What is the Sabbath day and how should a Christian keep the Sabbath holy?
Does the Bible really say a Christian even needs to keep the 4th commandment at all?
Keeping Saturday or Sunday? Does it really make any difference when you rest?
Do you believe what your church teaches about rest or do you believe God?
Does the Bible really say a Christian should still keep the commandments after they are saved by grace?
Is obedience to God's commandments actually an identifying sign that Christians know Jesus and His truth is in them?
Does commandment keeping show a Christian's love for God? What does the Bible actually say?
Let me say right up front that you will get no argument here about worshiping on Sunday. Absolutely none! Christianity believes the Lord's day is Sunday, when they believe Jesus was resurrected. Worshiping Jesus, who is our spiritual rest, on Sunday, is not only not prohibited in Scripture, but many examples show Christ's disciples meeting every Sunday after His resurrection. Spiritual worship is not in question here. It's not about worship, but rest!
What we are addressing is REST from work, not WORSHIP, two distinctly different things. The 4th commandment says NOTHING about spiritual worship. Not a thing! It's about physical rest, not doing ANY WORK of any type!
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." (Exodus 20:8-10)
Now before you reject this simple truth plainly stated in the Bible, I'd like to point out the obvious that most Christians miss. Who does the Bible say created the day of rest, and who is it for?
Genesis 2:2-3 "And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he RESTED on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK that he had done in creation".
The Bible says GOD created the 7th day rest at creation.
The Bible does NOT say Moses created it.
The Bible does NOT say the Jews created it.
GOD blessed this time and made it holy according to what the Bible really says. (Holy = blessed and set apart as special time.)
Does the Bible say Moses blessed it and made it holy?
Does the Bible say the Jews blessed it and made it holy, just for themselves?
GOD, our Father, set ALL of us the EXAMPLE of resting from ALL our work on THE 7th day not one of our choosing, not the 6th, the 1st, but the the 7th!.
God created this Holy Time Of Rest at creation. Even though He didn't have to, God physically rested at this time to give us an example, to show us what He wants us to do. This holy time is so special to God that He actually made it a part of His original creation of the universe and everything in it, including us. Think about that for a moment. There is nothing else like it anywhere in the Bible or church history that can compare. That's how special this time of the week is!
You may find this hard to believe but the single biggest national sin in America, that is bringing so much punishing judgment upon our nation, is our disobedience to just one commandment that virtually ALL Christianity has misunderstood! If all of us would keep this one commandment God would bless America like we have never been blessed before. The good news is if YOU personally get into alignment with God's WILL as it actually says in the Bible, YOU can be blessed and protected individually!
The 7th day is the day of rest actually created by God at creation, codified into law by God as the 4th commandment time of rest given by Him to Moses. Jesus really did tell His followers thousands of years later that...
"The sabbath was made for man" (Mark 2:27).
Not made just for the Jews, but for "MAN" , all mankind. The Bible actually says,
"If you love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15)
And,
"He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." (John 14:21)
If you are a Christian, having accepted Jesus and are saved by His grace, loving Him above all else, this includes the 4th commandment for you to rest at the proper time to show Him your love!
It's time to learn the plain truth about what the Bible actually SAYS, so we can get into alignment with God's WILL. If you really want to know what the Bible, not your church, actually says about God's Holy Time Of Rest, please read this study with an open mind and see for yourself what is plainly written in the scriptures we all follow. It's important to Jesus that we get it right!
If what you believe about Sunday being the time of rest and worship for Christians isn't true would you want to know it? Few Christians ever really study the Bible to PROVE that what they believe about observing Sunday as a Holy Time Of Rest is actually what the Bible says. Rather than believing what men say in any commentary or study the reader is encouraged to study the scriptures and to see for themselves what the Bible really says about Sunday worship. Ask yourself.....Do you believe what your church teaches about resting on Sunday, or do you really believe what God actually says in the Bible?
Before you can answer this question about the 4th commandment, you need to see what the Bible really says in the New Testament about keeping any of the commandments. Does the Bible really say a Christian should still keep the commandments after they are saved by grace? Does the Bible plainly say obedience to God's commandments an identifying sign that Christians know Jesus and His truth is in them? Does the Bible really say commandment keeping really show a Christian's love for God? What does the Bible actually say?
Please read this study on the commandments that answers these question before reading this study below on the Sabbath if you have any doubt about Christians keeping the 10 Commandments. Should Christians Keep The 10 Commandments?
