Friday, December 30, 2011

4th Commandment

And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. Exodus 19:16,18

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: 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. Exodus 20:8-11 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5:12-15  In Deuteronomy you have the repitition of the Law. A review of the past 40 years of events explained by Moses. Notice that in the Commandment we are to keep the 7th day Sabbath holy because it acknowledges Him as our Creator. That was the Law written by the finger of God. In Deuteronomy Moses explains also it is because God delivered them from the bondage of Egypt. Just as He delivers us from the bondage of sin. He is both CREATOR and SAVIOUR in His Law. Christ healed on the Sabbath day. But that was to do good out of love, the spirit of the Law. But He wasn't to be found in worldly business on Sabbath, such as working in His carpenter shop. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 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? Luke 14:3,5

 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Psalm 119:19 If ye love me, keep my commandments. John14:15

...the God of glory thundereth: Psalm 29:3