Thru the Bible - Sunday Sermon

Steve Schwetz: Have you ever had someone ask a question that maybe sounds simple but the answer opens a much bigger conversation? Questions like, should Christians keep the Sabbath? Was Saturday changed to Sunday? Or does God expect us to observe the fourth commandment the same way today? For some, those questions stir strong convictions, don't they? And for others, they bring a little confusion or maybe even a sense of guilt. Still others may have never even given it much thought.

Welcome to the Sunday Sermon on Thru the Bible. In his message, "The Sabbath Day or the Lord’s Day—Which?", Dr. McGee takes us straight to scripture to untangle this often misunderstood topic. As we open to Exodus 20, he helps us to see not only what the Sabbath meant for Israel, but what it points us to today. Because ultimately, the Sabbath and when it's observed isn't just a conversation about calendars or commandments. It's a conversation about rest, real rest, the kind that only Christ can give.

Whether you've wrestled with these questions for years or maybe you've never really thought much about it at all, you're in the right place today. I think that you're going to find this message both clarifying and deeply encouraging. I'm Steve Schwetz, your host here at Thru the Bible. Before we go to today's sermon, let's hear from a couple of fellow passengers on the Bible Bus. First, let's listen to a voicemail from a long-time listener named John.

John: Hello, this is John, and I'm listening from Hollister, California, on the podcast. I also used to listen on the radio. I love Thru the Bible because of the word and Dr. J. Vernon McGee. My wife and I started to listen back over 50 years ago. I started out when I was a groundsman at a junior college. I had an area where I was out working in a parking lot, and I had a little transistor radio in my pocket. On KFACT radio back then, I would tune in at, I think it was 9:00 in the morning. I would make sure there was a spot where I could just go out and work and not be interrupted and I listened to the whole program.

In the mornings, I would read the Bible in the break room, reading the passage we were doing. I remember especially back then the book of First John was really amazing. Also, the book of Jeremiah meant a lot to me. Anyways, we listened for many years. We have been listening regularly for over 50 years, so I've been through the study quite a few times. I'm still learning something every time. I look forward to each book. Now I'm retired, and so I get a chance to relax a little bit more. I don't have to listen while I'm driving or on my break in the middle of a busy day.

Every morning I get up, I have breakfast, and I grab my phone and turn on the podcast. My wife and I sit down with our Bibles and we listen to the program for that day. We're able to follow it at our own speed since we do it on the podcast. I do really enjoy hearing Steve and Greg's messages that they give. That's a big part of it for me and for both of us. We're very encouraged by that. We've been supporting all these years. I share on Facebook all the time. We're on the prayer team, and we work with a ministry in Cuba.

We bought a bunch of the solar Bible buses and shipped them down there so people in small rural communities and homes are able to listen to God's word. We're hoping to expand that ministry. Also, even though I'm not a pastor, I'm just a gardener, we have a small church and when our pastor's gone, I occasionally do the sermon. They're always full of Vernon McGee quotes. Everybody laughs about it, but I love it. So anyways, thank you guys so much. Love your ministry and thank you for being faithful and carrying it on. I hope it just keeps on going. My kids all know about it and I hope that they listen too. But my wife and I just love it. Thank you very much and God bless.

Steve Schwetz: John, thanks for your faithful support and for helping fling that seed. Over 50 years aboard the Bible Bus, I'd say that you and your wife definitely have permanent seats reserved. Then we've got this note that came to us from a listener named Law. She writes, "My husband and I listen every day, Saturday and Sunday included. We have been on the Bible Bus for many years. The email for the World Prayer Team every morning is a blessing. It helps keep my mind off me and onto others. I love listening to Steve share stories of how God's word is reaching around the world. It's a blessing to hear how our Lord is reaching our brothers and sisters in difficult areas of the world. We're truly blessed here in America. We listen through the app and help put gas in the bus as we're able. Thank you so much for continuing Dr. McGee's work of flinging the seed."

