Psalm 95, as we saw, was David’s psalm for the Sabbath. And we will see that that has a direct bearing to what Paul wrote in chapter 4 concerning the Sabbath and concerning David. So I want to ask you a question concerning the Sabbath, whether you are listening to this on the Sabbath day or another day, I want to ask you the question: Today, will you hear His voice?

“‘Harden not your hearts, as in the rebellion in the wilderness,...’” (Heb. 3:8, AT). Now what was the first rebellion? Right after God gave the Ten Commandments on the Day of Pentecost; which included, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy”, what did they do? As soon as Moses didn’t come down from the mountain as quickly as they thought, they said, “Well this man Moses, we don’t know what happened to him.” So they went to Aaron. And Aaron caved in to the political pressure and the majority vote of the people when they said, “Make as gods, Aaron.” So Aaron did. And he made the golden calf. And the golden calf was sun worship. Because in between the horns of the golden calf was the sun disk, showing that they were worshiping the sun. And on what day do you suppose they had a feast unto their gods which they had made? Sunday. That was rebellion in the wilderness. What happened to them? Those who instigated it were consumed. The earth opened and swallowed them up. Now those things are written for our admonition that we don’t do the same thing, that we don’t tempt God.

And here, right while Moses was getting all of the Law, they did that. Then when it came time for them to go into the Promised Land, ten of the spies came back and said, “Oooh, We can’t go in. The people are tall, and the cities are walled up.” And Joshua and Caleb said, “No. Don’t listen to them. God will deliver us.” And the people said, “God, why did You bring us out here to kill us and our children?” And they complained, and weeped, and wailed, and moaned, and groaned, rebelled against God all night. So God gave His judgment against the hardness of their heart and said, “Because you accuse Me of killing your children, you will die in this wilderness. And your children, which you said that I would kill, I will bring into the Promised Land.” And then they had the remorse of the world: “Oh, we sinned! Oh, we sinned! We’ll do as the Lord said.” And Moses said, “Don’t go up. God has already made His judgment. Don’t go fight. God is not with you.” They went up anyway and they got slaughtered. You see, you don’t tempt God. You don’t come to God with your rebellion and your hard-heartedness, and expect God to accept it or you. You come to God on God’s terms, with a repentant heart and determination to hear His voice.

“‘Harden not your hearts, as in the rebellion in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted Me and tried Me, and saw My works forty years’” (vs. 8-9, AT). Now what were they worshiping? What were those renegades doing, those who didn’t serve God, what were they doing? Here, you go back to Amos 5, let’s read it. Amos 5:26. This may come as a shock and surprise to you, because most people think that the children of Israel were obediently keeping the Sabbath in the wilderness. Such was not the case. They rejected the Sabbath in the wilderness, and God rejected them, turned them over to their own devices. Only those who were following the commands of God and following Moses, they were the only ones who were keeping the Sabbath and doing what was right.

But notice here, let’s pick it up in verse 21. God says, “I hate, I despise your feast days,...”, which He does - of Christmas, and Easter, and New Year’s, and all the feast days which the Roman Catholic Church has, and the Anglican Church, and the Protestant Churches. “Though ye offer Me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols” (Amos 5:21-23). And isn’t that something, all of the silly singing that goes on in some of these churches. Some of them that’s all they do. They have songs of praise worship for forty minutes, five minutes of scripture reading, ten minutes more of praise singing; they have another ten minute sermon, and it’s over with. And it’s a feely-good, carnal thing, designed for the lust of the eyes, the lust of the ears, the lust of the mind, to serve the flesh. God says He doesn’t hear that.

He says, “But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Have ye offered unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? [The answer, no.] But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch [Sunday-keeping] and Chiun your images, the star of your god,...” And isn’t it interesting that the religions of this world always come back to sun worship and star worship? Did you know that the Pope is the representative of sun worship in the West, and the Dali Lama is the representative of sun worship in the East? If you’ve never heard that, you’ve got a long way to go. It’s time for you to wake up. It’s time for you to come out of your sleep. It’s time for you to stop ignoring the truth. It’s time for you to pull the shades off your eyes, and pull the corks out of your ears, and get eye salve that you can see, and get a spiritual hearing aid so you can hear. “...The star of your god, which ye made to yourselves” (vs. 24-26). That’s why they were killed in the wilderness. Right in the presence of God they did all these things.

