The Reasoning for the Sabbath [Westminster Shorter Catechism 62 — Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 62—especially explaining how the phrasing of the Sabbath commandment implies that we are to be thoughtful and reverent about it.

Q62. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment? The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, His challenging a special propriety in the seventh, His own example, and His blessing the sabbath day. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

What the Law and Nature of the Sabbath Forbid [Westminster Shorter Catechism 61—Theology Simply Expalined]

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 61—especially explaining from Scripture what God forbids by the way He words the fourth commandment.

WSC61: What is forbidden in the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Only the Holy God Can Make Holy Days [Westminster Shorter Catechism 58—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 58—especially explaining how we keep God’s day as holy, which also means not treating common days as holy.

Q58. What is required in the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as He hath appointed in His Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to Himself.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Holiness vs High-Handed Sin [2024.06.30 Evening Sermon in Numbers 15:32–41]

God's holy day is especially for His holy people to rejoice in the holiness of their God.

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Be Holy, Not High-Handed [Family Worship lesson in Numbers 15:32–41]

Why is Sabbath breaking so bad? Numbers 15:32–41 prepares us for the evening sermon on the Lord’s Day. In these ten verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that we must be holy because we belong to our Creator and Redeemer.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

How the Lord Trains Us to Find Pleasure in Him [Family Worship lesson in Isaiah 58]

What peace does a true prophet proclaim? Isaiah 58 prepares us for the first serial reading in public worship on the Lord’s Day. In these fourteen verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that a true prophet proclaims the peace of true religion, finding God in Christ to be the great good and the great delight, Who has given us a day to train us in delighting in Him. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Lord's Day for the Lord's Family to Delight to Be Gathered Together to the Lord [Family Worship lesson in Isaiah 56:1–8]

What do those looking forward to salvation do? Isaiah 56:1–8 prepares us for the first serial reading in public worship on the Lord’s Day. In these eight verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that those who look forward to salvation do righteousness, especially that of not defiling the Sabbath, but keeping it with God’s people. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Consecrated Delight [Children's Catechism 87—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Children’s Catechism question 87—especially explaining how the Lord commands us to delight in Him above all created things.

Q87. What does the fourth commandment teach us? To keep the Sabbath holy.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The When of Worship [Children's Catechism 86—Theology Simply Explained]

Pastor walks his children through Children’s Catechism question 86—especially explaining how the placement of the fourth commandment indicates the importance of keeping God’s appointed worship times.

Q86. What is the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

The Church Walking in Fellowship or Enmity with God [2024.02.04 Evening Sermon in Leviticus 26]

God's church either walks in fellowship with God, or enmity against Him, especially revolving around worshiping the way that He says and keeping His calendar

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Walking with God vs God Walking against Us [Family Worship lesson in Leviticus 26]

What implications do the favor and fellowship of God have for our obedience? Leviticus 26 prepares us for the evening sermon on the Lord’s Day. In these forty-six verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that obedience shows personal affection for the Lord, and disobedience shows personal rejection of the Lord. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC62, The Reasons God Gives for Keeping His Sabbath

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 62—especially explaining from Exodus 20:8–11 how God’s wording of the fourth commandment piles up for us good reasons to keep it.

WSC62: What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment? The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, His challenging a special propriety in the seventh, His own example, and His blessing the sabbath day.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC61, What the Law and Nature of the Sabbath Forbid

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 61—especially explaining from Scripture what God forbids by the way He words the fourth commandment.

WSC61: What is forbidden in the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC60, The Holy Day's Holy Resting

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 60—especially explaining from Scripture that holy sort of resting unto which Christ consecrated His holy day.
WSC60: How is the sabbath to be sanctified? The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC59 (2) — Weekly Sabbath, Like All Creation Ordinances, Applies as Long As We Are in This World

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 59—especially explaining how the language of “from the beginning of the world […] to the end of the world” captures that the Sabbath is a creation ordinance which, like marriage and work, continue so long as we are in this world.

WSC59: Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath? From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC59, Which Day Is the Lord's [Sabbath] Day

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 59—especially explaining how the “when” question is really a “Who” question since in a very real way the Lord Himself is the Sabbath, and believers are dependent upon His timing for His consecration of it and His blessing it.

WSC59: Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath? Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath? From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC58, The God of Holy Time and All of Our Time

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 58—especially pointing out that by setting apart some of our time as holy unto Him for worship, the Lord lays claim to wise and proper use of all our other time as well. WSC58: What is required in the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as He hath appointed in His Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to Himself.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC57 (2) — 4th Commandment Living: 6 Creation/Redemption Days Shaped by 1 Creator/Redeemer Day

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 57—especially showing them how the proper mindset in the six days must be formed by the proper practice of the Lord’s Day. WSC57: Which is the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Theology Simply Explained — WSC57, The Fourth Commandment: Training for Delighting in Jesus

Pastor walks his children through Westminster Shorter Catechism question 57—especially equipping them to show from Scripture how so far from being abrogated in Christ, this commandment is especially for Christians. WSC57: Which is the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)

Sinai's Sabbaths in Relation to the Sabbath: a shadow of the Lord's Day to Come [2022.09.25 Evening Sermon in Exodus 23:10–19]

God's perpetual and moral Sabbath finds special expression in each administration of His church on earth.

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