Elizabeth Fackler Hanon 7 hours ago · Most churches have the 10 commandments plastered somewhere or many places. Most Sunday school classes have children memorize these 10 commandments. Most people believe Sunday is the Sabbath. Most people have believed a lie and a tradition of man. If you claim to read, love, and live by the Bible please consider doing this little Sabbath Study - what do you have to loose? What is the first time the Sabbath is mentioned in Scripture? Read Genesis 2:1-3. What did God do on the seventh day? (verse 2) He _______________________________ His work. He _________________________________ from all His work. What two things did God do to the Sabbath? (verse 3) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What work was He resting from? (verse 3) _______________________________________________________ What is the fourth commandment of Scripture? Read Exodus 20:8-11. What does God tell His people to do with the Sabbath? (verse 8 – first word) ____________________________________________________ How do we remember the Sabbath? (verse 8) ____________________________________________________________________________How many days are we commanded to work? (verse 9) ____________________________ What day of the week is the Sabbath? (verse 10) ______________________________________________ Who is not to do any work on the Sabbath? (verse 10) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________Why is the seventh day the Sabbath? (verse 11) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What two things did God do the Sabbath? (end of verse 11) 1. ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________________________________________ The Ten Commandments are repeated again in Deuteronomy. Read Deuteronomy 5:12-15. What does God tell His people to do with the Sabbath? (verse 12 – first word) ____________________________________________________ How and why are we to do this? (verse 12) ____________________________________________________________________________What are we to remember? (verse 15) ___________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ How is this different from what we are told to remember in Exodus 20:8-11? ___________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Therefore, the fourth commandment tells us to remember two things: 1. Creation 2. Redemption When does the Sabbath begin and end? According to God, what constitutes a day? (Genesis 1:5) ________________________________________________________________________ Extra Research: Our days are reckoned from midnight to midnight. When did this begin? ancientsites/aw/Article/1120774 When does God reckon a new day to start? At evening (sunset)? At midnight? At morning (sunrise)? Read Leviticus 23:32. How long did this ceremonial Sabbath last? ____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ The Sabbath starts at sundown on our 6th day (Friday) and lasts until sundown on our 7th day (Saturday). What should the Sabbath be like? Read Leviticus 23:3. How many days may we work? __________________________ The seventh day is a Sabbath of _____________________. Extra Research: What Hebrew word is used for “Sabbath” in this verse? ______________________ What does it mean? ________________________________________ What Hebrew word is used for “rest” in this verse? What does it mean? _________________________________________ Are either of these words used back in Genesis 2:1-3? _________________________________________________________________ Tools: blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Lev&c=23&v=3&t=KJV#conc/3 The Sabbath is also a day of ________________________________________________. (Some translations say “holy convocation,” where others say things like “sacred assembly.” Extra Research: What Hebrew word is used for “convocation” or “assembly” in this verse? ______________________________ What does it mean? ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________Tools: blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Lev&c=23&v=3&t=KJV#conc/3 On the Sabbath, you are not to do any _____________________________ . The Sabbath was to apply to the people of God in what locations? ____________________________________________________________________________Of what is the Sabbath a sign? Read Ezekiel 20:12. Why did God give His people Sabbaths? ________________________________________ “... so they would know ___________________________________________________________________________.” Read also Ezekiel 20:20. Read Exodus 31:13. For how many generations would the Sabbath be a sign? _______________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Read Exodus 31:17. The Sabbath would be a sign between God and Israel for how long? ____________________________________________________________________________Was the Sabbath just for the Jews? Read Mark 2:27. Who did Jesus say the Sabbath was made for? ________________________________ Read Isaiah 66:22-23. In the future, who will still be recognizing the Sabbath? (verse 23) ____________________________________________________________________________Sabbath was instituted at Creation. Was this before or after Abraham? _______________________ What command did Cain break? (Genesis 4:8, Exodus 20:13) __________________________________ What sin did Joseph have knowledge of? (Genesis 39:9, Exodus 20:14) _______________________ What did Abraham keep? (Genesis 26:5) _________________________________________________________ What were the Israelites to gather on the sixth day? (Exodus 16:4-5) _________________________ Why? ___________________________________________________________________________ Read Exodus 16:22-28. Was this before or after the Ten Commandments were given at Sinai? (See Exodus 19-20.) _______________________________________ How was the New Testament church taught? Read 2 Timothy 3:16-17. How much of Scripture is useful for teaching us? __________________ Note that the New Testament had not yet been compiled when 2 Timothy was written. What “Scripture” would Paul have been referring to? Read Luke 24:27. What was used to explain the Scriptures? __________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________Read Acts 17:2. What did Paul use to reason with people? ____________________________________ Read Acts 18:28. What did Paul use to prove his argument? __________________________________ On what day did the first-century believers worship? Common Passage #1: Read Acts 20:7-8. What had they come together to do? _______________________________________ What does it mean to “break bread”? ___________________________________________________________ Compare to the meal eaten in Luke 24:28-30, and see that this was not necessarily a communion service. What were burning in the upstairs room? _____________________________________________________ What time of day was it? _______________________________ What day of the week was it? ______________________________________ Remember that the Biblical day started at what time? ________________________________________ The believers here had gathered for a meal on what we now call Saturday evening. Why were they meeting? (Who was preparing to leave? See Acts 20:11.) _________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________Do you think that this passage is describing a weekly occurrence for the believers in this location, or was this a special circumstance? Common Passage #2: Read 1 Corinthians 16:1-2. What two things does Paul say to do with your offerings? 