Now let’s come back to Hebrews 3. Let’s pick it up here in verse 10 (AT). Now maybe you can understand why God was wroth with them. Now if you have children, what if in your very house your own children came in and had sex orgies, drug parties, disrespected your house, tore it apart, and did it right in front of you? Would you not be angry? Yes. Well that’s what they did to God. So sometimes when these things take place you need to have a little personal application so that you can understand what it is. God is a God of love. But if you go against Him and sin, you are going to pay the penalty because the wages of sin is death, and misery in between until there is death.

Now Hebrews 3:10 (AT), “‘Because of this, I was indignant with that generation, and said, “They are always going astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways.” So I swore in My wrath, “If they shall enter into My rest-”‘” The Greek here is katapausin, meaning into the Promised Land. They were to have rest from their journeys, rest from their enemies. Verse 12, here is the lesson. Paul says, “Beware, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,...” (vs. 10-12, AT). If you don’t believe the Sabbath, you have an evil heart of unbelief and you don’t believe in God the Father and Jesus Christ. You are using the Scriptures, you are abusing the Scriptures, you are using them to your own end, and God’s judgment will be on you, just like it was upon the children of Israel.

“...An evil heart of unbelief, in apostatizing from the living God. Rather, be encouraging one another each day, while it is called ‘today,’ so that none of you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin” (vs. 12-13, AT). Sin is the transgression of the law. And it is deceitful. Have you been hardened by the deceitfulness of sin in your life, and yet think you are justified, and yet think that you are a good Christian? You better stop and think again. You better examine yourself according to the Word of God.

“For we are companions of Christ, if...” You might circle that little word, “if” – conditional, “...if we truly hold steadfastly until the end to the confidence we had at the beginning.” And what were they doing at the beginning? Sabbath-keeping, holy day keeping. That’s going back to beginning when the Holy Spirit was given on Pentecost, a holy day of God. “As it is said, ‘Today,...’” Now I want you to take this and read it to yourself. And I want you to apply it to yourself and ask the question in your deepest part of your heart and mind before God, “…‘Today, if you will hear His voice [Will you hear His voice?] [Do not] harden your hearts as in the rebellion.’ For some who heard it did rebel, but not all who came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was He indignant for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose dead bodies were strewn in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, except those who disobeyed?” (vs. 14-18, AT).

Question: Do you think you’re going to be in the kingdom of God if you disobey? Do you think you’re going to be in the kingdom of God if you harden your heart and don’t repent, and don’t start obeying God and keeping His commandments from your heart? I tell you, no. Christ tells you, no. So we see that they were unable to enter in because of unbelief. They didn’t have faith. And it takes faith to keep the Sabbath. It doesn’t take any faith to keep Sunday. It takes faith to keep the holy days. It doesn’t take any faith to keep Christmas, and Easter, and New Year’s, and Halloween, and all of the satanic days of this world. That’s just doing what’s natural. That’s following along with the world. There’s no faith involved in that. And if you think that you’re a Christian and doing God’s will by doing that you have hardened your heart in the deceitfulness of sin. And know God’s judgment is going to come on you, just like it did with the children of Israel.

Now let’s see how the apostle Paul bore that out. Let’s come here to chapter 4, beginning in verse 1. “Therefore [that means consequently, because of this], we should fear [that we live in sin] lest perhaps, a promise being open to enter into His rest,...” because the promise is open. And this rest is katapausin, which means to enter into His final rest in the kingdom of God. We are going to see there are three applications of the word “rest”: one, resting from labor; two, resting from your sins; and three, entering into the rest, that is, into the kingdom of God. Now entering into the Promised Land by the children of Israel was a fore type of entering into the kingdom of God. But now it’s the eternal kingdom of God. And now the stakes are eternal. It’s not just some physical thing.

