What does the fourth commandment mean?
8 i "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 j Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the k seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the l sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For m in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Exodus 20:8 - 11
ESV - 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work.
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Asked June 25 2014
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LYNETTE WILLIAMS
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juanita locklear
It means that on the seventh day of every week people who believe in the Creator should rest and do no work and have no one working for them.
Elisabeth Woltman
Juanita, keeping Sabbath (Saturday) Holy involves more than you have mentioned, in my opinion.
It means that although we can worship God on any day of the week, this particular day is the day, we spend in prayer and meditation. We celebrate (my husband and I do ) with a special meal, they way the Jews celebrated their Sabbath.
After all, as Christians, being born again, we are Jewish in Christ, as He Himself was a Jew and "the Lord of the Sabbath"