Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith

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Survey of the Westminster Confession of Faith

• Chapter 21 Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath
  Day (Part 2)

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Who How Our attitude When
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The Fourth Commandment

• Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
  but the seventh day is a Sabbath 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.
• 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.

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The Historical Foundation ofthe Sabbath day

• Genesis 22-3
• 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.

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The Historical Foundation ofthe Sabbath day

• It is holy by nature.
• Man does not make it holy,
• nor can man unholy it.
• It has a holy purpose.
• It has a holy permanence.

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What Has Changed?John 11-3

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God.
• He was in the beginning with God.
• All things were made through him, and without him
  was not any thing made that was made.

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Revelation 19 21

• Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
  first heaven and the first earth had passed away,
  and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city,
  new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
  God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  

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A New Day for the Church

• A new practice
• A new name
• A new hope

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What Hasnt Changed?Remember the Lords Dayto
keep it holy.

• Remember the day
• To keep it holy

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What may/should be doneon this Day?

• Remember the Sabbath day,
• to keep it holy.
• - Works of necessity
• - Works of mercy
• - Works of ministry

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What Should Not Change.

• Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
  but the seventh day is a Sabbath 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.
• 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.

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The Creation Mandate

• Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and
  subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the
  sea and over the birds of the heavens and over
  every living thing that moves on the earth.
  (Gen. 128)

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The curse on workmakes the curse of work

• Cursed is the ground because of youin pain you
  shall eat of it all the days of your life thorns
  and thistles it shall bring forth for you and
  you shall eat the plants of the field. By the
  sweat of your faceyou shall eat bread, (Gen.
  317-19)

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• You cannot serve God
• and money.
• (Mt. 624)

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• Ps. 14710-11
• His delight is not in the strength of the horse,
• nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,
• but the Lord takes pleasure
• in those who fear him,
• in those who hope in his steadfast love.