Book of Exodus, chapter 20, verses 8-11. The most ignored commandment. Today, there are very few, even Christians, that still pay attention to God's commandment to keep the Sabbath holy. We're one of the few groups that still does it. In the 1950s, everybody that was a church that believed the Bible believed in the Sabbath day. They all kept Sunday as God's Sabbath. That was true among all the independents and all the charismatics. There weren't very many back then, but all those people inclined in that direction, and Lutherans, and Methodists, and everybody, if they believed the Bible, they kept the Sabbath day holy to God. So in my lifetime, I've seen this pass to a day when, at least in the smaller towns, Now the town would shut down, jobs wouldn't be open, people wouldn't be working except for necessity or mercy, and everybody would take this day off. Even unbelievers would have the day off. It was almost universal except in our cities. And we've grown, if it were, we've come to the day now where almost no one believes in the Sabbath, including Christians who fight against the Sabbath. And there's almost no teaching about the Sabbath in the churches. This is the most, most sad thing and I hope if you endure with me that you'll be convinced, if you're not already convinced, that God still expects us to keep the Sabbath. Okay, what's the point of the whole sermon then? I see. Good. God commands all men everywhere to honor His eternal and His weekly Sabbath. That's very strongly said in the scripture, I believe. Alright, so the first point under that is what? Sarah. What is the fourth commandment? This is one of your catechism questions, isn't it, Sarah? You memorized that twice, I bet, right? At least. The next point after that. Yeah, why should we still obey this commandment? That's the big question everybody asks, all right? The most ignored commandment Most Christians keep every commandment, or at least believe they ought to keep every commandment, except the fourth commandment. That's true in Arminian circles. It's changed, I believe, because Arminians never had an exegetical basis for their position. It was just tradition that they did it. And they don't believe the Old Testament is binding or has much to teach them, and so they don't keep it. And that position, that basic trust or understanding of the Bible is crept into Reformed circles. And so even in Reformed circles, there's very little talk about the Sabbath day, very little attempt to keep it. People feel it's just like any other day that we go to church in the morning. And you see a decreasing of the amount of space given in worship. I think that's a real indication of a real weakness in people's lives. No longer is the whole day belong to God for public worship. Now we just squeeze everything into an hour in many circles. The sermon is shorter and shorter. You have to be out by such and such a time so you get home for football or whatever you like to watch. But the day is... God is not prominent in people's lives. He's not the most important thing and certainly not important in the way He sets forth in the Bible. The most ignored commandment. God commands every man or all men everywhere to honor His eternal and weekly Sabbath. What is the fourth commandment? Well, we read it. It's here in the catechism question. It just repeats basically Exodus 20 verse 11. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it you shall not do any work. You, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that's within your gates, For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth to see, and all that is in them is, and rest of the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Alright, I read that very fast because we already read it. But the real thrust of things comes in the second point. Hopefully everybody knows that we should keep the Sabbath. Later we're going to talk about why we've changed it to Sunday. We didn't change it. God changed it to Sunday. And all that the church has done is follow God's lead. How should we keep the Sabbath? What kind of things should we do? What are some of the things we shouldn't do? What are the principles that guide our Sabbath observance? And why is public worship so prominent in the Bible with reference to the Sabbath day? Maybe you don't know what it is, but we'll go through some of that. And how important does God think the Sabbath day is? And we'll go through some of that, but all that's later. I don't know how much time all this is going to take and maybe we'll not get through everything. Today we just want to look at six of the reasons why you should keep the Sabbath still. Why does God still think it's binding? We're not going to get through it all. Each one of these points is at least a sermon in itself, if not two or three sometimes. So first I'm going to do this. I'm going to read the six points. And then I'm going to just begin with the first one and explain it, and maybe the second one we'll see how far through the list we can get. These are the six things. First of all, God teaches us in the Bible that he is unchangeable, and his word is unchangeable. So unless God has changed, the God who gave us the Sabbath commandment, the commandment is still binding on us. We're going to look at a text that says that, where not only God is unchangeable, but where God argues that His law is unchangeable. That raises a lot of questions in your mind, and