It's great to hear from you too, Law. Thank you for your faithful prayers and your financial partnership with us. I couldn't agree more, by the way. The World Prayer Team has a wonderful way of lifting our eyes off our own circumstances and reminding us that God is at work all around the world. If you're not yet part of that World Prayer Team, I know I'd love to have you join us. It's so easy to sign up. You just go to TTB.org. Or if you've got our app, look for World Prayer Today. Either way, you'll find a subscribe button right there and we'd love to have you on the team. I guarantee you're going to be blessed.

Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for your living word that speaks to our hearts. As we study together, quiet our minds and then teach us to find true rest in Jesus Christ alone. It's in his name we pray. Amen. Here's Dr. J. Vernon McGee with the Sunday Sermon on Thru the Bible.

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: The Sabbath day is Saturday. It's the seventh day of the week according to our calendar. Furthermore, the Sabbath day has never been changed to Sunday. The present-day controversy hinges about a false premise. There is a warped and distorted viewpoint of the real meaning of the Sabbath day and what the scripture has to say concerning it. Many Christians today have a woeful misconception of why the church has always observed the first day of the week. Nothing but abysmal ignorance has permitted the protagonists of the Sabbath day to traffic in their legalistic system.

It's like the old chestnut, this question today of when was the Sabbath changed to Sunday and where is the scripture for it. That's like the old chestnut of the question that was asked the man who was very much like Mr. Milquetoast. He was asked, "Do you still beat your wife?" You can't answer that question without getting into a peck of trouble. If you say yes, you're wrong; if you say no, you're wrong and you're in difficulty. That's one of those questions you don't answer like that at all because it's based upon a false premise.

This morning we're going to ask you to think with us through this service because we believe that this is one of the most important of the commandments and it's very essential that we understand what it means. The Ten Commandments are given first in Exodus 20. They are repeated in Deuteronomy 5. But it's interesting to note that Deuteronomy in no instance is a repetition of the law. It's rather an interpretation of the law in the lives of these people and this nation after forty years of experience with it in the wilderness.

Therefore all the commandments that you find here in Deuteronomy are identical with those given in Exodus with one exception. That one exception is the fourth commandment, the one that has to do with the Sabbath day, and therein hangs a tale. That is something that our legal friends never call our attention to. In Exodus, the reason that's given for the observance of the Sabbath day is that God in creation did all of the work in six days and that he rested on the seventh day and he hallowed that day.

That is given to us in Exodus, the 20th chapter, the 11th verse. Listen to this: "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." When you go to Deuteronomy, you will find an altogether different reason given for the Sabbath day. Altogether different. Here in Exodus, the basis is ceremonial or we would say today theological or religious. It rests upon the fact that God rested on the seventh day.

Our Lord moved in at that particular point when he spoke to the religious rulers who came to him after he had raised that man up at the Pool of Bethesda. They said he had done it on the Sabbath day. He said, "My Father worketh hitherto and I work." In other words, we're not observing a Sabbath day any longer. We're working. He moved in at that point. You will find in Deuteronomy that there's a different reason given. The reason here is that God delivered this nation out of the land of Egypt. I want to turn to that. It's in the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy, the 15th verse.

Listen to this language: "And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm. Therefore, the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day." Back in Exodus, the basis is that God rested on the Sabbath day, the seventh day. Here in Deuteronomy, it is that he delivered them out of the land of Egypt. Because of that, they are to observe the Sabbath day. May I say that the basis here now is not theological but humanitarian.

God delivered them out of slavery down in Egypt. They had to work seven days a week from sunup till sunset. They knew no surcease from sorrow and weariness. Now God says, "Because I've delivered you out of the land of Egypt and permitted you to keep one day, I want you to remember your servant, remember your ox, remember all your animals. I want them to rest one day a week." That's humanitarian. Our Lord moved in at that juncture. Again he said to the religious rulers when they broke with him on that question when his disciples plucked ears of grain and ate it on the Sabbath day, he says, "The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath."

