but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any workâneither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;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:but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
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… And so here I am going to read verses 1 to 2 and then jump down to verses 8 through 11. Exodus 20, hear the word of the Lord. And God spoke all these words saying, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. And now verse 8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male servant or your female servant or your livestock or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. This is the word of the Lord. Let's pray together. Father, we thank you for this word. We thank you for this night where we are able to reflect on what you have given to us in the Lord's day in the Sabbath. I pray that we would all have teachable hearts to receive by your Spirit what you have for us this night from your word. We thank you for those who wrote the catechism and the helpful emphases it gives us for this day, and I pray that you would help us to receive these and to put them into our hearts, …
… said everybody should be protected from overwork, including immigrants and foreigners who have come in. They shouldn't be overworking either. Now here's the fourth commandment. Exodus 20, verse nine and 10. This is one of the 10 commandments, fourth commandment. You have six days in which to do your work. But the seventh day is to be a day of complete rest, circle that, complete rest dedicated to me. Now this is called the Sabbath. Every seventh day you take a day off. And a Sabbath, you might write this down, Sabbath means a day of rest. That's what it means. And did you know that your heart actually beats different every seven days? We're biologically wired for a day of rest. Now this whole idea of where God says, I want you to have a day of rest and worship, it's not for God's benefit. It's not just some arbitrary law. God did it so you won't burn out. And the reason people are so stressed out today is they've forgotten this in culture after culture after culture after culture. It's for your benefit. Look at this, Mark 2 verse 27, Jesus said the Sabbath was made to benefit man. …
… And the fourth commandment is about getting into God's groove. It's about the rhythm of God. I want see if you can pick it up. Exodus chapter 20, verses 8 through 10. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. I love that because God knew that we have a tendency to forget what we should remember and remember what we should forget. So God says, remember it, okay? Remember the Sabbath day, the Sabbath being rest, a day of worship, a day of refreshment, a day of recalibration. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, not to make it holy. It already is to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. Did you pick up the rhythm? Let me play it again. I don't think you did. I don't think you did. I can tell you didn't. That's okay. That's okay. God's rhythm. Work six days. One, two, three, four, five, six. …