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are you sure you know exactly what the
fourth commandment really means when god
says to remember to keep the sabbath day
holy how is it that us christians
believe in all ten commandments but the
fourth commandment seems to be forgotten
well we’re gonna dive into the ancient
hebrew to discover exactly what this
commandment means right after this
hello everyone i’m jim staley passion
for truth ministries and today we’re
going to unpack the real meaning of the
fourth commandment the remember to keep
the sabbath day holy commandment that’s
right we’re going to find out exactly
what the cultural context and language
has to say as it relates to us today
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for today we’re going to dive into the
fourth commandment it’s found in exodus
chapter 20 and if you could turn there
with me we’re going to answer three main
questions those questions are as follows
number one we’re going to find out
should we even keep this commandment
does it matter at all does the fourth
commandment have any relevance for us
today as believers in christ
number two if it does what day do we
keep it on does it matter which day so
after we discover whether we keep it and
what day it’s on the next an obvious
question is how do we keep it and we’re
going to discuss all of that in the
shortest amount of time possible
in this very short video so let’s begin
number one the word
sabbath is
shabbat
that hebrew word shabbat literally means
to rest it means to cease from all work
let’s see how it’s used in exodus
chapter 1 20 8-11 it says this remember
the sabbath day to keep it holy 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’s within your gates for in
six days the lord made the heavens and
the earth the sea and everything that’s
in them and rested the seventh day
therefore the lord blessed the sabbath
day and hollowed it you know a couple of
the things that that just dawned on me
as we’re reading this verse is first of
all the very first word is remember
that presupposes that it something
happened before that we forgot
and also the hebrew word for remember is
zakar and zakar literally means to
remember
with a purpose it means it’s not just
like the greek philosophical definition
of the western world where to remember
is oh i remember something no in the
hebrew culture to remember is to do
something so we remember for a purpose
that has an action tied to it and the
action in this particular commandment is
we want to remember the sabbath to keep
it holy so let’s find out exactly why he
wants us to remember it and for that we
go to the same exact set of verses but
we zero in on exodus chapter 20 verse 11
and it says this is why you’re supposed
to remember to keep the sabbath it says
for in six days the lord made the
heavens and the earth the sea and all
that’s in them and rested the seventh
day therefore the lord blessed the
seventh day and hollowed it that word
hallowed is holy it’s kadosh it means to
be set apart it’s different from
everything else it’s set apart my
friends did you know that you’re
different if you believe in yeshua jesus
if you are
if you are saved by his grace and his
grace alone then my friends you are set
apart
for salvation you’re set apart from the
rest of the world you’re not like the
rest of the clay pots you’ve been broken
and you have been remade in the new
creation that’s what the sabbath is to
the rest of the days of the week it’s
special it’s set apart god looks at it
exactly the way he looks at you he
you’re completely different than every
other human that has not accepted the
messiah and that is the sabbath so keep
that in mind that’s how special the
sabbath really is matthew 24 20
pray that your flight may not be in the
winter or on the sabbath for then there
will be great tribulation such as not
been since the beginning of the world
until this time no nor ever shall be so
in the very end of the great tribulation
jesus yeshua is telling his disciples
pray that this this this great
tribulation will will not happen on a
sabbath pray that the flight from
jerusalem won’t happen on a sabbath day
when you’re resting
if the sabbath is not relevant for
believers
then why is jesus talking about the very
end days during the great tribulation
telling his disciples pray
that your flight doesn’t happen on the
sabbath
so
did you know that even the gentiles
are expected to keep the sabbath in the
new testament check this out in acts 15
21 it says for moses had throughout many
generations those who preach him in
every city being read in the synagogues
every sabbath
that james the president of the
jerusalem council is making a ruling and
saying hey i want you to do these four
things because they’ll learn the rest
in
church
every saturday every shabbat every
sabbath they will be in the synagogue
and they will learn the rest of what
they’re supposed to learn in the
meantime
they need to only practice these four
things
james’s expectation is the gentiles
would be meeting in the sabbath every
single week and we see that because the
gentiles even say that they can’t wait
for paul to come back the next sabbath
so they can hear him preach
so we’re learning this as we learn this
let’s dive into these three questions
beginning with the first one which is
should we even keep it does it matter
should we keep any of the ten
commandments
i think asking the question should we
keep the sabbath today is quite frankly
an absurd question that’s like saying
should we only serve one god should we
honor our parents today should we commit
adultery or not commit adultery ladies
and gentlemen can i just submit to you
that we don’t have to do anything
there’s no commandment that says you
have to keep the commandments
he just says i set before you blessings
