17-Sabbath - NAS

1. God's Final Message Is a Call to Worship the Creator.
Revelation 14:6-7 And I saw another angel flying in ________________, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people; [7] and he said with a loud voice, "Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His ______________ has come; ____________ Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and ____________ of waters."

2. The Basis of All Worship Is the Fact That God Created Us.
Revelation 4:11 "Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and ____________ of Your will they ____________, and were created."

3. Jesus Is Our Creator and We Are to Worship Him.
Ephesians 3:9 And to bring to light what is the _________________________ of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who ____________ all things;

4. We Worship Our Creator by Keeping the Sabbath.
Exodus 20:8-11 "______________ the sabbath day, to keep it holy. [9] "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your ______________, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your ________________ who stays with you. [11] "For in six days the LORD made the ____________ and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; ________________ the LORD ____________ the sabbath day and made it holy.

5. God Set the Sabbath Apart at Creation by Resting on It.
Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. [2] By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. [3] Then God ____________ the seventh day and __________________ it, ____________ in it He rested from all His work which God had ____________ and made.

6. The Sabbath Was Given to Mankind 2, 300 Years Before the Existence of the Jews.
Mark 2:27-28 Jesus said to them, "The Sabbath was _______ for man, and not man for the Sabbath. [28] "So the Son of Man is _______ even of the Sabbath."

7. The Sabbath Was Established for All Mankind As a Sign Between God and His People.
Ezekiel 20:12 "Also I gave them My ______________ to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who __________________ them.

Ezekiel 20:20 '______________ My ______________; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

8. Jesus Was a Faithful Sabbath Keeper.
Luke 4:16 And He came to ______________, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the ________________ on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

9. Jesus Predicted That the Sabbath Would Be Kept in 70 A. D.
Matthew 24:20 "But pray that your flight will not be in the __________, or on a ____________.

10. Paul Met with the Whole City to Worship on the Sabbath with Jews and Gentiles Alike.
Acts 13:42-44 As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging that these things might be spoken to them the next Sabbath. [43] Now when the meeting of the ________________ had broken up, many of the Jews and of the God-fearing __________________ followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging them to ______________ in the grace of God. [44] The next Sabbath nearly the whole city ________________ to hear the word of the Lord.

11. Paul Met with a Group of Believers in Philippi to Worship on the Sabbath.
Acts 16:13 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were ________________ that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had ________________.

12. The Lord Has Special Day at the End of the 1st Century.
Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard __________ me a loud voice like the sound of a ____________,

13. Since the Son of Man Is Lord of the Sabbath, It Must Be His Day.
Matthew 12:8 "For the Son of _____ is Lord of the ____________."

Mark 2:27-28 Jesus said to them, "The Sabbath was _______ for man, and not man for the Sabbath. [28] "So the Son of Man is _______ even of the Sabbath."

Luke 6:5 And He was __________ to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the ____________."

14. Note the Following Three Days in Succession. Friday - the Day Christ Died-The Preparation Day.
Luke 23:53-56 And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain. [54] It was the ___________________ day, and the Sabbath was about to begin. [55] Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid. [56] Then they returned and ______________ spices and ______________. And on the Sabbath they rested ________________ to the ___________________.

15. Saturday - the Day Jesus Rested in the Tomb on the Day Between Friday and Sunday.
Jesus rested in the grave while His followers also rested on that Sabbath, waiting until the next day to use the spices and ointments that they had prepared for His body on the preparation day which was Friday.

 16. Sunday - the Day Jesus Was Resurrected.
Luke 24:1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb ______________ the spices which they had ______________.

17. Jesus Is the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same ________________ and today and ____________.

18. In the New Heavens and the New Earth, We Shall Keep Sabbath Each Week.
Isaiah 66:22-23 "For just as the new heavens and the new earth Which I make will endure before Me," ______________ the LORD, "So your ________________ and your name will endure. [23] "And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All ____________ will come to bow down before Me," says the LORD.

Next Bible Study: 18-Questions about the Bible Sabbath

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