Why Keep The Sabbath?

Exodus 20:10; Genesis 2:3; Mark 12:28-34; Isaiah 11:9; 1 Corinthians 1:18-19, 1:26-29; Romans 9-11; Mark 2:27; Luke 14:26-28; Hebrews 4:9

We are walking in today:  Why Keep The Sabbath?

Witness favor throughout the Bible:  H2580 chen favor, grace, elegance, acceptance
Genesis 18:3, 19:19, 30:6, 31:42, 33:10, 39:21, 43:14; Exodus 33:12-13, 33:16-17, 33:19; Numbers 6:25; Deuteronomy 25:1; Judges 6:17; 1 Samuel 1:18, 2:26, 2 Samuel 2:5-7, 14:22, 16:25; 2 Kings 13:23; Isaiah 30:18, 61:2, 66:2; Jeremiah 26:19, 31:19; Micah 7:9; Psalm 5:13; 25:16; 26:11; 27:7, 30:6, 30:8, 30:11, 31:10, 56:2, 57:2, 84:12, 85:2, 90:17, 106:4, 119:29; Proverbs 3:3-5, 8:35, 11:27, 12:2, 14:35, 18:22; Daniel 7:22; Luke 1:25, 1:30, 2:40, 2:52, 4:18-20; Acts 7:46; Ephesians 6:6; 1 Peter 2:20; Revelation 2:6

Fiveamprayer, can one day of rest really be that important?  We can see in the Bible the direction that Yahweh has given us for His appointed times or rest and restoration.  This is the 7th day, set apart in rest and trust of Yahweh to provide for His people.  Ancient Israel were all to rest, including their slaves on this day.  This rest was not only physical but also mental.  This was a ceasing from work and relying on His provision and protection.  This practice was a community mindset that took care of each other knowing that He was keeping them in His teaching and instructions.  The sad truth of our current status--a decreased value of community and the upholding of the individual led to the damaging effects on families--which are more fractured now than before.  These 'improvements' come as many other proficient changes are made in either ignorance or arrogance of who knows better, us or Yahweh.  When studies of countries that observe the 7th day Sabbath of rest reveal that the rate of heart attacks are much lower.  The ties of the people in the community was much stronger.  Which builds on other community benefits, sharing the work or benefits that the whole group is prospering and protected in this larger group minded thought process.  Whereas we find in many places in society that the opposite mindset is in operation and has no concern about others as long as the individual is satisfied.  This is a sad state of affairs.  When many of us in our youth knew our neighbors, could even go next door to borrow a cup of sugar, or where the children could play safely outdoors because so many in the neighborhood were upstanding and would protect and guard them.  Their was a sense of knowing your where you neighbors worked and family background.  Sadly now many of us don't even know who our neighbors are nor their occupation.
Yahweh gives us this example of rest on the 7th day to show us how we are to follow His pattern.  This is a gift of rest and ability to trust Adonai, which has been overlooked--even altered to our great unrest and worry.  As Yahweh has taught Israel while in the wilderness for 40 years, to delight in the Lord's Sabbath.  This is a set apart day by Yahweh, so this day is not only for Jewish people but to all who serve and call on Yahweh as our Elohim!  He set this pattern as a time with Him and for our restoration.  He is the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing Lord God of the Universe!  We must not allow our intellect to suppose that we know better--what it truth?  So is there a way to keep the Lord's Sabbath any day that we choose?  Was that His instruction?  Did He rest on the 3rd or 5th days?  So who can change His appointed time as our pattern to rest on the 7th day?  Yeshua who taught and led the new group who followed the Torah and believed on Him to be the anointed King, Christ Jesus--ever change the day of rest?  This shift was not done until a later day, by the religious and political leaders in Rome.  Due to this blending and combining of Adonai's word with other things over the years is where we stand today.  Would Yeshua and Paul recognize what has been attributed to them yet scripture tells us otherwise?  Can the opinion of man supersede the validity of scripture?  To listen to this awesome teaching again click here.