“…To enter into His rest, any of you might seem to come short. For truly, we have had the gospel preached to us,…” by Christ, by the apostles, by the ministers of God, through the Word of God, “…even as they also did;…” Now the gospel to them was not the eternal kingdom of God, but the good news of entering into the Promised Land, the physical kingdom. “…But the preaching of the word did not profit them, because it was not mixed with faith in them who heard.” They didn’t believe God that they were going to go into the Promised Land. When He brought them right up to the edge to go in and conquer the land, they said, “No, we can’t do this God!” Verse 3, “For we who have believed [are believing], we ourselves are entering into the rest; as He has said,…” (Heb. 4:1-3, AT).

Now we’re going to see in just a little bit, to “enter into that rest” means: one, you rest on the seventh day Sabbath and the holy days; two, you will enter into the kingdom of God; three, you enter into the rest of having your sins forgiven. And when you enter into the rest of Christ, he does not give you permission to sin. He gives you permission not to sin because you are resting in the sacrifice of Christ, and you are resting on the Sabbath day. We’ll see that. “…As He has said, ‘So I swore in My wrath, “If they shall enter into My rest -”’…” Now it’s the same thing today. It’s conditional. Will you enter into the rest of God? You have to answer that question. “…Although the works were finished from the foundation of the world” (vs. 3, AT), and this goes right back to where we began this series on the Sabbath – how God created it; and we will look at that again in just a minute.

“For He spoke in a certain place about the seventh day in this manner:…” What are we talking about? What day is the seventh day? It’s the Sabbath. “For He spoke in a certain place about the seventh day in this manner: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all His works’;…” (vs. 4). Now we’re going to look at that. I have with me here a Septuagint Bible, which is the Old Testament in Greek, and the wording in the Greek in the Old Testament and New Testament are almost identical. So I’m going to read it to you here. Genesis 2:2 (Sept.), “And God finished on the sixth day…” which is a correct translation. “…His works which He had made. And He ceased…” the verb form of katapausin – stopped. Katapausin means to cease, to stop, to rest. “…He ceased on the seventh day from all His works which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; because in it He ceased [or rested] from all His works which God began to do.”

Now let’s understand something here that’s very important: the Sabbath day has been blessed and sanctified. And you cannot have sanctification in Christ unless you keep the holy Sabbath day, which gives you sanctification for the proper worship of God. No other day was sanctified from creation until now. Not a single other day than the weekly Sabbath and the annual sabbaths have been sanctified. And in it you need to understand that God gave the Sabbath as a gift. The one Who created it was Christ, Who was the Lord God of the Old Testament. And He is the one Who gave it to mankind. Now this is important for us to understand and realize when we’re going through chapter 4 here.

Now let’s come back to Hebrews 4, and let’s continue in verse 5 (AT). “And again concerning this: ‘If they shall enter into My rest - ’ Consequently, since it remains for some to enter into it,…” Some to be called and enter into the rest, having their sins forgiven; some called to enter in to the rest of keeping the Sabbath, and enter into the rest of the kingdom of God. “…And those who had previously heard the gospel did not enter in because of disobedience,…” (vs. 5-6). And that was disobedience to the Sabbath day.

Now verse 7. We come to a special time in history again. Because all during the judges, as we saw, the people, the children of Israel left God, left His commandments, went after Baal and Ashtoreth. They did the same thing under Saul, though Saul started out as the first king and was a good king at first while he was little in his own eyes. But then he sinned and rebelled against God. Then we come to David. Now we have a new epic. David was a man after God’s heart. So God again set aside the time. And David wrote the 95^th Psalm, which is all of this concerning “today.” So let’s read it.

