Sabbath - How to Keep the Sabbath Day Holy

Where to find it:


Exodus 20:8-11
Isaiah 56:2
Mark 2:27-28
Jeremiah 17:21
Genesis 2:2-3
Mark 15:42

Leviticus 23:32

                         There are a lot of websites that you will find on how to keep the Sabbath Day Holy. According to the scriptures in the bible however, this is how you should keep the Sabbath Day holy:

Jeremiah 17:21 (MSG) -- This is God's Message. Be careful, if you care about your lives, not to desecrate the Sabbath by turning it into just another workday, lugging stuff here and there. Don't use the Sabbath to do business as usual. Keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors. They never did it, as you know. They paid no attention to what I said and went about their own business, refusing to be guided or instructed by me.


Do not go on with your usual business on the Sabbath Day. It is a day of rest as the Lord took the seventh day off for His day of rest. 




Genesis 2:2-3 (MSG) -- By the seventh day 
                               God had finished his work. 
                                   On the seventh day 
                            he rested from all his work. 
                          God blessed the seventh day. 
                              He made it a Holy Day 
               Because on that day he rested from his work, 
                         all the creating God had done. 

   This is the story of how it all started, 
      of Heaven and Earth when they were created.


Do not prepare food on the Sabbath; prepare food the day before Sabbath.


Mark 15:42 (21st Century King James Version) -- And now when the evening had come, because it was the Preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath)




Take Sabbath from evening (start) to evening (finish). 


Lev. 23:32 (MSG) -- It is a Sabbath of complete and total rest, a fast day. Observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening."

What do you think? 1 Chronicles 14:8-17

1 Chronicles 14:8-17

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

David Defeats the Philistines

   

(2 Samuel 5.17-25)

 ⁸When the Philistines heard that David had become king of Israel, they came to capture him. But David heard about their plan and marched out to meet them in battle. ⁹The Philistines had already camped in Rephaim Valley and were raiding the nearby villages.

    ¹⁰David asked God, "Should I attack the Philistines? Will you help me win?"

   The LORD told David, "Yes, attack them! I will give you victory."

    ¹¹David and his army marched to Baal-Perazim, where they attacked and defeated the Philistines. He said, "I defeated my enemies because God broke through them like a mighty flood." So he named the place "The Lord Broke Through." ^[a] 12Then David ordered his troops to burn the idols that the Philistines had left behind. ¹³Some time later, the Philistines came back into the hill country and camped in Rephaim Valley. ¹⁴David asked God what he should do, and God answered, "Don't attack them from the front. Circle around behind them where the balsam ^[b] trees are. ¹⁵Wait there until you hear the treetops making the sound of marching troops. That sound will mean I have marched out ahead of you to fight the Philistine army. So you must then attack quickly!" ¹⁶David obeyed God and he defeated the Philistines. He even chased them all the way from Gibeon to the entrance to Gezer.

    ¹⁷From then on, David became even more famous, and the LORD made all the nations afraid of him.

Why do you suppose The Lord said to 'attack quickly'?   

James 1:2-8

² Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,^[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. ⁶ But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. ⁷ That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.