Internet Church Service – May 20, 2018; Dispensation of the Mosaic Law. The Fourth Commandment: The Sabbath. Part 1.
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Dispensation of the Mosaic Law.
The Fourth Commandment: The Sabbath. Part 1.
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from - Romans 8:38-39
Hymn #1
Hymn #2
Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word
Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is— you have trusted in Him for eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to take-in God’s Word or participating in a Communion Service, so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge your sins privately directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry, also called the convincing ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher and the pastor’s message is the vehicle the Holy Spirit uses to convince you what you are learning is true or not.
1 John 1:9 says—“If we confess [simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND
If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (
that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:
John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV
Notice again what John 6:47 says,
“he who believes in Me [
Jesus Christ]
has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “
has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (
it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (
John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (
also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.
John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV
Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:
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Sermon: Dispensation of the Mosaic Law.
The Fourth Commandment: The Sabbath. Part 1.
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall make no idols.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
In its original setting in the Word of God, the Sabbath is the 7th day of the week or Saturday.
The Sabbath was to remind the Jews of the principle of grace. It reminded them that you could do nothing for salvation, you can do nothing for spirituality, you can do nothing to gain the approbation and the blessing of God.
Point 1 introduction, Freedom demands rest and rest demands freedom.
The Sabbath was a thinking day when you didn’t work physically but sat around somewhere, rested, and thought.
And there are two kinds of sabbath: The temporal sabbath is the faith-rest technique of the believer in Heb 3:11, and the moment-by-moment Sabbath of Heb 4:1 7.
a. That’s the temporal sabbath or rest, Heb 3:7-13.
b. Then next the moment by moment sabbath, Heb 4:1-7.
And so, this moment by moment sabbath was the basis of spirituality in the Old Testament dispensations; i.e., believing, claiming, and resting on verses, principles, and doctrines.
a. That’s the temporal sabbath or rest, Heb 3:7-13.
b. Then next the moment by moment sabbath, Heb 4:1-7.
In 6 days God took the earth, which was a mess from the rulership of Satan and He restored and converted it into a wonderful place to live.
In 6 days He provided everything that man would need on the earth to survive and live in happiness! Food, perfect climate, a garden, He even provided a Bible class with the greatest Bible teacher of all time…the Lord God.
Rested – Qal imperfect of shabath; ie., Sabbath means to rest.
No, Gen 2:2 says…that He ended or finished His work. This is what we call “sabbath” or the “rest of grace”. Everything that man would ever need was provided by God. So…He rested.
Perfect environment was provided and nothing could be added to it!
Now from Gen 2:2 to Exo 16:23, no reference is made to the sabbath. So you go at least from Gen 2:2 to Exo 16 which is approximately 1441 B.C.
Now, the sabbath finally became know to Israel as the day of rest. They would work for 6 days…Sunday through Friday. Then, on the 7th day, Saturday, man would rest.
As Paul said in Rom 11:6 “But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.”
So…the sabbath was a day in Israel when man would rest to remember and commemorate the grace of God.
There is nothing like stopping the routine and having a day when things completely stop. So that you can be reminded of grace. “Rest” is a memorial to the grace of God.
Now, just like God provided for Adam in perfect environment, God has provided for you in eternity past everything you will ever need.
And the sabbath always had this connotation! It was a “thinking day” not a working day! A day the grace of God was to be commemorated.
Point 2. Salvation Rest, Matt 11:28.
Eternal life is not characterized by resting, but by tranquility and blessing.
Point 3. Supergrace Rest.
The land of Canaan is a type of the supergrace life, and in the context of Heb 3:11, supergrace is manifest by faith rest;
For example, the maximum use of faith-rest with doctrine and the maximum application of doctrine from the heart or the right lobe of the soul.
Heb 3:11 as I swore in my wrath, ‘they shall not enter my rest.’ ”
Heb 4:1-3 (in Heb 4:3 the elliptical oath is repeated) says that this rest was provided for the Jews in eternity past, yet their disobedience of unbelief will keep them out of it.
There is a temporal sabbath i.e., mentioned in Heb 3:11 and this is for all believers. This is the sabbath for the mature believer.
1. For instance, if you had saddled a horse on Friday, you could not remove the saddle if the horse was still saddled on the sabbath. On Saturday you couldn’t saddle or unsaddle a horse.
2. On Saturday you couldn’t cook anything.
3. If you have mud on your robe you were not allowed to clean it off.
4. You couldn’t stop anyone from bleeding on the sabbath, you had to wait for Sunday.
The commandment said to remember grace.” The commandment was a ritual. It had to do with what you think.
Heb 3:7-10, Notice the phrase in verse 10…they have not known my ways.
The modern tendency of apostasy today stresses the works and production of the believer. just like the Jews distorted the ritual sabbath, most Christians distort the real one.
The main problem is the believers ignorance of doctrine.
However, when God gets down to indicting you He doesn’t mention your failure to do this or that but He indicts you for your stupidity and ignorance concerning His plan.
Ignorance of doctrine means a breakdown of the spiritual sabbath in your life which is in reality….faith-rest.
This rest is a state in which the believer has a relaxed mental attitude no matter what the situation may look like.
A heart of unbelief is a heart without rest.
No faith-rest is to say God is a liar.
Hymn #3
The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.
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