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Archive for 29. October 2008
The Sabbath Part II
29. October 2008 by Bernice Davis.
Hello:
We are still on the following text:
Matthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” 3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread–which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent?
Yesterday, we looked at the example of David and his eating of the bread that was designated for use only by the priests and today we will talk about the priests. While we will not look at any particular story because there are many, I will give you a summary of what Jesus was referring to.
One of the priest’s jobs was to take the sacrifice from the people and kill it, burn it, offer it up, etc which required manual labor to be done on the Sabbath. The Sabbath day was not exempt from offering up sacrifices to God; as a matter of fact it was one of the main days for worship. In preparation for worship, the priests had to prepare the sacrifices needed which included work not normally allowed on the Sabbath. The Jews had interpreted the 4th commandment too strictly.
Let’s look at the 4th commandments.
Exodus 20:8 ”Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Jesus instructed them that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. It was a day of rest and worship but acts of mercy and compassion are allowed.
Tomorrow, we will continue our study of the Sabbath as Jesus gets into more detail about this day and what it was created for.
Stay encouraged.
Don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily.
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