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As we resume our in-person services after a year of cessation from it, let us thing about what this all has meant, and let us learn to appreciate the beauties of resting in the care and provision of God our Father, Who has provided for us: “Refreshment Of The Sabbatical”
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Leviticus 25:8 – 10 (KJV)
Lev 25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Mark 2:27 – 28 (KJV)
Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) In the Old covenant law the Sabbath was a major part of the lives of the Covenant people for many reasons, because in the practice of keeping Sabbaths, it was necessary to develop a concentration and dependence on God, Who had promised to provide everything needed to uphold this divine consecration of God’s people.
2) There was a time of refreshment for the people of God which was to set them apart from all other people groups (Gentiles) which made them dependant on God in order to function throughout their times in a different manner than everyone else in the world.
3) Jesus reminds the high religious counsels that man was not made for the Sabbath, but that the Sabbath was made for man, as it is clearly revealed in Genesis in the account of Adam, who had done no work when he was created, but rested with God on the seventh day, which was his First Day!
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