The Importance of Sabbath (Exodus 20)

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Summary

We live in a 24/7 world, where nights and weekends are usually spent doing the personal work we can't get done while working our day jobs. What if God actually built the world to work best with a weekly Sabbath? Rob McIlvoy encourages us to take seriously God's call to weekly rest and gives practical advice on how to do it.

Text

Exodus 20:8–11

[8] “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. [9] Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, [10] 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. [11] 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. (ESV)