we're not going to answer them all, but I'm just going to make the assertion and show you from the Bible, the Bible, that's what God says, and we may handle one or two little questions. Alright, the second thing is that God established a covenant with man in the Garden of Eden before the fall, and we call it the Creation Covenant. God gave man certain orders, and among them was the Sabbath day, and God holds man responsible for the creational mandates, for the creational commandments, or the creational ordinances. We're going to look at that some. The third one is that Jesus taught that man is responsible to honor the Sabbath day because God made it for man. He doesn't say he made it for Old Testament man. He says he made it for man. And he reaffirmed the Sabbath day just as he reaffirmed some of the other creation ordinances. The third thing is that the book of Hebrews argues in Hebrews chapter 4 that the eternal rest of God in heaven is tied to the day of rest that God fixed for mankind. They just repeat that argument from the Old Testament, from the Sabbath commandment itself, but nonetheless it's in the New Testament, that's why it's there. It's a repetition of that Old Testament teaching. Now the fifth argument is that in the book of Acts, the early church led by the apostles of Christ kept the Sabbath day holy to God. They saw no reason to change it. The sixth thing is that the Apostle Paul taught us that All that Old Testament, those Old Testament commands are still binding on us. That is, the moral principles laid down in the Old Testament are still binding on us. And again, that raises some questions, but we'll seek to answer them. So if I don't answer all the questions, don't worry. We have lots of time before Christ comes, maybe. So call me or talk to me and I'll answer the best I can. Why should we still obey the Sabbath command? That's an important question because almost no one among Christians today agrees with us. And it's remarkable to me how in just a few years just from 1950 to 2002, a little over 50 years, that the whole church, Christendom as a whole, believers as a whole, have reversed themselves on this matter of the Sabbath day. I really am just dumbfounded. There are other things where they've reversed themselves, but this is one of the most shocking. So it's important because they're telling us that we shouldn't do it. They not only tell you that you shouldn't do it, but they call you a legalist. They not only call you a legalist, but they call you a pharisaical, that you're still attached to the Old Testament. You're still Jewish in your thinking. It's a form of heresy in many, many churches if you say, we still should keep the Sabbath. And Christians get, they get very, very upset at you if you tell them, look, if you don't honor God on the Sabbath day, you are violating the Word of God, and God He speaks very strongly against people who don't keep his Sabbath day in the Bible. One of the things that he raises up more than anything else is a sign, not just of being godly or being especially spiritual, but a sign just of being one of his people. So it's a real challenge if God says those kinds of things even and people deny, Christians deny that we shouldn't keep it. When God says if you don't keep the Sabbath day, you're not even my people. Now we'll look at those verses later. But it's important for us and should be as Christians because of the emphasis that God puts on the Sabbath day in the scripture. Alright, in the book of Malachi, the last book of the Bible, the last book of the Old Testament, the book of Malachi and chapter 3 you have a great prophecy of the coming of Jesus and what he's going to do okay Malachi 3 great prophecy of the coming of Jesus and what he's going to do behold I'll send my messenger and he'll prepare the way before me So the messenger is different than the me. The messenger is the one that announces the me is the one that's coming. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. So the me, it's clear, is the Lord God himself who will come to his temple. And suddenly, now you can all recognize what Jesus did. As recorded in the gospel of John, he went into the temple, he appeared as it were out of nowhere, and he cleansed the temple. And he claimed that this is his home by cleansing the temple. He'll come suddenly to cleanse the temple, even the messenger of the covenant. So this messenger is different than the first one. And so this one in my translation is capitalized, and the one in the first part of the verse is not capitalized. The first one is a mere man. The second one is God himself or deity. And so that's the way the translators took it. I think that's a proper understanding. It's not just a translation. It's an interpretation. In the Hebrew, everything's capitalized. There are no big letters and little letters. They're all big ones. And so they don't have a way of capitalizing things. But in English we do. It's an interpretation, not just a translation, but it's a proper translation. The one that's coming, the messenger, is God himself. And then it says, In whom you delight, behold, he's coming, says the Lord of Hosts. Who can endure the day of his coming and who can stand when he appears for he's like a refiner's fire and like a launderer's soap he's going to purify and cleanse that's what those two images mean a refiner's fire refines or purifies metal and launderer's soap is supposed