![]() ![]() Nowhere in the Bible was the Sabbath day changed to Sunday. So who changed the Sabbath? God didn’t, and neither did the apostles or early New Testament Church. More precisely, using the biblical method of marking time, it is from Friday at sunset to Saturday at sunset. Sabbath: Saturday or Sunday?īiblical scholars, whether Jewish, Catholic or Protestant, recognize that the seventh day of the week was and is Saturday. Unless God told us, how would we know how He wants to be worshipped? How would mortal man know what is holy time-unless God revealed it? Thankfully He has revealed it, though so few today “remember” the seventh-day Sabbath. We follow God’s example and command by remembering and resting on this seventh day each week. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made” (Genesis 2:1-3). ![]() And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. God made the Sabbath on the seventh day of the creation week, and it reminds us of our Creator: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” The Sabbath was made at creation For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Drawing the question out earlier in the week can give you time as a parent/parents to think through explanations and teachings and it gives you great discussion to reorient your focus as a family on God that day.God recorded the Fourth Commandment in Exodus 20:8-11 (this is numbered as the Third Commandment by Catholics and Lutherans): At some point in the week, let them draw one of the questions out that you will discuss together on your Sabbath. Start writing down big questions your kiddos ask you and put them in a questions jar. The words/concepts below were touched on in the video and text that your child(ren) heard but may not fully understand. What does it mean outside of not working for you and your family? Does it mean no iPad for the day or no TV unless you are watching it together as a family? What about chores What about these days make them special? Do we honor someone or something on these days? Bring it back to the Sabbath being a day to honor God and to focus on Him.Īs a family, take some time to talk about what your SPECIAL day is and what it loosely may look like. Ask your child(ren) to think of some special days that we celebrate as a culture. It’s clear that this day is pretty important or SPECIAL. ![]() In Exodus, He gives the Israelites the 4th commandment to “remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy”. We can get pretty tired and lose our energy. It has to recharge, right? That’s like us. If you need an example, ask them to think about what happens when the iPad loses power. Ask your child(ren) what they think rest means and take this opportunity to explain. God made this day for us because He knows what is best for us. In Hebrew, the word Sabbath means to stop or cease. ![]() Watch the video below created by Douglas Talks! Read through Genesis 2:1-3 and Exodus 20:8-11 with your child(ren). ![]()
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