The NXR Podcast - QUESTIONS - Can I Take A Personal Sabbath On A Tuesday？

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00:00:20.860 So, okay, so let me start with the second one because that one's easier. So Nate Werner,

00:00:25.020 I agree that the day of the Sabbath is important and it's the first day of the week,

00:00:29.620 but if you are forced for whatever reason to work on Sunday, can you take a Sabbath rest on a

00:00:35.620 different day? No. The answer is no. You can rest on a different day. You can rest on a Tuesday.

00:00:41.060 You can rest on a Wednesday. You can't take a Sabbath rest on a day that is not the Sabbath.

00:00:46.880 So the Sabbath really is, it's not just, and a lot of guys do that within the Christian realm.

00:00:51.660 A lot of guys will say that like everybody needs a Sabbath and my Sabbath is, you know, Tuesday

00:00:56.420 and my Sabbath is Thursday. And I've heard a lot of pastors, evangelical pastors say,

00:01:02.120 well, my Sabbath is Monday because I work on Sunday. No, no, your Sabbath is Sunday.

00:01:07.540 I am a pastor who works hard on the Lord's day. And that is also my Sabbath. Because here's the

00:01:15.340 deal. It's not, I should have said this earlier, but it's not just the Sabbath is for worship and

00:01:20.420 rest. The Sabbath is for worship, which for the Christian is where the truest sense of rest is

00:01:28.480 found. We rest in our worship. Rest, believe it or not, we do so many things because we're tired

00:01:35.460 and we think that it'll be restful and it's not. It's not, right? We lay down at night when we

00:01:41.260 should go to bed at 1030 and we end up going to bed at midnight because we spend an hour and a

00:01:46.140 half scrolling on our phones, thinking that we're resting, but it's not restful. It's draining you,

00:01:51.960 right? Watching an entire Netflix season, binging is not restful. It's not restful.

00:02:00.920 You think it is, but it doesn't rejuvenate your soul. Worship of the triune God,

00:02:07.180 gathering together with the saints, receiving the Lord's Supper, hearing Christ preached in the

00:02:12.360 word. This is, this is restful. And so that, that is true rest. And that is a rest that is commanded

00:02:19.740 to take place on the Sabbath. So with your work first, I would, I would just look at the nature

00:02:24.140 of your work. So if you're a nurse or if you're a police officer, or if you are involved in driving

00:02:29.880 an ambulance, you know, or these, there are multiple different vocations that are works of

00:02:35.500 mercy or works of necessity, still as an organized, official, formal vocation, but are still

00:02:41.940 under the category of works of necessity or mercy. If that is your job, then I would say that you

00:02:47.980 have an exception. You do. And I would say you still should seek as a Christian to be able to

00:02:53.440 be present in church as much as you can, as much as you can influence your schedule. But no, that

00:02:58.040 would not be breaking the Sabbath. Now, if you have some other kind of job where it's not a

00:03:04.580 police officer. It's not a nurse. It's not a doctor. It's not a work of mercy or necessity.

00:03:09.540 It's at the grocery store. You work at H-E-B, right? I'm in Texas. H-E-B, that is the grocery

00:03:16.080 store. You might say, well, that's a work of necessity. People need food. No, people need

00:03:20.560 food seven days a week. They do not need to buy food seven days a week. Again, remember if we had

00:03:25.380 a Christian society, like the cell phone tower, I think you could operate it six days a week and 1.00

00:03:29.860 it would run still on the 7th? Certainly, right? I'm not an expert with phone technology, but I'm 0.99

00:03:36.100 pretty, I've got some level of expertise with HEB. I'm pretty sure that you could go grocery

00:03:42.580 shopping on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday and buy enough groceries to

00:03:47.500 where you could eat on Sunday, right? So if that's your job, if you're working at HEB, that would not

00:03:52.640 be a work of necessity or a work of mercy. So what do you do? Well, first you need to, you don't quit

00:03:58.360 your job to keep the Sabbath, but then break other aspects of God's law by not providing for

00:04:05.840 your family. So you do it wisely. Don't be that young 22-year-old overly idealistic, 0.78

00:04:13.420 non-serious Sabbatarian man. Don't be that guy. That guy's dumb. Don't be like him.

00:04:19.700 So be wise. Say, Lord, I want to obey you. Would you provide for me? Give me favor with my managers

00:04:25.820 to change my schedule, or would you provide for me another job that allows me to remember the

00:04:32.620 Sabbath and keep it holy? But yeah, if you have a job that forces you to work on the Lord's day,

00:04:38.340 and it is not a job that falls under the banner of a work of necessity or a work of mercy,

00:04:43.300 then you should look at changing your schedule and praying that the Lord would give you favor

00:04:48.180 with your employer, or if that's not a possibility, looking at a different job

00:04:53.440 to keep the Sabbath. It matters. Thanks so much for listening. But real quick, before you go, 0.68

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The NXR Podcast - August 27, 2022

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

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