to get your clothes clean and so they had that back in those days too that's the purpose of the coming of God himself in the form of one who is not God because he's a messenger of God. Which would be very confusing in a Hebrew context to say that God is coming, and there's only one God, but the person that's coming, although he's truly God, is not God. Not the same as God. Alright, so we know that as the doctrine of the Trinity. So he's going to come, he's going to come to purify, to cleanse. He'll come as a refiner and a purifier of silver. He'll purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer up to the Lord an offering in righteousness. then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord as in the days of old the former years. Let's go back a little bit to verse 3. I'm going to tell you my interpretation without working a lot on it to defend it, when he talks about purifying the sons of Levi. It's an Old Testament image. In the Old Testament, the sons of Levi. Levi is one of the twelve sons of Israel. And then there were twelve tribes. Each son had descendants. Twelve tribes. One of them was Levi. And Levi was the one from whom the priest came. And so you might understand verse 3 to mean that Christ is going to come and purify just the Levites of Israel. But I think you're wrong when you do that, because the New Testament tells us that we are all a kingdom of priests. We are all Levites in that sense. We are all ones that worship God directly and immediately. The only priest that we have over us is the Lord Jesus Christ. So now all of Israel is envisioned, I believe, as sons of Levi and they are all going to be purified by Christ. And then the offering of the people will be as good to God as it was in the days of old. And verse 5, I'll come near you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away from an alien because they do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts. Christ is going to come. It's query's deity. He's going to purify the sons of Levi, the people of Israel, and he's going to restore judgment and righteousness in the land, or among God's people. Verse 6 is what we're heading for. Verse 6 is sort of the key thing here. Therefore I am the Lord, I do not change, therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. Now what does that mean? Well, we all know that God doesn't change. Years and years ago in the Baptist-Arminian circle, I was taught that God doesn't change. This was the verse. God doesn't change. He is unchangeable. All Christians everywhere hopefully believe that. Although some play with that kind of idea too. But basically, it's one of the fundamentals of the faith that God is unchangeable. He doesn't change. He is the eternal one, the unchangeable one. Now God says he doesn't change, and then interestingly the second half is, therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. Now how does that have to do, what does that have to do with everything else in the context? Well, just verse 6. What does it have to do, the fact that God doesn't change, has to do with the statement that the sons of Jacob are not consumed. You have to remember the biblical, whole biblical context. God promised to Israel that he would save them. God promised it right after the fall in the Garden of Eden, that he would save his people, the sons, the descendants of the woman, as over against the descendants of the serpent. And that's worked out in the book of Genesis in the genealogies. God promised at every crisis in the history of mankind that he would save his people. And over and over and over again he repeats that promise. And when Israel was organized as a nation, God promised that he would save them. And he would save them all. Now, it's understood, of course, as Jesus explains it, as Paul explains it in Romans 9-11, that what's being talked about there are God's elect people. He'd save those out of Israel whom he wanted to save. And the rest of them weren't really Israel. He'd save the true Israel of God. And so, back here in Malachi 6, when God says to the sons of Jacob, He's saying, I have a covenant, and I'm going to bring my Messiah, and I'm going to bring my redemption, but I am going to judge you. The reason you're not consumed utterly, even though you're worth being consumed, even though your sin is serious enough that you should be consumed, is that I have a covenant and I'm going to keep it. So I am the Lord, I do not change, and therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. I do not change, and neither will my promise of judgment and grace change. My covenant doesn't change. Not essentially. And therefore you're not consumed. Can you see that? I hope you see that. And then before that, he said, the Messiah is going to come. Jesus is going to come to bring purification. not the complete destruction of Israel, not the complete destruction of all the people, but he's going to purify them and remove all the sins. There'll be judgment involved, but the sin will be removed. This prophecy says that God doesn't change and God's Word doesn't change. And what does that have to do with the Sabbath? It's all nice and interesting, maybe, but what does that have to do with the Sabbath? Well, because the Sabbath is part of God's covenant. And it's a key part, a central part of the covenant. Some of the later points review some of that history, how it's always been part of God's covenant