Call the Sabbath a delight

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Call the Sabbath a delight
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Lord's Day, The
By Pipa, Joey
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Bluelaws.NET presents a short quote on Isaiah 58:13, from Professor Joey Pipa's book; The Lord's Day:
"God does not forbid our work or pleasure on the Sabbath because He is opposed to pleasure.   Rather, He is called us to turn aside from lesser pleasures in order to seek the greater pleasures He has in store for us in the day.   Thus the prophet continues by telling us what to do.   Positively, we are to honour and revere the day: 'call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD, honorable.' Not only are we to refrain from profaning the day, but also we must honour it and delight in it as God's holy day.
We are to consider the Sabbath a delight.   the word 'delight' is a form of the word used in verse 14, 'to delight in God.' As we noted above, the word means 'to take exquisite pleasure'.   As we delight in beloved people or beautiful things, so we are to delight in the spiritual exercises of the day. We are to take great pleasure in worship, fellowship, and Christian service. With this command Isaiah begins to attack the formalism alluded to above. Proper worship and Sabbath-keeping spring from an exuberant delight in the spiritual exercises of the day.
Furthermore, we delight in the day as we honour it. Since God has set it aside, we are to honour the day as special, the holy day of the Lord. This is what God means in the forth commandment when He says, 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." We remember the Sabbath day by taking exquisite delight in the day and calling it honourable."

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