The Ten Commandments – Series #4 The 4th Commandment – The Sabbath 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 the Sabbath of the Lord your God. 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. 11 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. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 

FIRST -- THE EXPLANATION OF THE SABBATH.   1) There is what we will call the INTIAL SABBATH. You will find this Sabbath in Genesis 2:1-3. 2) There is what we will call the TEMPORAL SABBATH. Look at Exodus 31:16 and notice that the Sabbath Day was given just to the children of Israel. 3) There was the FESTIVAL SABBATH. In Leviticus 23:23-26 we are told there was a festival Sabbath on the seventh month on the fist day of the month.

4) There is an AGRICULTURAL SABBATH 4) There is an AGRICULTURAL SABBATH. In Leviticus 25:1-8 God commanded the children of Israel that they were to work the land for 6 years but on the 7th year the land was to have a Sabbath rest. 5) There will be a millennial SABBATH. In Isaiah 66:22-23 we are told that during the millennium the children of Israel will once again restore the Sabbath. 6) The ETERNAL SABBATH found in Hebrews 4:9. This is the Sabbath that every believer in Jesus Christ has. It is the resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ.

SECOND -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SABBATH. THERE WAS A TRANSFORMATION OF THE SABBATH TO SUNDAY. THERE IS A TRANSFORMATION FROM THE SABBATH TO THE SAVIOR. Colossians 2:13-16

THIRD -- THE APPLICATION OF THE 4TH COMMANDMENT. IT IS TO BE A DAY OF GLADNESS. IT TEACHES WE ARE TO WORK.