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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

On the picture I have, on the screen I have a picture of a sculpture.

It's a sculpture of Aristotle, the famed ancient philosopher that influenced much of Western civilization.

Not many people know that he not only influenced and had an interest in philosophy and theology, but also had an interest in zoology and biology.

As a Matter of fact, in the year 350 AD, Aristotle made the pronouncement, the claim, that the spider was an insect that had 6 legs.

And because it was Aristotle, the brilliant, genius philosopher, no 1 took the time to actually sit down and count.

You don't need a master's or a PhD to do this.

And it's not like spiders are not readily accessible.

And just because Aristotle, the authority, said that, hey, spiders have 6 legs, they're an insect, For 2, 000 years, can you believe this?

2, 000 years, the textbooks quoted Aristotle.

Finally, a gentleman by the name of Lamarck, 20 centuries later, had the audacity to sit down and actually count the legs of a spider and revolutionary discovery that rocked the community.

They had to create a whole entire class of animals, arachnids, and the textbooks had to be rewritten.

Could it be possible that today we are basing our beliefs upon authorities and not seeing things for ourselves?

And friends, it's time that we read less books about the Bible and start reading the Bible.

And so many times we base our eternal salvation upon a theologian, a scholar, a pastor, and base our entire theology upon what someone else says rather than going to the Bible ourselves.

Acts chapter 17 verse 11 says, these were more noble than those in Thessalonica talking about the Bereans in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

He wrote the majority of the New Testament, and these Bereans had the audacity to check everything that Paul taught by scripture.

And see whether these things are so, amen.

We don't want to be like the community that trusted Aristotle and find out.

That we had not investigated for ourselves, I want to invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to the beginning of the Bible.

We're continuing in our series on the Sabbath.

Genesis, chapter 2, very beginning of the Bible, the beginning of creation.

On the seventh day, the beauty of the Sabbath, Genesis, chapter 2, page 2 in your pew Bible.

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.

You can fill in these blanks in your study guide.

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

I'm going to make a few simple observations.

That may be news for some of you, but Abraham, Isaac and Jacob came came around much later.

Some people say all the Sabbath is for the Jews.

When the world was perfect, God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.

You can see this in your study guide in Genesis chapters 1 and 2.

We discover that God did set a day aside as special.

This day was the seventh day of the week.

God did 3 very special things on this day.

You can list them below in your study guide.

He rested, he blessed, and he sanctified, which means set apart for holy use.

He rested, he blessed, and sanctified, set apart for holy use.

When you look at the literary structure in the Hebrew of Genesis chapter 2, 2 and 3, you'll notice something very fascinating.

Each complete thought, and on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done 7 words in the Hebrew The next complete thought and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done 7 words again in the Hebrew So God blessed the seventh day and hollowed it, 7 words again in the Hebrew.

It seems like Moses, under the inspiration of God, was trying to emphasize something, make a point.

But even more than that, you look at the literary structure of Genesis chapter 1 and 2.

It says The evening and the morning were the first day, evening and morning, second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day.

Each 1 of these are mentioned just once, but then he comes to the seventh day and it says, on the seventh day, on the seventh day, The seventh day.

Do you think Moses, under the inspiration of God, is trying to emphasize something?

In the Hebrew mind, when they wanted to emphasize something, to say that this was important, they would repeat it.

Hierarchical scholars, when they were looking at the Hebrew language, thought, these guys are archaic, redundant.

Why are they repeating themselves everywhere?

When God said in the day that you shall eat of it, you shall surely die.

In the Hebrew, it does not say surely die.

This is the climax of the creation story.

The seventh day, the seventh day, the seventh day.

As we come to the 10 Commandments, we study this last Sabbath, and if you missed last Sabbath's presentation, I want to invite you to go online and listen to it or watch the video of it.

Some people say that the commandments were nailed to the cross and we did this last week.

We said that the 10 Commandments was 1 of the laws instituted by God.

It's the only portion of scripture that God wrote Himself.

This is so important that He decided He would write it Himself.

The other portions of scripture he inspired holy men and they spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

It's still inspired but this is the only part of scripture that he wrote himself and he did not write it on parchment he wrote it in stone telling us this is unchanging immutable eternal written by God written in stone it was deposited by Moses, according to Deuteronomy 10, verse 5, inside the Ark.

We also know that the other law, the ceremonial law, was written by Moses.

God's law was written by God, the Mosaic law was written by Moses, it was written not in stone, it was written in a book And was deposited by Moses or even by the Levites by the side of the ark.

You can see that in Deuteronomy chapter 31, verse 26.

Matter of fact, let's turn there very quickly.

This is different from the 10 Commandment law.

Deuteronomy chapter 31 verse 26, page 238 in your pew Bible.

Deuteronomy chapter 31 and verse 26 to 39.

It says, take this book of the law and put it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, your God, that it may be there as a witness.

What does your Bible say against you is to be against the people.

It was a book of blessings and cursings, meaning that if they kept the book of the covenant, they will be blessed.

If they did not, these terrible things would happen to them.

And we said last week that This is the exact blueprint, the exact law that's mentioned in Colossians 2, verse 14.

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