1st September 2013

The talk is entitled “Jesus and rest. Gospel and Sabbath “and looks at the passage Matthew 12:1-14 where building on his teaching of “ come to me ……and you I will give you rest “ ( Matt 11:28 GNB) acts as the context for the disputes with the Pharisees over the reasons and rules for the Sabbath in the first place. The talk explores some of the Christian as well as Jewish approaches to the Sabbath and the subsequent development of the Lords day celebrated on the first day of the week. The Sabbath rest described in Colossians 2:16,17 and Hebrews 4:4-11 reminds us that Sabbath rest is in the understanding that we live in the grace of God and in discovering what it means to live in the finished work of Jesus and in celebration of the resurrection. Yet which in this present age is still but shadows of the reality of what is yet to come.
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