The day of Rest
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The Story
The Story
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” And they could not reply to these things.
Luke 14:1
The First Sabbath
The First Sabbath
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all 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. 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.
Genesis 2:1-3
The 2nd Commandment
The 2nd Commandment
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all 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 the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Exodus 20:8-11
2nd Temple Zealots
2nd Temple Zealots
Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
Nehemiah
As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.
Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”
John 5:8-
Pharisees create oral tradition
Pharisees create oral tradition
Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
This brought the opportunity to hear of and meditate on the world to come, the world of God's promise. The six days of this creation and the six-day workweek for the life of this age, followed by a day set aside for God and for rest, are also a pattern for this world's history: a divinely ordained series of this-worldly kingdoms, followed by the kingdom of God and his holy ones, the kingdom of peace, of rest from toil (cf. Daniel 2:31-45; 7:1-28; 9:20-27).
This brought the opportunity to hear of and meditate on the world to come, the world of God's promise. The six days of this creation and the six-day workweek for the life of this age, followed by a day set aside for God and for rest, are also a pattern for this world's history: a divinely ordained series of this-worldly kingdoms, followed by the kingdom of God and his holy ones, the kingdom of peace, of rest from toil (cf. Daniel 2:31-45; 7:1-28; 9:20-27).
This brought the opportunity to hear of and meditate on the world to come, the world of God's promise. The six days of this creation and the six-day workweek for the life of this age, followed by a day set aside for God and for rest, are also a pattern for this world's history: a divinely ordained series of this-worldly kingdoms, followed by the kingdom of God and his holy ones, the kingdom of peace, of rest from toil (cf. Daniel 2:31-45; 7:1-28; 9:20-27).
Since all Scripture is profitable for us, there is a present-day lesson for us to learn from Jesus’ clash with the Pharisees. We need to be careful that we do not add our own man-made rules to the Scriptures. Some convictions that we hold dearly may be derived more from our particular Christian culture than derived from Scripture, and we need to learn to discern the differences. It is okay to have cultural convictions, but we should be careful that we do not elevate them to the same authority as Scripture. - Jerry Bridges
This is the 'great Sabbath,' the Sabbath rest for the people of God (Hebrews 4:1-10). It is eternal, even as the seventh day of Genesis has no evening. It is the kingdom of God, which Jesus, the Dawn [Dayspring] from on high (Luke 1:78), inaugurates (inaugurated eschatology) in his appearing (Luke 1), in his ministry, and in his resurrection." - Rev. Arthur Just
This is the 'great Sabbath,' the Sabbath rest for the people of God (Hebrews 4:1-10). It is eternal, even as the seventh day of Genesis has no evening. It is the kingdom of God, which Jesus, the Dawn [Dayspring] from on high (Luke 1:78), inaugurates (inaugurated eschatology) in his appearing (Luke 1), in his ministry, and in his resurrection." - Rev. Arthur Just
This is the 'great Sabbath,' the Sabbath rest for the people of God (Hebrews 4:1-10). It is eternal, even as the seventh day of Genesis has no evening. It is the kingdom of God, which Jesus, the Dawn [Dayspring] from on high (Luke 1:78), inaugurates (inaugurated eschatology) in his appearing (Luke 1), in his ministry, and in his resurrection." - Rev. Arthur Just
The Lord of the Sabbath
The Lord of the Sabbath
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
Matthew 12”
"The pattern of redemption builds on the pattern of creation but also supersedes it. God created this world in six days and rested on the seventh, thereby establishing the pattern for the week. His command to 'remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy' instituted the corresponding practice of resting from the work of this world every seventh day.
This brought the opportunity to hear of and meditate on the world to come, the world of God's promise. The six days of this creation and the six-day workweek for the life of this age, followed by a day set aside for God and for rest, are also a pattern for this world's history: a divinely ordained series of this-worldly kingdoms, followed by the kingdom of God and his holy ones, the kingdom of peace, of rest from toil (cf. ; ; ).
This is the 'great Sabbath,' the Sabbath rest for the people of God (). It is eternal, even as the seventh day of Genesis has no evening. It is the kingdom of God, which Jesus, the Dawn [Dayspring] from on high (), inaugurates (inaugurated eschatology) in his appearing (), in his ministry, and in his resurrection." - Rev. Arthur Just