Jeremiah Summer Series part 3
Hallow the Sabbath
Preached by Rev. G.W. Fisher on 07/24/11
Tacoma Bible Presbyterian Church
A Day of Salvation
God hath made it our duty, by His institution, to set apart this day [the Sabbath] for special seeking of His grace and blessing. From which we may argue, that He will be especially ready to confer His grace on those who thus seek it... The Sabbath day is an accepted time, a day of salvation, a time wherein God especially loves to be sought, and loves to be found...
- Jonathan Edwards
Too much religion?
There is not too much religion in the land now. Destroy the sanctity of the Sabbath, and there would soon be far less. Nothing in short, I believe, would so thoroughly advance the kingdom of Satan as to withdraw legal protection form the Lord's Day. It would be a joy to the infidel; but it would be an insult and offense to God.
- J.C. Ryle
The Sign of the Sabbath
Samuel Slater
We find the Sabbath was given unto Israel for a sign between God and them. So you have it in Ezekiel 20:12 "I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them." By this they were distinguished from all other nations. These were a plain and evident proof that they were the Lord's people, and that Jehovah was their God. This did loudly proclaim God's choosing and calling them out from the rest of the world, and gracious setting them apart for Himself, as His peculiar portion and inheritance. And indeed, where there is no care of sanctifying the Sabbath by nations, families, or persons, it is a plain case, it amounts to a demonstration, that they are unsanctified nations, families, and persons.
- Rev. Samuel Slater, English Puritan Pastor
Unmixed Goods
The Sabbath is an unmixed good for man's soul. The soul has its wants just as much as the mind and body. It is in the midst of a hurrying, bustling world, in which its interests are constantly in danger of being jostled out of sight. To have those interests properly attended to, there must be a special day set apart; ther emust be a regularly recurring time for examining the state of our souls; there must be a day to test and prove us, whether we are prepared for an eternal heaven. Take away a man's Sabbath, and his religion soon comes to nothing. As a general rule, there is a regular flight of steps down from "no Sabbath" to "no God."
- J.C. Ryle
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