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Bible Questions Answered:
“If
God rested on the Sabbath, I see a lot of church people working on
Sunday...”
William/
Glasgow, Scotland
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
The
Sabbath:
Genesis 2:2,3 KJV
2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He
rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
3
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in
it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
Exodus 20:8-11 KJV
8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10
But the seventh day is the sabbath of The Lord Thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates:
11
For in six days The Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore The Lord blessed
the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
OK, there should absolutely be no work on the Sabbath, right? Wrong!
“Who
said so?”
Jesus said so!
Mark 2:23-28 NLT (A Discussion about the Sabbath)
23
One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grain fields, His
disciples began breaking off heads of grain to eat.
24
But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look, why are they breaking the
law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?”
25
Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the Scriptures what
David did when he and his companions were hungry?
26
He went into the house of God (during the days when Abiathar was high
priest) and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that
only the priests are allowed to eat. He also gave some to his
companions.”
27
Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the
needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the
Sabbath.
28
So The Son Of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!”
Our Lord, did not institute the Sabbath to take all precedence over
man, but to serve him.
Our Lord, did not come to give His life for the Sabbath, He came to
give His life for men and women.
There are no days of exclusion, regarding the doing of good works!
John 5:1-18 NLT (Jesus Heals a Lame Man)
1
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy
days.
2
Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with
five covered porches.
3
Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the
porches.
5
One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6
When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked
him, “Would you like to get well?”
7 “I
can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me
into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets
there ahead of me.”
8
Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”
9
Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and
began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
10
so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured,
“You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to
carry that sleeping mat!”
11
But he replied, “The Man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat
and walk.’”
12
“Who said such a thing as that?” they demanded.
13
The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.
14
But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you
are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to
you.”
15
Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who
had healed him.
(Jesus Claims to Be The Son Of God)
16
So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath
rules.
17
But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am
I.”
18
So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill Him.
For He not only broke the Sabbath, He called God His Father, thereby
making Himself equal with God.
Our God is “always working?”
Yes, that's right. Let that come as no surprise, for He is
maintaining His creation, and He is providing for His
creation, every hour of every day!
Abraham, knew this...
Genesis
22:7-14 KJV
7
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood:
but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a
lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham
built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his
son.
11
And The Angel Of The Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said,
Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12
And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any
thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me.
13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a
ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the
ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah
jireh*: as it is said to this day, In the mount of The
Lord it shall be seen.
* Jehovahjireh-Hebrew: YHovih Yireh (Yeh-ho-vaw' yir-eh):
Jehovah will see (to it). Jehovah-Jireh (Genesis 22:8 KJV "God
will provide.")
Our
God Maintaining:
Job
33:4 KJV
The
Spirit Of God hath made me, and The Breath Of The Almighty hath given
me Life.
Psalm
121:2-8 KJV
2 My
help cometh from The Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He
will not suffer (permit) thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee
will not slumber.
4
Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5
The Lord is thy Keeper: The Lord is thy Shade upon thy right hand.
6
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy
soul.
8
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this
time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalm
124:8 KJV
Our
help is in the name of The Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Isaiah
42:5 KJV
Thus
saith God The Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them
out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it;
He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them
that walk therein:
Matthew
6:28-30 KJV
28
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
30
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is,
and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe
you, O ye of little faith?
I
Corinthians 8:6 NLT
But
for us,There is one God, The Father, by whom all things were created,
and for whom we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through
whom all things were created, and through whom we live.
II
Corinthians 5:17 KJV
Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new.
Revelation
21:5 KJV
And
He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And
He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Our
God Providing:
Psalm
34:10 KJV
The
young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek The Lord
shall not want any good thing.
Psalm
84:11 KJV
For
The Lord God is a sun and shield: The Lord will give grace and glory:
no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalm
107:9 KJV
For
He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with
goodness.
Malachi
3:10 NLT
Bring
all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in My
Temple. If you do,” says The Lord Of Heaven’s Armies, “I will
open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so
great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put Me to
the test!
Matthew
6:31-33 NLT
31
“So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat?
What will we drink? What will we wear?’
32
These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your
Heavenly
Father already knows all your needs.
33
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He
will give you everything you need.
Matthew
7:7,11 KJV
7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you:
11
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give
good things to them that ask Him?
Matthew
11:29,30 KJV
29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30
For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.
Matthew
21:22 KJV
And
all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall
receive.
Luke
12:24 KJV
Consider
the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have
storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye
better than the fowls?
John
3:16 KJV
For
God so loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
Life.
John
5:24 KJV
Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him
that sent Me, hath everlasting Life, and shall not come into
condemnation; but is passed from death unto Life.
John
8:32 KJV
And
ye shall know The Truth, and The Truth shall make you free.
John
10:11 KJV
I am
The Good Shepherd: The Good Shepherd giveth His Life for the sheep.
John
14:6,26 KJV
6
But The Comforter, which is The Holy Ghost, whom The Father will send
in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
26
But The Comforter, which is The Holy Ghost, whom The Father will send
in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Acts
2:17 KJV
And
it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of
My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men
shall dream dreams:
Romans
6:23 KJV
For
the wages of sin is death; but The Gift Of God is eternal Life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
II
Corinthians 9:8 NLT
And
God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have
everything you need and plenty left over to share with others.
Ephesians
3:20 KJV
Now
unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Philippians
4:19 KJV
But
my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by
Christ Jesus.
II
Timothy 3:16,17 KJV
16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
17
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all
good works.
Sunday is our day of rest, in honoring The Lord. Will there be works
that must be done, yes some must be. The hospital, must not close,
our church is to remain open. Good things must go on being done.
Luke
13:15 KJV
The
Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one
of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and
lead him away to watering?
Luke
14:5 KJV
And
answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen
into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
No labor, around the house or car, etc. meditation on God's Word,
with Christian friends, and church, yes.
Take
time To Be Holy
Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord;
Abide in Him always, and feed on His Word.
Make friends of God’s children, help those who are weak,
Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek.
Take time to be holy, the world rushes on;
Spend much time in secret, with Jesus alone.
By looking to Jesus, like Him thou shalt be;
Thy friends in thy conduct His likeness shall see.
Take time to be holy, let Him be thy Guide;
And run not before Him, whatever betide.
In joy or in sorrow, still follow The Lord,
And, looking to Jesus, still trust in His Word.
Take time to be holy, be calm in thy soul,
Each thought and each motive beneath His control.
Thus led by His Spirit to fountains of love,
Thou soon shalt be fitted for service above.
Author: William D. Longstaff, ca.1882
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Prayer:
Matthew 11:28-30
KJV
28 Come unto Me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take My yoke upon you, and learn
of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto
your souls.
30 For My yoke is easy, and My
burden is light.
Mark 16:16 KJV
He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
