The Fourth Commandment:( Continues) The Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, was set apart by God as a time of rest and spiritual rejuvenation. It is a special opportunity to draw closer to our Creator, time He designated for us to enhance our relationship with Him—to learn how to better love, worship and relate to Him. As days in the Bible are reckoned from sunset to sunset (Leviticus 23:32), the Sabbath begins at sunset Friday evening and ends at sunset Saturday evening. Of course, most people will immediately ask: Why is setting apart any day of the week so important that God would include it as one of His Ten Commandments? Especially, why set aside the seventh day? How will our relationship with God benefit any more by observing this particular day rather than any other day we might choose? After all, Friday night and Saturday bustle with all sorts of sports, business and other secular activities. Why should we be different? Isn’t this only a symbolic commandment, one never meant to be taken literally? And didn’t Jesus Christ ignore this commandment, leaving us free from the burden of keeping it? These questions represent some of the most widely assumed and long-held beliefs about the Fourth Commandment. But God’s command is simple and easy to understand. So why is it so frequently ignored, attacked and explained away by so many? Could it be that the challenges to the Sabbath command are views generated by the devil, the unseen ruler of this present evil world? After all, this great deceiver wants us to accept his views because he hates God’s law. He does all he can to influence us to ignore, avoid or reason our way around it. Few grasp the extent of society’s indoctrination by Satan. As the real “god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4), he has deceived most of humankind (Revelation 12:9). The whole world falls prey to his influence (1 John 5:19). His objective has always been to destroy the relationship between the true God and humanity. He wants nothing more than to thwart people from developing a loving, personal relationship with their Creator—that being the purpose of the Fourth Commandment. He wants to prevent us from reaching our incredible destiny in God’s family! Amen
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:20:10 +0000
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