Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Yesterday we connected the Sabbath with an expected end. God sat down on the 7^th day and rested from all His labors. We connected the Sabbath to the Manna, the Bread of Life and the word never. We will never hunger and never thirst. For what?

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Here at the core of putting our labors to an end is the end result. Righteousness, a right standing before God, the restoration of relationship which God set in motion from the very moment sin entered into the world.

One side note definition of Sabbath which I did not reference would be obscure if this understanding was not put first. The Sabbath is also call the Day of Atonement. The atoning work on the Cross by Jesus Christ put an end, a Sabbath end, to the law as the only way to a right standing before God.

Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

So, if this be a sign unto God that we honor, hold sacred, and sanctify the Sabbath, how can we do so if our labors have been put to an end? Might I suggest the gathering of a double portion of the Manna from Heaven as instructed in Exodus 16, but not because of any law.

Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Fill up on the Bread of Life to begin your day, Sabbath or not.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Some time ago I promised to address the issue of the Sabbath as being a sign as described in Exodus 31:13. As I said then, it is but a sign, from us, to God, that we remember and honor that sanctification.

If you remember sanctification is a setting aside, to separate, related to holiness, hallowed, consecrate, and saint. So why do I begin with this quote from Jeremiah if I am to explain in more detail the meaning of Sabbath?

Simply put there was no 8^th day for God. It was an end of His labors, He had done all that was needed. As an example of what that means to us, let us look at the first use of Sabbath to better understand God’s expected end for us.

Exodus 16:23-26 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

This is in reference to the Manna from heaven.

John 6:33, 35 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.