Text: “If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word, then you will take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” (Isaiah 58:13-14)
Intro: Sunday morning
I. Review
The sabbath mandate at creation
The unique form of the sabbath given to Israel and fulfilled in Christ
Our sabbatizing in expectation of entering our eternal, sabbath rest.
II. Isaiah 58
Israel’s worship
Principle 1: A Christian
The carnal mind
Principle 2: Turn from
Principle 3: Focus
The real focus
The Pharisees
Psalm 84, 122
Principle 4: Gathering & giving
1 Corinthians 16
Principle 5: Teaching
Acts 20:7
Question: Why?
First consideration:
Second consideration:
A looking forward