It's humanitarian. These two reasons are tremendous and it's well to keep them in mind. Since the Sabbath day originated actually in creation, you would think that all the primitive nations of the world would have observed it in some form and at some time. They all have a garbled account of the flood. They all have a garbled account of creation. All primitive nations do, which reveals that there was one reliable source for all of it. But the interesting thing is that this very important matter of the Sabbath day, you do not find it observed by the other nations.

It was observed by Babylon, and the liberals for a long time tried to trace the Hebrew observance of it back to Babylon because the Babylonians observed the new moons. There were four quarters in a month, but that would work out seven, sometimes eight days, and it was never a Sabbath under them. Dr. Charles, who follows all the findings of the liberals and all their teachings, has made this statement: "The Sabbath belongs to the Hebrews." Isn't that interesting? God said, "I want you to observe the Sabbath because I delivered you out of the land of Egypt."

I dare say this morning, if you'll do just a little thinking, that there are very few people here that had ancestors who were ever slaves in Egypt. If they were, I have a notion very few of you had your ancestors delivered by a mighty act of redemption on God's part out of the land of Egypt. This applies evidently to a certain group of people who are very easily recognized by the way, and it's the nation Israel. I turn now to this 31st chapter of Exodus and I'd like to call your attention here to several verses that are very significant.

Notice this: Speak thou, verse 13 of the 31st chapter of Exodus, "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel." We know now to whom he's speaking, saying, "Verily, my Sabbaths ye shall keep, for it's a sign between me and you throughout your generations." The Sabbath day was a peculiar sign of God between him and the children of Israel, the seventh day, the Sabbath day. That's not all. Will you notice what he said: "Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it's holy unto you. Everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death."

That's pretty serious, is it not now, that if you defile the Sabbath day you shall be put to death. In other words, a person would be treated just as if he'd murdered someone in cold blood. Now will you notice verse 16 here: "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant. It's a sign between me and the children of Israel forever." That's clear, isn't it? It's a sign between God and the children of Israel. It's like circumcision. It belongs to the old creation.

The Sabbath day primarily was built on the old creation. After God had created in six days he rested on the seventh day. Israel, an earthly people, belong to an old creation. The Sabbath day was given to them as a peculiar sign. If you don't think God meant business about this, may I turn again to the 15th chapter of Numbers. Let me read this to you again. This ought to make your hair stand on end if you think you can keep the Sabbath day and if you do break it, here's what happens. "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day."

I may be wrong, but I have a notion that every person that's present here this morning has already done more work than that man did and he only just picked up a few sticks to start a fire. You want under the Sabbath day? Listen to what happened. "And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation. They put him in ward because it was not declared what should be done to him." They had to go directly to God. Friend, this is harsh.

"And the Lord said unto Moses, 'The man shall be surely put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.' And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones and he died, as the Lord commanded Moses." If you want under the Sabbath day, then I suggest not today but tomorrow you get together some sticks and stones. We'll take out after them tomorrow morning, and I tell you, friends, there'll be rock piles all over Southern California. I'm afraid a great many people who talk about keeping the Sabbath day are breaking the Sabbath day.

God meant business about this Sabbath day as we'll see before we conclude. The reason God protected the Sabbath day as he did here was because it was symbolic of something tremendous that he's done for you and me. He did not want it violated in any fashion whatsoever, nor this morning can you violate the thing it symbolizes. Let's notice some of the things that they could not do on the Sabbath day that the scripture enjoined. For instance, over in the 35th chapter of Exodus, the third verse, we read: "Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the Sabbath day."

If this morning you drove down to the Church of the Open Door in an automobile, the minute that you turned the switch on your car and put your foot on the starter, a fire was started in every one of those cylinders. You have broken the Sabbath day. I called that to the attention of a friend of mine who believes you ought to keep the Sabbath day. He hasn't yet given me an answer because he starts his car every Saturday to drive to church and so far he hasn't started walking. May I say that you break the Sabbath day. They were not permitted to start any fire at all.

That's not all of it. Back in the 16th chapter of the book of Exodus, I turn there to the 23rd verse, and will you listen to this language: "And he said unto them, 'This is that which the Lord hath said, tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord. Bake that which ye will bake today and seethe that which ye will seethe and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.'" They laid it up till the morning as Moses bade and it did not smell. Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath unto the Lord. Today ye shall not find it in the field."

