| Chain Referencing - Card 1: The Sabbath | |
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God rests on the seventh day and sanctifies the Sabbath - Gen 2:2 |
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The Sabbath a TEST COMMANDMENT to prove whether one will walk in God's Law or not. - Ex 16:4-5 |
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God reveals to Israel the CORRECT DAY to keep the Sabbath after they have been in Egypt for 400 years. - Ex 16:23 |
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Sabbath a part of the Decalogue, the TEN COMMANDMENTS engraved in tablets of stone by the very finger of God. Shows the Sabbath is a memorial of God's creation. - Ex 20:8-11 |
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Sabbath is a SIGN of God's people. We of the faith are spiritual Israelites; children of Abraham (Gal. 3:7). - Ex. 31:13-17 |
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Sabbath again included as part of the Ten Commandments. Emphasizes that the Sabbath is a day of LIBERTY. - Deut 5:12-15 |
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Sabbath a SIGN of SANCTIFICATION - Ezek. 20:12 |
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The breaking of the Sabbath a primary reason Israel went into CAPTIVITY and was scattered. - Ezek. 20: 20-23 |
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Jesus Christ teaches on the Sabbath. - Mk. 1:21 |
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Jesus Christ faithfully attends the synagogue on the Sabbath as His custom or habit was. We are to walk in His steps (I Peter 1:21). - Lk. 4:16 |
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Sabbath was made for MAN, not just for the Jew. Jesus Christ is LORD of the Sabbath. Mk. 2:27-28 |
| Chain Referencing - Card 1: The Sabbath - continued | |
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Show Sabbath was still to be observed in later times. - Mt 24:20 |
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Holy Spirit inspires N.T. writer Luke to affirm that the Sabbath was still a COMMANDMENT. Luke was written around 60 AD. Almost 30 years after Christ's death. - Lk 23:56 |
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There remains a SABBATISMOS (Greek-"A keeping of the Sabbath") to the people of God. The Sabbath is a picture of the rest we have in Christ and finally in His Kingdom. - Heb 4:9 |
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Paul teaches in Antioch in the synagogue on the Sabbath. - Acts 13:14-15 |
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Paul teaches to BOTH Jews and Gentile on the Sabbath. - Acts 13:42-44 |
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Paul teaches in a strictly GENTILE area in Philipi on the Sabbath. - Acts 16:12-13 |
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Paul teaches on three consecutive Sabbath to Jews and Greeks. - Acts 17:1-4 |
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Paul works six days as a tent maker and teaches in the synagogue every Sabbath. - Acts 18:1-4 |
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A MILLENNIAL reference to God's Sabbath. - Isa 56:2-7 |
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We are to turn away from doing our own pleasure on the Sabbath and call the Sabbath a DELIGHT. - Isa 58:13-14 |
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Sabbath to be kept after the time of the NEW HEAVENS and the NEW EARTH. - Isa 66:23-24 |
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