The Fourth Commandment: Keep the Sabbath Holy | Exodus 20:8-11

We live in an incredibly fast-paced world. We’re constantly bombarded with information through social media, TV and 24 hour news networks. Many of our jobs are demanding more of us, demanding that we work longer and longer hours. If you have kids at school, their schools are demanding more of them – more homework, endless extra mural activities and sports that encroach on the little free time that is available.

The result? Huge increase in depression, divorce, burn out, broken families and Christians having very little time for God, prayer, worship and meaningful study of his Word. This generation of Christians is one of the most biblically illiterate generations to have ever lived, despite the fact that the Bible is the most accessible that it’s ever been in any era of human history.

In this sermon, we look at the Fourth Commandment concerning the Sabbath. It matters to God how we work and how we rest. In fact, our working and resting rhythms are to be rooted in the pattern that God himself has established. In the midst of a busy, burnt out world, God has graciously provided us with the gift and blessing of the Sabbath, one day of the week where we are able to find true rest and peace in God himself. What we’re going to see is that because God rested on the Sabbath, because he blessed it and made it holy, we are to keep the Lord’s day holy, finding our rest in Christ.

Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.

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