Throughout the New Testament the principles of commandment keeping are taught without negating or voiding the literal observance of them. The fourth commandment is a glaring exception. Almost every Christian church actually teaches the fourth commandment in principle only. They really interpret it as the fourth suggestion rather than the fourth commandment. The principle they teach in place of the commandment is the observance of worshiping one day in seven. The fourth commandment is really about rest. A Christians is free to worship on Sunday but should they still rest on the Sabbath? If you ask most preachers or ministers, they will say you are keeping the fourth commandment by worshiping on Sunday. Is this what the Bible really says about the Sabbath, or is this their biased interpretation?
Jesus said, "the Scripture CANNOT be broken" in John 10:35. Man cannot break Scripture. No church really has the authority to break Scripture by changing God's commandments. The Bible was inspired by God for our instruction. No one has the right to change what they don't like and try to make it say what it actually DOESN'T say! Here is what the Bible says about itself.
2 Timothy 3:16-17;"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work".
The Bible teaches about the true Sabbath rest being on the 7th day beginning in Genesis. This is what it plainly says.
Genesis 2:2-3;"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."
The Bible actually says, "THE" seventh day, as "THE" day of rest, not "A" day of rest. It is "THE" Sabbath, not "A" Sabbath. This is what the Bible really says in Exodus.
"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. .... therefore, the Lord blessed THE Sabbath day and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:8-11)
It says nothing about Sunday!
Scripture never actually commands anyone to observe Sunday as a time of rest or worship! No other time of the week has been"sanctified" (Greek"qadash" ...to consecrate, dedicate, be holy, be separate) and blessed by God. Only God can really make something holy. The Sabbath was set apart, consecrated and dedicated by God. It points to creation when God himself rested.
But doesn't the Bible actually say in Colossians 2 that we don't need to keep the Sabbath at all?
Colossians 2:16; "Let no man therefore judge you in the sabbath day".
This verse has falsely been used by many churches to discount keeping the Sabbath by Christians today. What does the Bible actually say about it in this verse?
Paul explains here why these Gentile Christians in God's church in Colosse need not be bothered by the attitude of the pagan Colossian society around them toward their practice of resting on Saturday. Paul tells the Colossians not to be concerned if anyone in their community would say anything bad about them for keeping the Sabbath. Far from doing away with this holy observance Colossians 2:16-17 is one of the strongest proofs that the early Christian church really kept it and that Paul taught the Gentile Christians to keep it. Paul was saying that they should not worry if their Gentile neighbors and friends judge them for resting when God commanded. The Colossians, a Gentile congregation, were really keeping the Sabbath as God commanded, in a generally pagan society! If they were not keeping it, why would Paul say that no one should judge them in keeping it?
Colossians 2:17, "which are a shadow of things to come"...
Here the Scriptures actually says that the sabbath is, "a shadow of things to come". The Scriptures say it is a shadow, a symbol or "type", of future events. It is a "shadow" or "type" of the Millennium rest the world will have with Jesus as King. For something to cast a shadow it has to exist! Paul did not say that we should not keep the Sabbath anymore because it was a shadow of the Millennium rest with Christ, and no longer exists. He could have said that if it were true, but he didn't because it isn't true! The verse reads that the Sabbaths "ARE a shadow of things to come." It is not written in past tense. It does not say, "was a shadow of things to come". This indicates that this rest still exists and is something relevant today because it still has a FUTURE fulfillment of actually resting in the Millennium.
Paul's words really tell us that the Sabbaths ARE a shadow of future prophetic fulfillment rather than WAS a shadow of fulfilled prophecies. Just because something is a shadow of something doesn't mean it's already obsolete We have to be VERY careful of reading into scripture something it does not actually say. The Apostle Paul insists to the church that nobody should feel a conflict of conscience when questioned by non-believers over the matter of resting on the Sabbath.
Why do most churches incorrectly teach Romans 14 is about the Sabbath? What does the Bible really say?
"One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind". (Romans 14:5)
Just as some poker players have a "tell" that tips off other players when they are bluffing, so do Christian churches when they are using God's word to "prove" a belief they already have. The churches "tell" is alwaystaking a verse out of context, ignoring all the surrounding verses and lifting just one part out from the rest to supposedly prove their belief.
