Now when I first began to look
at today's message earlier this week and prepare a message I
didn't feel entirely comfortable with the message because I believe
that the preaching of the gospel is to receive a message from
God that he sends which the preacher delivers unto the people. Not
to prepare a message with your own intellect or study, but to
seek out what God would have us preach. And I would be inclined
if I felt that it only came from me or my own study to pass it
by and not to preach. But as I looked into it more
yesterday, I was thankful that the Lord opened up the passages
I was looking at. and granted greater understanding
and confirmed that he would have me preach on this. So I trust
that he will open up these things to us and show us something of
Christ and his gospel. So would you turn with me to
two passages of scripture. Firstly to Exodus and chapter
20. Exodus and chapter 20 where we're
going to read of the given of the law. And then we will return
to Luke and chapter 23. But firstly Exodus chapter 20
in verse 1 we read, And God spake all these words, saying, I am
the Lord thy God, which hath brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other
gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself
to them, nor serve them. For I the Lord thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. and show
in mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and
do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work,
thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that
in them is, and rested the seventh day. wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy
mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt
not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not
covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,
nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. And all the
people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise
of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people
saw it, they removed and stood afar off. And they said unto
Moses, speak thou with us, and we will hear. But let not God
speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people,
fear not. For God is come to prove you,
and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. And the people stood afar off,
and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. Here the Jews of old received
the law of God. and they stood afar off because
of the scene that they saw because of the great demonstration of
the power of God and the fear that came upon them because of
the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet
and the darkness and yet later they were promised to do all
that the Lord had commanded in that law generations went by
The people failed to keep that law utterly. Moses said the Lord
had given it to them to prove them, and it proved them. It
proved all of them and all mankind who follows to be under sin,
as Paul makes clear in Romans. Jew or Gentile, under the law
or not under the law, were all born in sin. We're all born liars,
covetous, idolatrous, adulterous, rebels against a holy God. And not one of the commands of
God have we ever kept. We've broken every command. Truly should the people fear.
But generations later, the children of those children The Jews, the
Pharisees, the scribes, the custodians of that law, took that law and
sought to accuse the Son of God. They said He broke our Sabbath. They said He made Himself equal
with God. They said He must die. and they
brought him before Pilate and before Herod and said put him
to death and Pilate found no fault in him yet they cried out
saying away with this man and Pilate said no I will release
him and they cried all the more crucify him crucify him and in
the end Pilate gave him up to their will and he was led to
a cross and nailed upon it and lifted up between two other malefactors,
the innocent in the midst of the guilty and lifted up to die. And as he hung there upon the
cross in Luke 23, We read from verse 44, And it
was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all
the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and
the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus
had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit. And having said thus, he gave
up the ghost. Now when the centurion saw what
was done, he glorified God, saying, certainly this was a righteous
man. And all the people that came
together to that site, beholding the things which were done, smote
their breasts and returned. and all his acquaintance and
the women that followed him from Galilee stood afar off beholding
these things. They stood afar off beholding
these things. And behold there was a man named
Joseph a counsellor and he was a good man and a just The same
had not consented to the counsel and deed of them. He was of Arimathea,
a city of the Jews, who also himself waited for the kingdom
of God. This man went unto Pilate, and
begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped
it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that was hewn in stone, wherein
never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation
and the Sabbath drew on. And the women also which came
with him from Galilee followed after and beheld the sepulcher
and how the body was laid. And they returned and prepared
spices and ointments and rested the Sabbath day according to
the commandment. They rested the Sabbath day according
to the commandment. That Sabbath which the Jews said
that Christ himself had broken, the Son of God, God himself,
the Lord of the Sabbath, the one who gave the commandment
of the Sabbath, the one who gave the day of the Sabbath to the
Jews, they accused of breaking and put him to death. Because their law, which they
had received through Moses, had told them Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy. Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. What scenes we have presented
before us in these two chapters. The first from Exodus in which
the people stand looking upon this mount shrouded in darkness. Upon which They saw thunderings
and lightnings and the noise of a trumpet as the Lord spake
and delivered this law, these 10 commandments. And the people
there feared and stood afar off when they saw the sight. And
then in Luke, that people having broken that law, countless generations
following having broken that law. The sins of a multitude
having multiplied upon their heads, there comes one into this
world, a saviour, a mediator between God and man, who is accused
by men of breaking that law, though he was innocent of all
its commands. Innocent of all its penalty.
