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00:00jay carper here again and we're continuing our discussion of what is the sabbath this is the

00:09first part of a series on a sabbath to yahweh and we're talking about what is the sabbath because

00:16how can you know how to do something if you don't even know what it is you're supposed to be doing

00:21in part 1a we talked about how the sabbath is a time set apart for god

00:26in this part 1b we're going to talk about how the sabbath is a statement of faith for all of god's

00:33people i want to go back to isaiah 58 13 and 14 and talk about a slightly different aspect of this

00:41passage if you turn back your foot from the sabbath from doing your pleasure on my holy day and call the

00:48sabbath a delight and the holy day of yodhe vavhe honorable if you honor it not going your own ways

00:54or seeking your own pleasure or talking idly then you shall take delight in yodhe vavhe and i will make

01:01you ride on the heights of the earth i will feed you with the heritage of jacob your father for the

01:06mouth of yodhe vavhe has spoken remember that one of the things we're supposed to do on the sabbath

01:13is to choose to find joy in resting with god this is a day set apart in his honor and we're supposed to

01:21enjoy it it's not supposed to be a burden but i think the most laborious part of sabbath is not

01:29thinking about tomorrow that's actually a hard thing to do it takes a lot of practice one thing that i've

01:36found helpful is to have some kind of ritual that you do at the beginning of sabbath to set

01:41a work day apart from the rest day the traditional jewish way to do this is called an air of shabbat

01:48or the eve of shabbat in an air of shabbat the family gathers around for a formal meal

01:57the mother of the house lights some candles and says some blessings the father says some blessings

02:02there's a prayer and when that's done the sabbath has begun no more work after that point

02:08and it takes practice it really does help to create these fences to mark one day off from another

02:15and that will help reinforce that habit and as we learn to find joy in the sabbath

02:22god will reward us this passage says i will make you ride on the heights of the earth now this isn't

02:30literally getting up high at the earth it's not like god is going to put you in an airplane because

02:34you're keeping the sabbath this is about joy god says call the sabbath a delight and in doing so

02:42god rewards you by making the sabbath a delight he says that he will feed us with the heritage of

02:50jacob our father he's talking about the covenant that he made with jacob and remember what god promised

02:56to jacob when he left canaan to go to his uncle laban's house i will be with you all the way there

03:03and back i will see you there safely and i will see you back safely trust in me so the thing that we need

03:10to do is trust god's promises god promises that if we call the sabbath a delight he will help us make it

03:19a delight all we have to do is trust in him and not in ourselves in this passage exodus 16 4 to 5

03:29then yodhavav said to moses behold i am about to rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall

03:35go out and gather a day's portion every day that i may test them whether they will walk in my law or not

03:42on the sixth day when they prepare what they bring in it will be twice as much as they gather daily

03:47god gave the hebrews two major tests in egypt passover and pharaoh's army in the first test god

03:56said kill a lamb and put the blood on the doorposts and then stay in your house and i will protect you

04:03if you don't do this the firstborn of your house will die those who trusted in god followed his

04:09instructions and they were fine those who didn't believe him went out of their house and the firstborn

04:15of that house died on that night the second test for the hebrews in egypt was pharaoh's army that night

04:24after the angel of death passed over egypt god led his people out into the wilderness into a narrow place

04:31right up against the red sea there was pharaoh at their back and the sea in front of them and there

04:36didn't seem to be any hope but god said stand back and watch the salvation of himself all they had to

04:45do was trust in him god led them across the red sea and destroyed the army of pharaoh but there was

04:52another major test right after they crossed the red sea it was before they got to mount sinai before god

04:58gave them the ten commandments god said i'm going to send you manna from heaven i'm going to feed you in

05:04the wilderness but i'm only going to feed you for six days and on the sixth day i'm going to give you

05:10twice as much so that on the seventh day you can still eat without having to gather if you gather

05:17more than you need on those first six days it's going to rot by the next morning but gather twice as

05:23much on the sixth day and it won't rot so the people of israel gathered the manna every day some of

05:31them didn't believe god and they gathered twice as much manna as they needed in the next day it rotted

05:37and then the sixth day came some of them still didn't believe god and they did not gather twice

05:43as much manna on that day and really who can blame them the last time they gathered more manna than they

05:49needed it rotted so why should this time be any different it's different because god told them it is

05:57he told them to gather twice as much manna on that sixth day and it wouldn't rot the next morning

06:04i imagine a lot of hebrews were fasting on that first sabbath day one lesson we can derive from this

06:10is that it's important to trust god in both the negative and the positive if god tells you not to

06:17do something don't do that it's for your own good if god tells you to do something do that because that's

06:24for your own good but israel didn't trust him in either case and they had to learn the hard way

06:33but israel is no different than you and me in this respect israel is a type of all mankind

06:40we all fail to trust god he gave us the sabbath from the very beginning of creation it was the first

06:46thing he did after he created mankind and we didn't trust him god likes to teach us through stories he

06:56likes to teach us through examples but we ignore his examples we ignore his stories and so god has to

07:03give us commandments do this don't do that and we still don't trust him keeping the sabbath is a

07:12demonstration and a declaration of our faith in god we rest on that day even though it doesn't make any

07:21economic sense because god said to and that's it this is jay carper from american torah and commonsensebiblestudy.com

07:32in the next installment we'll talk about how that sabbath is a day of rest mercy and healing until then be blessed

A Sabbath to the LORD - What is the Sabbath? part 1b

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