Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons

The Sabbath: The Christian's Holiday

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Sermon Series:             The Good Law and The Good Life
Sermon Text:                Exodus 20:8-11
Sermon Title:               “The Sabbath: The Christian’s Holiday”
Sermon Slides:


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  • SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide
  • SLIDE 2 – Picture 1 (Attachment 1 – Old Fashioned Ice Cream Machine)
  • SLIDE 3 – Picture 2 (Attachment 2 - Fireworks)
  • SLIDE 4 – Today’s Big Idea:     The Sabbath Holiday … Celebrates God’s Creation and Redemption of Israel.

    • The Sabbath Holiday … Anticipates God’s New Creation through Christ.  


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    • SLIDE 5 – Point 1: The Sabbath Holiday … Celebrates God’s Creation & Redemption of Israel.
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        • SLIDE 6 – Genesis 2:1-3 – “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.”
        • SLIDE 7 – Exodus 4:22-23 – “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me.’ If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’’”
        • SLIDE 8 – Exodus 20:2 – “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”
        • SLIDE 9 – “When God delivered Israel from Egypt, He became their Redeemer.” – Herman Bavinck (1854-1921)
        • SLIDE 10 – Exodus 2:23-25 – “During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.”
        • SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Sermon Point #1 Slide
        • SLIDE 12 – Psalm 127:1-2 – “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city,the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.”
        • SLIDE 13 – Psalm 23:1-2 – “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures.”
        • SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Sermon Point #1 Slide
        • SLIDE 15 – Isaiah 58:13-14 – “If you turn … from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight … if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth …”


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          • SLIDE 16 – Point 2: The Sabbath Holiday … Anticipates God’s New Creation through Christ.
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              • SLIDE 17 – Psalm 95:7-11 – “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts … as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test … though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.’ Therefore I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.”
              • SLIDE 18 – Hebrews 4:8 – “For if Joshua had given them rest [the Promised Land of Canaan], God would not have spoken of another day later on.”
              • SLIDE 19 – Psalm 118:22-24 – “The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it.”


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                • SLIDE 20 – Four Uses of This Sermon for “The Good Life”
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                    • SLIDE 21 – Observing the Sabbath … Won’t Get You to Heaven. 
                    • SLIDE 22 – But Observing the Sabbath … Will Help You Live Heavenly.
                    • SLIDE 23 – Sabbath Breaking was Sinful in Moses’ Day and Sabbath Breaking is Sinful in Ours.
                    • SLIDE 24 – Every Sunday Anticipates … the Eternal Sunday that Awaits!
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