He was the only one who ever could or did keep it. He was
perfect. And yet they brought that law
that they broke and accused him of it. Accused him of being a
Sabbath breaker. And they put him to death. And
the people looked and beheld the scene. as this man upon this
mount was crucified. And from the sixth hour until
the ninth hour there was darkness over all the earth. And the veil
of the temple was rent in the midst. And Jesus cried with a
loud voice, it is finished. And he said, Father, into thy
hands I commend my spirit. The people looked on and beheld,
and all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from
Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. That law which
condemned all Israel, and all men and women throughout all
this world, was brought down upon the one man who never broke
it as he stood as a substitute in the place of sinners as he
took their sins upon himself and the condemnation due under
him he put his head upon the block he put himself under that
law and its penalty and the axe the sword of divine judgment
came down upon him and the light of the sun was taken away as
a demonstration of what happened and the people beheld and stood
afar off just as they beheld the awful judgment of God seen
at Sinai and stood afar off and following this the body of Jesus
was taken down and wrapped in linen and laid in a sepulchre
that was hewn in stone where a never man before was laid. Hewn in stone as that law given
at Sinai was hewn in tablets of stone. Here that law came
down upon Christ who was laid in a sepulchre wherein never
man before was laid. Oh, what a law! Oh, what a dread
it brings! Oh, what dread it will bring
to us, should God ever take it and by His Spirit make its awful
judgments known unto us. Should God ever bring us as fallen
sinners under this law, to hear it not just with the outward
ear, but to hear its condemnation and rule and judgment inwardly,
and to see ourselves exposed by it, exposed by its every command,
to see ourselves laid bare, oh what fear it will strike in our
hearts, that we like they would recoil and stand afar off and
cry out unto the preacher unto the men like Moses, oh you speak
to us but let not God speak I cannot bear it. Have you ever felt that
law's threatenings and thunderings and lightnings and sound in your
own heart? Has it ever been brought to bear
upon you? If it has you will know that
you cannot stand in its midst, you cannot stand in its wake. It finds you wanting on every
charge. A law so exacting, so pure, so
righteous, so holy, so just, so good, soaring up to heaven,
soaring down to man in the depths. immutable, unchangeable, inescapable. You can go to the furthest corners
of this earth. You could go into outer space
and you could not escape this law. It finds you out and you
must keep it in perfection every day, every moment of your life,
if you're to stand before a holy God, blameless. and escape his
judgment and his wrath for eternity to come. That's why the people
feared because they could not stand in the wake of such a law
and neither can you. What a law this is. But consider
it, it's remarkable in its conception, it's remarkable in its structure. It's not a random collection
of 10 commands, 10 moral standards. There is a richness in these
commands which reveals the glory of God and the depravity of man
before him. And reveals in type and figure
the wondrous glory of the gospel in which God will send an answer
for our continual breaking of his law and his righteous demands. This law, even in these 10 commandments,
point us not just to our failure to live righteously before a
holy God, but point us out of time into eternity unto a Saviour
who came to bring in the righteousness of God for those who were lost
in sin. This law begins with three commands
in relation to God. It opens, God speaks, I am the
Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt
out of the house of bondage. He reminds the people who He
is. He's their God and He's delivered
them. He's led them at this time out
of Egypt. And if they understood what that
meant, they would know that they had had no power themselves to
escape the bondage they were under. They were trapped, they
were ensnared, they had no ability to escape. Yet God, by His strength,
by His mighty hand, delivered them. He did it, not they. And He says unto them, Thou shalt
have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water
under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself
to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God and my jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not
take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, For the Lord will
not hold him guiltless, but taketh his name in vain. We open with
free commands in relation to Almighty God. Thou shalt have
no other gods before me, thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven images, any idols, and thou shalt not take my name in
vain. free commands in relation to
God. Because He's a triune God, one
God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. When we
read of free in the scriptures, we're always reminded of the
divine nature of God. It always points us unto God
in three persons. And the law reminds us of who
we stand before. by opening with three commands
in relation to how we stand before Almighty God, how we approach
Him. He is the only God. Thou shalt
have no other gods before me. We then have the command to remember
the Sabbath day. Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and
do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God. This command in many ways stands
as unique in these ten. We have three commands specifically
about God. We have six commands towards
the end of the ten. which deal with man and his actions
and his dealings with his neighbours but we have this fourth command
addressed unto man which respects the seventh day, the Sabbath
day, the rest day and it stands in isolation as unique for it's
