’re not better than?

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In fact, we’re worse. And so, part of us might be thinking, well, wait. Yeah, the reason God can rest on the seven day is because he finished his work that he had done. We already talked about this. I don’t get to finish. There’s always work in front of me. God knows. So it doesn’t matter. This is the pattern. The Sabbath in the law is mirrored upon and built upon the Sabbath in creation. So, God said, look six days. I made everything, so I rested seven. So six days, you work, then you rest on seven. And be careful. This is a fascinating the way this. If you just sit down and study what’s going on in in this passage Exodus 28 through 11?

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Right. All the other commands are like, you shall not do this. You shall not make anything you shall not do this. Then, we get to ver to the seventh or the fourth Commandment to verse 10 here. So you shouldn’t do work. Nor should your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your livestock or even some foreign stranger who’s coming into your town. Don’t make him work. This law is built upon the fabric of creation, and you must live it out. And in case you are still wondering, well, why did God set apart the seventh day? Why am I willing to say it’s in the fabric creation because Moses tells us?

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For in six days, the Lord made the heaven, the Earth, the sea, and all its enemy rested on the seventh. Therefore, God bless the Sabbath day. He made it whole. He blessed it. He set it apart, and therefore God has every right to. Say.

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This is my day. And I don’t you working? On my day. So don’t? Rest. And in particular rest in a way that is.

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There’s more thoughts on this that’ll get covered in the grace group this week. But that should ring in our hearts and Minds. This is not a command to take more naps on Sunday, though you can. In fact, I believe, take naps. Might even be good for you. The ultimate command, though here, is to have a day that is set apart and holy.

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Devoted to God. His goodness, Grace, and mercy. What we see here is. The Sabbath and the law is built upon the fabric in the Sabbath of creation. Where God said, this is how I did it. This is what I did. Therefore, this is what you’re gonna do. You’re gonna listen and I’ll bet. And before we even move to the next step, I just want you to think about this for a second. How important was this day? To God. How important? Was it two Gods? To tell the people. To not work. On the seventh day.

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It’s important enough. That it’s in the Ten Commandments.

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You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make yourself any carved images. You should not bow down to them. Commandment. 3 you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. Commandment, four. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy? Commandment five. Honor your father and mother six. You shall not murder seven. Do not commit adultery eight. You shall not steal nine. You shall not bear false. Witness ten. You shall not cover your neighbor’s house. Is that important? It’s up there with murder.

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It’s important. Important enough. God built into the fabric of creation, he re-spoke it in the law.

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But now. The four million dollar question?

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How do we handle the Sabbath? In the New Testament. And we have officially with this question stepped from the realm of things that make a lot of sense to me and are very easy to articulate, I think, are very clear.

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Things that are? A little more difficult. But yet, I still think we can find Clarity, so I’m not saying there’s no clarity we have here. I’m just saying. Buckle up! There’s many places we could go. We went to one of them. We read it, uh, Micah, read it for us. Earlier this morning, Matthew, chapter 11. Right? Even before we read this, I just want you to think about to prepare your hearts. What did Jesus and the Pharisees fight about all the time? It was the Sabbath. They try to trap him on the step. They want to get him to heal some guy in the Sabbath so they can show he was working on the Sabbath because to the Pharisees, this they got correct. It was vitally important that there be a day set aside to God.

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This is what the Pharisees got wrong. Everything else, how they did it, how they approached it, how they thought God would be pleased for them for their pompous, arrogant attitude. What it actually meant to make a day whole, they missed a whole bunch of stuff. This, they got right. The Sabbath was important. And so they would push Jesus and challenge Jesus on this. And so we read Matthew 11, verse 25. Jesus said.

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Sorry, Matthew. 12 Jesus goes to the grain field. His disciples are eating, right? They’re what they’re doing is, they’re picking up grains of corn of wheat, and they’re rubbing in their hands. They’re grinding it in their hands. So that they can munch on it while they’re marching around. And the fairy’s like, hey, you don’t get to harvest? Are the Pharisees, right? Well, it the phrase right that you don’t get to harvest? Yes, because six days you shall labor on the seventh, you shall rest. Are the disciples harvesting debatable? And. You have to eat still. Right, the seven doesn’t contain us not to eat.

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And so there being too legalistic and they come to him like their we’re doing is we’re not verse two of Matthew 12.

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They’re doing what’s not lawful on the Sabbath, and she’s like. Hey, take it easy. David did this stuff with the the show bread of the temple while he was fleeing from Saul. You think what we’re doing is bad. Go wrestle with David for a little while, who God loved, who was a man of God’s Own Heart and who God didn’t condemn. Figure that one out and then come back and talk to me.

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But you don’t know what, what the Sabbath is about. It’s about we looked at this, keeping things holy. And if you would have known what that means, what it means to keep things holding that God desires Mercy, not sacrifice. You would not have get of condemned the disciples. Jesus says, here’s the key. What is the the New Testament? What is the Christian’s relationship to the Sabbath? No matter where else we want to go, we start here. Matthew chapter 12:8 for the son of man. Is Lord? Of the Sabbath.