This is exactly the thing churches do with Romans 14:5. Instead of using a verse out of context to prove a belief that has nothing to do with what the Bible is speaking about, we should use what it actually says to INFORM our beliefs by looking at the scripture IN CONTEXT with surrounding verses. This helps us to really understand what we need to learn from what it is informing us about.
So, people shouldn't just quote what the Bible says in Romans 14:5 to prove we don't need to keep the 4th commandment because now we can rest any time we choose. We should really look at that entire section of Romans 14, from verses 1 and 2 which sets the subject matter, all the way through verse 10. Consider the true message here the Bible trying to inform us about?
Romans 14:1-10, "Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ."
Is this really about the 4th commandment, when to rest? Does verse 1 and 2 show there was some major dispute going on in the church at that time about the Sabbath? No. That Sabbath verses Sunday dispute doesn't happen in the church for several hundred more years. So what do these verse REALLY say?
The Scriptures really shows this entire section of Romans 14 is about eating or not eating FOOD for spiritual reasons. In other words, FASTING! There had been a big dispute happening in the congregation of God's church at Rome at that time in history, among the gentile converts there regarding fasting. Paul is trying here to provide spiritual advice to end the attitudes of judgment and contempt they had towards each other. Paul's writing in Romans Chapter 14 revolves completely around a dispute which is doubtful, which according to the context involved fasting, not keeping the day of rest. The Sabbath was NOT in dispute or doubt at this time in Christian history. All Christians, even those who worshiped on Sunday, still rested on Saturday! There simply was no dispute!
FASTING is the real context! Romans 14 talks about fasting, not resting at a certain time. The word "EAT" appears 10 times in these 10 verses, The words "EAT" or "FOODS" appear 18 times in the whole chapter. Romans 14 really revolves around eating food, not resting. The words Sabbath, or Sunday does not even appear in this chapter.
If you are honest you can see in these 10 Bible verses that the context is clearly talking about days for fasting, not worship. It's disingenuous to try to make it say somethings it doesn't. In Rome there were weak, recent Greek converts who had come from paganism, who had worshiped their gods by customarily abstaining from eating food outright. They fasted on certain particular days. Still other converts refused to fast or abstain from foods on certain days anymore after becoming Christians. They esteemed all days in the same way! Verse 6 makes it clear, he who fasts, observes the Lord, he who doesn't fast, also observes the Lord. THIS was a conflict among the people that Paul was addressing.
Verse 2: Some recent converts thought they can eat anything on a fast day, that fasting was not necessary anymore at all. Other recent converts clung to their old beliefs but modified them and thought just eating herbs was OK when fasting, actually only giving up meats which may have been offered to idols.
Verse 3: Some converts really thought they could not eat anything at all when fasting.
Verse 5: Some thought they should still observe fasts, others thought all days were the same and they didn't need to actually fast at any particular time.
Verse 6: Some thought he who does not eat, fasting according to their beliefs, honors God. Others just as sincerely thought he who eats normally on a fast day still honors God. (Hence the dispute.)
Verse 10: Paul wanted to make it clear that whether you fasted or not, it really didn't matter as Christians, it was okay, and that we shouldn't judge each other if we fasted or not.
How were some of the people observing this time of fasting? The key words here are: He who eats and he who does not eat. This is a specific reference to the spiritual exercise of fasting and has NOTHING to do with the false teaching that this was about a time of worship! A fast for spiritual purposes is going without food and water, for the purpose of spending extra time with God in prayer, study, and meditation. This understanding does not really occur to many Christians because they aren't acquainted with fasting in the first place. Most Christians don't fast today, so they erroneously misunderstand the context of this chapter.
If Paul taught his Gentile converts to regard this as a personal matter, as most Christian churches imply by quoting this verse, the Jewish-Christians with Paul would have immediately attacked him for setting aside God's Sabbath law. The fact that there is no hint what-so-ever of any such controversy or dispute here, or anywhere in the New Testament, indicates that Paul never encouraged Sunday keeping instead. That is a lie perpetuated by modern Christian churches. So, Romans 14:1-10 is really about Paul's refusal to deliberate on a private matter of fasting on certain days of the week, not about granting permission to keep Sunday, contrary to the 4th commandment. Romans 14 is about personal fast time (not weekly worship time). Don't believe false interpretation of this verse by your church. They are wrong based on what the Bible actually says!
When it comes to understanding what the Bible really says, context is EVERYTHING!