 Verse 7, “Again He marks out a certain day,…” Not the first day. Not the sixth day. Not the fifth day – but the seventh day. “…‘Today,’ saying in David after so long a time (exactly as it has been quoted above), ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.’” Now you have to ask yourself that question today. What did they harden their hearts to, toward? The Sabbath. Now verse 8. Now we’ll cover this in depth a little later when we do a series in the book of Hebrews. “For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken long afterwards of another day” (vs. 7-8, AT). In other words, if inheriting the kingdom of God of the physical nation coming into Canaan, the Promised Land, if that was the completion of God’s plan, it would have ended everything with Joshua dividing up the land for the people. But it didn’t, you see.

Now then, that’s why He spoke of it so long after that. After Joshua to David, He said again, “Today, if you will hear His voice…” That is, concerning the Sabbath, “…harden not your hearts…’’ Now verse 9 (AT), “Therefore, there remains Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.” Now this is a direct command for Sabbath-keeping in the New Testament. Therefore, because of God’s plan of the kingdom of God as we started out in the beginning of the gospel of Christ, He preached “Repent, and believe the gospel, the kingdom of God is at hand.” And if you’re going to enter into that rest of the kingdom of God, then there remains Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

Now we’ll look at the details of the word “Sabbath-keeping” in just a minute. Let’s ask the question, who are the people of God? Let’s come to 1 Peter 2. And this is when Peter wrote to the Gentiles who were in Paul’s area. So it probably was right after Paul was martyred. So we find here in 1 Peter – let’s just look at the first chapter for just a minute, and then we will go to the second chapter – and answer the question, who are the people of God? Do the “people of God” just mean the Jews? No. Because the Jews today, though they are physically the people of God, just as the Israelites are physically the people of God, they are not the people of God spiritually. The Jews, spiritually, have been rejected. The Israelites, spiritually, have been rejected. So they are not the people of God. They are the same as Gentiles in the world.

Now here, 1 Peter 1:1, “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers…” Now that means to those who are Gentiles. “…Scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,…” All the former area of the apostle Paul. Now notice what he says here. Let’s come down to verse 9 of chapter 2. “But ye [the ones he’s writing to] are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,…” Not yet installed, because that will happen when Christ returns. “…An holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light: which in time past [because you are Gentiles] were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1 Peter 2:9-10). The people of God include the Gentiles. This is commanding Sabbath-keeping for all people of God, whether Jew, or Gentile, or Hebrew, or Israelite, or Scythian, or bond, or Roman, whatever it is. There is a command: “Consequently, therefore, there remains Sabbath-keeping for the people of God” (Heb. 4:9, paraphrased).

Now let’s come back and let’s analyze this a little more closely in verse 9. Now let’s look at the word that has been translated “Sabbath-keeping.” The Greek there is sabbatismos. Now sabbatismos is a, what we call in English today a gerund, which then has been a verb which has become a noun – “Sabbath-keeping.” And that is in the nominative case here, in this case, being the subject. Sabbath-keeping remains. Now then, “remains” is stronger than “remember.” When you go back to Exodus 20, which we will in just a minute, it says, “Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy.” Now sabbatismos in the verb form is sabbatisee. That is the infinitive. In the regular verb form it is sabbatiso. In the Septuagint version of the Bible we have direct use of the word sabbatiso in the form of the verb to show that it means Sabbath-keeping. So when it’s talking about Sabbath-keeping here, sabbatismos in Hebrews 4:9, it’s not talking about a rest. It’s talking about a Sabbath rest, Sabbath-keeping. Now we’ll see that. Let’s look at it.

Let’s come here to Leviticus 23:32. And that’s very important, because Leviticus 23:32 is defining for us how and when a sabbath should be kept in referring directly to the Day of Atonement. Let me read it here, the English translation from the Septuagint: “It shall be a holy sabbath to you [that is, the Day of Atonement], and you shall humble yourselves: from the ninth day of the month at even, from even to even, shall you keep your sabbaths.” Now in the Greek it’s plural. So this is a verb, then, this is a sentence including all of the Sabbaths. That’s why sabbatismos, meaning Sabbath-keeping, includes the annual holy days. Now what do you suppose the verb is here, that is used in the Septuagint? The verb here is sabbatisite, which is the verb form for the plural “you,” “you all.” “You all shall keep (or celebrate) your Sabbath.” And it’s translated “keep” in the Septuagint; “celebrate” in the King James.

