Sabbath-Practical Application

Sabbath-Practical Application

Evaluate your life according to this commandment:

· SABBATH REST – I fail to take time off for rest, spiritual rejuvenation, and worship. My “Sabbath” is just like any other day of the week.

· Restate this commandment as a positive statement representing a Freedom, God gave you.

· What new insight does this commandment give you into God’s desire for your life?

· What do you hear God saying to you right now?

How to Keep the Sabbath HOLY

Purpose of the Sabbath

The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. We should keep the Sabbath holy unto the Creator who made it for us. How should we keep the Sabbath HOLY?

Only those who continue to obey God's command to keep the Sabbath will finally enter the glorious "rest" of God's Kingdom and receive the gift of eternal, spiritual life! Keeping, or not keeping, God's Sabbath reveals our attitude. Keeping the Sabbaths shows that we are willing to forsake our own thoughts for periods of time specified by God. It shows a willingness to learn, study, think and meditate on the really important things. Sabbath-keeping shows an attitude of simple obedience. It is a test of our attitude, revealing whether we really want to obey and depend upon God and receive His Holy Spirit.

The purpose of the Sabbath is to rest from physical labor and to worship God. On His Holy Day, we can forget our daily routine and draw closer to the Creator God in study, meditation, and prayer, and have a foretaste of our glorious future eternal rest. By thinking upon God, the purpose of human existence, God's revealed laws of life and God's plan for mankind, we add great strength and meaning to our life. The Sabbath is truly one of the greatest blessings God has bestowed upon mankind. When we keep the Sabbath day, we show faith and belief in God's promise of a future eternal rest with a glorified spiritual body in the Kingdom of God. By resting on the Sabbath, we are actually "acting out" the Kingdom of God and what it will be like to be Sons of God in His Kingdom.

God, from the very beginning, set one-seventh of man's time to the honoring of the great work of creation which God is bringing about within man. (See Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course, Lessons 27 and 28.) "When you have properly worshipped God on the Sabbath and studied His word and its application, and then put it into daily use and on the Sabbath Day too, then you will have God's Sabbath sign in the true and saving sense.