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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Chad Kreuzer

The Sabbath

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity to study your word.

We pray that your Holy Spirit would rain down upon us, that you would teach us and also pray that Jesus would be uplifted.

If you have your Bible, start with me at Exodus chapter 20.

We're not actually going to start there, but that's the first verse that you're going to turn to.

Exodus chapter 20, but before we look at that, you're going to be looking at Exodus 20, but I'm going to start by talking about Genesis right in the very beginning.

In Genesis chapter 1, you have the creation story.

Then Genesis chapter 2, rephrase gives a little different experience, a little more information about the creation story.

But in Genesis chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 2, we're given 2 Edenic institutions.

1 of the Edenic institutions that we were given was marriage.

We are given the institution of marriage, we are given that right back in perfection and this afternoon we are going to talk about that but this morning the other institution that we were given it says at the end of Genesis chapter 1 Right in verse 31 it says that God saw all things that He had made and behold it was very what?

So God saw everything that He had made in the very beginning and it was very good.

And then we're going to see in just a moment what happens.

Now right after that in Genesis chapter 2, he gives in perfection, he gives the Sabbath day.

But before we look at him giving the Sabbath day to us, we see something in John chapter 1 and verse 14.

I had a man that I met who was a, he had been a Hindu and he became a Christian and he, I asked him, I said, well what brought you to Christ?

And he said, somebody gave me a the Gospel of John, is what he said.

And I don't know if you've ever read John chapter 1 to a Christian who's read it over and over.

But imagine someone who's never read the Bible before, has no idea what it says.

And it says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.

The Word was God and the Word was with God.

He told me, he said, as I began to read John chapter 1, he said, I thought to myself, I have no idea what this is talking about.

But I know that this is what I've been looking for.

That the Holy Spirit still spoke to his heart.

Now obviously as you continue to go through the book of John, you see the life of Christ and you see what he was all about And then you begin to discover who Jesus is.

And that's what he experienced and gave this young man gave his life to Jesus.

But here, see, in the first 3 verses, it's a little confusing if you don't know what's going on, but it clarifies in John chapter 1, verse 14, where it says, and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

So then when you go back to read the beginning of the chapter, it begins to make some sense.

He was that Word and without Him was not anything made that was made.

So we have this picture right in the beginning that the 1 who did the creative work was Jesus.

Now, if you study the entire Bible, like in the book of Job, you'll see that the Holy Spirit was working and you'll see that the Father was taking part in it, but Jesus was the primary 1 who did this great work in the creation of humanity.

So when you go back to the beginning and you read, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, you know that Jesus had an intimate part in our creation.

In the beginning of Genesis, Genesis chapter 1, everything's perfect.

But it begins in Genesis chapter 2 beginning in verse 1, thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and God what?

Blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.

And Keep in mind there were no chapter breaks in the original.

They were added later for us to be able to, you know, find our way around the Bible.

So, the verse right before tells us that God saw everything that He had made and behold it was very good.

And then immediately after when everything is very good He gives us the Sabbath, right?

So He gives the Sabbath day in that passage there, ends with saying He sanctified it because that in it he, God, had rested from all his work which God had created and made." So right in the beginning God made the Sabbath in perfection.

Now it says that he didn't just make it but he sanctified it, he made it holy.

Now, in Exodus chapter 20 is what I ask you to turn to.

We read in the 10 Commandments, when you actually read through the 10 Commandments, when you come down to the fourth commandment, you read in Exodus chapter 20 in verse 8, it says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

6 days shall you labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.

In it you shall not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates." Why?

Why did God create this Sabbath and why did He put it in the 10 Commandments?

It says, it tells us in verse 11, for or because, this is why he made it, because in 6 days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed, He sanctified, He made holy the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

So here we have God did this because He rested on that day, then He gives to us, He gives to humanity the seventh day as the Sabbath, the day set apart for a holy purpose.

The Sabbath

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