He is Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8). As God incarnate, He decides the true meaning of the Sabbath because He created it, and He is our Sabbath rest in the flesh. When the Pharisees criticized Him for healing on the Sabbath, Jesus reminded them that even they, sinful as they were, would not hesitate to pull a sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath. Because He came to seek and save His sheep who would hear His voice (John 10:3,27) and enter into the Sabbath rest He provided by paying for their sins. He told the Pharisees that people are more important than sheep and the salvation He provided was more important than rules. By saying, The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27), Jesus was restating the principle that the Sabbath rest was instituted to relieve man of his labors, just as He came to relieve us of our attempting to achieve salvation by our works. We no longer rest for only one day, but forever cease our laboring to attain Gods favor. Jesus is our rest from works now, just as He is the door to heaven, where we will rest in Him forever.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:32:02 +0000
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