Now that’s very powerful for you to understand. There is absolutely no getting around the dogmatic statement of Hebrews 4:9, “Therefore, there remains Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.” That is as strong, if not stronger than the fourth commandment in Exodus 20. Let’s see another thing concerning this. Let’s go to Exodus 20. Let’s read it here in the Septuagint. And we are going to find that the word katapausen referring to “resting” for keeping the Sabbath is used. Now let’s come here, Exodus 20, and let’s pick it up here in verse 8. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Why? Because God made it holy, and God gave you the Sabbath. Do you understand that the Sabbath is a gift from God? Do you realize that? One of the best and greatest gifts that He has given mankind, that he can know Who God is, that he can fellowship with God, that he can rest from his labors and his works, that he can rest from his sins, that he can fellowship with God? That’s why He says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

“Six days shall you labor, and do all your work; but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On it you shall do no work: you, or your son, or your daughter, or your servant, or your maidservant, your ox, your ass, or your cattle, nor the stranger that sojourns with you. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that in them is, and rested…” (vs. 9-11, Septuagint). Katapause – the verb form of the noun katapausen, rest. So He rested. So if you want to enter into His rest of Sabbath-keeping, you will katapause yourself. So you see how powerful that is. This is not just some little theological thing that theologians and scholars go to and purr their way through their lies to say that this excuses you from keeping the Sabbath. You know, you need to learn something very important. The Scriptures are such that carnal-minded people who hate God, who lie, who cheat with the Word of God, who want to justify their traditions and their religions, they go to the very scripture which condemns them for what they are doing. And where they claim that Hebrews 4 says, “Why, it’s ok. You don’t have to keep the Sabbath,” that is the very scripture which says, “Therefore, there remains Sabbath-keeping for the people of God” in a dogmatic statement. You need to understand that. “…And rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it…” (vs. 11), and no other weekly day. He hallowed the annual Sabbaths. Now that’s another whole topic. But we’re talking about the weekly Sabbath here.

Now since we’re here in the book of Exodus, let’s turn quickly back to Exodus 16, and we’re going to see that the verb form of sabbatiso is used right here in Exodus 16, beginning in verse 29. “See, for the Lord has given you this day as the Sabbath,…” The seventh day. It is a gift of God. He gave it to you. “…Therefore He has given you on the sixth day the bread of two days;…”, which was also a gift from God. Now you come to the New Testament, Christ also kept the Sabbath; He was also a gift of God, was He not? And He was the bread from heaven, correct? Yes. So you see the parallel there. That’s quite a thing. “…Let none of you go forth out of his place on the seventh day. And the people kept the Sabbath on the seventh day” (Ex. 16:29-30, Septuagint). The Greek there is e sabbatisen, which then is the past tense of sabbatiso. So when it says sabbatismos back there in Hebrews 4:9, it is talking about Sabbath-keeping and celebrating the Sabbath. And yes, there are some other scriptural references; when we come to Leviticus 26 it talks about the land receiving its sabbatisite – resting.

Now let’s come on back here to Hebrews 4, and let’s understand what it’s talking about with the rest of this. Now when you understand that the quotes given from the Old Testament in the book of Hebrews come from the Septuagint version of the Bible, then you will understand the profound significance of Sabbath-keeping. So then, “there remains Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.” Now let’s continue. Verse 10 (AT), “For the one who has entered into His rest,…” Now there are two “entering ins” here. One, you enter into the rest from sin. Jesus said, “All you that labor and are heavy burdened, come to Me, and learn of Me, and follow Me, and I will give you rest.” Let’s turn there. Let’s go to Matthew 11. Let’s read that. That’s very important to understand. Because Christ is not giving you rest from Sabbath-keeping, He is giving you rest from your sins.

