BREAKFAST WITH JESUS
BREAKFAST WITH JESUS
A daily devotional
Pastor Stanley
21st NOVEMBER 2024
SABBATH-REST IN CHRIST
Mark 2:27-28 Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." (NIV)
Like every of the law of Moses the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath. The law asked man to rest (sabbath) but sabbath shouldn't be master over him; he shouldn't become a slave to Sabbath. The Lord Jesus said that the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath, and that He Himself is the Lord of the sabbath.
Being the Lord of the sabbath doesn't mean He is the maker of the Sabbath. Let us get something from His statement "So the Son of Man is Lord EVEN of the Sabbath."
He is Lord even of the sabbath as He is Lord over all else. The Lord Jesus was not subject to anything or the law during His time on earth. He was Lord over all. He didn't have to be subject to a particular day for rest, whether or not He wanted rest. He was sabbath to Himself.
The Bible tells us that anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their works. Christ is God's rest for the church.
Hebrews 4:9-10 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
In Christ we have been brought into God's rest spiritually. Having received the Holy Spirit, the conveyor of God's presence and rest we are in Sabbath in Him. True sabbath is in Christ. We rest from our own works and do His works from His rest.
You don't have to set aside a particular day as a day of Sabbath. Every day is sabbath for us because we are in Christ -- our Sabbath rest.
CONFESSION
Christ my Lord is the Lord of the sabbath and He is my sabbath. In Christ I have entered into God's rest and rested from my own works. I do God's work from a position of rest in Christ as the Holy Spirit works in and through me to fulfill God's purpose, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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