right from the creation of the world. It's not just the Sabbath, salvation as the Sabbath, but it's one day out of seven that is part of God's covenant. Earlier, in the book of Malachi, God chided Israel for not keeping his Sabbath properly. That was part of God's covenant. And when Jesus comes, he says it's part of God's covenant. And in the New Testament, the New Testament says it's part of God's covenant. So God is saying to Israel, and to Israel he's saying it's us, that he expects us to keep his covenant. And part of that is Sabbath. So the first reason we should keep the Sabbath day is that God doesn't change, and his word doesn't change. Okay? Point two. We should keep the Sabbath because God holds man responsible for the creation covenant. That was implied in the first point. Now I want to look at it a little bit more carefully. In Isaiah chapter 25, verses 4-6 we read, For you have been a strength to the people, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the blast of the terrible ones is the storm against the wall. You'll reduce the noise of aliens as heat in a dry place, as heat in the shadow of a cloud. And a song of the terrible ones will be diminished, and in the mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of choice places, a feast of wines Oh, let's see. That's about that's not the right chapter, is it? Sorry about that. I may have to skip this and I think this is Chapter 24. Chapter 24. Computer error. We'll start reading with verse 4. The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, because they've transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and a few men are left. Now what this teaches me is that God holds man responsible for the creation covenant. Let me tell you why it teaches me that. Because in verse 5 it says they have broken the everlasting covenant. The everlasting covenant. And in the surrounding past verses it says that the people to be judged are mankind. Verse 6, therefore the curse has devoured the earth. So it's not just the covenant with Israel that's envisioned here, it's the everlasting covenant, or the creation covenant. God holds man responsible for the covenant he made in the Garden of Eden before the fall, whereby all mankind everywhere are to obey him completely. Now under the covenant, there are what may be called particular laws, and there are what may be called moral laws. The particular laws are laws that apply to a particular day and age. They take a moral principle and apply it to a particular day and age. So in the Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve, you can't eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and good and evil. That doesn't apply to us today. Why is that? Because there isn't any tree of knowledge of good and evil. And there are other times in the history of man that God has given particular commandments. God told Israel, you cannot move the boundary stones. In ancient Israel, when they had a piece of property, they marked it out, they drove the lines as it were, and they put stones in the corner of the property. And those corner stones were not to be moved, the boundary stones, and it was a terrible penalty if it was moved. And we don't have a command, that doesn't apply that way to us. Because why? We don't have any We don't we do we do it by surveyors and have it land all done out, drawn out by the map and by longitude and latitude and all that kind of stuff. Tom could come up and give us a whole lecture on that because he understands all about that stuff. That law is a particular law. There are other particular laws in the Old Testament, and some perhaps in the New Testament, in the days of Christ that apply. Jesus said, for example, to someone that was sick and was healed, go and show yourself to the priest. That's a particular law that applies only to that day, to the day when they had priests. We have no priest today, the Bible teaches us. So when you're healed of a sickness, through whatever means, you don't have to go and show yourself to a priest. Right, so there are particular laws, and then there are moral laws. The moral laws are the laws or the principles, even behind laws, the principles that are binding upon all men at all times. So God holds man responsible for his creation covenant. We'll get back to the moral law with reference to the Sabbath a little bit later. But in the Garden of Eden, we know that God sanctified the Sabbath day. It says in Genesis that when God finished or completed the creation work, He sanctified, He rested on the seventh day and He sanctified the Sabbath day and that was before the fall. And so it becomes a creation ordinance, something that God put upon mankind for all time. God holds man responsible to keep his creation covenant. I have the other verses, like the verse in Romans 5, that passage there, it says that all men sinned in Adam, even though they don't sin after the way of Adam. What does that mean? They all sin. So every single human being sins, says the Bible, but they don't sin in the same way Adam does. Some people say, well, that's because we don't eat of the fruit. No, it means that Adam represented all mankind, and so when he sinned, all mankind sinned. When I drive my car and I'm in an accident, I only affect myself. But when I drive my car and I'm in an accident and my family is in the car, I affect all of my family. My actions are in behalf of all the family. When you go