Some theologians try to contrive arguments that say the Sabbath was part of the Jewish ceremonial law that was done away when Jesus came and Sunday is now the New Testament law. This is an assumption based upon false human reasoning, not based at in in what the Bible actually says! Nothing is mentioned anywhere in the Bible about the sacrifices or ceremonial duties of the law being connected with the ten commandments. The Time Of Rest is part of the ten commandments stands by itself as part of the great spiritual law of God, not the physical rituals and ceremonies.
The Jews today are required by God to keep the ten commandments! God gave them the commandments through Moses at Mount Sinai. Speaking of Moses in the book of Acts, Stephen says that God gave him the oracles, which are the laws of God.
"This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us" (Acts 7:38)
The Jews have been committed with the responsibility to be the record keepers of God words and laws. When referring to the Jews the Bible says this.
Romans 3:1-2;"What advantage then has the Jew,....Much in every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."
The Jews have faithfully guarded the oracles, (or Words), of God even to the present time. They have never lost sight of the time of God's Holy Time Of Rest because the Holy Spirit will not allow it. They are the guardians of His written law, words which were actually spoken to Moses, and Paul says were given to us, Christians! The Jews have faithfully kept the 7th day rest as God says. Regardless of any changes in any calendars, or decrees from any Catholic Pope, or orders from Roman Emperor Constantine, God has made sure that the Jews He entrusted with his oracles, His words, never lost sight of when in the week is really the fourth commandment time of rest.
If Jesus had changed the fourth commandment rest to Sunday after His resurrection, He would have had to say something about it to the Jews. If the law changed, He had to say He had changed it, and tell the people He charged with keeping the record of His laws or He would be causing them to sin! If the time of rest was changed from the seventh to the first day then millions of Jews are actually sinning and it's God's fault! There can be only one fourth commandment. There ca't be one fourth commandment for the Jews and one fourth commandment for Christians. There is one law for all! Jesus specifically said not even the smallest part of the law would change until heaven and earth have passed away.
"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matt 5:18)
No interpretation can change what Jesus actually says! Heaven and earth are still here!The law is still here. Not one letter of it has changed. The fourth commandment is really still part of the great spiritual law and it has not changed! Jesus did not change his fourth commandment for Christians to Sunday while keeping it the same for Jews. That is an assumption not supported by anything the Bible actually says. The Jews are not sinning because they are still resting on the day God commanded and set apart as holy time. The Jews, the keepers of the oracles of God, never lost the Sabbath.......Christian churches did! Christians sin by not obeying the fourth commandment to rest as the Bible plainly says and it's the fault of their churches.
The fourth commandment cannot be separated from the other nine commandments and be given special dispensation from literal observance. It carries the same weight of God's great spiritual law as the other nine commandments. A Christian is free in Christ to worship on Sunday, (or Monday, or Tuesday, or whenever), if they choose to do so, but they should still rest from their labors according to God's fourth commandment.
"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." (1 John 2:3-4)
Christians belong to their Creator! They show that love by obeying the commandments. The Bible says if you claim to be a Christian who knows Jesus as your Savior, yet you don't keep the fourth commandment, you are a liar and the truth is not in you. Those are pretty strong words to all Christians! You can't say you are a Christian if you don't do what God actually says!
"I and my Father are one". (John 10:30)
Jesus' commandments are the same as His Father' commandments. To those who say that Jesus' commandments are different than His Father's commandments given to Moses the Bible plainly says this. "I and my Father are one". There is no difference. There is no distinction. There isn't one set of commandments from Jesus and another set of commandments from His Father that apply to different people at different times. This assumption is utter nonsense! It is an affront to Jesus to say that He and His Father are divided in their teachings and their commandments.
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." (Exodus 20:8)
NOT SUNDAY!
Without any interpretation the Bible plainly says"the seventh day"is the Sabbath! Christians should rest on Saturday, not Sunday! Worship on Sunday according to your tradition if you choose, but remember to rest on the Sabbath according to the Word of God!
Let's look first at what the Bible plainly says, for the obvious and indisputable messages from our Creator Himself. Then we will look at the ones that are more subjective.
EXODUS 20:8-10; "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work: but the seventh 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".
EXODUS 31:15; "Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death."
JEREMIAH 17:21-22; "Thus says the LORD: Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers".
The principle here is really simple. DO NOT DO ANY WORK, either at your regular income earning job if you are employed, or typical work chores at home such as laundry, ironing, cleaning, yard work, home maintenance, cooking etc. This would include people working for you as your employees, or people you hire to work around your home. The Bible says we should not work at all!
