Sabbath Reflections with Randy Skeete

During the creation of humanity, God said "Let Us make man in our image" .In this statement, we see God's original desire for our lives-To elevate our lives into his divine likeness as much as possible. As you keep the Sabbath Holy today, remember that though we may be fallen in nature and sinful, God has not given up His original intent and desire for our lives. If only we we will co-operate with Him, He will continue to elevate every aspects of our lives beginning with our moral lives.

As humans we tend to worry about so many things. Interestingly most of the things we do worry about are beyond our power. Sabbath Keepers must always remember that God made all things in the Universe and it's His mighty hand that directs and sustains the universe. Instead of worry, why don't we commit everything into the hands of the Almighty, wholly trusting His transcendental power.

All living things are somewhat dependent on the Sun for life. Did you know that we are absolutely dependent on God as verily as the as the physical creation is depended on the Sun? Jesus is the Sun of righteousness and nothing that distances itself from Him continues to live on. Be blessed by this episode as you keep the Sabbath holy. Happy Sabbath.

Of course, God Created the heaven and the earth and everything in it in six days and rested on the seventh day. However Did you know that from the beginning of creation until now God has never rested? Yes! He has never rested from sustaining the things he created. God is constantly at work to keep the earth universe moving. Listen to this episode to learn more insights about how God upholds the universe without ever taking a rest and how that reveals his never failing love for you and I .Happy Sabbath.

Would you like to reduce your stress?Reduce your anxiety ?, possibly lower your blood pressure.? The Bible has a recommendation for you that is effective and time-tested. This episode will reveal to you a timeless Anti stress health therapy that is rooted in the Creation Story and the Sabbath Commandment.

According to Scripture, we are to work six days a week and rest on the seventh. Six days of work, one day of rest. But do you also know that the Bible requires us to rest seven days a week?Jesus tells us in Matthew 11:28, "Come unto me, all ye that labor, and a heavy laden, and I will give you rest." This kind of rest is intended to function or to be experienced seven days a week. Most of us often or occasionally take a rest from trusting in God. And in so doing, we encounter anxiety and...

In the Bible God often used a perculier way to call some people who were dear to him, this style is called the doubling of names. Example is calling Abraham with a double name call, "Abraham, Abraham" Calling Moses, "Moses, Moses" Calling Samuel , "Samuel, Samuel" Other times when Jesus wanted to make a very crucial point he used double phrasing such as "Verily, Verily" . Do you know God showed this same principle in the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses? This enlightening episode will explain how, and why the Law of God is so dear to the heart...

When things are personal to us, we value them, we treasure them, we guard them, and any threat to them elicit from us a very serious response. All Ten Commandments are extremely important to God but a detailed look shows that one of them is very personal to God. Of all the ten, this is what the Bible says about the fourth. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days, shall thou labor and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Jesus said, "the Son of man is...

Anytime God makes a covenant with man, He sets out the details of the covenant and man's duty is to obey the details of that covenant. We see this in the Adamic Covenant -Genesis 3:15, God's Covenant with Noah, symbolised by the giving of a rainbow (Genesis 9), the Abrahamic Covenant of Genesis 12. And God's Covenant with the world through Israel by the given of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19 and 20). He always spells out the details and we either obey or disobey. Today God has a covenant with humanity , the Bible calls it the New Covenant. In this covenant He still...

The Bible teaches that the Law of God is perfect just and righteous. And all the Ten Commandments are a transcript of God's loving character. However, is there any ranking among the Commandments? What was Jesus teaching when He said in Mark 12 " And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself? What lessons can we learn from this with regards to the keeping of...

The Sabbath commandment reminds us that God did not create us as selfish hermits, but rather He made us to be part of an interconnected web of humanity. Thus as we worship God , showing our love, we also need to be a blessing to those around us by showing love. So as you keep this Sabbath Holy, remember that you were made to he a blessing to those around you. May the Lord give us the strength to love abs bless others.

Everything God created was created to fulfill a particular purpose. Man was also created for a purpose: to Glorify His maker through Obedience to His will. As you observe this Sabbath day: it’s time to ask whether you are living with the purpose of your Maker.

When we obey the command to Keep the seventh day Sabbath, We honor the Special day of the Only Holy God. And since the Sabbath is a special and different day of the the days, There’s every cause for for it to be kept different as unto a Holy and Special God.

A Very simple way of knowing which day is the Sabbath day. May God give us the understanding and the will to obey His Commands.

From the very beginnings of life on earth, mankind has always been presented with choices. Choices to obey God or to disobey Him regarding matters of morality. God forces no one, He always expects willful choice to obey Him. In matters of keeping the commandments, including that of the Sabbath, We can choose to obey Him or disobey. But the more we daily choose to Obey Him, the more easier obedience becomes in subsequent situations. Let us consciously choose to obey God today in keeping His holy commandments which are ordained to life.

