The Bible says do this... but most Christians don't

God commanded us to remember the Sabbath. But for some reason, it's the one commandment that most Christians have forgotten. Today, we're going to uncover its true purpose. And by the end of this video, you'll understand why the Sabbath was given and why it's still relevant today. The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments, and we're specifically told to remember the Sabbath day and to keep it holy. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Why did God command us to remember the Sabbath day? First, the Sabbath is a reminder of which God we worship. Notice that verse 11 tells us because in six days God made the heavens and the earth, and then he rested on the seventh. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. This points us back to Genesis and to creation. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made. We worship the God who created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. The Greeks worship the sun god on the venerable day of the sun, also known as Sunday. Other pagan religions had other days of worship to their gods, but the Sabbath identifies us as the followers of the God of the Bible. It was given as a sign of the covenant between God and his people. Surely my Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. Therefore, the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. What's the difference between a slave and a free man? The answer is that the slave never gets a day off. Slaves work seven days per week, no time off, no vacation, no sick leave. God set the children of Israel free from slavery in Egypt, and he gave them a day of rest each week to bless them with rest. Now listen to how Yeshua described the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man, meaning it was made as a gift to man. Man was not made for the Sabbath, meaning that man is not a slave to serve the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a gift, a day of rest, a blessing from God to his people. It's a day when we don't have to worry about work or chores or the stresses of this life. It's a set apart time for us to spend time with God and detach from the cares of this world. I've heard people claim that the Sabbath is a burden, but Yeshua described it as a gift that was given to man. In fact, John tells us that God's commandments are not a burden. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. The Pharisees made the commandments burdensome because of their rigid rules they added to the commandments of God. And Yeshua criticized them for adding to the commandments and heaping on heavy burdens. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. They invented strict rules about what was forbidden on the Sabbath, such as not gleaning grain to eat, not spitting in the dirt to make mud, and not carrying anything on the Sabbath. And these are the exact things Yeshua contradicted concerning the Sabbath. He and his disciples gleaned grain to eat on the Sabbath. Yeshua spit in the dirt to make mud to heal a blind man on the Sabbath. And when he healed the lame man, he told the man to carry his bed. All these things were done to show the Pharisees that they were taking the gift of God and turning it into a burden. Yeshua also explained that his yoke is easy and he came to give us rest. Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. This gives us a greater context to understand what Yeshua meant when he claimed to be the Lord of the Sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath. The Lord created the world in six days and rested on the Sabbath. Yeshua is the Lord of creation. The Lord gave the Sabbath as a day of rest from our labor as a gift to his people. Yeshua is the Lord who gives rest. The Lord commanded his people to keep the Sabbath as a perpetual covenant. Yeshua is the Lord of the Sabbath. The Pharisees tried to turn the Sabbath into a burden with their man-made doctrines, but Yeshua shows us that keeping the Sabbath should not be a burden. And he tells us to find rest through him, the Lord of the Sabbath. Many Christians have been told that Jesus broke the Sabbath, and that's why we don't have to keep it anymore. But if that's true, then Jesus sinned because breaking the Sabbath would mean breaking God's law. And sin is lawlessness. So, here's the question. Did Yeshua actually break the Sabbath, or did he expose something else entirely? Stay with me because we're going to look at every time Yeshua was accused of breaking the Sabbath, and you're going to see from scripture that he never violated God's commandments, not even one. In fact, he shows us the true heart of the Sabbath, what it was always meant to be. The Sabbath command is simple. Rest, cease from labor, and remember the creator. But by the first century, the Pharisees had turned the Sabbath into a maze of man-made regulations. They added dozens of extra rules, including 39 categories of work, none of which came from the Torah, which is why Yeshua said, "The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath." He wasn't rejecting the Sabbath. He was rejecting their false religious traditions and restoring the original purpose of the Sabbath. The conflict wasn't between Yeshua and the law. It was between Yeshua and the traditions of men. One Sabbath, as Yeshua and and disciples walked through the grain fields, the disciples began to pluck heads of grain and eat. Immediately, the Pharisees accused them saying, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." But was that a violation of God's law? Not at all. The Torah actually allows people to pluck grain by hand when they're hungry. "When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain." They weren't harvesting, they were just eating. The Pharisees considered that to be work, but the Torah doesn't. Yeshua responded to them by pointing to the story of David eating the consecrated bread, something only the priests were allowed to do. Then Yeshua said something revolutionary. "Yet I say to you that in this place there is one greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." Yeshua claimed to be greater than the temple and that