EXODUS 16:22-23; "And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread.This is that which God has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath to God: bake that which you will bake today, and boil that you will boil; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning."
EXODUS 16:27-30;"See, For God has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days; every man of you abide in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."
The principle here is to spend the time in restful activities, not slaving over the hot stove cooking when you should be resting. It's best not to cook full regular meals. Major food preparation including baking, boiling, roasting, frying, etc. should be done on Friday so that only reheating, if even that, would need to be done the next day. When food is prepared on Friday it is "to be kept until the morning" for eating on the Sabbath. Friday is the preparation day.
"Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath." (Mark 15:42)
Cook and prepare ALL the food you will need for Saturday on Friday. With careful planning you can easily do this, especially if you plan cold meals like cereal, fruit, or yogurt for breakfast, sandwiches or cold pizza for lunch, and salads of all types including lettuce based salads, cold soups, or cold pasta salad, for dinner. Microwave reheating of chili, soup or any previously prepared meal would not violate the principle of not "Baking", or "boiling".
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure,." (Isaiah 58:13)
The principle here is to not to seek our own pleasure. It isn't about us and what we want! We should really be focused on spiritual matters and a relationship with our creator and what He wants.
"For men will be lovers of themselves...... Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God" (2 Timothy 3:2-4)
This shows that the pleasures of this life are competing with God for our affection. Instead the Bible say this to us.
"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth" (Colossians 3:2).
A lot of what is "pleasure" is subjective. We need to rely on the Holy Spirit to guide us in our decisions about what may be just something we enjoy that would enhance this time of rest verses what is overt pleasure that physically or mentally distracts us from the intent of this time of rest.
So what can Christians do? Here is a short list of activities that would be keeping with the spirit of what the Bible says. I'm sure you can think of many, many more.
1. Read the Bible alone, or with other people.
2. Play with your children for as long as they want to play.
3. Eat a meal with friends in your home, even if it' just for a beverage and a chat.
4. Gather with other believers for fellowship.
5. Read an edifying book.
6. Phone a friend.
7. Pray.
8. Write a letter.
9. Visit someone in hospital.
10. Watch nature or other general programs on TV.
11. Watch the news to stay informed about what is happening in the world. (God told us to Watch and pray always. Luke 21:36)
12. Visit a free museum or planetarium
13. Take a short walk in the park.
14. Enjoy God's creation. Visit a free zoo, watch ducks on a pond, dip your feet in a cool creek, go outside and count the stars, purposefully watch the sunrise and sunset, pick some wild flowers, stop and listen to the birds sing, lie on your back and watch the clouds, or go barefoot in the grass.
15. Just kick back, relax, and really enjoy the time without your usual work!
This is a time for restful activities that compliment a close relationship with Jesus. Appreciating creation in some easy, leisurely way is an inspiring activity quite appropriate for a Christian observe this time of rest. Our time is not to be spent in working, buying, selling, homework, etc. You can get a good idea from what the Bible says in Nehemiah.
NEHEMIAH 13:15-17; "In those days I saw some treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, and bringing in sheaves, and lading donkeys; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food. There dwelt men of Tyre also in there, who brought fish, and all manner of goods, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?"
NEHEMIAH 10:31; "And if the people of the land brought any merchandise or food on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath:"
EXODUS 16:27-30; "See, For God has given you the Sabbath, therefore every man of you abide in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."
The principle here is to NOT leave our homes for the purpose of eating out at restaurants, shopping, or buying anything in any stores. Any shopping for all manner of goods violate the spirit of this holy time. We should really avoid buying food and drink anywhere if at all possible, especially food prepared and sold by merchants, (restaurants). Even though restaurant employees are working for others, at some point, everyone from the cook to the server is working specifically for YOU, in effect they become, "your manservant".. "your maidservant" preparing and serving YOUR food. What you say is what they do. An "ox in a ditch" emergency situation, (Luke 14:5), is a rare exception for eating out when away from home for an emergency and have no other option.
So, in conclusion it is obvious from what the Bible says that we should not be working, buying, selling or allowing anyone to prepare food for us outside of our home on this special day. These are practical applications of the principles for all modern Christians who want to really be in alignment with God's "WILL" and do what He desires. Give Him the benefit of the doubt, (not yourself), if you are not sure about any activity that may be a violation of any rest principle.
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