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University SDA Church- East Lansing

The Sabbath

David Shin

The Sabbath- Part 1

The Sabbath- Part 2

The Sabbath- Part 3

Father in heaven, we thank you for this Sabbath, this opportunity that we have to come together, study, to fellowship, most of all, to be in your presence.

And we ask that you would bless us now as we open your word as the words of that song surely Goodness and mercy shall follow me and that's the prayer of our hearts today as we seek to do and to know your will For we ask these things in Jesus name.

Amen The year was 2006 and there was a young Japanese engineer that worked for Toyota and he was feverishly working on a particular project for the Toyota Camry, the hybrid version.

He was working 80 hours overtime per month in addition to work 7 days a week.

He was very stressed, very overworked, and very intensely working on this project.

2 months into it he was found in his room.

They came to the conclusion that he had died from a phenomenon that the Japanese have coined since 1969.

It's called karoshi, which literally means death from overwork.

It's become a phenomenon, so much so that the Labor Ministry of the Japanese government has instituted law saying that, yes, you should work hard, but there's a limit to how much you should work.

Isn't it interesting that our Creator God, in the heart of the Divine 10 Commandments, has given us a blueprint for working and for rest.

And I'd like to invite you to turn with me in your Bibles to this divine commandment found in the Decalogue Exodus chapter 20 verse 8 through 11 Exodus chapter 20 verse 8 through 11 page 83 in your pew Bible We go to the fourth commandment that divine commandment Given by God written with his own finger on tablets of stone, page 83, Exodus chapter 20, verse 8 through 11.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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

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.

For in 6 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 hollowed it.

Here it is in the 10 Commandments, the command to rest.

Praise the Lord that God says work 6 days, but on the seventh you are given a day off from all your labors.

It's a time for spiritual, mental, emotional, physical renewal.

It's at the heart of the 10 Commandments.

And as we begin this series called the Sabbath, And as you endeavor to share about the Sabbath with your friends and neighbors, the conversation many times goes something like this.

You say, your friend, have you heard about the Sabbath?

And they say, oh, David, don't you know, we don't have to keep the law anymore.

Furthermore, the law has been nailed to the cross.

There's indications in scripture that say that the law has been done away with.

So I'm not going to hold back today, nor in our series.

We're going to actually go through some of these passages.

And first and foremost, you'll see them in your study guide.

I put them here on the screen, but 4 passages that indicate that the law has been done away with.

And any time you talk about the Sabbath, they always quote Colossians 2, verse 14 through 16.

Colossians 2, 14 through 16, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross, there it is, having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it, so let no 1 judge you in food or in drink or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths.

It says the law has been nailed to the cross.

Here's another 1, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 15.

You can see them all in your study guide listed there.

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in himself 1 new man from the 2, thus making peace." Here's another 1, Romans 6, 14.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, you're under what?

Our final 1, Galatians 3 23 through 25, but before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith, which would afterward be revealed.

Therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.

But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor or no longer under the law.

Now, to confuse you a little bit, we'll try to alleviate this later, but here's a little bit of confusion.

Here's 4 passages that seem to indicate that the law has been done away with.

And then here's 4 passages that indicate that the law is still binding.

James, chapter 2, verse 10, for whoever shall keep the whole law and yet stumble in 1 point, he is guilty of all this.

This commandment, this verse says that if you break 1, you break them all.

This is a New Testament passage saying that the whole law is applicable.

The words of Christ, another New Testament passage, Matthew 5 or 17 through 18.

Do not think that I'm come to destroy the law or the prophets.

I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Some people say that that word fulfills, Christ is saying that the law has been done away with, but it doesn't make any sense because if that were so it would say I did not come to destroy the law but to destroy the law.

I did not come to destroy but to fulfill, for assuredly I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, 1 jot, that's a dot, or 1 tittle, that's a crossing, will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

If you have a red letter Bible, it's there in red.

I did not come to destroy the law of the prophets.

I came not to destroy, but to fulfill revelation.

And then the New Testament passage, Revelation, chapter 14, verse 12.

Here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

There will be a last group of people living in the end of time that will keep the commandments of God by faith.

Here it is, John, first, John, chapter 2, verse 3 and 4.

Now by this we know that we know him if we keep his commandments.

He who says, I know him, now listen to this part, and does not keep his commandments is a what is a liar and the truth is not in him.

4 passages that indicate that the law is still binding for passages that tell us that the law has been done away with.

How do we deal with this contradiction in scripture?

The answer is that in the Bible, there's actually 2 laws.

There's 2 commandments, There's 2 mandates from scripture, and the first 1, you can see it there in your study guide, was written by God.

I want to invite you to turn with me in your Bibles to Exodus, chapter 31, verse 18.

You'll want to see this in your own Bible.

The 10 Commandments was written by God and it was written in stone.

And when he had made an end of speaking with him, Moses, on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses 2 tablets of testimony, tablets of stone written with the finger of God.

Did you know that this is the only part of the Bible that God wrote himself?

The other portions of Scripture, he inspired holy men and they were inspired by the Holy Ghost and they wrote Scripture.

But this part, God did not give to Moses to write down.

It was so important, so critical, so immutable, so unchangeable that he said, look, Moses, I'm not going to have you write this.

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