Our responsibility to the whole human family
Sabbath love is our measuring stick
Proper 5B | 1 Samuel 8:4-20, 11:14-15; Mark 3:20-35
It’s a good thing we dealt with Sabbath last week, because we’ve got two big theological challenges to wrestle with this morning. And they both benefit from having that foundation of the Sabbath command.
So let’s go over that real fast.
God commands their people to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. And we get two different reasons for it:
- Because God did this in creation and established this pattern for us.
- To remind us of our liberation from Egypt.
This makes Sabbath a command to rest and to free others as we have been freed. It is for us to receive and to give.
Sabbath is God’s antidote to human sin. A way for us, as individuals and as communities, to grow and live. And Jesus defines Sabbath as quintessentially about living. So we don’t just take breaks because we have to, but because it is in this freedom that we actually live…
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