No cooking was permitted on the Sabbath day at all. It would not be permissible to go to a restaurant where somebody else had done the cooking either. In the 29th verse, will you listen to this: "See, for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide ye every man in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." A Sabbath day's journey comes from that verse of scripture. It was about 750 yards. You could not go any farther than 750 yards on the Sabbath day.

Antiochus Epiphanes, when he made his attack upon the nation Israel, was able to overcome some of the Maccabees. The reason was he attacked on the Sabbath day. He knew they would not strike back because they could not fight even a defensive warfare on the Sabbath day. When you turn to the Mishnah or the Talmud of the nation Israel, you will find that they had reduced this Sabbath day to the most minutiae. They had 39 ways of breaching the Sabbath and they divided each one of those 39 ways into another 39 ways. It was 39 times 39, which was 1,531 ways in which you could break the Sabbath.

If you tied a knot, you broke the Sabbath. If you tied your shoestring this morning, you broke the Sabbath. A scribe could not carry a pen because that would be carrying a burden on the Sabbath day. If you have a pen or a pencil this morning, you would break the Sabbath day. You want under the Sabbath? A man was not even permitted to kill a flea. It was rather amusing to me to read that he was not even permitted to kill the flea even if it was on him biting him. In other words, the flea would have a free day on the Sabbath.

You could not wear a garment on the Sabbath day if it was possible to carry it. In other words, no coat would be permissible because it might get warm, you'd take it off and put it on your arm, and if you did that, it would be carrying a burden on the Sabbath day. A woman was not permitted to look in a mirror on the Sabbath day. She might see a gray hair and want to pull it out, and that would be reaping on the Sabbath day. Oh, my beloved, they had reduced it down to where it had become almost ridiculous.

You find though that God made it very clear to these people. He says, "Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I'm the Lord." The Sabbath day was tied in with the ceremonial worship of this nation. You could never divorce it from it. "Ye shall keep holy my Sabbath day and my sanctuary," God says. Little wonder that Simon Peter stood up at the first council of Jerusalem and said to those that were there, he says, "This is a yoke that's been upon us which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear. We've never been able to keep it at all."

When you pass from the Old Testament and come into the New Testament, nothing short of a revolution has taken place as far as the Sabbath day is concerned. Every commandment is repeated in the epistles for Christians as an item of Christian conduct with one exception: the Sabbath day is not given to Christians. Nowhere is it given to the church. In fact, the contrary is true and the church is warned against keeping the Sabbath day. Our Lord precipitated the wrath of the religious ruler at this very point. This is where they broke with him on the Sabbath question.

He claimed to be Lord of the Sabbath day and he justified it by raising up that man at the Pool of Bethesda. My beloved, may I say this to you, Jesus was dead on the Sabbath day. Regardless of what day you think that he was crucified, whether it be Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, there's one thing that's obvious and all agree in: he was dead on the Sabbath day. It was on the first day of the week that he came forth from the dead. When we turn to the 28th chapter of Matthew, will you listen to language like this.

It opens: "In the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week." What wonderful language. At the end of the Sabbath, not just the end of a day, but the end of keeping a Sabbath day. It began to dawn toward the first day of the week. That's tremendous. Then I turn over to the book of Acts and I see that the church was born, not on a Sabbath day. The church was born on Sunday. The church was born on the first day of the week. Listen to this language: "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come."

What does Dr. Luke mean, "fully come"? Does he mean that the sun had come up or it was 12:00 noon? No, he doesn't mean that at all. That which Pentecost had spoken of in the Old Testament in symbol is now come. When the day of Pentecost was fully come. It spoke of a first day of the week and the only first day of the week that they ever observed, for they observed seven Sabbath days and then the day after the Sabbath was Pentecost. On that day the Holy Spirit came. On that day the church was born.

