A Life and Death Matter
In Exodus 20:8-11, God said, 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. This, of course, is the fourth of the Ten Commandments. The Sabbath commandment. You’ve probably heard someone speak of the Sabbath as a “test commandment,” which it is, because it tests how much we truly want to follow God. Many of God’s other commandments, people have little or no issue with. No murder? No stealing? No adultery? No false accusations? Most people agree that these are great laws. But the Sabbath? Tell people God wants them to rest on...