ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 56

                                         ONE HEARTBEAT
                                          AWAY 

                                          - PART 56

(Mark Cahill's Book)


Fourth Commandment

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work. Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. 

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the Lord blessed the 
sabbath day and hallowed it. 
(Exodus 20:8-11)

God has set aside one day a week for 
us to rest. It is a gift that God has given us. We are not supposed to do our jobs, or any other work on the Sabbath. God cares about our entire being.

During the time of Moses, those who worked on the Sabbath would be 
stoned to death. People today say that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, but studies show that when it's enforced the crime rate is low. I believe that is why the Bible records only one account of stoning someone for breaking the Sabbath.
 (Numbers 13:32-36)

Most Christians consider the first day 
of the week (Sunday) to be the Sabbath. Do we set aside the day to spend extra time with God?  Or is it the day that we catch up on our sleep from the week?


Why do we see so many soccer tournaments on Sunday mornings 
now ?  Is it a day that we catch up 
on our exercise that  we missed 
during the week?  

No matter how we define keeping 
the Sabbath, none of us has kept the way God designed it to be kept.


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