Sabbath

Simply Put

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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After completing His work of creating the world, God rested—but not because He got tired and needed a break. Today, Barry Cooper explains how the Sabbath reminds us to regularly rest in God and enjoy the ultimate rest that He has given His people in Christ.

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0:00.0	Researchers have calculated that you spend approximately a third of your life asleep, and significantly
0:06.6	more than that, if you've ever had to renew your driving licence at the DMV.
0:12.3	It is interesting that God has so ordered things that we need rest for our general well-being.
0:24.7	Our English word Sabbath comes from the Hebrew word Shabbat, which means rest. In Genesis chapter 2, we read that having completed the work of
0:31.5	creation, God himself rested. The text says, on the seventh day, God finished his work that he had done, and he rested. The text says, on the seventh day, God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the
0:42.2	seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,
0:49.9	because on it, God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
0:56.5	Now, clearly, God's choosing to rest from work on the seventh day is not because God gets tired.
1:04.1	It's meant to demonstrate for us a regular, weekly rhythm that we cannot neglect if we're to thrive as human beings.
1:13.8	Historically, there have been some significant debates around the Sabbath.
1:17.4	One of these debates concerns the extent to which the Sabbath is still binding for
1:22.4	Christian believers and what exactly it looks like to observe the Sabbath.
1:29.9	Observing the Sabbath is, of course, the ten commandments God gave Moses and the people of Israel. Here's Exodus chapter 20 verse 8. Remember the
1:37.4	Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.
1:46.7	On it, you shall not do any work. You or your son or your daughter, your male servant, or your
1:53.4	female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days
1:59.9	the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that
2:02.6	is in them and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
2:10.5	But if you fast forward to the coming of Jesus, things really start getting interesting.
2:17.0	Because Jesus himself, God the Son, frequently got into trouble with some of the religious
2:22.8	teachers of his day, the Pharisees, for not observing the Sabbath according to their teaching.
2:30.1	For example, by healing a disabled man on that day, Jesus was, according to the gospel writer John,
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