The Third Commandment and the Resurrection

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The Third Commandment and the Resurrection

When God created the world, he rested on the seventh day. In the third commandment, He directed that His people should also set aside the seventh day of the week as a time to remember God's grace and honor God on Saturday. Jewish people, and even Christian Seventh Day Adventists, continue to celebrate God's grace on the seventh day, or Sabbath.

Most Christians worship on the day of Jesus' resurrection, the first day of the week, Sunday. We now interpret the term "Sabbath" to mean the day we keep holy in God's name. Jesus' resurrection is the most important event in the Christian calendar, because it confirms Jesus as the Messiah, and is the true act of salvation from our sins by our God. Even though humanity rejected Jesus by crucifying Him, God forgives us all our sins, even that terrible act, through the resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ, on Easter morning. That hadn't happened at the time God gave us the Ten Commandments, so for almost two thousand years Christians have kept the spirit of the commandment in a more modern and meaningful way.

April 2012

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