Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDES

WHICH DAY IS SABBATH? Mark ii, 23—iii, 6—April <l4. Text: ••The Sabbath teas made for man, and cot me.i for the Sabbath.”—Hark ii,-27. C«IAT the Bible teaches some imjMirtant lesson t respecting the Sabbath is undisputed, but what that lesson, is is much ntvl. The fourth ccmmambnent c i the Decalogue refers to the seventh Cay and requires its observance' as a of rest,, and no more. The Tea <' ; inland; rents as a whole were the i . J; <f ;!?.• Law Covenant, compal- •. .y vq.-ii every Je w. The Jew kbep--1 . ■. r d of those commandmehts was ;; : . :-o'l everl;-.-. iiig life. Fabure to ■ h-iu ait condemn.';! him :if.\ h. :r; b- no cwin oil this point, if-'■'■<■■■ in our Lord’s time; Jewi.-h , ! •<; ha 1 5 f :■<>' re to a considerI’wliialL?an! greater' ’ laid uuon s the literal com-

’.! ‘-i; - ih 1 -L.'.i./ ?■ .■■.;.■¥ e.i ti» 4 on s ‘veral ?i i• •». ♦- j it. :: 1 i<l- - ••••; c’ive:i .-• < • the .f , ; to the l 1 V V't big ■ ‘S.;’ 1, uh day. i h'.- < .ii’iy < h:;:vli e ; <1 d s<- • the. ~ewish day it

i.i. i-’ •- --. and in some places the l -■: ■. y of, : tie week, the Anniversary <■/ <-ar L->:■<!'< resurrection; and ior.;etib ■ they observed both of these days; I’,nt their observance was not - . a ■ f lav? or cominand, for the Aposti • vvi-te. "Ye are not under Law, but uhde.r grace.” S ■ with us today. Aye are glad that bile day in the week is so generally <>l .<-. v< 1 as a day of rest, a Sabbath JF-i’-.- nth day signifies mt day). We :■ ■ ■ T'.ad that the day so generally set : ; ■ ? is the first day of the week, be- ■- ■ .? it to beautifully commemorates tho (Jiristian’s hopes, attested by our Lord's resurrection from the dead.

To 'he Christian, every day is Sabbat), every day should be used as holy oj 'be. Lord. and nothin? should at any time be done contrary to the Divine wi? < r th ' principles of ; the Divine »■'<>< rn:>'<- ,t. Jesus' declaration that He. was L‘ id of the Sabbath reminds slLcf St. Dani s declaration that <•»! the F:uber rested from His own work on th ■ ‘event’) Day'. He left the work c'):: ' f< r Jesus to do. The !Tv< u.h :•■-.■ of Jehovah’s rest was eii » ts ; t : Davs of the Creative Weak. errh even thousand years Ipng. Six <f th -w wait Day-; b. <1 passed mil man’sciv-.ion was in the end of tire mxth. Ilavi ig osi >'ii;s'. ( t His human son in Ed?n as god or ru’or of the o’rth, Jehovah rwled or ceased from it’s v.-.'.rx ii? fhr- f'-eventh Ih;y, or s< yt'iith period of seven thousand years. Six thouu>nd years of this seventh period have already pissed and Jehovah G- -1 has rested, ceased from riis work-.He Ims not interfered to assist man or lift him out of sin and r 'gradation. Another thousand years of the seven remains, but Cod will not actively enrage in man’s rescue-even then. V. h.v not? Because it is a part <>f the Divir-' T’: grain to leave fallen min am! ■ .is rescue entirely in the hands < f J< sus. He is Lord of this ' Great Seventh Day.

Mf-.n’s Seventh Day. This entire period of seven thou-s-iud years which constitutes the great Seventh Day or Sabbath with God is divided with man into seven gr?;lt Days of a thousand years each, in ? !': of which he lias been under a rci ’i i f sin aipl death, toil and suffix but the Seventh, or Sabbath, cf thousand years, has been appointed f< r his rescue and uplifting and blessing. In that glorious Sevenththousand year period Jesus isyto be Lord. It will bo the great Antitypical Sabbath, and the great Amitypieal Jubilee for mankind. The Church’s Sabbath Day. St. Paul clearly intimates that to the Church, the New Creation, every day

is a Sabbath day, in the sense that God's conse rated people rest as Gcd rests, in faith, in hope, in trust that Jeshs will eventually deliver them, and bring ' them into a glorious Sabbath Rest, Yet even now.< as St. Paul sAys, ,‘We h ho' believe do enter into rest.” Liter; ■ll v .we who I) :* -

Here have a perpetual Sabbatli. Seven days in the week, and fifty-two weeks in the year o’ir hearts rest in the Lord and fake comfort in the glorious proin isep of Ills Word .through faith. Thus aye rest from feelings of responsibility an 4 Worry acVcimt of the world’s, jrilyation in exactly the same way that rhe Heavenly Father rests. i We. like’the Heavenly have rhe fullest, canfideii.e that the Redeeuier will vet a; compl; h the blessini' of ail the families of the earth, and hrfing all the willing’ and obedient into >l:e "reat Rest Time of the future—'he fho -: av l years of the Messianic Kingdom, in which the world will bq released from the slavery of Satan, sin and death. , , '

"The Sabbathwas mas made for man"

"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?"