Stay home Shabbat shalom or keep safe
and keep Sabbath. I'm going to teach you
seven basic tips or hints on Sabbath
keeping for while you and your family
are staying at home or in the "lockdown."
This is the best time if you've ever
thought about keeping it or exploring
what Jesus did every seventh day for his
entire life and the apostles this is
your opportunity so take hold of it
enjoy it and I don't know expand your
horizons at the end after my seven tips
I'm going to give you a bonus and that
is the single most important verse that
almost virtually no Christians know that
is what's amazing that's our motto for
the Sabbath because it doesn't tell you
what God doesn't want you to do which by
the way is just a few little things just
a few little rules that's all don't work
and what he does want you to do and best
yet what his promises are for those who
keep the Sabbath what is the Sabbath it
seems pretty obvious but let me go over
it anyway because I think I'm gonna add
a few things for you firstly the Sabbath
is a full day set apart from every other
day of the week forgot that's that's the
basics that's the most fundamental to
enjoy the Lord and his work his creation
his word and fellowship with him well
it's also a ceasing yes because in order
to focus on God your
going to need to stop focusing on
yourself and isn't that hard to do
sometimes you know some people the
Romans and Greeks thought the Hebrew
people the Israelites were lazy because
1/7 of their life they ceased working
okay it's time with the family and
others in fellowship and we know how
little we have of that so again 12
waking hours on average or 16 whatever
you are spending with your family when
you're not asleep and it's just sweet
fellowship I'd also like to think of it
as a weekly vacation sometimes I
jokingly call it a spa day in the Word
of God okay women will understand why
you don't go to the spa on the Sabbath
it's a celebration it is actually a
celebration it's considered a delight by
the people of God and God actually
commands us to think of it as a delight
to calm it a delight.
It's also a day of feasting
Yeah it's feasting so we'll talk about
that when we're discussing food in a few
moments so that was number one what is a
Sabbath time let's talk about time it's
very simple the Sabbath is the seventh
day the week as already mentioned but
the day of the week in God's economy
begins at the evening so and there's
interesting reasons for that but it's
even too even or evening to evening
Friday night is when the Sabbath begins
as the Sun is going down
and it goes a full 24 hours obviously
you're asleep for eight hours or more
number three where do you spend the
Sabbath the Sabbath is primarily spent
at home and why is that because is 24
hours you're gonna sleep at home
you're gonna eat at home and you can go
out there is nothing in the scriptures
it says stay inside your four walls and
your roof for 24 hours some people some
Sabbath keepers are blessed with
congregations but some of us are not
myself for instance so we got those
basics down or those first few let's
talk about how to prepare for the
Sabbath it's not a big deal but it's
important so firstly you recognize that
the Sabbath in focusing our time in the
service of God would require us to set
aside the things of the world that we
deal with every day so I'm gonna give
you an idea preparing for the Sabbath is
finishing up getting done setting aside
what we've been doing all week long so
your work your housework your home
repairs mowing the lawn making
appointments having really difficult
discussions about perhaps problems in
the home these are the kinds of things
that you want to set aside and get
finished now the way it is important to
get in the rhythm of actually getting
things done because you're not going to
say oh I'll just do it on Saturday the
other part of preparation for the
Sabbath is the day of preparation which
is Friday and on that day you don't want
to do if you don't have to intense
exhausting work I've done that before
and well it was a mistake for me you you
make sure
our home is clean as clean as you want
it to be if you're fanatic
get it that clean because it'll drive
you crazy all Sabbath if you don't but
there's no rule about having the
cleanest house on the block on every
Sabbath but it feels good to have the
house clean on the Sabbath put away the
vacuum the ironing board all that
stuff's you don't think about it anymore
food you're going to be eating three
meals on the Sabbath and like I already
said the Sabbath is a day of feasting
now I'm not talking about like a Roman
Bacchanalia or something I'm just saying
that this is the day that you're going
to be eating and enjoying that
fellowship that table fellowship with
family and friends you obviously have to
prepare for that the day before on
Friday and it's easy as can be
think about this with regard to the
cooking aspect of it shouldn't mom have
a day off from work as well and I think
this is why the Lord literally put in
cooking specifically to identify that
work isn't just in the fields and in the
carpentry shop or what-have-you
it is also in the home and mom is
working hard all week long and she
deserves that weekly day free from guilt
and having to labor or shop think about
it okay let's talk about the dinner this
is number six the bringing in of the
Sabbath is a joyous moment of
expectation and you walk into it that
way with a heart full of joy expectation
ready to delight in the Lord and it is
huit one important rule about the
preparation for the Sabbat and the
dinner very important rule is you have
to have all your favorite foods whatever
your family loves and if your husband or
wife or child has some special thing
that they would like to eat weekly side
dish something like that get it bake it
cook it and if you don't eat a lot of
sweets like our family never has that's
the day to have dessert
Oh an important note here if you don't
have time to cook
then don't cook order out pickup or
delivery and in this day that would be a
blessing to all of those restaurants
that are trying to stay open wouldn't it
be so that works what are you going to
do with dinner
well the candles are lit I like to have
music playing it gets me in the mood
your favorite worship music everybody's
sitting at the table you might sing
those songs you sit down for prayer then