Now let’s pick it up right here, Matthew 11:28. “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” There’s a double meaning to that. You come to Christ on the Sabbath, on His rest day, and He will give you rest. You come to Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and He will give you rest from your sins. “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me;…” How did Christ keep the Sabbath? We went through and saw that, didn’t we? He gave the way for the New Covenant on how to keep it. Did you learn of Christ? “…For I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto [for] your souls.” Now rest from sin and rest from your labor – katapausin in both cases. “For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light” (Matt. 11:28-30). And you know, 1 John 5:3 says that if we love God we will keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.

You need to understand, the true Sabbath of God is kept according to the New Covenant, and is not a burden, but a joy, a blessing, a part of the grace of God, a part of the love and fellowship of God that you need. You see, if you have gone to Sunday-keeping, or you’re out there in some religion of the world, you need to stop. You need to take account. You need to look into the Word of God. You need to understand what God is saying. You need to understand what these scriptures are telling you. And if you have been a Sabbath-keeper and you are thinking about going back to Sunday-keeping, you better stop. You better look. You better listen. You better hear. You better not harden your heart.

Now notice, let’s come back here to Hebrews 4:10 (AT) again. “For the one who has entered into His rest [katapausin – and that is resting on the Sabbath], he also has ceased from his works [after six days], just as God did from His own works.” Now if you’re going to cease from your works, as God ceased from His works…now that means, if you’re a Sunday-keeper, you’re going to quit keeping Sunday. Because that is your work. Do you understand that? That’s not a work of God. Now notice verse 11 (AT): “We should be diligent therefore…” Not haphazard; not sloppily; not consider the Sabbath a sports day, or anything like that; or to neglect on the Sabbath or to lounge around on the Sabbath. It’s a day of worship, it’s a day of study, it’s a day of fellowship, it’s day of getting close to God. So therefore, during the six days you need to be diligent to enter into that rest. Because what will happen if you don’t? “…Lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.” And that disobedience means you are breaking the Sabbath, and you are not keeping it. Do you understand that? Do you grasp the significance of what this is telling us in Hebrews 4?

Now if you don’t, then he gives a very powerful lesson. “Today, while it is today, will you hear His voice, and harden not your hearts as in the wilderness?” Will you, today? If not then, read verse 12 (AT): “For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of both soul and spirit, and of both joints and marrow, and is able to judge the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Do you think that you are going to get into the kingdom of God by rejecting the Sabbath and keeping Sunday, by rejecting the holy days of God and keeping the satanic days of this world? You have another thought coming. Because the Word of God is sharp, it is living, and it’s going to cut asunder. And God’s judgment will be upon you. Think of it! Do you want the judgment of God upon you, like He did with the children of Israel? And God’s judgment is coming upon this nation for all of the things that they are doing, and all of the Sabbath-breaking, and all of the Sunday-keeping, and all of the hypocritical religion that people have today in this land. And it is coming, lo, it’s coming. Just like it did on the children of Israel.

“And there is not a created thing that is not manifest in His sight; but all things are naked and laid bare before the eyes of Him to Whom we must give account” (vs. 13, AT). And are you ready to give account to God? Is Christ covering your life with His sacrifice? Are you loving Him and keeping His commandments? Are you loving God the Father with all your heart and mind and soul and being? And that the account will be given that the righteousness of Christ will be imputed to you because you love God, you love His commandments, you love His Sabbath, you love His holy days, and you do the things that are pleasing to Him?

“Having therefore a great High Priest [you can overcome any obstacle], Who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold fast the confession of our faith [and Sabbath-keeping]. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one Who was tempted in all things according to the likeness of our own temptations, yet He was without sin. Therefore, we should come with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (vs. 14-16, AT).

And that’s what you need to do now concerning the Sabbath. Come to the very throne of God; come to the truth of God; come with a repentant heart; keep the Sabbath; keep the commandments of God; turn to Christ with all you heart and mind and soul and being; and honor the Sabbath, and serve God the way that He has shown.

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