What other reason is given for keeping the Sabbath?
Answer
"Verily 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 that does SANCTIFY you." Ex. 31: 13.
NOTE - To sanctify is to make holy, or to set apart for a holy use. The sanctification, or making
holy, of sinful beings can be wrought only by the creative power of God through Christ by the Holy Spirit.
In 1 Cor. 1:30 we are told that Christ is made unto us "sanctification"; and in Eph. 2:10 it is said that "we
are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works." The Sabbath, therefore, is a sign of
sanctification, and thus of what Christ is to the believer, because it is a reminder of the creative power of
God as manifested in the work of regeneration. It is the sign of the power of God, therefore, in both
creation and redemption. To the believer, it is the evidence, or sign, that he knows the true God, who,
through Christ, created all things, and who, through Christ, redeems the sinner and makes him whole.
By what should we test, or prove, all doctrine?
What answer did he return when asked concerning his mission?
Whose destruction was made certain by the death of Christ ?
What Christian ordinance has been given as a memorial of Christ's burial and resurrection?
5. What will be the dragon's attitude toward the remnant people who keep the commandments of God?
What promise is made to those who look for Him?
What is the burden of the threefold message of Rev. 14: 6-10?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle