Title: Ten Commandments Part 5 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.” Matthew 22:37-40 (CSB) GOAL OF THE ENEMY 1 - WORSHIP ANYTHING BUT GOD 2 - PREVENT US FROM WORSHIPPING GOD AS HE DESIRES 3 - TREAT GOD AS LESS THAN WHAT HE IS 4 - TO MAKE US USELESS TIME Satan wants to see every minute misused; it is for us to make every minute count for God. Packer Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, bu the seventh day is a Sabbath day to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. Exodus 20:8-10 (ESV) For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11 (ESV) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done in creation. Genesis 2:1-3 (ESV) And the LORD said to Moses, “You are to speak to the people Israel and say, above all you shall keep My Sabbaths, for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD sanctify you.” Exodus 31:12-13 (ESV) “You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath shall be put to death.” Exodus 31:14-15 (ESV) “Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. It is a sign forever between Me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.” Exodus 31:16-17 (ESV) THE SABBATH WAS A SYMBOL AND A REMINDER OF WHAT WAS FORFEITED IN THE GARDEN Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you…You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5:12,15 (ESV) ISRAEL WAS A PEOPLE WHO CONSISTENTLY FORGOT WHO THEY WERE, WHOSE THEY WERE, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE THEY WERE CALLED And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27 (ESV) Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food or drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Colossians 2:16-17 (ESV) HAVE YOU SURRENDERED TO HIM AS YOUR GOD AND LORD OF YOUR LIFE? “Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” Matthew 11:28-29 (ESV) Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age… Galatians 1:3-4 (ESV) WE NEED DEDICATED TIME TO RECENTER AND RECALIBRATE OUR HEARTS BACK TOWARDS GOD DEVOTED DAY -FOR REST -FOR REMEMBRANCE -FOR GRATITUDE -FOR REPENTANCE -TO THE WORD -FOR WORSHIP A TIME OF SPIRITUAL REFRESHING AND RENEWAL SHOULD BE A PRIORITY, NOT AN OCCASIONAL EVENT WE ARE OFTEN MASTERED BY TIME INSTEAD OF MASTERING THE TIME WE ARE GIVEN BY SETTING APART ONE DAY OUT OF SEVEN, WE ARE A WITNESS TO THE WORLD THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD OF THE SABBATH AND OF OUR LIVES