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If, even in the state of innocence, the Sabbath was a blessing to man, how much more is it necessary for him in a state of sin, degradation, and toil?
Robert Haldane
Sanctification of the Sabbath, 343697
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It is good to rest on the Sabbath-day from the works of our calling; but if we rest from labour and do no more, the ox and the ass keep the Sabbath as well as we; for they rest from labour. We must dedicate the day to God; we must not only 'keep a Sabbath,' but 'sanctify' a Sabbath.Ten Commandments, 100
Sabbath rest is not the post-eschaton Sabbath celebrated in heaven, nor the rest that believers experience in death, but a present rest enjoyed by those who believe (4:3), anticipating a greater future "rest" (4:11). Human Sabbath keeping is a metaphor for cessation from works (4:10) in commemoration of God's rest at creation (4:4=Gen. 2:2) and of salvation provided by Christ. The physical Sabbath rest that God's people enjoy reflects the inner spiritual rest, which is a deposit of the final eschatological rest proleptically experienced "today" (4:7)For the Glory of God (280)
if you throw it out and become a non-commandment person and you don't have the fourth Commandment then how do you justify having a moral obligation to treat your employees a certain way because whenever Paul or Peter talk about the treatment of servants? It is rooted and grounded in the morality of the fourth Commandment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YOm0y5EEk
Would you discipline someone in your church who just showed up once a year? Would you allow them to still be members in your church, and if you discipline that person you're basically saying they're committing a sin. Sin has to be tied to a moral obligation how do you have a moral obligation without an ought without a commandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YOm0y5EEk
Folks why do we go to church every seven days as opposed to every 40. And this is especially my question to those people who abandon the reformed position and abandon The Ten Commandments as the Ten Commandments and abandon the fourth Commandmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YOm0y5EEk
the whole Ten Words were always treated as a unit. Specifically, creational imperative may have been given ceremonial and civil trappings under the old covenant, but the moral imperative built into creation remains unchanged.There Remains a Sabbath Rest, 80
The Sabbath is the market day of our souls, in which we come to God's house to buy the wine and milk of the word without money.
in urging his followers to pray that their flight might not occur in winter or on the Sabbath, Jesus assumed that the institution would last into the eschaton.For the Glory of God, 278
The First Testament specifies only one way of "remembering," "keeping," or "sanctifying" the seventh-day Sabbath: banning daily work performed to sustain life.For the Glory of God, 277
Despite the Sabbath's importance, the First Testament provides little information on how Israelites actually observed it.For the Glory of God, 276
Sabbath will be literally fulfilled as we enjoy the actual, bodily presence of our Savior in a literal place of rest. Thus, the fulfillment of Sabbath typology in the New Testament indicates that Sabbath rest is salvifically inaugurated b Christ's first advent, spiritually appropriated while preserving the physical pattern between Christ's advents, and awaiting literal fulfillment at Christ's second advent.There Remains a Sabbath Rest for the People of God, 33
If Jesus approved of or broke the fourth commandment before the cross, as a Jew still under the old covenant law that He fulfilled, then He sinned and disqualified Himself from being the perfect law-keeping atonement for our sins.There Remains a Sabbath Rest for the People of God (ii)
Jesus corrected the man-made Sabbath laws of the Pharisees, not the Sabbath law.There Remains a Sabbath Rest for the People of God (ii)
Christians rejected the almost superstitious reverence that some Jews had for the Sabbath, insisting that although it was meant to be a day of rest and worship, it could not be so hedged about with legalism that the weightier matters of the law had to be ignored out of deference to it.God Has Spoken, 80
Unlike the Jewish Sabbath, which was confined to this world, the Christian Sabbath pointed to the eternal rest of the people of God, which was promised to all believers but that could not be fulfilled in this life.God Has Spoken, 80
the Sabbath is hallowed so long as on that day we do things similar to those God did on that day and which he commands men to do.Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Disputation 21
the Sabbath-day is lost, polluted, and desecrated when our eyes are distracted from the Sabbath (Ezek 22:26) and we do things on that day which we are forbidden, and we omit what we ought to do (Matt 12:2[,11,12]).Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Disputation 21
The wording for this commandment is unique. For one is not given a simple command, "Hallow the Sabbath" (as in the others), but the following warning precedes it: "Remember the Sabbath-day, that you keep it holy." This shows that the matter is of a sort that can fade easily into oblivion (because it is not engraved into our nature); therefore, we must cultivate it constantly in our memories, and we should not make light of it but guard it very carefully.Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Disputation 21
One day in seven should be especially devoted to corporate worship and other spiritual exercises that restore the soul's rest in God and zeal for His name. It should provide physical refreshment and fit one for a week of devoted service to Christ.https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/a-baptist-catechism
the fourth commandment is a moral law which still applies to believers today. Its careful observance is no more legalism than is obedience to the other nine.The Christian Sabbath, 5
his grandfather's generation referred to Sunday as the 'holy Sabbath,' his father's to the 'Sabbath,' and his to 'Sunday.' Today we think of it as the back half of the 'weekend.' This may be the commandment most visibly ignored and overtly violated by professed Bible-believing Christians today.The Christian Sabbath, 5
Sabbath-sanctification consists in two things: (1) Solemn preparation for it... (2) The sacred observation of it.Ten Commandments, 100-101
Works of necessity and charity however may be done on this day. In these cases God will have mercy and not sacrifice.Ten Commandments, 100
It is sacrilege to rob for civil work the time which God has set apart for his worship. He that devotes any time of the Sabbath to worldly business, is a worse thief than he who robs on the highway; for the one does but rob man, but the other robs God.Ten Commandments, 99
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