shackleton
Puritan Board Junior
I was reading in G.I. Williamson's WCF with study Guide page 171. It says something very interesting that I had never heard before,
God's Sabbath began when creation was completed. But man's sin required that the Sabbath be broken if man were to be redeemed. This came about when Christ did the work of redemption. The very reason for the new Sabbath was that Christ did his work of necessity and mercy on the former Sabbath of God. If this were not so then would he not afterward have spoken of another day (heb 4:8). But the work of Jesus did not do away with Sabbath, rather it secured it. But his work was an example for us to follow, we can violate the Sabbath for works of mercy, piety or necessity.
This is a very interesting concept. God instituted the Sabbath for man so he would remember where everything he had came from, God. Man in his sinfulness does not like to give allegiance to anyone except himself and therefore does not take the mandatory day off. God had to violate his own rule to save man, a "work of mercy," in order to pull man out of the ditch, so to speak.
Anyone ever heard of this? or can anyone expound on this?
God's Sabbath began when creation was completed. But man's sin required that the Sabbath be broken if man were to be redeemed. This came about when Christ did the work of redemption. The very reason for the new Sabbath was that Christ did his work of necessity and mercy on the former Sabbath of God. If this were not so then would he not afterward have spoken of another day (heb 4:8). But the work of Jesus did not do away with Sabbath, rather it secured it. But his work was an example for us to follow, we can violate the Sabbath for works of mercy, piety or necessity.
This is a very interesting concept. God instituted the Sabbath for man so he would remember where everything he had came from, God. Man in his sinfulness does not like to give allegiance to anyone except himself and therefore does not take the mandatory day off. God had to violate his own rule to save man, a "work of mercy," in order to pull man out of the ditch, so to speak.
Anyone ever heard of this? or can anyone expound on this?