A Sabbath to YHWH, part 2c: Why Does It Matter?

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The weekly Sabbath matters because it's all about God's relationship with his people!  This video is part 2c in a series on the weekly Sabbath.  Part 1: What is the Sabbath? Part 2: Why does the Sabbath matter? Part 3: Who is the Sabbath for? Part 4: When is the Sabbath?  From Jay Carper at Common Sense Bible Study (https://CommonSenseBibleStudy.com) and American Torah (https://www.AmericanTorah.com).  This content is free, but I accept contributions via Paypal at https://jaycarper.com/paypal.  Send me a friend request on The Torah Network: https://jaycarper.com/ttn Follow me on X: https://jaycarper.com/twitter Follow me on Facebook: https://jaycarper.com/fbat

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00:00This is Jay Carper, and I'm continuing the series of A Sabbath to Yahweh, Part 2, Why Does the Sabbath Matter?

00:10In previous videos, I talked about how the Sabbath matters because it shows love and honor for God,

00:17how it matters because it's good for you, and how it matters because it's good for your whole community.

00:22In this video, I'm going to talk about why the Sabbath matters because it's all about God's relationship with His people.

00:32This is from Exodus chapter 31, verses 16 and 17.

00:52The seventh-day Sabbath is a separate covenant all on its own, not part of the covenant at Sinai or the covenant with Abraham.

01:03The weekly Sabbath is a covenant between God and His people Israel that He made heaven and earth.

01:11It's an acknowledgment of God's role as the Creator and Judge of the whole universe.

01:16The weekly Sabbath is also one of the first signs of Israel's submission after they left Egypt.

01:24After they crossed the Red Sea, keeping the Sabbath was the very first commandment that God gave Israel,

01:31and He gave it as a test to see whether He would keep the rest of His commandments.

01:35In this passage, God also says that keeping the Sabbath is an acknowledgment of how He rested on the seventh day and was refreshed.

01:43But these are benefits that we get from keeping the Sabbath.

01:48So the seventh-day Sabbath, this covenant is also in agreement that we are to be a reflection of God in the world.

01:57We are supposed to emulate His behavior and rest on the seventh day.

02:03Leviticus 19.3 says,

02:05God is our Heavenly Father, and in this verse, God connects honoring your mother and father with honoring Him by keeping the Sabbath.

02:24We are to keep the Sabbath, because He is our Father, and He told us to.

02:30Fathers love their children.

02:32They create rules for their household, not to be arbitrary, not just to have rules,

02:38but because those rules are good for the people in the household.

02:42Fathers make rules for their children, because those rules are in the best interests of their children.

02:48Children obey their father's rules, because they honor their father.

02:55But Yahweh isn't just our Heavenly Father.

02:58He is our God.

02:59He is our Creator.

03:01You shall keep my Sabbaths, He says, because I, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, are your God.

03:08And if He is our God, our Creator, our Lawgiver, then we do what He says.

03:14Leviticus 26, verses 1-2 says,

03:20You shall not make idols for yourselves, for I am Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, your God.

03:25You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary.

03:29I am Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh.

03:32God connects keeping the Sabbath with not making idols.

03:37Refusing to keep the Sabbath is therefore tantamount to idolatry.

03:41We reverence God's sanctuary by avoiding the sanctuary of idols.

03:48But the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

03:52The tabernacle is a place that we go to, to be with God, to worship Him in the ways that He dictated.

03:58The seventh-day Sabbath is a time set apart for God's purposes.

04:04We set aside that day to worship God in the ways that He dictated, just like His physical sanctuary.

04:11The Sabbath was created for mankind, but it's about our relationship with God.

04:20It's a lot like marriage in that way.

04:23Marriage is a reflection of our relationship with God.

04:26But marriage was created for mankind.

04:30Remember what Jesus said about marriage.

04:33What God has joined together, let no man separate.

04:36But God set apart the Sabbath.

04:39He separated it from other days.

04:42And if we're not allowed to separate what God has joined,

04:46why do we think that we should join what God has separated?

04:50He told us over and over to keep the Sabbath day separate.

04:55And that's what we should do.

04:56So, why does the Sabbath matter?

05:02The weekly Sabbath matters because it shows love for Yahweh your God.

05:08Because it's good for you.

05:11Because it shows love for your neighbor as yourself.

05:15And because it's a covenant dealing with God's relationship with His people.

05:21The seventh-day Sabbath matters to God.

05:24And it should matter to you and me too.

05:26This is Jay Carper from americantorah.com and commonsensebiblestudy.com.

05:34Stick with me because we're not done talking about the Sabbath yet.

05:39In our next set of videos, we're going into part three.

05:43Who is the Sabbath for?

05:45If you think the Sabbath is only for the Jews,

05:47or you think that Christians have a separate Sabbath,

05:51you really need to listen to these next videos.

05:53I hope to get why you guys will listen to these next videos.

06:08I'm not sure to get forward to the Sabbath yet.

06:10Also, We're going into part three weeks.

06:11We're going into one of the Sabbath.

06:13I do not know.

06:13This is certainly not a great gospel.

06:14We'll see you guys next time.

06:16Even if you're willing to study the Sabbath,

06:17you do not count a minute to end.

06:19As you know, let's see us next week.

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