telling the people to do nothing Remember the rest day, remember
the seventh day. Remember the creation when God
created in six days and rested on the seventh. On this day thou
shalt not do any work, you shall rest. Rest. This is a law which respects
doing. honor thy father and thy mother,
do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false
witness against thy neighbor, do not covet, it's about doing. But this command says do nothing. We have three commands at the
beginning in relation to God. We have the command of the Sabbath
and then we have six commands specifically in relation to man
and how he treats his neighbor and other men. Honor thy father
and thy mother. Do not kill, do not commit adultery,
do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not covet. All in
relation to your neighbor and other men. All in relation to
men. Six commands with respect to
man. Because six is the number of
man. So in these ten commands we have
three at the beginning relating to God as a triune God. And six commands at the end relating
to man. Six referring to man. the world being created in six
days and man on the sixth day and then in between between the
three commands at the beginning and the six commands at the end
we have this one command remember the Sabbath day this one command
that stands between the two that stands as it were between God
on the one side and man on the other side the rest, the ceasing
from work. Now why is there this one command
in the midst of the free and the sick standing as it were
between God on one side and man on the other side? It's because this command relates
to that which ultimately unites fallen sinful man with a holy
God. This day of rest, this Sabbath
day in its true spiritual meaning of which it was a figure is that
day in which God on the one side and man on the other side are
united and are at rest. No longer at enmity, no longer
at war, no longer divided by sin, but one. The commands at the end of these
ten, those six commands find all men out. They're guilty and
they create a gulf between God and man. The command at the beginning,
find all men out. They can't even attain to keeping
these latter commands with respect to their neighbor, let alone
the commands in relation to God. We all bow down and worship other
gods. We bow down and worship ourselves. We bow down and worship our own
idols, our own loves, our own desires, our own lusts, our own
glory. We don't get anywhere near the
first three. And by nature we never remember
the Sabbath day. This isn't simply one day in
the week. Oh, the Jews of old were very
particular to remember the one day in the week. They tried to
observe the letter of this law. They tried not to work. They
tried not to prepare food. They tried not to travel. They
could keep the one day in the week outwardly. But truly man
has never kept the Sabbath day. He's never rested. We're always
up and doing. And when it comes to our walk
before a holy God, we're always up and doing. We're always striving,
we're always seeking to make ourselves approved unto God by
what we do. Whenever any trouble comes our
way in our pathway, we're always seeking to solve it in our own
strength. We're always up and doing. The professing churches are always
up and doing. always thinking of ways to do
God's work for him. How can we get the people in?
How can we solve this? How can we do that? How can we
bring people along to the meetings? Never resting before God. Never trusting and waiting upon
Him. Never waiting for the Spirit
of God to move. Always finding a reason to be
doing this, that or the other. And they have never remembered
the Sabbath day. Every seventh day when they gather,
every time they gather on a Sunday, which they call the Sabbath,
they're busy up and doing. They get in the car, they travel
to the meeting, they set the oven to cook their dinner, their
maidservants, their manservants, their sons, their daughters,
their cattle are all at work on their day, which they say
they rest on. And in their meetings they're
busy, busy trying to do God's work of salvation, busy trying
to bring people along to the meetings, busy trying to persuade
them to believe. Busy, busy, busy, they've never
rested. Though they say, like the Jews,
that they keep the Sabbath day. And like the Jews, in their hearts,
they put Christ to death, even though he's the only one who
ever did rest. But we should remember, The Sabbath
day. The true Sabbath day. The true
rest of God. Because it's that day, that rest,
which brings man into union with God. Rest. Rest. We're reminded at the beginning
of this chapter, Exodus 20, when God speaks, He reminds the people
that He is the Lord their God, which hath brought them out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. And when He
brought them out, He brought them to the Red Sea. And they
had the sea in front of them, and the Egyptians behind them,
and they had no way of escape. And he said unto them, Moses
said, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. And as they stood still, as they
rested, as they looked, as they stood and beheld, the waters
opened up before them and the Lord led them through on dry
land to safety and slew all the Egyptians who followed. The Lord
did it and he did it by bringing them to stop their works and
to rest. Remember the Sabbath day. This is that which bridges the
gulf, the gulf between man and God. The gulf. There was a gulf. The people here when Moses was
in the mount and God spake stood afar off. Their sin had divided
them from Almighty God. Your sin has set you at a great
distance from God. You look on and you see thunderings
and lightnings. and the noise of the trumpet
and the mountain smoking, you hear this lore and you know you
cannot keep it. You're afar off, there is a gulf,
but there is a rest into which man may enter, which unites. What does? What unites? What
unites God on the one side as pictured by the three commands
with man on the other side as pictured by the last six commands?
