Bible Readings:
Mark 14:32-52
Revelation 1
Sermon Outline:
Genesis 2:1–3 (NKJV)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
I The progressive/cumulative revelation of the Holy Sabbath
Exodus 20:8–11 (NKJV)
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
II The meaning and significance of the Sabbath day
III Some practical issues
Mark 2:27–28 (NKJV)
27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
28 Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”
If you want to kill Christianity, you must abolish Sunday. Voltaire
You show me a nation that has given up the Sabbath, and I will show you a nation that has the seed of decay. D. L. Moody
Sunday is a divine and priceless institution.
Winston Churchill
The Sabbath is not only a blessing and privilege for those who keep it. In an increasingly despairing and restless world, its observance is a sign and witness of the hope God‘s people have.
Richard B. Gaffin