The Sabbath Created #2

Driving home: I think we need to acknowledge that if we had no Scripture, beyond this point, that this text by itself, of itself, is a powerful argument for the perpetuity, that is, the continuing validity, the abiding validity, of th…

The Sabbath is compared to marriage and labor as institutions established at creation, implying its perpetual validity just as these other institutions are presumed to continue.

before there ever were tablets of stone engraved by the finger of God at Mount Sinai, from the very beginning, from the seventh day of God's creative work, from the beginning, the Sabbath day existed by the blessing and the hallowing or the sanctifying work of God. And like that, like marriage and labor,

7:39 - 8:05 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He addresses the objection that Genesis 2 contains no explicit command to keep the Sabbath. Drawing an analogy to Cain's knowledge of murder being sin, Martin argues that God's…

The account of Cain's murder of Abel is used to demonstrate that moral obligations, like the prohibition against murder, were known even without an explicit verbal command recorded in Genesis, supporting the idea of a law written on the heart.

Later in Genesis 4, we read of Cain's murder of Abel. And we read of the judgment of God that came upon Cain because of his sin. Yet there is no record of an express commandment of God prohibiting murder.

14:20 - 14:38 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He illustrates the Sabbath's resonance in renewed consciences with the example of the converted cannibals in the New Hebrides, who, upon embracing the gospel, spontaneously…

The conversion of cannibals in the New Hebrides by missionary John Payton illustrates how, upon receiving the gospel, their renewed consciences led them to spontaneously adopt practices like clothing themselves, giving thanks at meals, and keeping the Sabbath holy, even without explicit instruction or cultural precedent.

John Payton, the famous missionary to the New Hebrides, records in his autobiography the conversion of the cannibals of those islands a hundred years ago.

23:27 - 23:37 Read in full sermon