If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord...Isaiah 58:13-14
What is a Sabbath Day? It is a holy day set apart for honoring God. Jesus the Christ came and fulfilled the law, Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath and in Jesus we are made holy priests, set apart for God. In Christ every single day of our lives is a holy day set apart for honoring God. The Sabbath is no longer a particular day of the week, it is a condition of the heart. So let's re-examine the text...
WE ARE TO LIVE FOR CHRIST, TO DIE TO SELF, AND BE LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
BE AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS, AN AMBASSADOR OF CHRIST.
STOP POINTING FINGERS AND SPEAKING MALICIOUSLY, SPEAK WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO ONE ANOTHER, STOP DOING WHAT PLEASES THE SINFUL NATURE, AND WITH JOY, DO WHAT PLEASES GOD.
THEN YOU WILL FIND YOUR JOY, NOT IN WORLDLY THINGS, BUT IN THE LORD!
1. If you keep... from doing as you please on my holy day
2. if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable
3. if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words
4. then you will find your joy in the Lord
WE ARE TO LIVE FOR CHRIST, TO DIE TO SELF, AND BE LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
BE AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS, AN AMBASSADOR OF CHRIST.
STOP POINTING FINGERS AND SPEAKING MALICIOUSLY, SPEAK WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO ONE ANOTHER, STOP DOING WHAT PLEASES THE SINFUL NATURE, AND WITH JOY, DO WHAT PLEASES GOD.
THEN YOU WILL FIND YOUR JOY, NOT IN WORLDLY THINGS, BUT IN THE LORD!
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