It would be exceedingly strange if the church did not make some recognition of the first day of the week. You will find that the church never met on any other day except the first day of the week. In Acts 20, verse seven: Paul preaching in Troas. "And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them ready to depart on the morrow, continued his speech until midnight." That's a long sermon. Dr. Luke doesn't insert something here and say, "Now I want to give you a little word of explanation."

He doesn't say that it was unusual for the church to meet on the first day of the week here. This is regular. It can be proved that the church never met on any day but the first day of the week. There were those who were Ebionites, they were called heretics even in the early church; they met on the Sabbath day. But the church always met. Paul said to the Corinthians, "I want you to gather together, make your offerings on the first day of the week." Why would he pick that day? Because that's the day the church came together.

The church is a new creation of God. It belongs not to the old creation. It's a new work. By grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God. Not of works lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, his poiēma, his creation, a new creation. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before hath ordained that we should walk in them. The Christian is a new creation. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. Old things are passed away, all things have become new.

Paul writing to the Galatians in the sixth chapter, the 15th verse: "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision but a new creation." John on the Isle of Patmos says, "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day." I know a great many commentators say that was this day of grace in which we live. I'll buy that, but I won't rule out the other. It also means the Lord's day, the first day of the week. A false propaganda has been circulated to the effect that the Roman Catholic Church changed Saturday to Sunday. May I say that that needs to be refuted.

The church never did observe the Sabbath day and how could it ever change? Saturday was never changed to Sunday. The church observed Sunday from the very beginning. All of church history bears testimony to that. Ignatius was born in 69 A.D. He was a disciple of the apostle John. Listen to him. This goes back to the first century. Here is what he wrote: "No longer observing Sabbaths but fashioning their lives after the Lord's day, on which our life also rose through him." Is that not a lovely thing?

Athanasius, who lived about 296 and was one of the great saints of the church, listen to him: "We keep no Sabbaths. We keep the Lord's day as a memorial of the beginning of the new creation." The epistle of Barnabas was never recognized or accepted in the canon of scripture, but no one has ever questioned the accuracy of its historical statements. The epistle of Barnabas says, "I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is Sunday, that is the beginning of another universe. Wherefore we keep also the eighth day, Sunday, for gladness on which also Jesus rose from the dead."

The early church always met on the first day of the week to honor and recognize our resurrected Christ and the fact that they were a new creation. They did not belong to the old creation where the Sabbath day is at the end of the week, but a new day, the first day of the week. The Seventh-Day Baptists started the observance of the seventh day or the Sabbath. You Baptists are going to have to take the blame here. The Presbyterians and Methodists have already got enough to answer for. I think that you Baptists ought to take this.

There was a group of people who rose even in the early church, the Ebionites, they were called heretics then. By the sixth and seventh century, they had called themselves Sabbatarians. It was not until you come to the 17th century when the Puritan theology became so dominant and legalistic that they began to call themselves then Seventh-Day Baptists. All of the legalists today get the seventh day from them. Sunday does not take the place of Saturday. The Lord's day is not a substitute for the Old Testament Sabbath day.

The Sabbath was the seventh day, the Lord's day is the first day. The Sabbath was a test of Israel's condition, the Lord's day is the proof of the church's acceptance on holy unconditional grounds. The Sabbath belonged to the old creation, the Lord's day belongs to the new creation. The Sabbath was a day of bodily rest for the Jew, the Lord's day is a day of spiritual rest for the Christian. If the nation Israel worked on the Sabbath, they were to be put to death. If the Christian does not work on the Lord's day, he gives little proof that he has life.

It's a day when you demonstrate you belong to Christ. It's not a day to sit down. I disagree with those who say that Sunday is a Sabbath. It's not a Sabbath. It's something new. It's the day we testify that Jesus came back from the dead. For the early church, every Sunday was an Easter. If we could only make every Sunday an Easter, wouldn't it be wonderful? Come out in our new garments and fill our churches and talk about the resurrected Christ. Sunday does not take the place of Saturday.

I think it would be wonderful if Saturday could be made a day of rest and Sunday the day of worship. I believe that Paul would sanction that. I think that you'll find today in our complex society more and more men are coming to observe Saturday as a day of rest for the body and then Sunday is a day of worship. Paul says: "One man esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." We observe this day because our Lord came back from the dead.

