Friday, October 5, 2018

What the bible says about the Sabbath

What day does God tell us to remember?
Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

What six-day event does the Sabbath point us back to?
Exodus 20:11  For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

After those six days, what did God do on the seventh-day?
Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 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. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

What are we not do on Sabbath?
Exodus 20:9-10 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

What is lawful to do on the Sabbath?
Matthew 12:12  Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

Who was the Sabbath made for?
Mark 2:27
And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."

Who does God promise to make joyful in His house of prayer?
Isaiah 56:6-7
“Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants— Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbathand holds fast My covenant—  even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

How do we delight in the Lord?
Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord; And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

The Sabbath is a sign that we may know what?
Exodus 31:13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

What remains for the people of God?
Hebrews 4:4, 9-10 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”.. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

What was Jesus' custom on the Sabbath?
Luke 4:16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. and as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

What is the day before Sabbath called?
Mark 15:42-43 Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

What day of the week begins after the Sabbath?
Matthew 28:1 Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

What was Paul's custom on the Sabbath?
Acts 17:2, 18:4, 13:42, 44
Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures...  And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.... So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath... On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.

What will we continue to do on the new earth?
Isaiah 66:22-23 “For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “So shall your descendants and your name remain. and it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

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