“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 of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy” (Exodus 20:8-11).
When God, through Moses, gave His law to the children of Israel, it included the instructions above regarding the Sabbath. In fact, this law was part of the Ten Commandments, which formed the foundation of a society that had just been liberated from Egyptian bondage. Each week, God expected His people to observe a day of rest and treat it as holy.
Christians are not under the Sabbath law today.* However, it was part of the Old Testament that was “written for our instruction” (Romans 15:4). There are principles contained in the Sabbath law that we can learn from and apply today. We will notice five of these principles in this article.Continue Reading
