What did Jesus teach us about the Sabbath?

Question

NEWBORN, A Big AMEN here, Exodus 33:14 and Matthew 11:28-29.

PRISMCAT38, You have given a good answer, but the catholic church did not change it. Christians were already worshipping on Sunday. All the catholic church did was dub it holy.
The Lord resurected on the first day of the week.This was latter called the "Lords Day" Rev. 1:10.
The Holy Ghost was given on Sunday. Pentecost means 7 sabbaths plus one day or 50.Acts 2:1
Communion and Church service on Sunday, Acts 20:7.

Answer 1

Jesus taught us it is perfectly alright to do the will of the Father on the Sabbath day. That it was ok to work if you had an emergency. And the Sabbath day was made for man. (God known that we humans will push our selves and work everyday. In the long run this destroys our bodys because we need time to rest and allow it to restore itself like God made it. This is why God made this day for man. A day of rest for the temple of the Holy Ghost.) He also taught the day would be in the future because he said pray that your flight not be on the sabath. He taught that he did not come to do away with the law (sabbath is part of the law) but to fulfill it and put it in our hearts. (By the Holy Ghost we now have the law inside our hearts, Love is the fulfilling of the law. Matthew 22:36-40)



Matthew 12:5
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Matthew 12:11
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

Matthew 12:12
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Matthew 24:20
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Mark 2:27
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Mark 2:28
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Mark 3:4
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

Luke 6:5
And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Luke 6:9
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

Luke 13:15
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or hisass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

Luke 13:16
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Luke 14:3
And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

John 7:22
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

Answer 2

Jesus taught Jews living under the law... He also PREDICTED THE END OF THE LAW. (Look carefully at Matthew 5:18, "...UNTIL EVERYTHING IS FINISHED." The clause is meaningless if the law were intended to be eternal.)

He taught Jews to observe the Sabbath, but that it was never intended to be a BURDEN, but an aid to them. The Pharisees and Jewish leaders had turned it into a burden rather than the rest which it was intended to be - and, according to Hebrews, the rest it prefigured.

Matthew's gospel was written primarily to Jews to present Jesus as the Messiah. Here is a teaching he includes to show the Jews the true meaning of Sabbath:

Matt 12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6 I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, 10 and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

Answer 3

Its interesting to note that Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. I have heard this saying over many years and I never understood it too well - because isn't the Sabbath the Lord's day? Not too long ago some one explained it to me this way:

The Ten Commandments were given to a group of people who had just come out of slavery. When the Hebrews were slaves, time, was not their own because they were at the beckon call of their masters. Being able to have a day off reminded them that they were free. Now they can rest from their labours and choose to do other things - like spending time to worship. In a sense it was not the Lords' day it was their day. The injunction was always that "I am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage". The implication was that if they did not follow God's rules they will end up back in Egypt - meaning slavery.

Only God gives freedom. This freedom is precious and we must be constantly reminded of it - otherwise we can end up in all sorts of slavery - even now.

Peace

Answer 4

To remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy. Exodus 20:8

Answer 5

He said that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. I think he meant that we should respect the Sabbath but that if work had to be done for an emergency situation, then the Sabbath rule against work should not apply. Many simple acts of living were called offences against the Sabbath in Jesus's time.

Answer 6

To my knowledge, Jesus did not teach about the Sabbath. He followed the law concerning the Sabbath but the New Covenant He ushered in required we gather together on the first day of the week. Jesus had an awesome and difficult task of abiding by the Old Covenant but preparing the world for the New Covenant. He had to, in essence, follow both at the same time.

Answer 7

The Sabbath is to benefit people, not the Sabbath. The Pharasees were WAY too strict about it to the point that the Sabbath was more work than the rest of the week!

God Bless :)

Answer 8

Mark 2:27 And He said to them, The sabbath came into being for man's sake, and not man for the sabbath's sake. 28 Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the sabbath.

I am currently studying this doctrine. the jewish sabbath is on saturday, yet chrisitans keep the sabbath on sunday. this is something the catholic church changed. my thinking (which could be wrong) is that the day itself does not matter, rather that we keep one day out of seven reserved for worship and meditation. adam and eve didn't keep a sabbath, it was one of the ten commandments of the mosaic law. adam's work in the garden was easy compared to the curse that God laid on adam for disobedience, so he would not have needed a sabbath. now mankind is to toil for six days as part of the curse, but God, in His grace, wants us to make sure we set aside a particular day to rest from all that and focus on Him. Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath, the one on whom we are to focus on at that time. If the work we do on that day is for His glory and simple good stewadship (like taking care of our animals), then fine, but if our work is to toil to earn money for ourselves on that day, then we should refrain.

Answer 9

Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy.

Answer 10

Jesus is Lord over the Sabbath - not the law. We worship a risen Savior on Sundays now - not bound by Jewish laws.