As Christians and Sabbath keepers, we are to always remember that we owe it a duty to God to conserve and take good care of the things He has created. The pangs of sin and the curse of the fall may be written over creation all around us but we are to remember that it’s our godly duty to take care of creation in order to avoid any controllable adverse ecological effects. Sabbath Keepers must always be leaders in ecological care.

In the Old Testament, there was a crime that God abhorred the most. A Crime of crimes you can call it- The worshiping of Created things or idolatry. God always hates it when men give His glory and the worship due Him to created things. Today, there’s a disguised form of idolatry in Christendom—Sunday worship which was instituted by Constantine in AD 321, instead of the true Seventh-day Sabbath instituted by God in commemoration of His Creator-ship. If only we will honestly accept God’s word , He will always guide our feets from all kinds of disguised idolatry.

One powerful Sabbath keeping tip to give you a deep experience with God is to specially make time for meditating and reflection on God’s wondrous acts of creation during the Sabbath hours. Delving into the creation story and gleaning lessons is a powerful way of bringing you closer to Jesus your Creator.

Many times when we think of the Moral laws we think of the commandments that forbid adultery, murder, stealing, but others like the honouring of parents and the Sabbath commandment are often not so much considered moral. But the willful breaking of the Sabbath is as much a sin and breach of morality as murder and stealing. The moral commandment that points to the Lawgiver is the fourth commandment and the keeping of the Sabbath is certainly the keeping of no least moral commandment.

God has planted His people in this world to convert the world to Himself. We Christians are supposed to be an Influence to Unbelievers. Of all the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath commandment most clearly portrays this thought. God said the sabbath must be kept with all the members of one’s family as well as the “visitors within thy gates”. This tells us that as children of God, we are to set and bear the Standards for even our unbelieving visitors, friends and other associates . We are to influence the world heavenward and not the other way round. Happy Sabbat

God is a God who loves to talk. Through His Word the worlds were created, through His Word He speaks to us today. Through His Word He gives answers to the difficult situations of life. When a Christian says God is silent to him. It’s usually because he has closed his ear to God’s words. God is ever speaking through His Word. He loves to get chatty if only we would love to open His word and listen to him speak.

The Creation model should always guide us in knowing what God’s original intent for man was as far as certain institutions are concerned. To know the original intent of God for Marriage, Dieting, Work etc, we must always turn to the Garden of Eden to know how it was in that perfect unfallen world. This certainly applies to the Sabbath. The Creation model helps us to know the original day of Creation ie. The Seventh Day ,and the original intent of the Sabbath. ( see Genesis 2:1-3)

God worked six days and rested on the seventh, setting an example for humanity that just as he worked and rested , we are also to work and rest on the Sabbath. This applies to Salvation. Our savior has done His work and he calls on us to do our part in surrendering our hearts and will to Him. Anytime you keep the Sabbath, remember you have a part to play in your salvation for God cannot save you without your consent. Welcome to 2023. Stay blessed🙏🏽🎉

As the year end , it’s the best time to reflect whether you are honestly living in obedience to God’s Ten Commandments especially the Sabbath commandment? In order to live in honest obedience to God’s laws, we must be both intellectually convinced and emotionally attached to the keeping of God’s laws. Don’t just accept that the Sabbath day is Saturday, ask God for the Holy Spirit strength to keep it with all your heart and mind.

God blessed the Seventh-day and made it Holy. It was the whole 24 hour period He made holy. Thus, every second needs to be deemed as sanctified moments. The enemy would have us desecrate holy hours by disregarding the opening and closing hours of the Sabbath. But God wants us to jealously guard the edges of the Holy day as well as the holy hours in between.

A closer reading of Genesis 2:2-3, shows that God blessed and sanctified the Seventh day only after He had rested on that day. In other words, God took a secular day and made it special or holy. In Ezekiel 20:12, we are told: "Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them." How does the Sabbath become a sign of our Sanctification? In the same way that God took a secular day out of the seven and made it holy, God takes...

The Sabbath commandment when taken literally calls upon us to rest on the seventh day of the week. A day of rest will only be logical if the day is a 24 hour period bounded by an evening and morning as indicated by Scriptures. And certainly so, the world has always run on a 24 hour daily cycle since creation. This Bible truth is therefore diametrically opposite to various widespread teachings of evolution which says that the world created itself in hundreds of millions of years! Anytime you keep the weekly Sabbath you are observing a weekly monumental evidence against the...

