Sabbath: Exodus 20:8-11

The Sabbath is much more than taking rest because humans have limits and get tired; it is about honoring the way in which God has structured and ordered the universe. What would it look like if a community took these rhythms seriously and collectively sought to honor the Sabbath together?

Dr. Robert Duke, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Azusa Pacific University, joins us to discuss his first hand observance of the Sabbath in modern day Israel.

Recorded at our service on 6/27/10.

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Exodus 20:8-11 (Today’s New International Version)

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 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 male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 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.

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Genesis 2:1-3 (Today’s New International Version)

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

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Leviticus 25:3-5 (Today’s New International Version)

3 For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. 4 But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. 5 Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.