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 By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts From Parson Farms:

Remembering the Sabbath Day As a Day of Rest

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Last, but not least in the Larger Catechism’s look at the fourth commandment involves two questions that ask first of all about the enforcement of this portion of God’s statutes, and secondly why the law is not negative in its proscription, but positive in it what it asks men and women to do. I’ve noted before that if we come to the word with the attitude of “what can I still do and/or get away with and maintain fidelity to the requirement” then we are missing both the point of God’s law and the mercy to sinners offered in Christ. Rather than coming to today’s WLC with a grudging heart full of woe, what would happen if we Remembered the Lord’s graciousness in His character which the law of God reveals to us? As I’ve said before one of the unique blessings of the fourth commandment is that Jehovah doesn’t need to rest. He’s not a physical being with feet which tire. Nor does He get worn down by the anxieties natural to a fallen world. However, we do. Yet the Sabbath command was not given response to sin, but is what we call a “Creation Ordinance” meaning that just like marriage and work it is part of God’s good original intent for man, before Adam broke the covenant in the garden. Positivity goes a long way in helping us obey with joy the mercies evident in the word of the Lord.

Here's today’s Q/A’s:

Q. 120. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it?

A. The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it, are taken from the eq­uity of it, God allowing us six days of seven for our own affairs, and reserving but one for himself, in these words, Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: from God’s challenging a special pro­priety in that day, The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: m from the example of God, who in six days made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: and from that blessing which God put upon that day, not only in sanctifying it to be a day for his ser­vice, but in ordaining it to be a means of blessing to us in our sanctifying it; Wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it.

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