into an airplane, the pilot is acting in your behalf. You have to trust the pilot. It's a big fall from 35,000 feet down to the earth. And so we trust the pilot, but his actions have bearing on us. And so the Bible says in this very similar way, Adam's action had influence on all mankind, and it argues that when Adam sinned, all mankind fell into sin and misery. So, when it talks about righteousness and about what Christ does there in Romans chapter 5, it says that Christ did what Adam couldn't do. Christ perfectly obeyed God. He did what we can't do, he argues in Romans chapter 8. We can't do it, our flesh can't please God, but Jesus, Christ, pleased God perfectly. So in arguing that Jesus did for us what we can't do for ourselves, it also argues that we are responsible to keep God's creation covenant. Okay, we're to keep the Sabbath day because God holds man responsible for the creation covenant, and the Sabbath is one of those things that's part of the creation covenant. The next point sort of works that out a little bit more, and this will probably be the last one we get through this morning. Why do we keep the Sabbath? Because God holds man responsible for all of his creation ordinances, not just the covenant in general, but the ordinances in particular underneath it. And so I list some of the ordinances here. By ordinance it means something that God established when he created man and told man that man should do. These are the ways things are to be ordered. So it's an ordinance. The worship and service of God is a creation ordinance. All mankind are responsible to worship and serve God. A marriage and having children is a creation ordinance. And so all mankind, in order to have children, or in order to enjoy the benefits of marriage or sex, one of the things we need to do is get married. It's not wrong to enjoy such a thing. God created us that way. But outside of marriage it's wrong. God says it's a creation ordinance. And having family, the family order that the man is the head of the home. and the Sabbath is part of the creation ordinances. In the New Testament, in Matthew chapter 19, Jesus argues when the Sadducee is asking about marriage, Jesus argues that you can't just divorce for just any reason. Why is that, said Jesus? Because in the beginning, God argued, God established that a man should marry one woman, that's it. And so Jesus affirms that we should follow the creation ordinance. Matthew 19, 3-6. So it's the Pharisees that come in verse 3, the Pharisees also came to him testing him and saying to him, is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason? Now in Moses, in Exodus or Deuteronomy 24 says that a man can divorce his wife if he finds a fault in her. And the word that occurs in Hebrew occurs only once in Hebrew in the whole Bible. It's what's called a hapasogomenon. It occurs only once. And so scholars debate what that word meant. And the Pharisees worked it out so that a man could just divorce his wife for almost any reason. And they're asking him the question, is that correct? And Jesus said, he answered and said to them, have you not read what he who made them at the beginning that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female so he is pointing out the beginning, the creation before the fall and he said for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh And so then there are no longer two but one flesh, therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate. And so you see in verse 5, if you have a Bible like mine, the words, for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh, it's in italics in my version because that's a quotation from the Old Testament. Now in Greek there are no italics. There are capitals, unlike Hebrew, but there are no italics. But our translators put that in italics for us so we can pick out easier the quotations from the Old Testament. That has a certain weakness to it, but at least it's profitable at this point. the pre-fall revelation of God and responding to the Pharisees and then verse 6 he gives his interpretation with reference to their question. So then they are no longer two but one flesh. That is the husband and wife are not two but they are one flesh. That is the union, the lawful union of man and wife is so strong that in God's judgment we are one. Now sometimes there's dissension in the body, because you're still one. Sometimes it's difficult, because there's two wills involved, there's two minds, two plans. But God says you're still one. So the whole biblical doctrine of divorce and marriage and how things are to operate are founded on what God did in the creation. And then Jesus draws the conclusion that two are one flesh, and he goes further for the answer, therefore what God has joined together, let not man Now notice the question is, is it lawful for man to divorce his wife for just any reason? Can there be no-fault divorce? Or can there be divorce for just any reason that man thinks there should be a divorce. And Jesus' answer is, what God has joined together, let not man separate. A man cannot divorce his wife just for any reason. Now elsewhere, Jesus says, there are reasons. There are valid reasons for divorce, but God determines the reasons. Now, let's be very, very clear on it, that what Jesus is arguing is that in the beginning God established things in such and such a way, and then all mankind are bound by that from the very fall of man. And