he is the Lord who established the Sabbath. This was a claim to deity, and it shows us his authority to define the Sabbath because he established it. That means the Sabbath belongs to him. In saying, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice," he was showing us the important role that grace and mercy play in keeping the commandments. And in saying, "You would not have condemned the guiltless," he shows us that they were not guilty of sin. Yeshua wasn't breaking the Sabbath, he was restoring it to its original purpose, which is rest, mercy, and fellowship with God. Now, let's look at the accusations made concerning him healing on the Sabbath. In John 5, Yeshua healed a man who had been crippled for 38 years and told him to take up his bed and walk. Immediately, the religious leaders said, "It's the Sabbath. It's not lawful for you to carry your bed." But the Torah never forbids carrying a mat on the Sabbath. That was part of the oral law, not God's law. When Yeshua was challenged, he replied, "My father's been working until now, and I have been working." His response infuriated them, not because he worked, but because he was claiming equality with God. So, the real issue wasn't that Yeshua broke Sabbath. They were upset that he disregarded their tradition, but they were more upset about who he claimed to be. He was claiming to have greater authority than them. That was the problem. The religious leaders wanted everyone to obey them as the ultimate authority, but Yeshua was superseding their authority. In Luke 13, Yeshua healed a crippled woman who had a spirit of infirmity for 18 years. But, when the ruler of the synagogue rebuked him for healing on the Sabbath, Yeshua said, "Hypocrite, does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from his stall and lead it away to water it? So, ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, who Satan has bound, think of it, for 18 years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?" The people rejoiced, but his adversaries were ashamed. Yeshua was showing us that the Sabbath was about freedom and healing and restoration. He wasn't violating the Sabbath, he was fulfilling it. In Luke 14, on the Sabbath, while eating in the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees, Yeshua challenged the Pharisees by asking, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" But, they remained silent. So, Yeshua healed a man with dropsy in front of them. Then, he challenged them again with another question, saying, "Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?" So, why were the Pharisees so angry about Yeshua healing people on the Sabbath? It was because Yeshua challenged their authority and exposed their hypocrisy. They elevated their own traditions above the commandments of God. And Yeshua challenged this, and he even rebuked them for it directly. He said to them, "All too well you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition, making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down, and many such things you do." The religious leaders didn't want the law written on people's hearts. They simply wanted to control the people's behavior, and Yeshua threatened that control. The real conflict wasn't between Jesus and the law, it was between in of God and the religion of men. He didn't come to abolish the Sabbath or any part of the law. He came to fulfill it and to teach us to do the same. Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For surely I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Yeshua is the word of God and he embodied the law and the prophets perfectly. He is our ultimate example of what it looks like to walk according to God's law. Yeshua never broke the Sabbath. His obedience to the law simply clashed with the Pharisees teachings about the law, showing them their errors. So we see that Yeshua never broke the Sabbath. He broke man's traditions, not God's commandments. He walked in perfect obedience to the Torah, showing us how to keep it with compassion and truth. Now my question for you is, if Yeshua kept the Sabbath, shouldn't his followers do the same? Post your answer in the comments below. Most Christians worship on Sunday, the first day of the week, but the Bible calls the seventh day holy and commands us to keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath was never changed or abolished. It was simply forgotten. Not only did Jesus keep the Sabbath, but he claimed to be the Lord of the Sabbath. So if Jesus is our example and he kept the Sabbath, why do most Christians worship on Sunday? Let's look at what the apostles did. The book of Acts gives us a window into the early church and it shows us that the apostles continued to keep the Sabbath. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. On the next Sabbath, almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. Then Paul, as his custom was, went into them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. The Sabbath is all over the book of Acts. The apostles continued to keep the Sabbath, and they were even teaching Gentiles on the Sabbath. This means the Sabbath wasn't simply a Jewish event. Jews and Greeks were keeping the Sabbath together. That's the early church. Jew and Gentile together as one in Messiah. If the apostles taught Gentiles to keep the Sabbath, when did that change? And who changed it? The Bible never records God changing the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day. That shift came later throughout church history, not scripture. During the second and third centuries, the Roman church began separating from its Jewish roots. The Sabbath was viewed as too Jewish, and Sunday worship drew from tradition, not scripture. In 321 AD, Emperor Constantine made the first Sunday law, saying all judges and city people and craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun. This was the day established by the Romans to worship the sun god, and it was never commanded in scripture to do this. If the Bible is our ultimate authority, then we should all be keeping the Sabbath. I find it ironic that the one commandment God specifically told us to remember is the one most Christians