From the Pastor’s Desk
On the 7th day of creation, God rested. The word for rest is “Shabbat”. God set that day apart and made it “Holy”. That day became a continuous day of fellowship between man and his Creator, and He walked with man in the cool of “the day”. When man sinned, that “day of fellowship” ended. However, God said to the serpent that He would send “One” into the world who would destroy the work of that serpent – Even “bruise (crush) his head”. That “One” would become known as “the Messiah” and through Him that day of fellowship would be restored and man would “live” with God. Man was to look forward to that day! Thus, anyone who would not acknowledge (or keep) the 7th day was still choosing death rather than life. In Exodus 31:14 God made this clear by placing the death penalty on anyone not keeping the Sabbath day and
“working” (claiming self-righteousness) on that day. All three synoptic gospels state that Jesus, the Messiah, was “Lord of the Sabbath”. Anyone, who acknowledges Jesus is in fact keeping the Sabbath. Listen closely to today’s message as we discuss “the Sabbath”, a day, or a Man called “the Messiah”.
Pastor Wayne