then in Mark chapter 2, That's the principle of creation ordinances and applied in Matthew to divorce. Mark chapter 2 verse 27 and 28. We'll start with verse 23. Now it happened that he went through the grain fields on the Sabbath day. What day is it? Sabbath day. And as they went, his disciples began to pluck the heads of the grain. I hope you all know that grain grows on plants and there's a harvest time. You can all see some of us are city people, so we don't know that, but I sure we do. We've seen pictures, but that's what they were doing was harvest time. They're walking through the field. They get hungry and it's a Sabbath day and they take some grains. They're harvesting the grain. And the Pharisees said to him, look, why did they do what's not lawful on the Sabbath in the Old Testament? Moses commanded, at the instruction of God, he commanded the people of Israel not to gather food on the Sabbath day. It's very clear. Don't gather food on the Sabbath day. So when the Pharisees are saying they're doing what's not lawful, they have the Old Testament support for this judgment that it's not lawful. But he said to them, Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry? He and those with him high went into the house of God in the days of Abiaphar, the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priest, and also gave some to those who were with him." That is, Jesus' argument is that David, who was the man after God's own heart, picked the bread not just from the fields but he got it from the place right outside the Holy of Holies that was limited by God's law only to priests and it was given to him and he and his men ate it. That's a big violation of God's law, and a clear violation. So Jesus says to the Pharisees, let's not talk about the peanuts of picking grain, let's talk about the big heavy stuff of getting bread right from the temple. David did that, and you know, and I know, that God did not judge David because of that. Not one word is said in the Bible that what David did is wrong. Now they could argue with it, but silence doesn't make an argument, and that's true. You might say something to someone and they're quiet. That doesn't mean they agree. That just means they're quiet. And sometimes that's true with God. But Jesus' argument is, God isn't just quiet. God is approving what David did. How can he argue that? Well, the Pharisees are smart guys, they knew. Because David went from there under the blessing of God. He is being pursued by Saul and his army. And God never withdrew that blessing from David because of this terrible act that he did. In other words, God said it wasn't a terrible act. And God said that it was important for David and his people for the preservation of life to eat that bread. And that was more important than keeping it holy in the temple. And so they understood the frustrated Jesus argument. And Jesus, now they don't like this, Jesus is doing the same thing as God is his argument. God said, you can eat the bread in the holy place, and I'm saying that you can eat the bread, as it were, the grain out of the field. I'm putting my, he's putting himself on the same level as God. And he hasn't done it yet, but he's doing that. And then he said to them, the Sabbath was made for man and not for man. That's the first principle. The second one is, therefore the Son of Man is the Lord also of the Sabbath. It's verse 28 where he puts himself on a par with God. The Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath. I will say what can be done and what can't be done on the Sabbath day, just like God does in the Old Testament. The Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath. But verse 27, the Sabbath was made for man and not for man, teaches us that this is a creation ordinance. The background has to be. that all mankind are under the Sabbath ordinance. God made, that refers us back to the creation in my judgment. God made the Sabbath for man. God made it for mankind. He didn't make the Sabbath man for the Sabbath. That is, he didn't give his word, his law, in the Old Testament so that people are going to be killed by it if they don't have food. But rather as a way to release man to something better. It was made for man's good and for man's health. In the Second World War, many of the plants worked seven days a week. The state of our nation was at stake. And some Christians argued, you know, people aren't as efficient if they don't have rest. People need one day out of seven. They were arguing from the scripture. The companies that followed the giving to people one day of rest had better production than the companies that didn't follow it. And so the outcome of that was little by little, every company took a day of rest. And now more recent studies, I just read one the other day by some psychologist somewhere, that their study of men need to rest. We need one day of rest from our physical labors and from the pressures of our work. The Sabbath day is not an oppressive day. The Sabbath day is a day when we are released. We need it. We need that break. God created us that way. That's why it's a creation ordinance. But everything else goes with it too. We also need to properly worship God. All right, we'll go into that later. But God, we should keep the Sabbath because God holds man responsible for all his creation ordinances. The Sabbath is made for man. We're men, but we need to keep the Sabbath. Let's pray.