The Sabbath Rest - 02/01/09pm

Exodus 31:12-17 -Directions for keeping the Sabbath
Deuteronomy 5:12-15 -Keep the Sabbath, remember the exodus
Leviticus 25:1-7 -The Sabbath for the land
Mark 2:27 -Sabbath for man, not man for the Sabbath

Colossians 2:13-15 -Old Law is nailed to the cross
Ephesians 2:14-16 -Old Law finished and put aside by Christ’s death
We are no longer required to keep the Sabbath. It has been done away with, along with the rest of the Law of Moses. But we do still have a Sabbath rest.

Hebrews 3:7-19 -Israelites which did not enter the rest, and why
Hebrews 4:1-12 -The Christian’s Sabbath rest
Colossians 2:16-17 -Sabbaths as a foreshadowing
Our Sabbath is an eternity with Christ in heaven.

I Corinthians 15:58 -Abound in the work of the Lord
Matthew 28:18-20 -Go unto all the world
John 4:31-38 -The fields are white for harvest
Just as the Israelites were to work until the Sabbath, so we must work until ours. We cannot stop working for the Lord until the Sabbath comes.

Acts 7:54-60 -Stephen is stoned, falls asleep
I Thessalonians 4:13-18 -Do not grieve for those who have fallen asleep
Those Christians who have passed from this life are described in a number of scriptures as sleeping, a restful and peaceful thing.

Revelation 21:1-7 -Heaven.