Remember the Sabbath #1

The point: Do not use Sunday for self-indulgence and fleshly delight, but set it aside for God.

Illustrates how modern society views Sunday as belonging to secular entertainment and personal indulgence rather than God, contrasting empty churches with filled highways and television.

As a matter of fact, I think a majority would hold to most of them, that they are the obligations of men, the moral duties of man. But very few believe that the fourth commandment is relevant in 1969. If you today try to keep the Sabbath day, you're thought to be an antiquarian, some kind of a farce, a scuffle out of the past, the person who doesn't know what's going on today. For most people, Sunday belongs to the Baltimore cults and not to God.

3:05 - 3:40 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not rush from God's service to worldly ways on the Lord's Day, and do not wonder why the world ignores church.

Describes how open gas stations, stores, and the ease of travel and television entertainment make it easy for Christians to pursue business and pleasure on the Lord's Day, giving the world a poor example.

All the gas stations are open. That's the day they do the best business. All the Christians stop there on the way to church. All the stores make it available to pick up groceries and big business needs somebody to carry the work over until the next work week.

6:41 - 6:56 Read in full sermon

The point: Beware of taking comfort from learned men who dismiss the Sabbath; instead, search the Scriptures to follow those who preach the Word.

Warns against taking comfort from 'learned and godly men' who dismiss the Sabbath, noting that such men have supported every error in church history, emphasizing reliance on Scripture alone.

But beware of taking comfort from that. Because those who have been called learned and godly men have supported every error that the Church has ever heard of. Those who preach what the Word preaches are to be followed. And you are to search the Scriptures to see which ones are so.

9:54 - 10:15 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not be guilty of insincerity or lack of interest in the subject of Sabbath-keeping, grasping at straws to support doing what you please on the Lord's Day.

Compares the sin of breaking the Sabbath to Adam's sin in the Garden, where despite having all other trees, he desired the one tree God reserved for Himself, highlighting the heinousness of wanting the one day God claims.

And notice verse 9 again, will you, of Exodus 20. Six days you can do all your labor, do all your work, but the seventh day belongs to the Lord. He's only asking you for one day in seven. You know what was the great aggravation, the great thing that condemns Adam in his sin in the garden?

35:52 - 36:15 Read in full sermon

The point: Give God His honor and His holy day, lest you find His punishment to be endless and without Sabbath.

Explains Jeremiah's prophecy of unquenchable fire in Jerusalem as a metaphor for God's endless punishment for those who refuse to rest and honor His holy day, implying a lack of Sabbath from suffering in hell.

If you insist upon having every day for your own work so that you will not cease from your own labors long enough to give me my holy day, then I will kindle a fire in Jerusalem that will never go out. There will be no rest from the punishment that you receive when you refuse to rest in the Sabbath day. I will give you my honor and give me my holy day. If you will be endless and self-pleasing, then you will find that my punishment is endless and without Sabbath.

37:32 - 38:11 Read in full sermon