and curses
blessings if you keep my commandments
curses if you don’t that’s in
deuteronomy 11
26-27 it’s our choice god gives us free
will he gives us the opportunity to
choose whether we’re going to serve him
or not serve him and our reward and
blessing and fulfillment in life is in
direct proportion to our obedience
that’s why he says he’d rather have
obedience then sacrifice
because obedience is the only way that
we can prove that we love him that comes
from 1st john chapter 5 verse 3 here is
the love of god those who keep his
commandments and his commandments are
not burdensome we’re going to talk about
how to do this in just a moment so just
hold on
you know one of the things i like to say
a lot is this
if the commandment if keeping this
shabbat the sabbath
brings a blessing
then not keeping it brings a curse but
wait a minute sometimes the greatest
curse
is not what you can see
it’s the blessing that you didn’t even
know you missed
i don’t know about you but i’ve got six
daughters
and my i have more than one that were a
surprise
and i can tell you that if if they
weren’t here if the ones that were
surprises
weren’t here
i wouldn’t even know the absolute
incredible blessings
that i would have missed
but because they are here i do know the
blessing that they are
in the same way when we choose to keep
the sabbath when we try to remember it
and do our best to honor god and set it
apart because quite frankly it was made
for us the blessings right there
when we start to receive the blessing
that has been locked up
from the very moment that we were born
you’ll never know
what you ever did without it
my friends the next question as we know
you can keep it or not keep it but we
should
because god said so it should be good
enough for us
is what day is it on i’m going to submit
to you the answer is right here in the
verse let’s go back to it exodus 20
verse 8 says remember the sabbath day to
keep it holy
six days you shall labor and do all your
work but watch this on the seventh day
is the sabbath of the lord your god now
god says the sabbath is on the seventh
day
who are we to say
we can do it whenever we want who are we
to tell god that we can keep the sabbath
on the first day or the fourth day or
the seventh day seventh eighth day it
doesn’t matter what day you want to
choose god said
the sabbath is on the seventh day
we can’t question that no more than why
why can we only have one wife
right god says it’s good for man to not
be alone and to have a wife he doesn’t
say that you you should have 10 wives
god said it we believe it and that’s it
if you are a true believer in the word
of god so why don’t most christians keep
the sabbath and if they do they keep it
on the first day of the week sunday why
is it that
if anybody keeps the sabbath quite
frankly in traditional christianity we
keep it on sunday where did that come
from let’s turn into
3 21 a.d we got to go all the way back
on the timeline to emperor constantine
of rome
he made an incredibly bold move to
change the sabbath from the existing
biblical day on the seventh day
to the first day of the week called
sun’s day it was the sun god’s day
because most of pagan rome was used to
celebrating and taking their sabbath on
the first day of the week and he wanted
to make it easier for the roman citizens
to convert to christianity so he
compromised and said let’s change it
from the what he considered the jewish
day to the new christian day and
therefore the pagan gentiles of rome who
already didn’t like the jewish people
and were already predisposed to not
doing anything that looked like them
they basically created took the current
messianic jewish
christian religion that christ founded
in the first century and then just
romanized it to make it easier and more
palatable for romans to come to christ
you may think that’s a good thing but
compromise is never a good thing
especially when god lays down an
instruction and we break it in order to
try to lead somebody to christ that’s
like
holding up a centerfold and trying to
get all the guys around you so you can
give them the gospel that is not exactly
how we’re supposed to share the word of
god compromise always leads to a watered
down faith and a watered down faith
leads to a powerless religion
eusebius which was one of constantine’s
court bishops in 338 a.d had this to say
far more pointed all things whatsoever
that was the duty to do on the sabbath
we
have transferred to the lord’s day as
more appropriately belonging to it
my friends did you hear that eusebius is
saying a court bishop of constantine
is making it clear that we are going to
transfer all of the commandments and
instructions for the sabbath from the
biblical sabbath to what they considered
the lord’s day and unfortunately there
is no such terminology in all of the
bible where god calls sunday the lord’s
day there’s only one scripture in the
entire bible that mentions that and
that’s in revelation 3 10. and the
aramaic makes that clear that the lord’s
day was talking about judgment day it’s
not talking about sunday at all
so it seems that god meant what he said
that we’re supposed to keep it but the
next question is is
how what does that look like for today
there’s a lot of different people that
have a lot of different ideas of what
does it mean to keep the sabbath i think
quite frankly
the sabbath is very easy to keep i’ve
been keeping it for many years the
instructions are simple don’t work
don’t have your son or daughter work and
don’t have anybody work for you
that means i can’t go out to dinner i
might want to do that on the saturday
afternoon but i can’t because to do so
would be causing someone else to break
the sabbath and support them now you
might say well they’re going to do it
anyway well
a lot of people are going to do a lot of