What unites him? What bridges the gulf? The rest
does. the beholding does, the remembering
does. Remember, remember the Sabbath
day, remember the rest, remember the deliverance from Egypt, remember
that you stood still and saw the salvation of the Lord. Look
and rest in me, God says. What unites? Faith. unites. Faith does. Faith isn't about working, but
believing, beholding, resting, ceasing from works and looking
unto Christ. The law is about working. Do this, don't do that. that
in the midst of that law there is a pointer to the coming of
faith, to the coming of a saviour, to the coming of one who would
bring in an everlasting rest, an everlasting Sabbath for his
people, to the coming of one who would unite God with man
who was once afar off. In the midst of this law, which
is all about doing, sent to prove Israel, and which in so doing
found them and us wanting, we find here a command to rest. Don't do but rest. Remember. Look. This command speaks of a day,
and of rest in that day. It is a picture of the day of
Christ, of the day in which Christ reigns, of the day in which Christ
is glorified in the heavens having wrought his work of salvation
and sitting on high glorified the son of righteousness having
risen with healing in his wings as he sits on high glorified
and send forth his light into a world of darkness. From the
sun the light shines down and it shines down from he who rests
in his gospel. The son is glorified, he's at
rest, he died, he rose again and he sat down having finished
the work at rest and in that position he shines, shines over
all, shines forth his gospel. That's the day that this Sabbath
day reminds us of. Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. That day, this day, this day
in which you and I live, this age, this generation, these hundreds
and thousands of years, this 2,000 years since Christ came,
extending forwards in time to that day when He will return.
This day, this Gospel day, remember, it's a day of rest. not a day of working, not a day
of striving and working to make yourself acceptable to God because
you cannot, but a day of being led by faith to rest in Christ
and his salvation and what he did upon that cross when the
Jews generations later put him to death and when his people
all his acquaintance, the women and the disciples stood afar
off and beheld. They looked, they looked at what
happened and they saw and they believed. And this command reminds us to
remember, remember the rest day. Remember this day, this gospel
day, is a day of rest, resting in Christ. Look, look unto Christ
on the cross, remember, believe, because this is what unites man
with God. Faith. Here is the meeting point
of heaven and earth, of man and God. Here work ceases, faith
arises and eternal rest begins. Here is the mediator as Moses
was a mediator between God and men, here is the mediator of
whom Moses was a figure, Christ Jesus, here is Christ the mediator,
standing between God and man, bridging the gulf that sin has
wrought, interceding, uniting, delivering, saving, Here is Christ
bringing his people out of a world of bondage, a world of sin, a
world of darkness, out of the Egypt of this world, the house
of bondage in which we're born and dwell, a house of endless
labour and working and never attaining, never attaining unto
salvation, a house of bondage, but here is a saviour leading
a people out into everlasting rest. A people who cease from
works and remember the Sabbath day. They remember, they behold
and they look by faith unto him. Here we look at the cross. We see that day in which Christ
died. That day in which his great work
of salvation was wrought for his people. We see Him as we
saw in Luke 23, we see Him upon that cross and we see Him in
the darkness as the light of the sun's taken away and as this
law comes down upon Him in condemnation, not because of His sin, but because
of ours, because of His people's, because of those which were laid
upon Him. We see Him in His suffering and
travail in the darkness. we see him at the end of the
hours of darkness crying out it is finished it's complete
it's done I've delivered my people and he leads them forth having
wrought salvation for them, having brought righteousness in for
them. And how was that salvation wrought? How was that righteousness of
God brought in for them? How were they delivered? By faith. By faith. By the faith of Jesus
Christ. His faith. which brought in the
salvation by which his own people are brought to faith to believe
on him. As Paul makes plain in Romans,
but now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested
being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Even the righteousness
of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ He brought this righteousness
in when he suffered in the darkness, through his faith as he trusted
and rested in his God, that he knew that his people would be
led through that river of death, that Red Sea, in him by faith. By faith of Jesus Christ unto
all and upon all them that believe. As Romans 1 tells us, I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto
salvation. For therein in the gospel is
the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, from the
faith of Christ which he had, by which he wrought their salvation,
unto the faith of the believer, as the Spirit gives them faith
to look and to behold him saving them. as it is written the just
shall live by faith and the just one Christ live by faith and
all who are made just and righteous by him shall live by faith. The
faith of Jesus Christ wrought our salvation that faith which
he then gives to all his people to look unto him that faith which
unites him with them His faith, their faith, the faith. One faith. From faith to faith. The faith once delivered unto
the saints. The faith of Jesus Christ. Faith. Yes, here we look unto
the cross by faith. And once we've beheld Christ
upon the cross, and heard his cries and seen his body taken
down. By faith we see the body of Jesus
taken from the cross and wrapped in linen and laid in a sepulcher
that was hewed in stone wherein never man was laid. and laid
in that tomb on the Sabbath day, laid to rest, the work having
been wrought, salvation having been wrought, the new man of
grace having been brought in and created as it were, with
Christ, in Christ, upon the cross. The last Adam was laid in the
grave and rested. He slept as Adam slept when Eve
was taken out of his sight. He was laid in the grave and
rested on that Sabbath day. Remember the Sabbath. And the
people, the women who beheld returned and prepared spices,
anointments and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment. Yes, Christ rested on the Sabbath.
