4. Remember the Sabbath | 5 Minute Video
Don’t Be a Slave
Setting aside a day of rest each week was a revolutionary concept when it was first introduced as the Fourth Commandment. But this Commandment does more: it extends that day of rest to slaves and animals and thus set in motion the slow process of ending slavery and the compassionate treatment of animals. As Dennis Prager explains, the power of the Fourth Commandment to change your life is no less real today than it was for our ancient ancestors. Just ask the spouse of a workaholic how she would feel if her husband took off a day each week to spend with family and friends.
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Script:
Many people who revere the Ten Commandments don’t think that the Fourth is particularly important, let alone binding. Once you understand it, however, you will recognize how life-changing, even world-changing, the Sabbath commandment is. And you will begin to appreciate how relevant it is to your own life.
The Fourth Commandment reads: “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son nor daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.”
Why is this so important?
First, perhaps more than any other commandment, it elevated the human being. How so? For nearly all of human history, life consisted overwhelmingly of work. In effect, humans were beasts of burden. This commandment and only this commandment changed all that by insisting that people cease working one day out of seven.
Second, more than any other commandment, the Sabbath Day reminds people that they are meant to be free. As the second version of the Commandment — the one summarized by Moses in the Book of Deuteronomy — states, “Remember that you were slaves in Egypt.” In other words, remember that slaves cannot have a Sabbath. In light of this, I might add that in the Biblical view, unless necessary for survival, people who choose to work seven days a week are essentially slaves — slaves to work or perhaps to money, but slaves nonetheless. The millionaire who works seven days a week is simply a rich slave.
Third, while the Bible could not universally abolish slavery, the Sabbath commandment greatly humanized that terrible institution and even helped make slavery impossible. By definition, a slave owner was under no obligation to allow a slave to ever rest, let alone to rest one day every week. Yet, that is exactly what the Fourth Commandment commanded. Even a slave has fundamental human rights. Therefore a slave too, is a human being.
Fourth, the Sabbath almost singlehandedly creates and strengthens family ties and friendships. When a person takes off from work one day every week, that day almost inevitably becomes a day spent with other people — namely, family and/or friends. It has similar positive effects on marriages. Ask anyone married to a workaholic how good it would be for their marriage if the workaholic would not work for one day each week — and you can appreciate the power of the Sabbath Day.
Fifth, the Sabbath commandment granted animals dignity. Even one’s animals had to rest one day a week. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first national law in history on behalf of animals. And its benefits to animals surely went beyond a mandatory day of rest for them. People who felt divinely obligated to give their animals a day of rest were much less likely to treat their animals cruelly any day of the week.
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Lunar Calandar = true Sabbat on half moon, full moon, half moon, new moon…..gregorian callander is Sunday worshipping, tricking people to worship Baal.
The seventh day Sabbath in Old Testament Karaite Judaism according to the order of Aaron. We establish the Law.
Exodus 31:14 “Therefore you are to keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it must be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. 15 For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest [Exodus 20:8-11; Leviticus 23:1-3], holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.“ (NASB)
Exodus 35:1 Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do: 2 “For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord [Exodus 20:8-11; Leviticus 23:1-3]; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.“ (NASB)
Numbers 15:32 Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness [Heb. midbar], they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day [Exodus 20:8-11; Leviticus 23:1-3]. 33 And those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation; 34 and they placed him in custody, because it had not been decided what should be done to him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must be put to death [Exodus 31:14-15; Exodus 35:1-2; Deuteronomy 27:26; Matthew 5:18]; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” 36 So all the congregation [Heb. edah] brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. (NASB)
2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, came with glory so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face [Exodus 34], fading as it was [Hebrews 8], 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? (NASB)
Deuteronomy 4:1 “Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you will live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, >>>> nor take away from it, <<<< so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I am commanding you.” (NASB)
Matthew 5:18 “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, >>>> not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, <<<< until all is accomplished!“ (NASB)
Galatians 3:10 For all who are of works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the Law, to do them [Deuteronomy 27:26].” (NASB)
Galatians 4:21 Tell me, you who want to be under law [Hebrews 7:11], do you not listen to the Law? (NASB)
You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?
America needs to respect this Commandment so much more- as your average American could only live for their career; so essentially, America, and thus the entire world is becoming enslaved by money!! (1 Timothy 6:10 the love of money is the root of all evil)
However, Dennis, there are plenty of people – including scientists – that DO believe in 24-hr days of the Genesis creatin account, myself included. I entertained for awhile the possibility of an old earth/universe with theistic evolution, but I've been a studier of science my entire life, and based on comparing arguments for secular/old earth/young earth paradigms and the actual data and not just the popular interpretations of the data, I believe there's no reason NOT to believe a literal interpretation of Genesis, including the 24-hr days.
I wonder if Moses himself has broken the 3rd commandment. Deuteronomy 13.
But i have to be religious, dennis, in order to get a sunday off, or else it would just seem like i am trying to get off work 🤔 🙄
Imagine being stoned to death because you wanted to prevent your yard from turning into a jungle
So true.
Beautiful!
My Sabbaths are my days off from work.
Hebrews says let us rest from our works as God rested from His works. Jesus is our Sabbath. Saturday is named after the Roman god Saturn, so have a happy whatever doesn't offend you.
These sound like sayings but not like realities
Most people who observe the Sabbath at one time struggled with defining ‘work’. I came to define it as anything I didn’t want to do. Why should I not pick flowers or cook my favorite food? Just a thought.
This video stands in opposition to what the writer of Hebrews wrote about the Sabbath in Hebrews Ch 4.
This is theologically unsound. The Sabbath was very prescriptive. You can't just move it to another day and make it about yourself. The bible tells of a man who was picking up sticks on a Sabbath and was stoned to death as a result. The writer of Hebrews explains quite well what the Sabbath rest means to Christians today, and it's not about taking a day off.
And while we are at it, let`s not forget about the deluded and misguided so-called `christians` who eagerly celebrate the pagan `holy` days (holidays) known as, `easter`, `hallowe`en` and the biggest of them all, the `Roman Saturnalia`, thinly disguised as so-called `christmas`.
Remember the sabbath
I am NOT an overly religious person, but I deeply appreciate these videos. It really gives me a new respect to how world and society building the Judeo-Christian beliefs are.
Best explanation ever of the purpose of the Sabbath 😀
I hope you know that the Sabbath is from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.