stuff anyway that doesn’t mean i support
it or endorse it i have to set myself
apart because this day is set apart and
i live in a set apart system called the
kingdom of god so what does it mean
some say that you can’t do your own
pleasure on the sabbath and they quote
isaiah 58 13 which says this
if you turn away your foot from the
sabbath from doing your own pleasure and
on my holy day and it goes on to say
then i’ll bless you so they say that
we can’t do our own pleasure but what
they don’t know is the word pleasure
there in the hebrew and in the context
is defined in the very same
chapter as actually work it says this in
isaiah 58 3
why have we fasted they say and you have
not seen why have we afflicted our souls
and you take no notice in fact in the
day of your fast you find pleasure
here’s how he defines it
and
exploit all your laborers that word
exploit there means to press hard or to
make your workers work your employees
work in other words it was the pleasure
of the employer to take a day off while
making his people work
in the context it’s very simple is that
the word pleasure there is work men like
to work it’s that simple the chapter is
consistent with the commandment itself
which is revolving around what
ceasing
from work it’s not talking about you
can’t take a bike ride with your with
your son or your daughter you can’t go
to the park or
or whatever but you can’t work and you
can’t cause someone else to work
god is causing this created the sabbath
so that you could draw closer to your
family to creation and to him he’s
trying to unify those three components
and line them up the creator the
creation
and the created the family
some people that do keep the sabbath
keep it so legalistic they it chokes out
the life of the family because it’s all
about this rule and that rule
when the rule is very simple just don’t
work and don’t cause someone else to
work those two categories that’s it
everything else is on the table god
wants to bring life and breathe life
back into your life and the shabbat was
designed for just that imagine sitting
around a table on a friday night because
the days start and sundown to sundown in
the bible so they begin at sundown and
they end it sundown so friday night at
sundown starts the shabbat
sitting around the table with all of
your family everyone is looking forward
to it all week long because they know
that they’re going to have dad’s
attention they’re going to have mom’s
attention they’re going to play family
games maybe watch a documentary or a
movie or or they just spend time
together maybe they have a little bible
study on shabbat we know at our at our
family at three o’clock it’s family
church we’re going to get around we’re
going to read the bible we’re going to
study it for about an hour hour and a
half we’re going to do some worship the
frequency changes
and nobody has any plans it’s family
time sometimes we go to a park maybe we
uh we go and just walk around down with
a riverfront whatever we want to do
that doesn’t revolve around work
buying things or causing somebody else
to work is on the table and i will tell
you it has transformed
our lives without a doubt
in short let me just say this it’s like
celebrating life
before the fall
when man didn’t have to work by the
sweat of his brow and the only thing
that he did
was walk in the cool with god
that’s what the sabbath is all about
it’s like turning back the time clock
going back to the very beginning of time
where man
didn’t have to work super hard there was
no thorns and we just walked in the cool
with the lord on that day
i can tell you it not only has
transformed my family it’s transformed
me as a person because now guess what i
have to do is the priest in my home
we’re having family church i got to
prepare i can’t just take my kids to
church on a sunday morning and just
expect the pastor to teach him the bible
tells me that i’m the pastor of my home
i can still take them to church i can
still have them going to youth group but
at the end of the day i’m the preacher
i’m the pastor i’m the priest and
protector of my home it is my
responsibility to teach them and to
teach them well and shabbat is a
fantastic way to do that
in conclusion i think it’s incredibly
ironic that we as believers have
forgotten the only commandment in the
bible that we are specifically told to
remember
you know if god sits sets apart one
whole day out of creation week and calls
it holy set apart and calls it the
sabbath and we’re supposed to remember
what he did as an example so that we can
do it moving forward if it was good
enough for all the patriarchs for jesus
yeshua himself all the disciples and
keeping it in the millennium if it’s
good from genesis to revelation why is
it not good enough for today
why is it that we’re always trying to
find a way out of doing what god says to
do even when it’s in our best interest
he made this commandment for us there
are blessings that are locked up and
attached prophetically to this
commandment and all he is asking is hey
look when you’re faithful to your wife i
unlock blessings when you only serve the
one true god i unlock blessings when you
honor your parents i unlock and you
qualify for these blessings the sabbath
has got massive blessings attached to it
that are related to the connectivity and
the restoration and the incredible power
of intimacy for your family and we don’t
qualify for them until we actually
remember
and we do
so i encourage you to keep the sabbath
to look into it ask the father how you
can begin to incorporate this into your
life even if it’s just a little bit
maybe it’s just a meal on friday night
maybe just a couple hours on saturday
until you begin to see that god meant
what he said when he said you honor me
and i’ll honor you
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