The Sabbath day has not been substituted for a Sunday or any other day. The Sabbath day has already been fulfilled. It was part of the ceremonial law and that has already been fulfilled in Christ. Now the injunction given to Christians is simply this. listen to this language in closing, Colossians 2:16 and 17: "Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ."

All those things in the Old Testament ritual were a shadow. A shadow's a photograph. That shadow's developed and that becomes our picture. Back in the Old Testament, we find that even the Sabbath day was a shadow, Paul says here. What was it a shadow of? I want you to see something that's tremendously important. Paul wrote to the Galatians and said to them: "But now, after that ye have known God or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days and months and times and years."

Judaism is passed away. Paul says here in Galatians that Judaism is the same today in God's sight as any other pagan religion. Will you hear me? To observe today the Sabbath day is to go back to paganism. It's to return to paganism. It's the same today in God's sight by that kind of a legal system. In closing, hear this final word. Over in Hebrews, Paul wrote there and said this: "Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his Sabbath, any of you should seem to come short of it."

"For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." Friend, I want to say this: I keep the Sabbath day. I keep the Sabbath day the way Paul wrote about it here. When I first came to Pasadena in 1940, a neighbor came to me, a very fine man, but he was in one of these cults, a legal system. He kept the Sabbath day. He nailed me first off. I hadn't been in Southern California 24 hours till he buttonholed me.

He said to me, "Do you keep the Sabbath day?" I looked him right straight in the eye and I said, "I sure do." He said with a gleam in his eye, "What day do you keep?" I looked at him with a gleam in my eye and I said to him, "Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Then I start all over again the next week." He says, "What in the world do you mean?" I said simply this: that when the Lord Jesus came to this earth 1900 years ago, he said, "My Father worketh hitherto and I work."

Yonder when we had created everything including man, man sinned and got into a ditch. From that day on, we never rested because we wanted to redeem this sinner. This poor lost sinner we wanted to redeem and bring into a place of rest. Yonder on the cross 1900 years ago, he died and before he died he said to the Father, "It's finished! It's finished!" What's finished? The work of redemption. Now you can enter into rest. My brother, don't you even dare to try to pick up a little stick and add to his redemption.

You can't do it. If you do, you're not saved by grace. Grace says we do not pick up sticks on a Sabbath day in which we live. We rest in him. By faith we come to him and take him as savior and rest in him. He's the Lord of the Sabbath day. He gives rest and he says, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I'll rest you. I'll give you a Sabbath day where you can rest in me as savior." On that storm-swept Sea of Galilee one day his disciples came to him as he was asleep in the boat.

They said to him, "Carest thou not that we perish?" He arose and he went yonder to the prow of the boat and he rebuked the waves. The language is, as Luke gives it, "Be muzzled. Be muzzled like dogs with muzzles on." When he said that, those waves began to slink back like dogs to their kennels. Then he turned and rebuked them: "Oh ye of little faith." Friend, does he have to say that to you and me? By faith, trust him and he'll take us through the storms of life. "My Father worketh hitherto and I work." But it's finished.

He took his place at God's right hand. If there's any more to be done for your salvation, he'll do it. But he's already sat down. You can enter in. Don't pick up a stick, don't dare do it. Don't say you can add to that. He's done it all for you. Come by simple faith and enter into rest, the rest that he gives.

Steve Schwetz: Next week, we've got another never-before-aired sermon from Dr. McGee as our study in Exodus continues with the most complicated command. Hop aboard the Bible Bus and join us, won't you? Until then, we'd love to hear from you. You can drop us a note in the app or call 1-800-65-BIBLE or send that email to BibleBus@ttb.org. Remember you can always write to Box 7100, Pasadena, California, 91109. In Canada, Box 25325, London, Ontario, N6C 6B1. I'm Steve Schwetz, leaving you with this prayer from Hebrews 13:20 to 21: May the God of peace equip you with everything good for doing his will. Amen.