I’m listening to lesson 20 of Dr. Dilday’s teaching from Revelation and just by chance this week’s lesson is on the Moral Law of the Sabbath.

You have to sign up to listen to the lesson since this is a course and not just a sermon. There is however an old sermon of his on Sermon Audio that most likely covers the same material.

The Lord’s Day

Pastor Steven Dilday | Revelation

Liberty and Grace Reformed

In the course he strongly recommends reading Edward’s discourse.

Perhaps it is true that the root of our problems in society today stem from the neglect of this command, when we no longer set aside a day to draw closer to God, we grow progressively further from Him and his Word!

The Perpetuity and Change of the Sabbath

by

Jonathan Edwards

 (1703-1758)

“Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week,

let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.” — 1 Corinthians 16:1, 2

 

Since this post is about my Bible reading and not Pastor’s Dilday or Edwards, don’t neglect the actual text. But do pay attention to what is being said about the Sabbath, and how important it is to see this as a moral command of God.

 

The fourth command is the first to be a positive statement, and it is the longest AND TAKES UP 4 VERSES.

 

Exodus 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

The Ten Commandments

Exo 20:1  And God spake all these words, saying,

Exo 20:2  I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Exo 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Exo 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Exo 20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Exo 20:7  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Exo 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

Exo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Exo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exo 20:12  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Exo 20:13  Thou shalt not kill.

Exo 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Exo 20:15  Thou shalt not steal.

Exo 20:16  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Exo 20:17  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Exo 20:18  And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

Exo 20:19  And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

Exo 20:20  And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Exo 20:21  And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.