1. At the Upper Room Chapel
Shabbat Shalom
Welcome to
The Miqra
(The Gathering)
At the Upper Room Chapel

2. The Biblical Sabbath, Pt 3
Jesus/Yahusha and The Sabbath

3. Review
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Ex 31:13

4. How Does the Sabbath Function as a Sign?
* Points to Worship of the Creator
*It is a sign “between you and me” – a personal and private sign
*When you agree with Him to set apart the Sabbath as He did, He sets you apart as belonging to Him.
*It is the biblical way of identifying the truly committed ones.

5. What is the Rest the Master Gives Us
*What is the Rest the Master Gives Us? *Why Could King David Eat the Showbread? *Did Yeshua Work on the Sabbath? *What Kind of Activities Did Messiah Engage In? *What Activities Does “Pulling Your Sheep or Donkey or Ox From a Ditch” on the Sabbath Permit Us to Do?

6. Jesus/Yahusha Gives You Rest? Matthew 11:28-30

7. Matthew 11: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

8. Jeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

9. Jesus/Yahusha and his Disciples Picking and Eating Grain on the Sabbath? Matthew 12:1-8

10. At that time Yahusha went through the grainfields on the Sabbath
At that time Yahusha went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath." 3 He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of Elohim, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread-- which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.

11. Why Could David Eat the Showbread?1 Samuel 21
David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he met him, and asked, "Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2 David answered Ahimelech the priest, "The king charged me with a certain matter and said to me, 'No one is to know anything about your mission and your instructions.' As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.
3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4 But the priest answered David, "I don't have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here-- provided the men have kept themselves from women.”
5 David replied, "Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men's things are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”
6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

12. 5 Or haven't you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent? 6 I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Master of the Sabbath."

13. Hosea 6
4 "What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Yehudah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth; my judgments flashed like lightning upon you.
6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of Elohim rather than burnt offerings.

14. Healing on the Sabbath – Matthew 12:9-13
9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue,
10 and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
11 He said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?
12 How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."
13 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. NIV

15. Yahusha Assembled on the Sabbath Yahusha Taught on the Sabbath
They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Mark 1:21-22 NIV

16. Yahusha Cast Out Demons on the Sabbath
23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil spirit cried out,
24 "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are-- the Holy One of God!"
25 "Be quiet!" said Jesus sternly. "Come out of him!"
26 The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.
27 The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching-- and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him."
28 News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee. Mark 1:23-28 NIV

17. The Grain Fields, Retold – Mark 2:23-28
…. 27 Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

18. Another Healing on the Sabbath – Mark 3 (Matt 12:9-13)
Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there.
2 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath.
3 Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stand up in front of everyone."
4 Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent.
5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.

19. Watering Your Animal on the Sabbath? Luke 13

20. 10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." 13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. 14 Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, "There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath." 15 The Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? 16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?"

21. Did Jesus/Yahusha Work on the Sabbath?
4th Gospel (John) 5
Some time later, Yahusha went up to Yerushalayim for a feast of the Yehudim.
2 Now there is in Yerushalayim near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie-- the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

22. 4th Gospel 5 - The Healing of the Invalid
5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6 When Yahusha saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
8 Then Yahusha said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

23. 4th Gospel 5 - The Healing of the Invalid
10 and so the Yehudim said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"
13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Yahusha had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 Later Yahusha found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
15 The man went away and told the Yehudim that it was Yahusha who had made him well.

24. 4th Gospel 5 - The Healing of the Invalid
16 So, because Yeshua was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Yehudim persecuted him.
17 Yeshua said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
18 For this reason the Yehudim tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking (?!) the Sabbath, but he was even calling Elohim his own Father, making himself equal with Elohim.

25. Greek luo
(1) literally, as freeing someone or something tied or bound loose, untie, set free, release (MK 1.7; AC 22.30), opposite de,w (bind); figuratively, as freeing from a legal obligation free, release (1C 7.27); as freeing from spiritual bondage set free (RV 1.5); (2) literally, as breaking something up into its component parts destroy, tear down, break up (2P 3.10); as breaking up a crowd dismiss, disperse (AC 13.43); figuratively, as bringing something to an end do away with, undo (1J 3.8); (3) of law, commandments, scriptures set aside, annul, invalidate (JN 7.23)

26. 4th Gospel 5 - The Healing of the Invalid
19 Yahusha gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

27. What is the Master’s Message About the Sabbath
What is the Master’s Message About the Sabbath? What work occurs every day in the temple, including the Sabbath day? Answer: a work of forgiveness, release, redemption and restoration of humans Jesus/Yahusha, like his Father, was working every day, including the Sabbath, to heal and restore people. Yes, Messiah worked on the Sabbath!

28. A Spectacular Healing on the Sabbath? 4th Gospel (John) 9

29. 4th Gospel 9 - The Healing of the Man Born Blind
32 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man were not from Elohim, he could do nothing."

30. Yahusha and the Sabbath
He kept the holy assembly
He taught
He healed
He cast out demons
He “worked”
He released the people from man made traditions and restrictions for the Sabbath so people could be restored