Sermon Tone Analysis

Submission to God through the Son

verse 17:

verse 17:

a.

The Jews were angry he was breaking the sabbath.

The mishna was the Jewish set of laws regarding the sabbath.

b.

Jesus affirms his own deity.

The timeline he has been in the Galilee and Judea is approx 1 year

c.

The word “answered” or Jesus answered, is a rare form and is used in the context of a defense, of a legal defense.

d.

Jesus could have easily responded to their animosity with an explanation of proper sabbath observance.

Jesus takes the argument to an entirely different place.

He claims deity, He claims equality to God.

He does this by referring to God as his “father”.

e. Jews would at times in corporate worship refer to the father-like ness of God, of his care, his love, his benevolence.

Jesus does not mince words.

He uses the word that describes Father-son relationship.

f.

The Jews were trying to earn Gods salvation by obeying the law and thus did not leave any room for sentimentality about the man who had been healed.

Sabbath issues.

Geneses

2 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.

3 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.

From the Bible’s teaching we can discern God’s purpose in this.

First, the Sabbath is a sign of God’s eternal rest.

While Genesis 1 speaks of the beginning and end of each of the first six days of creation, the seventh day begins but never ends.

This indicates the eternal rest that God enjoys, of which the Sabbath is both a sign and a foretaste.

In observing this day, God’s people are to look ahead to the eternal rest that awaits us with God.

This is why the Sabbath did not pass away with the coming of Christ, as did the ceremonial laws, because it is a sign not of Christ’s first advent but of the eternal glory and rest that will arrive with his second coming

Exodus 31:12-17

Exodus 31:12-17

12 And the LORD said to Moses, 13 “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.

14 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you.

Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death.

Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD.

Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.

16 Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.

17 It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’

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13  “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,

from doing your pleasure on my holy day,

and call the Sabbath a delight

and the holy day of the LORD honorable;

if you honor it, not going your own ways,

or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

14  then you shall take delight in the LORD,

and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;

I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,

for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

From the Bible’s teaching we can discern God’s purpose in this.

First, the Sabbath is a sign of God’s eternal rest.

While Genesis 1 speaks of the beginning and end of each of the first six days of creation, the seventh day begins but never ends.

This indicates the eternal rest that God enjoys, of which the Sabbath is both a sign and a foretaste.

In observing this day, God’s people are to look ahead to the eternal rest that awaits us with God.

This is why the Sabbath did not pass away with the coming of Christ, as did the ceremonial laws, because it is a sign not of Christ’s first advent but of the eternal glory and rest that will arrive with his second coming

13  “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,

from doing your pleasure on my holy day,

This indicates the eternal rest that God enjoys, of which the Sabbath is both a sign and a foretaste.

In observing this day, God’s people are to look ahead to the eternal rest that awaits us with God.

This is why the Sabbath did not pass away with the coming of Christ, as did the ceremonial laws, because it is a sign not of Christ’s first advent but of the eternal glory and rest that will arrive with his second coming.

The Sabbath sign is still valid because the reality to which it points—God’s eternal age of glory—has not yet come

and call the Sabbath a delight

and the holy day of the Lord honorable;

if you honor it, not going your own ways,

or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

14  then you shall take delight in the Lord,

and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;

I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,

for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah is telling us that on the Lord’s day our lives should be free from our worldly pursuits so that we can focus and engage entirely in the worship and enjoyment of God.

Think heart, soul, mind and strength.

He tells us this in three ways:

From the Bible’s teaching we can discern God’s purpose in this.

First, the Sabbath is a sign of God’s eternal rest.

While Genesis 1 speaks of the beginning and end of each of the first six days of creation, the seventh day begins but never ends.

This indicates the eternal rest that God enjoys, of which the Sabbath is both a sign and a foretaste.

In observing this day, God’s people are to look ahead to the eternal rest that awaits us with God.

This is why the Sabbath did not pass away with the coming of Christ, as did the ceremonial laws, because it is a sign not of Christ’s first advent but of the eternal glory and rest that will arrive with his second coming

dont do our ‘normal’ work

dont seek our own pleasure…devote to spiritual pleasures

dont talk idly…devote your speech to godly, kingdom speech.

This might require a rearranging of our priorities—the very thing that God wants!

We are not to make the Sabbath a day of drudgery, but of spiritual joy as we devote ourselves wholly to God.

Some will object, “This is Pharisaism!”

But it is not!

It is the very opposite of works-religion.

We keep the Sabbath not in a vain attempt to earn God’s favor but to enjoy fully the favor we already have in Christ by God’s grace, and to give him the full glory of our grateful lives

But isn’t this it, the issue.

We are pharisees.

We want to rule, we want to write our own way.

Think of some examples of this that we can see.

be nice, dont point out sin, everyone is loved and thus saved

programs will save our church

jazzy worship music, lights, slides and mulitmedia, marketing

what will grow God’s church?

The preaching and teaching of the word of God.

And spreading that word to every last unreached people group until the whole of the harvest is brought in and Christ returns!!!

So, I hope we have an idea of God’s intention of the sabbath, how the Jews have and still do distort it.