In Genesis 1 , We are told that God saw that everything He had created all 6 working days was perfect. In other words, every day's work for Him was a work well done. That is the same mentality God wants Sabbath keepers to have. As we rest on the seventh day every week, we must make sure that whatever duty or task expected of us in the six working days has been honestly and dutifully performed. A lazy Sabbath Keeper is a misnomer! God expects our Sabbath rests to be a rest from work well done.

There's only one thing God requires of you you!-Obedience to His Commandments. Many people are complying to human standards or living in conformity to societal values.. But God wants an individual commitment to His standards through obedience irrespective of what others are doing. If you make up your mind to recognise God's authority and obey His laws including keeping His Sabbath, look not to what others are saying or doing. OBEY! Simply because God has said so.

The works of God are the foundation of our salvation, “our work” is to remain surrendered to God. The bible says “without me, you can do nothing”- John 15:5. And so the Sabbath is a day to remember that salvation is the work of God in the life of the surrendered person. The fourth commandment that calls upon you and I to rest on the seventh day identifies the scope of God’s work, but it does not identify the scope of the work of humanity because our work is not the foundation of our salvation. It is the work of Go...

The law of God (the 10 commandments) is a goldmine of spiritual information! Its the rule of life for God's people. Apart from the fourth commandment, the behaviour and thinking required to keep the all the other nine must be the same everyday of the week. However, the observance of the fourth commandments which includes a holy convocation among God's people requires a change in a person's behavior, thinking and speech on one particular day of the week, which is the Seventh day. This makes the fourth commandment the most observable of all ten. Thus, none of the ten commandment...

In the book of Genesis God clearly gave the Seventh-day a very special designation! Its worthnoting that after each creation day, the bible uses the phrase "and there was evening and morning" the first, second, third.......sixth day. However when it came to the Seventh-day, God chose to speak about it differently! Genesis 2:1-3 says "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God...

Almost all the things that God created on the six days of creation can somewhat be appreciated by our five senses. We can see the beautiful skies, the stars and the green vegetation. We can hear the sound of the wind and feel it on our skin. We can smell the beautiful fragrance of the flowers on the field. However, what God made or instituded on the Seventh day can mainly be appreciated only through faith. We require a higher sense, that is the SENSE OF FAITH in order to believe that God rested, blessed, and sanctified the seventh...

Just as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was forbidden to be eaten in the garden of Eden as a sign of man's obedience to God, God also instituted the Sabbath as a sign of our obedience to Him. He wants us to avoid any kind of serville work, business engagements or secular activities as far as the seventh-day Sabbath is concerned. Sometimes the observance of the Sabbath may come at a cost, we may feel we are losing some worldly gains by not working on that day. In fact we sometimes are tempted to desecrate...

Sabbath-keeping now done biblically is perfectly suited and applies perfectly to the New World and the new heaven that God will make. This means when you and I engage in sabbath-keeping, we are engaging in a behavior that will be performed in the new heaven and the new earth. The old heaven will pass, the old earth will pass, people will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye but the Sabbath will remain, because Sabbath-keeping on this side of eternity is perfectly suited for Sabbath-keeping in the New World, there will be no change. A...

What makes the Sabbath Day Holy from all the other days ?

Can we choose any of the seven days of the week as our Sabbath day?

Not at all! GOD has a Special day which he calls His Holy day! And He calls that the THE SABBATH DAY or THE SEVENTH DAY, it is not a sabbath or a seventh day. If that were the case, Monday or Wednesday or Thursday would suffice because each of the seven days is a seventh of the week but only one is THE Seventh. As you keep the Sabbath holy which is the seventh day of the week. May the Lord...

In Genesis 1:26, the bible says “and God said let us make man in our image”. The original purpose for God when He made man was to have us be just like Him in appearance and character. Even after the fall, He still wants us to reflect His image. We however make God in our image when we create for ourselves 'a god' who permits all things. We are to think, speak and act like God. We are Never to make God in our image. if we do this we will engage in the worst form of idolatry. Anytime we obse...

God is first introduced to us in scripture as the Creator before He is introduced as our Savior. Creation as therefore the fundamental reason why God is worthy of our worship. God actually rest his Divinity on the fact that He is the Creator. Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens. Revelation 4:11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being. The Sabbath commandment is the on...

Many people who know the Sabbath Truth are afraid to keep the Sabbath holy. They think that observing a full day per week as God commanded may put their businesses, careers , education and families at a disadvantaged end. Do not be afraid to obey God thinking that obedience to God will cause a deterioration in the quality of your life. Surely this is not the case! The seventh day is the Sabbath! and rather than see it as a threat to your livelihood, ask God to open your eyes to see it as a way to fellowship with God...