1. _________________________________________________________________________ 2. _________________________________________________________________________ Were the people to bring their offerings to the church on the first day of the week? __________ Were these people giving on the first day, or saving from their earnings on the first day? __________________________________ Do you think this passage is describing a change of worship from the seventh day to the first day of the week? Sabbath-Day Examples Mark 1:21. What did Jesus do on the Sabbath? ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________Mark 6:2. What did Jesus do on the Sabbath? _____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Luke 4:16. What did Jesus do on the Sabbath? ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________Luke 4:31. What did Jesus do on the Sabbath? ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Luke 13:10. What did Jesus do on the Sabbath? ___________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Acts 13:13-15. What did Paul and his companions do on the Sabbath? _________________________________________________________________________ Acts 15:21. When is Moses to be taught? ___________________________________________________________ _____ Acts 16:31. What did Paul and his companions do on the Sabbath? ___________________________________________________________________ Acts 17:2. What did Paul and his companions do on the Sabbath? _______________________________ Acts 18:4. What did Paul and his companions do on the Sabbath? _______________________________ The Bible says that we are not under law, but under grace? Doesn’t that do away with our having to keep the Sabbath? Though no one will be declared righteous in His sight by observing the law, of what does the law make us conscious? (Romans 3:20) _______________________________________ What is sin? (1 John 3:4) Shall we sin because we not under law but under grace? (Romans 6:15) _______________________ What two things do we have the option of being slaves to? (Romans 6:16) _____________________ What do we uphold, instead of nullify, by faith? (Romans 3:31) _________________________________ Read Matthew 5:17-19. What did the Savior come to fulfill and not to abolish? (verse 17) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What will disappear before the least part of the law is changed? (verse 18) ___________________ Who will be called “least” and “great” in the kingdom of heaven? (verse 19) _______________________________________________________________________ Jesus rose on the first day. Doesn’t that make Sunday holy? Read 1 Corinthians 15:20. Because Jesus rose from the dead, he is called the ____________________________________________________________. Read Leviticus 23:10-14. What were the people to bring as an offering? (verse 10) ____________________________________________________________________________ On what day of the week did they bring this offering? (verse 11) _______________________________ This special feast was celebrated on the first Sunday after Passover each year (see Leviticus 23:5- 8). As you remember, Jesus rose from the dead on the first Sunday after Passover, on the Feast of Firstfruits. For how long were the people of God to celebrate the Feast of Firstfruits? (verse 14) ____________________________________________________________________________According to 1 Corinthians 15:20, who is symbolized in the Feast of Firstfruits? ______________ Did the celebration of Firstfruits nullify the weekly Sabbath commanded by God in Leviticus 23:3? Isn’t Sunday called the “Lord’s Day”? Revelation 1:10. On what day was John in the Spirit and receive the prophecy given in this book? ____________________________________________________________________________Mark 2:28. What does Jesus call himself? _________________________________________________________ What day is the Lord’s? Exodus 20:10 ___________________________________________________ Leviticus 19:3 ___________________________________________________ Deuteronomy 5:14 ___________________________________________________ Nehemiah 9:14 ___________________________________________________ Isaiah 56:4 ___________________________________________________ Isaiah 58:13 ___________________________________________________ Ezekiel 20:11-12, 19-20 ___________________________________________________ Doesn’t the Bible say that it doesn’t matter what day we worship, as long as we are each convinced in our own mind? Read Romans 14:1, 5-6. What type of matters is Paul discussing? (verse 1) _____________________________________________ Read 1 John 3:4. What is sin? _____________________________________________________________________ Does Scripture consider the Sabbath to be a “disputable matter”? ____________________________ Extra Research: What might Paul have been referring to in Romans 14:5-6? Read Colossians 2:16-17. What were Sabbaths (and other set-apart days) a “shadow” of? ______________________________ What was the reality (“body” KJV)? ______________________________________________________________ Are others to judge us in regards to a Sabbath? ____________________ What does this mean? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Read Hebrews 10:1. What were the things in the law a shadow of? __________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Each special feast listed in Leviticus 23, including the Sabbath, was established to help us remember Christ and what He has done for us. Read more about this in Exodus 12:24-27, Deuteronomy 5:15, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26. These “remembrances” do not save us; rather, they are “shadows” which point to Christ and continually remind us of His redemption. Read Deuteronomy 4:8-9. How long are we to be careful not to forget? ______________________ ______________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Didn’t Jesus break the Sabbath? Read Mark 2:23-28. Who accused Jesus of doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? (verse 24) _____________________ Read Deuteronomy 4:2. What are we to be careful not to do? __________________________________ Read 1 Samuel 15:22. What is better than sacrifice? _____________________________________________ Read Isaiah 58:1-14. What are some ways of keeping Sabbath that are pleasing to God? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Read Matthew 23:1-7, 23-28. Were the Pharisees pleasing God? _____________________ In Mark 2:23-28, the Pharisees were accusing Jesus of not keeping their own traditions, not the laws of God. Why did God institute Sabbath? (verse 27) _____________________________________ Read John 15:10. Did Jesus always obey His Father’s commands? ______________________________ What will we do if we love God? John 14:15 ____________________________________________________________________________ John 14:21 ____________________________________________________________________________1 John 5:2-3 __________________________________________________________________________ Read 1 John 2:3-6. How do we know that we have come to know him? ________________________ Read Matthew 15:3-9. Which are more important: God’s commands or man’s traditions? ____________________________________________________________________________Read Jeremiah 16:19-21. What have we inherited? _____________________________________________ Extra Research: Read 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12. Compare to Daniel 7:25 and Revelation 13. Read John 8:28-36. How can we distinguish a true disciple, one who has been set free? __________________________________________________________________
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