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Back in Genesis. We said, God said. That’s my day because God finished from his work. He made it holy. He blessed it. The Sabbath was God’s day. It was. In Exodus, we read this day is for you as well, because it’s God’s day. And because God made it this way, he wants you to keep it. And because it’s God’s day, he has the right to command you in this way because it’s God’s day. And Jesus comes in. The New Testament says it’s still God’s day. I’m God. I Am Lord of the Sabbath. If anyone claims Jesus, never once claimed to be God.

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It’s pretty hard to say that I am Lord of the Sabbath without claiming. Some sort of. So, the first step we take, how do we understand the Sabbath in the New Testament? We understand because it’s God’s day. It’s Jesus’s day, he claimed it. It’s his, he has dominion and authority over it. What’s the day of today’s set aside to be holy? On six days, you labor on the. You rest.

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Matthew chapter 11, you shouldn’t. I don’t even have to flip a page just right here. You might have flip back one page verse 25. At that time, Jesus declared. I thank you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children. Yes, father for such was your gracious will. All things have been given hand it over to me by father, and no one knows the son, except the father, and no one knows the father, except the son, and anyone to whom the son chooses to reveal him.

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This is bold things we covered this in Matthew. What is Jesus saying? A lot of stuff here. For our purposes today, Jesus is hiding some wisdom from the wise. In particular, I think context can dictate. The Pharisees are included in this wise and has given it to little children to the the simple minded, and I don’t mean that as an as a insult. I mean that, as a compliment, those who are not trying to over complicate over, legalize those who are willing to take God at what he said. And so all things are given to Jesus because Jesus reels the father and Jesus gives these things to Those whom he will reveal it to as well.

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And what will Jesus reveal? Matthew, chapter 11, verse 28, come to me all who labor and heavy laden and I will give you. Rest.

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The Sabbath. Was to be a. Set aside. For six days, you labor. But on the seventh, you shall rest that was the Sabbath in the law. Because God finished his work in six days and having finished his work that he had done Genesis 2. He rested. And Jesus says in Matthew chapter 11. Come to me. Don’t look to a day. Don’t look to these things around. You don’t look to your naps. You want to take on this day. Don’t look to just the fact that you’re not working. That’s not where you find rest. Come to me. Jesus said, look to me, and I will give you rest.

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It’s my day. The Sabbath was my day. I’m Lord of the Sabbath. I will give you rest. Come to me. That’s the point. And so, how do we find our rest? How do new testament Believers find our rest in the Sabbath? We look to the lord of the Sabbath, and we find our rest in Jesus Christ. It’s not just here that we find this one more flip wrote Hebrews chapter 4.

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In in Hebrews. It starts in. In chapter three, the Hebrews is a complicated and difficult book. Jesus is better than the Angels. He’s better than Moses. This is chapter 3 and be the reason he’s better than Moses. Let’s just think through what we’ve gone through here. In the law, we were given the Sabbath it was for rest. So, Moses, right? If we’re thinking in sort of these terms, who wrote Exodus Moses? So, who gave the command for people to rest Moses, so Moses? Gave the people Rest by bringing this command of God. That’s the thought here.

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And so the writer of Hebrew is like, but wait. That that rest wasn’t great. Because there was war and Strife. They entered the promised land there was war and strife. David was King for a little while there was rest in the land. This is part of David’s Reign, and yet, right after David, there was Solomon right after Solomon. There was Civil War Discord awfulness. There’s no more rest. This rest isn’t, and then the people end up in Exile. And there’s no rest in Exile. There’s no rest. The rest isn’t happening. Why don’t we have rest? Moses gave us rest, but yet we don’t have rest. The Sabbath is supposed to be for our rescue. We don’t have rest.

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Right, Hebrew says, because then Jesus came the lord of the Sabbath came. He said, give, I will give you rest.

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Because Joshua didn’t give them rest when they entered the promised land. David is the good King still didn’t bring them rest. Ezra Nehemiah, as they rebuilt the temple in the walls could not bring the people rest. The Pharisees and all their ferris Eagle Sabbath laws could not give the people rest. Jesus brought rest Hebrews chapter 4, verse 11. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest. So that no one may fall by the same sort of Disobedience. For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. Piercing the vision of Soul and Spirit, joints and Marrow, and Discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart look to Christ.

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The Sabbath and creation. Was there to point us. To the Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus. The Sabbath and the law was their twofold reason. I believe the Sabbath and the law to one show us how bad we were at finding rest that we could never find rest in our own strength, so that point, too, it would drive us to see the Lord of the Sabbath, the one who gives us rest Jesus and the Sabbath, and New Testament points us find your rest in Christ. And part of how we do this. The Testament scripture is, I believe, we do order our Affairs and order our life, such that we do have times and seasons of rest.

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But my rest does not come from sitting down and watching the football game. My rest does not come from this afternoon, sitting there and watching the Super Bowl, though that might be a fun time and I’ll enjoy the commercials. And it’ll be, I hope it’s a good game. But yet, that is not where I find my rest. My rest is in. Christ. And I should glorify him. In all that I do. Let’s pray.