Season 5 Podcast 89, “Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy Pt A.”

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Season 5 Podcast 89, “Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy Pt A.”

There is a practical side to keeping the Ten Commandments that is easily overlooked. The blessings and cursings are not arbitrary laws, but natural consequences of irrevocable laws based on absolute truth. If you want to go on a treasure hunt, search the Holy Scriptures and ferret out every blessing attached to a commandment. A God who cannot lie is bound to his promises. It only makes sense that all blessings are irrevocably tied to law and law is a companion to truth. If you want a blessing from God, seek the law that grants it and obey that law. As we study the sabbath day, we find a number of blessings attached to keeping the sabbath day holy. There are seven specific blessings related to the Sabbath Day.

· Blessing Number One: Physical health: As you read in Isaiah 40, those who keep the sabbath day holy “shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:28-31)

Keeping the Sabbath Day has such enormous promises. We, of course, associate diet and exercise to personal health. We do not think to associate keeping the sabbath day holy to personal health.

Blessing Number One is physical health. Blessing Number Two is Spiritual health. In Leviticus 16, the Lord describes to Moses the day of atonement as it relates to the sabbath:

29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:

33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses. (Leviticus 16:29-34)

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We sometimes overlook the fact that we have a spirit body in the likeness of our physical body that also requires nourishment of a spiritual kind. Keeping the sabbath day holy nourishes both the physical body and the spirit body. The health of our physical body is intimately tied to the health of our spirit. In First Corinthians 6, Paul tells us, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” Perhaps that is what God meant when he compared our body to a temple. Paul’s words continue:

“What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:18-29)

It is a fascinating doctrine that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. In other words, if we are clean, the Holy Ghost can dwell in our heart. Just imagine a member of the Godhead always being with us. That refers back to Blessing Number Two: “to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from your sins before the Lord.”