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 Topic: **The Sabbath Day** Posted: 29 Mar 2011 at 6:55am |
Exodus 20:8-11 – Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping 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 or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. – Exodus 20:8-11
When God finished creating the world, He rested. And He set aside a way of resting for all of His creation to observe from that day forward. God did not rest because He was tired; He rested to show that everything was complete and perfect in Him. Nothing else was needed. It was finished. When we keep God first in our life we stop living like we are gods, as if everything depends upon us. We show that God is in control of all that He created-including us!
If we live in the reality that God is the only true God, we do not have to live frantic, frenzied lives. Because God is great and powerful, we can rest. And now, the amazing truth is, we can live a life of Sabbath rest because of Jesus’ completed work on the cross. There is nothing left to do…it is finished!
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 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 at 3:05am |
Exodus 20:12 – Honor your father and your mother
Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. – Exodus 20:12 (NIV)
None of us showed up on this planet by accident. God, in his sovereignty, has chosen the time and place that each of us would live. He also chose who our parents would be. Because of this, we can honor and respect our parents-not because they are perfect-but because God is perfect. If we live with unforgiveness or distance between our parents and us, we actually place our self in the position of being God. That would violate the 1st Commandment of having no other gods before God. We are not God! If we reject our parents, we are rejecting God’s perfect will for our life. To honor our parents is to respect them, as fellow flawed image bearers of God, and allow God to love them through us. To honor our parents is to honor God as LORD in our life.
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sandra
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 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 at 6:22am |
Tell some of the youth in these times to honor their father and their mother.
I heard a man cursing his mother in Kmart the other day. I couldn't believe the woman was his mother. I hope he rots in hell.
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I asked for all things so that I might enjoy life; I was given life so that I might enjoy all things
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 Posted: 31 Mar 2011 at 5:00am |
Sandy ..because he doesn't know what is expecting him in life....hope he has no kids...
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Exodus 20:13 – You shall not murder
You shall not murder. – Exodus 20:13 (NIV)
When we read this 6th Commandment, ‘you shall not murder’, we all sigh a breath of relief, “At least I’m keeping this command!” But remember, Jesus really raised the bar on this when he taught that if we have hate or hard hearts toward another person it is the same as if we murdered them. Ouch. Now we’re not doing as well. Murder, either physical or via our hearts, is a big deal to God because it infringes on his rule and reign. He created all people and relationship, and he alone has control over our lives. If we keep the first command to have no other god before God, then we can never place our self in the position to take a life. Murder happens because someone wants to change a situation to his or her liking by removing another person-either physically or by rejecting them. That is playing God.
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... and it is the 7th day!!
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"the time is always ripe to do right", Nelson Mandela.
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Sunday.
This is how it goes. Man work six days a week and rests on the seventh. The work week begins on a Monday. You work from Monday to Saturday. Sunday you go to church and rest to start over again on Monday. Monday is such a quiet day, compared to Saturday.
Edited by sandra - 01 Apr 2011 at 6:27am
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Some says it's Saturday and some says it's Sunday...
But some of the calenders start the week with saturday and some starts with sunday.......
The question is: on that day the 7th day...you have to praise and worship God and have peace with yourself .... 
Sandy....maybe the 7th day is on Monday...that everyone calls it *Blue Monday*
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Exodus 20:14 – You shall not commit adultery
You shall not commit adultery – Exodus 20:14 (NIV)
This is another one of the 10 Commandments that Jesus taught on. No longer could we keep this command by simply abstaining from sleeping with another person’s spouse. Jesus revealed that our hearts commit adultery if we even lust after someone sexually (Matthew 5:28). God instituted marriage as a display of his glory. When a man and a woman submit themselves humbly before God in marriage, the world gets a picture of how God really is. Again, if we live in obedience to the first commandment of keeping God alone as God, we would want to have the same heart toward others as he does. We break both commandments when we see someone merely as an object to be used for our own pleasure. That is playing God and not relating to others in the way that he intended. Taking someone (another persons spouse) physically, sexually or in our hearts is actually stealing from God. He gives marriage to couples as a gift and display of his glory. Keeping God first in our life protects us from adultery.
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 Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 2:51pm |
I guess we can make any day our sabbath day, but I prefer Sunday.
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