# 280 Today’s Living Word comes from Mark 2:27 And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28 "Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath."
It is just as Moses said in Exodus 16:29, “See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath!” The Sabbath, the day of rest was made for man by God. It was His gift to Adam! It is still His gift to us today.
The Sabbath and everything about it pointed to Jesus, and when Jesus (the Son of Man) came and fulfilled His mission, the legal requirements were no longer necessary.
The word Sabbath means to “desist from exertion,” You see in the Old Testament, it was necessary to exert one’s self to follow the ceremonial Law because it was a display of trust in God’s promise of a coming Savior. But now that Jesus has come, we no longer need to exert our self. We just need to rest in what He accomplished for us on Calvary.
This is what the command “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy is all about. Remember that Jesus has done it all! You must not add work to your salvation. Keep His rest holy, or separate from your works! It is grace alone, works are only a fruit of the joy and peace we find as we rest in Him!
I’m Duane Matz and that’s today’s Living Word.
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