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We all need a Sabbath rest.

Looking for the formula of being forever youthful? No need to look any further, just take into consideration the third commandment from God Almighty! I think that our Creator knew that if we didn't give ourselves one day a week to do nothing, or to rest, we would burnout and become completely unproductive in our lives. For our Jewish friends and family, that rest is the Sabbat or Sabbath, and for our Christian friends that day falls on Saturday night to Sunday morning. You might be no religion at all but the principle applies all the same. We are told in the bible to keep the Sabbath Day holy, it wasn't just a suggestion but a command. The Bible teaches us that God rested on the seventh day, for Him it was Saturday. It wasn't just that God got tired, he was setting up the order of the universe, and he commanded that all humanity find rest on that day. When the Christian church came along, the only reason why they changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday was because in Christian tradition Jesus Christ rose from the dead on Sunday. For Christians this became the first day of the week, why? Jesus' resurrection from the dead, changed the natural order of things.

Whether you rest on Saturday or Sunday, in my opinion doesn't really matter. What matters is that you find one day in the week where you try to obey the third commandment. In the bible the reason why rest is important is because for us Christians there is something in the new testament called the Sabbath rest. In Hebrews 4:9 NIV we read; There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God. Some mistakenly read this to read that Christian worship should only be on a Saturday, but the real meaning of this is salvation by faith. Joshua was leading the people into the promised land and some of them were not able to enter into it because of unbelief. The writer of Hebrews was warning the people of God, that if through by unbelief and a lack of real faith they would fail to enter Heaven, the promised land for Christian believers, they too would fall and God even said here that He swore in an Oath done in anger, those who fail to have real faith will never enter His rest, which is Heaven. (Hebrews 4:3 NIV) Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,
“So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”b
And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.

How God in the old testament knew that His people would rebel, so he set a universal command in effect while giving Moses the Ten Commandments. God knew that He would justify the world through faith in the sacrifice of His Son, and He knew that His people would need temporal and eternal rest (Heaven), so He made a condition and that condition is faith. Our faith must be with us at the time of death, because those marked with this sign (faith) have already entered God's rest on earth, so God Gives them eternal rest in Heaven when we leave this earth. If Hell could be compared to anything, it is a lack of faith. We know nothing about Hell.

Not only is rest good for your health but it is good for your soul. The bible teaches us that to every man has been given a measure of faith. (Romans 12:3 KJV) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. What we do with this faith, supress it or live according to it, will determine if we enter Heaven when we die. So the third commandment stresses we obey, and live in rest now. Our rest comes from God Himself, and our faith is the means of that rest. There will be eternal rest only for those who die in faith, because there is no rest in Hell and rest comes from faith. This is Mike.
 
 
 

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