have forgotten about. But maybe it's not ironic. Maybe it's prophetic. God knew that people would eventually forget the Sabbath, and he specifically gave us that word, remember, to call us back to obedience. So, here's the real question. Will you obey God's commandments or just continue blindly following the traditions of men? As Christians, our desire is to be more like Christ. Jesus kept the Sabbath, and we are expected to follow his example. He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked. Yeshua kept the law perfectly. He never sinned, and his disciples were expected to be like him. A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher. So, if Jesus kept the Sabbath and his disciples kept the Sabbath, shouldn't Christians today keep the Sabbath as well? God said, "If you love me, keep my commandments." So, do you? Do you love God enough to keep his commandments? It should be a simple question. God established it at creation. God commanded it to be remembered, and God gave it as a sign between him and his people. Jesus explained that he is the Lord of the Sabbath, and there's not a single verse in the Bible to say it has ever changed. So, the answer is yes. Christians should keep the Sabbath. Now that we've learned why Christians should keep the Sabbath, the next question is, how do we keep the Sabbath? In Genesis 2:3, God blessed the seventh day and he made it holy. And in Exodus 20:8, God commanded us to remember the Sabbath day and to keep it holy. But, here's the question. How do we actually keep the Sabbath in today's busy world? The first step is simple. Just stop working. The Bible tells us to work for 6 days and to rest on the seventh. 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 of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. That means we intentionally cease from our regular work. This refers to our job and our regular chores. The Hebrew word for Sabbath is Shabbat, and it literally means to cease. The Sabbath begins at sunset on the sixth day, which is Friday evening, and it ends at sunset on the seventh day, which is Saturday evening. This follows the biblical pattern found in Genesis where evening comes before morning. When you stop working, you're declaring with your actions, "God, I trust you to provide for my needs even when I rest." Think about it. When you rest, you're actually exercising faith. The Sabbath isn't just about stopping your work. It's about trusting God to provide for you. We find this principle at work when God provided extra mana on the sixth day so that they didn't have to gather mana on the Sabbath. See, for the Lord has given you the Sabbath. Therefore, he gives you on the sixth day bread for 2 days. Let every man remain in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. God provides for his people when they trust him and obey his commandments. The second way to keep the Sabbath holy is to worship God and reflect on his word. Isaiah 58:13-14 says, "If we turn away from doing our own pleasure on the Sabbath and call it a delight, God will make us ride on the high hills of the earth." The Sabbath isn't a day for selfish entertainment or seeking pleasure for ourselves. It's a day set aside to delight in the Lord. Spend time in the word. Pray. Worship. Fellowship. Talk about God with your family and friends. Deuteronomy 5 reminds us that we were all slaves in Egypt, but God brought us out with a mighty hand. This shows us the Sabbath is about freedom from slavery. And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore, the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. The Sabbath shows us that we aren't slave to our jobs. We're free to worship God and to rest from our labor. But it's not just about rest from physical work. It's about rest from spiritual striving as well. It's a weekly reminder that our worth doesn't come from what we do. It comes from who we belong to. So, turn off your phone, stop scrolling, and stop checking emails. Spend the day with God. Spend time with your family and your friends. Talk. Laugh. Sing. Worship. Pray. And remember God's goodness. That's how you make the Sabbath a delight. Let me challenge you for a moment. Think about what it would look like if you made the Sabbath a priority. What would it be like to have family dinner on Friday night and no one is distracted by work or cell phones. How would that positively impact your family? Set apart time when you don't even check your email. Think about what a blessing that would be to your spirit. The final point is that the Sabbath is about holiness. It's about being set apart. Exodus 31 calls the Sabbath a sign between God and His people. Surely my Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. When we honor the Sabbath, we're publicly declaring our covenant relationship with the God who created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. That's why we don't treat it like any other day. It's not a day for business or shopping or secular entertainment. It's a day for rest and worship and joy in the Lord. Keeping it holy isn't about following a list of do's and don'ts. That's where the Pharisees got it wrong. The Sabbath is about spending time with our Creator, casting our cares upon Him, and entering into His rest. Yeshua said, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." That means God designed this day for you. The Sabbath was made for us as a blessing from God. It's a weekly gift of rest for God's people. So, how do you keep the Sabbath? Start by resting from work. And don't cause other people to work for you, which means no buying, no shopping, no eating out. Next, spend time in prayer and worship. The Sabbath is an appointment with God, so meet with Him. You can also use the Sabbath to connect with your loved ones. Spending dedicated time with family and friends. Finally, set the Sabbath apart as holy. Make it special. It shouldn't be just another day. So, I want to ask you, what is your favorite way to keep the Sabbath? Post your answer in the comments below. And now that you've learned how to keep the Sabbath, watch this next video to learn who really changed the Sabbath. >> Take me by unlearned the lies. >> Mhm.