we sing my Sabbath song which comes at
the end of this video it's from that
verse I told you about you eat but
linger take your time
relax around rest around that table
you're with family and friends and
you're talking about Jesus you're
talking about Yeshua you're in the
scriptures you're gonna have those
Bibles everywhere and devotionals and
things and you're supposed to be
focusing on that if somebody starts
bringing up oh I need to make that
appointment for after this copán thing
stay home
you say really and they say oh yeah
sorry let's talk about the Lord that's
really what it's about it's a great
discipline because if you can't sit
around a dinner table and just focus on
God for the the span of a dinner time
then this will help you to get to that
point what we do is we study the
scriptures and it's that we just mix it
up my husband might say to me honey what
do you got for us or he may come to the
table and say I want to read this I want
to study this and have something in mind
my mother we don't have any kids at home
she always just ask questions sad at the
book of Revelation
no mom everything is in a revelation so
uh we just talked
my mom has learned so much she got her
first Bible at 40 years of age or after
40 because she was raised Catholic and
she didn't get her Bible until then and
she has of course they had a lot of
Scripture but she has spent the last 10
15 years in the Sabbath and just
answering all of her questions and
teaching her things has been such a
blessing especially when we found out
she had cancer and she said you know
this sabbath-keeping has been such a
blessing for me because it's brought me
so much closer to the Lord in the time
of my my illness my cancer it really
brought me through it was amazing
linger over dinner have coffee and
dessert make memories oh and as to the
kids doing Bible trivia we used to do
that constantly it was so much fun and
you can age it for whatever age children
you you have it's is terrific Saturday
what do you do on Saturday that's number
seven first thing
especially men open-toe about teenagers
you can sleep in and you can take naps
so there's no guilt there you absolutely
can do that start with your normal
weekday time of devotions quiet time
prayer closet you can do that you can
jump straight in the word often I will
go into the kitchen and lay out my big
Sabbath breakfast buffet which is a lot
of fun get a cup of joe afterwards and
just sit down in the Word of God and
prayer if you've got kids
sidenote here there's much for the
Sabbath on the Sabbath for children I
can't go into that in this video but I
will just give you a caution as what I
would stay away from for the little ones
well for everybody but this is one day
of the week that YouTube videos cartoons
secular television and gaming that's
just not appropriate it's really not
appropriate and if this is tough for
them it's a great learning experience
and it's self discipline - trust me
that'll be good
how many of us have said ever in their
lives I just don't have enough time to
pray like I should well no excuses now
the Sabbath is a destroyer of excuses I
forgot to mention that in my first
description I'm also going to say that
apologetics we found with our kids
played a tremendous part of our Sabbath
keeping we had so many videos on how to
evangelize creation versus evolution
science Israel the Big E is going to be
the Word of God now if you said it about
prayer you've said it probably 10 times
this often about the Word of God and I'm
not trying to make anybody feel badly
but if you're spending five or ten
minutes don't listen to the people who
want to always make everybody feel good
5 or 10 minutes every day is not good
enough not for spiritual growth not for
growth in the wisdom and knowledge and
understanding of God so I'm just saying
that's true if you can't find the time
to go deep every day of your life this
is the time that you are gonna find that
is the most enriching valuable part of
your week you will come to understand
and know God and His Holy Word this is
time that you will never regret and let
me tell you something if I out one
regret to name it would be that I wish I
had know what going deep deep into the
Word of God would have done for me 30 40
years ago deep so and now I know I call
my teachings DIY Bibles say often do it
yourself because if you're being
spoonful
only if you're only having somebody else
tell you what the scriptures mean you're
never gonna get there this is the time
whether it's with your spouse your
children going deep it's not just
quality it's quantity in the scriptures
going deep
you will be consuming eventually the
meat of the word instead of just the
milk of the word which is for children
another main ståle mentioned and this is
just a you know what format you're using
to study and that would be online
primarily YouTube YouTube has the finest
minds the finest theologians preachers
pastors teachers apologists evangelist
intellectuals it's it's endless the
depths being in nature in the fresh air
even when it's snowing outside it's a
lovely thing going out to evangelize
going out to help and serve very very
good thing be creative enjoy yourself
anything that is doing the work of God
is appropriate and obviously if you can
heal people on the Sabbath we learned
about that didn't we
healing on the Sabbath is a-ok with the
lord of the Sabbath
bonus tip the single most important
verse in the Bible is in the prophets in
prophet Isaiah it just happens to be a
lot about the coming kingdom of God so
it's very relevant and it teaches what
we do on the Sabbath much much more than
what it says on what not to do it's
isaiah 58:13 and 14 and yes we do sing
this but i'm not going to sing it for
you now and you would thank me for that
if thou turn away thy foot
from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure
on my holy day and call the Sabbath a
delight the holy of the Lord honorable
and shall honor him not doing thine own
ways nor finding thine own pleasures nor
speaking thine own words then thou shalt
delight thyself in the Lord and I will
cause you to ride upon the high places
of the earth and feed thee with the
heritage of Jacob thy father isaiah
58:13 14 mind-boggling if this has been
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shabbat shalom or keep safe and keep
Sabbath bye
