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In an increasingly secular world, the personal and social benefits of Sabbath-keeping are continually eroding. The church—not just the world—is finding it increasingly difficult to defend the traditional view that the fourth commandment is still binding on us, and that God wants us to honor the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day, as a Christian Sabbath. This book examines some of the issues...
On the contrary, it was the observance of the sabbath that was to distinguish Israel from the nations, much as circumcision also set them apart.17 But this is surely to miss the big picture. God’s covenant was made with Israel, as a means of bringing salvation into a lost world. And much that was given to Israel by way of revealing that covenant salvation was, indeed, temporary and ‘shadowy’. If there were no reference to the Sabbath prior to Moses, we might conclude, as Boice does, that the Sabbath
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