Where Can We Find Our Deepest Rest? (4 of 4)
Series: Good Question
Bob Ingle
Mark 2:23-3:6
As a little boy growing up in a pastor's home, when I heard ''Sabbath,'' I thought ''bored out of your skull.'' Because I was kind of taught that the Sabbath was a day of church and naps and nothing else. So we went to church from morning to noon, went home to take a nap, and then we woke up to go back to church for choir practice at 5, and training union at 6, and worship service at 7, so that we could be back home in bed by 8:30, so we could get ready for prison - I mean, school - the next day. I had a hard childhood.
I would hear deacons praying, ''Oh Lord, thank You for this Sabbath day,'' and in my mind, I'm thinking, ''I hate this. It's so boring, the Sabbath day.'' It was a day of doing nothing, especially if it was fun. ''Mom, can I go to Tommy's house?'' ''Bobby, this is the Sabbath day. This is the Lord's day, this is a church day, this is a nap day, this is a rest day, this is a day that we sit and we think on holy things. You sit over there, and you think holy thoughts, because this is the day that the Lord has made, and you will rejoice and be glad in it!''
Now, I may be exaggerating just a bit, but in my little boy mind, that's what I heard. Sabbath day means being really bored and not doing anything fun. Let ask, did anybody else hear that growing up?
Let me, at the beginning of this message, give you a statement that will either bless you or bother you. I'm not going to explain what I mean until the end.
Sunday is not the Christian Sabbath. I just blew some of you way out of the water. Sunday is not the Christian Sabbath. What has happened is this: Many of us, as Christians, have been taught that somehow, the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath are really the same, they're just celebrated on different days. The Jews on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. And that is just not true, because what has happened is this: Christians th ...
Series: Good Question
Bob Ingle
Mark 2:23-3:6
As a little boy growing up in a pastor's home, when I heard ''Sabbath,'' I thought ''bored out of your skull.'' Because I was kind of taught that the Sabbath was a day of church and naps and nothing else. So we went to church from morning to noon, went home to take a nap, and then we woke up to go back to church for choir practice at 5, and training union at 6, and worship service at 7, so that we could be back home in bed by 8:30, so we could get ready for prison - I mean, school - the next day. I had a hard childhood.
I would hear deacons praying, ''Oh Lord, thank You for this Sabbath day,'' and in my mind, I'm thinking, ''I hate this. It's so boring, the Sabbath day.'' It was a day of doing nothing, especially if it was fun. ''Mom, can I go to Tommy's house?'' ''Bobby, this is the Sabbath day. This is the Lord's day, this is a church day, this is a nap day, this is a rest day, this is a day that we sit and we think on holy things. You sit over there, and you think holy thoughts, because this is the day that the Lord has made, and you will rejoice and be glad in it!''
Now, I may be exaggerating just a bit, but in my little boy mind, that's what I heard. Sabbath day means being really bored and not doing anything fun. Let ask, did anybody else hear that growing up?
Let me, at the beginning of this message, give you a statement that will either bless you or bother you. I'm not going to explain what I mean until the end.
Sunday is not the Christian Sabbath. I just blew some of you way out of the water. Sunday is not the Christian Sabbath. What has happened is this: Many of us, as Christians, have been taught that somehow, the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath are really the same, they're just celebrated on different days. The Jews on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. And that is just not true, because what has happened is this: Christians th ...
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