QUESTIONS - Can I Take A Personal Sabbath On A Tuesday?

Theology Applied

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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I agree that the sabbath is important, and that it occurs on the first day of the week. However, if you are forced for whatever reason to work on Sundays, can you "take a sabbath rest" on a different day of the week?

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0:00.0	Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request. If you've been blessed by our
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0:23.9	So, okay, so let me start with the second one, because that one's easier.
0:29.4	So Nate Werner, I agree that the day of the Sabbath is important and it's the first day of the week. But if you are forced for whatever reason to work on Sunday, can you take a Sabbath
0:34.5	rest on a different day? No. The answer is no.
0:38.3	You can rest on a Tuesday.
0:40.3	You can rest on a Wednesday.
0:41.3	You can rest on Wednesday.
0:42.3	You can't take a Sabbath rest on a day that is not the Sabbath.
0:46.3	So the Sabbath really is.
0:48.3	It's not just, and a lot of guys do that within the Christian realm.
0:51.3	A lot of guys will say that.
0:53.3	Like everybody needs a Sabbath and my Sabbath is, you know, Tuesday and or my Sabbath is Thursday. And I've heard a lot of
0:59.1	pastors, evangelical pastors say, well, my Sabbath is Monday because I work on Sunday. No, no, your
1:05.7	Sabbath is Sunday. I am a pastor who works hard on the Lord's Day, and that is also my Sabbath.
1:14.6	Because here's the deal.
1:15.6	It's not, I should have said this earlier, but it's not just the Sabbath is for worship and rest.
1:21.6	The Sabbath is for worship, which for the Christian is where the truest sense of rest is found. We rest in our worship.
1:32.2	Rest, believe it or not, we do so many things because we're tired and we think that it'll be
1:37.3	restful and it's not. It's not. Right? We lay down at night when we should go to bed at 10.30
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