My friend Charlene has interesting questions about work and Sundays: she wants to please the Lord in this, and so do we. We are busy getting ready for a few days away, so these are first notes on the Lord's Day as summarised from one of John Piper's sermons.
- The big question for the Sabbath is whether or not in the New Testament there is a commandment to keep the Sabbath day holy in the same way it was commanded in the Old Testament.
- It was a capital offense in the Old Testament. You could be killed for carrying sticks on the Sabbath day.
- The Christian Sabbath is Sunday, the Lord's day, the resurrection day of Jesus.
- Now the question then becomes, What is God's will for the resurrection day, for Sunday, as it is revealed in the New Testament?
- People that give no thought to the Lord's day and don't do anything to make it special are not going to plan their "Lord's Day" with God's values in mind.
- The principle in the New Testament is that God ordains that one day in seven be restful.