He rested. His work had been done. His people,
united with Him in death, rested with Him. laid in the grave with
Him, their sins having been taken away by Him as He suffered for
them. All their sins blotted out, here
they're in the grave with Him, ready to rise one with the Saviour
from the grave. And in the end of the Sabbath,
on the beginning of the first day, He arose victorious from
the grave and they arose with Him. They arose. out of that rest of the Sabbath
day through which they had been united and delivered and brought
to peace with God. As Christ was laid in a tomb,
hewn in stone, that's why he was laid because it's a figure
of that law that law which man had broken that law which all
his people had broken that law from which penalty he delivered
them all and that law which reminded them of the Sabbath and the rest
which they have in him all work at an end and salvation wrought by another
for them. There is nothing for them to
do. Oh, if you wish to be saved, if you wish to be delivered from
the wrath to come, if you know that God is furious with your
sins, the only way you will be delivered is if you're given
faith to look to Christ and rest in Him. Rest in Him. That law took those Jews to the
point of slaying Christ. those custodians of that law. Their zeal to keep the law in
its outward form moved them to slay the One, the only One who
ever kept it. They found Him guilty of breaking
the Sabbath and yet He was the only One who ever truly kept
it. He was the fulfillment of it.
He was the One that brought in not just rest on one day a week
but everlasting rest for His people. Yet they put Him to death. and you and I have put him to
death. We've found fault with him. We've put him away from
us. We've denied him, we've rejected
him. But in so doing that, people
fulfilled God's will through this man. This man, because when
he was put in the grave, when he was slain, he rested. He'd done the work to deliver
his people from sin. and it brought in everlasting
rest for them. When he died, so did his people. When he was laid in the tomb,
so were his people. When he rose, so did his people. In him they rose again. In him
they, like these women of old, beheld the sepulcher. how his
body was laid and rested the Sabbath day according to the
commandment. Yes they rested, those women
rested then, they rested not just on that physical day but
they kept the commandment of the Sabbath for the first time
truly in their lives. For those believing women who
looked upon Christ and beheld Him on the cross and beheld the
tomb and beheld where His body was laid looked believing that
He was their Saviour and in Him united with Him in death they
rested and they would rest forevermore. They rested the Sabbath day according
to the commandment. Oh have you Have you truly rested? You only will when by faith you
enter into this place with Christ. When you too by faith behold
the sepulchre. and behold how his body was laid
in that sepulchre, his body, the body of Christ, the head
and the body, Christ and his people, Christ and his bride,
all his body laid to rest and to rest on the Sabbath day according
to the commandment. Oh have you rested, have you
entered into this day, this everlasting day, this gospel day, this day
of resting Christ, this day of rest in that Saviour who did
it all, who did all that was necessary to save His people,
who completed the work that we in Him might rest. Have you beheld
him? Have you stood afar off? Are
you stood afar off today? Afraid to come near? Afraid to
approach unto Christ upon the cross? Afraid to bow down before
Him? Afraid to approach unto the tomb? Afraid to behold the sepulcher? Afraid to rest, thinking you
must work, work? Thinking you must please Him?
Are you afraid? Are you stood afar off? Or has God opened your eyes to
see this Saviour? To see what the law meant when
it pointed unto Him? To see the Sabbath rest in its
fulfilment? To see the everlasting, eternal
rest that He brought in for the people of God? Have you been
given faith from Christ to enter in? and to approach as these
women did unto that tomb to discover he's no longer there but to discover
that he's risen and have you been given faith to leave the
place of death to leave the law to leave the stone and to go
to the risen Saviour Christ on high and to rest in His grace
and salvation, to rest in His free grace and mercy alone, and
to know that He, by faith, has wrought your salvation. Have you? Have you? Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. Remember. And they rested the
Sabbath day according to the commandment. Praise God. Amen.