Sunday Sermon Notes
April 23, 2017 (NKJV) Ex 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Remembering The Sabbath The Sabbath is the seventh day The first day of the week is Sunday. That makes Saturday the seventh and officially the Sabbath day. However, we are told (NKJV) Ac 20:7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight. (NKJV) 1 Co 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: See We should honor the principal established by the first church to honor God On the Sabbath day, Therefore, the first day of the week represented salvation and resurrection! We are joined to a living Christ that has overcome the world, Satan and his demons! Therefore, based upon the resurrection the Christians The Sabbath’s (NKJV) Ge 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (NKJV) Ge 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. God blessed this day and made it special! Let us note two things: God rested – he did no further work. This sanctified it from other days in which he worked. He blessed the seventh day. Let us consider what God did. Recognizing that God created man on the sixth day in the evening Consider the first thing Adam did after being created was spend time God ended his week creating man and man began his week fellowshipping with God! GOD ENDED HIS WEEK MAN BEGAN HIS WEEK FELLOWSHIPPING WITH GOD! The Sabbath was God’s This is another reason for Sunday worship of God. Adam began his week with God Let us consider what man did Man did no work on the seventh day because God had not assigned any work for him to do at this point. Man's work began on Monday. (NKJV) Ge 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. The Sabbath was the first This A time for him and man to fellowship together! Consider how short we fall of his original desire! How many of us actually spend time on the seventh day communing with God? The Sabbath was set apart It is important to note that the concept of the Sabbath day predates the 10 Commandments. The requirement to set apart one day out of the week has nothing to do with the law. Sabbath, the seventh day of rest was in the beginning before the law. That man was supposed to honor God one day out of the week predates even religion! It is robbery of honor to God for any person not to submit themselves to one day out of every week yield to the will of God to rest and have fellowship with him. What did God say in Exodus 20:8? Ex 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. We are to remember the purpose of the Sabbath. We are to make note, keep in consideration that there is a day out of every week What the word holy mean? it is from the Hebrew word Kadosh. It means to be set apart The Sabbath is to be sanctified, made different from every other day by being set apart, devoted or dedicated It is to be a day, a complete day(24hrs) How sad it is that so many THE PURPOSE OF THE SABBATH IS NOT TO REST FROM GOD BUT TO It is to be Holy by having it set apart for God's use! Man is to do no work for himself but he is to show value to God by doing things working for the glory Remember, Honoring the Sabbath and keeping it devoted to honoring God means blessings in one's life. If you put God first at the beginning of the week, you will be more productive throughout the Consider first if there is anything God tells us to do that doesn’t mean blessing to us? The mouth the Lord has spoken: (NIV84) Is 58:13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, 14 then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” The mouth of the LORD has spoken. After all that God has done for us, how can a person be so ungrateful and disrespectful to ignore that God, who created us once one day, one day out of the seven that he is given us, one day for us to indicate by our lives that he is worth us giving time to him? This is one of the reasons the Jewish leaders were so incensed when someone would break Sabbath! It was the height of disrespect towards the creator. It is still almost unthinkable when one understands the truth of how much God has done for us for us to ignore such a simple request to remember a day for him! Look at how the Jews viewed disrespect towards the Lord's day. (NKJV) Ex 31:12 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. 15 Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, The fact that we honor a day of worship towards the Lord God says it is a sign of a covenant between us and him. notice he says this twice to indicate a special relationship. Because of it he sets us apart from others. Notice the reason why one day out of the week is to be devoted to your relationship with God. It is not because of the 10 Commandments, it is because that is the way God planned it. 17 Why would you disrespect this special relationship that God wants to have with you? Coming to church symbolizes God is special to you and he in turn recognizes and respects the reality that you are his child. He will treat you different from all of the other people's of the world. We Oftentimes (NKJV) Mt 12:9 Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. 11 Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him. They saw the Sabbath Such activity would cause the whole nation to lose the blessings of God. One man's individual excuse to violate the Sabbath was no excuse to risk the blessings of God to the whole nation being jeopardized. They went too far in that they made the Sabbath a rule and missed the spirit of what the Sabbath was created for. Jesus had this wonderful response at another time that teaches us much about the Sabbath. (NKJV) Mk 2:23 Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. 27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Look at the last phrase. the Sabbath was made for man. GOD CREATED THE SABBATH FOR OUR BENEFIT! NOT By keeping the Sabbath we are blessed! Not only is Our Sabbath is No one questions the importance of prayer before a work is done because there is the understanding that with prayer we have God's help and our work is easier. Just as it is with our Sabbath. Beginning the week with worship to God secures God's help with the days and the rest of the week. It may not mean anything to us, but God says, it is holy to him. God values The question is, do we value our time with him? In Isaiah 56:4 we see again that those who keep Sabbath, having a special day out of the week committed to the Lord, (NKJV) Is 56:4 For thus says the LORD: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, Looking back on what Jesus did on Sabbath is an indication to us of what we should be doing on Sabbath. What did he do? (NKJV) Mt 12:9 Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. (NKJV) Lk 13:10 Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. (NKJV) Jn 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Jesus did the works of God on Sabbath. Therefore, Sunday SABBATH IS A DAY TO DO THE WORKS THAT HONOR GOD AND SHOW WORSHIP OF HIM! (NKJV) Mt 12:12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” We It is right to work in the house of God on Sabbath doing labor not for ourselves, but for the glory of God. The It is right not only to praise and worship God but it is also right to present our bodies (NKJV) Ex 20:8 “Remember The word remember reminded me of the word Ecc 12 :1 We are learning that if we remember God It is important in the days of our youth to practice remembering the Very often we are told in scripture that God remembered. As we remember what we sow we reap, when we