What is the Sabbath for? (Mark 2:23-3:6)

02/06/2024 21 min

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Jesus said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27-28)God commanded the Sabbath for our good. As Jesus says, “The Sabbath was made for man.” Yes, Jesus also challenged the legalism that had been built up from human tradition around what could or could not be done on the Sabbath, because those Sabbath regulations had become a kind of slave master themselves. Yet he still saw the Sabbath as good for us.Do we make sure we get the weekly day off work that God commands for our good? Or do we allow work to enslave us?