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… 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, put them into our minds, put them into our practice. What a gift you have given us on the Lord's day to worship, to praise you, to rest from our works. What a gift you have given us to …
… Ten Commandments are given, and the fourth commandment is stated, where the Lord says, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. six days you shall labor and do all your work. The seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord. For in six days, the Lord made the heavens and the earth and he rested on the seventh. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and he hollered it. Now, when you read that God rested on the seventh day. I don't want you to get the idea that God was like pooped. Man, those elephants really took it out of me. Or, you know, working with those insects, you know, just my eyes are tired. It's not that kind of needing a break. It's the idea that he was done. It was enough. It was finished. He had no more to add. He did it all in six days, and it was enough. He could have kept working seven, eight, 10, 12, 145 days. But imagine how full the earth would be had he done that. …
… the only other two are remember your father and mother and remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy but all the other eight are don't do this don't do this And someone says, well, I'm a spiritual person. I don't like to get tied up in that kind of material. Listen, you are not and I am not a spiritual person in the biblical sense, except as the use of my body is characterized by conscious, intelligent, consecrated devotion to the service of God. When Paul writes to Titus, encouraging him to make sure that he's instructing his congregation effectively, he reminds him the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation, teaching us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. Now, I feel confident that I can quote Margaret Thatcher from this place this morning. I'm sure she would have been happy if she was here. I don't know if she had the privilege. But this is Thatcher. …
… 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. …
… You can turn there, it'll be here on the screen. But Exodus chapter 20, verse eight, fourth commandment, remember the Sabbath day. So this word is directly related to the word for rest that we read in Genesis two, to keep it holy. same language from Genesis 2 verse 3. Six days just your labor, 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, your female servant, 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's in them, and he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and he made it holy. So what we read in Genesis chapter 2 is the foundation for this commandment in Exodus chapter 20. To set aside one day out of seven to cease from work and to rest, which revolutionized history. Think about this with me. So much in our calendar revolves around what God reveals through nature, naturally. …
… Yes, I do that. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Yes, sirree. Don't steal. I don't. Don't kill. I don't. Don't commit adultery. Never have. Boy, what a good boy am I. He said, I was just doing real good. I was doing super good. Till he said, I got to the last commandment. And I read that one, and it wiped me out. Listen to how he said it in Romans 7, verse 7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. I had not known sin, but by the law. That is, the law is what peeled me back and showed me that I was a sinner. For I had not known lust. Now lust means unlawful desire, except the law had said, thou shall not covet. Paul said, I would have given myself an A until I got down to this last commandment. And it said, thou shall not covet. I want to tell you something, folks. It is very debasing. It reveals how wicked our hearts are. …