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SABBATH DISCUSSION
January 3, 2026 | 15 Tevet 5786
This is the part of our program where we share Yahweh’s truth regarding His Sabbath. The Sabbath is a litmus test (proof) of whether one truly honors Yahweh or merely practices religion. The Sabbath is not just a break in the week…it’s a divine appointment. It is a set-apart day Yahweh designed from the beginning, not just for Israel, but for all who call upon His name and are grafted into His covenant people. The Sabbath is Yahweh’s holy day, not ours to redefine or to water down. Through the Prophet Isaiah, Yahweh calls us to do more than just rest; He invites us to delight in this day and in Him.
Isaiah 58:13-14, "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."
This passage is a test of loyalty. What does it mean to turn back your foot from the Sabbath? It means to stop walking in our own direction on a day that belongs to Yahweh. It means not dragging the burdens of the rest of the week into His sacred space. It means putting away our own agenda, our work, our habits, and enter into His time. The Sabbath exposes how we walk, not what we say. To call the Sabbath a delight is to see it as a treasure, not a burden. It is not legalism to guard the day…it is love. It is not bondage to keep the Sabbath…it is freedom. When we pause our striving and choose to honor Yahweh’s Sabbath with joy and reverence, Yahweh promises something beautiful: we delight ourselves in Him, and He becomes our rest, our refreshment, and our delight. The Sabbath reveals what our heart truly enjoys. Then comes the reward: Yahweh will cause us to ride over the heights of the earth. My friends, this is a picture of victory, of elevation, of being lifted by Yahweh’s hand, not by our own efforts. Yahweh honors those who honor what He calls holy. Sabbath faithfulness leads to exaltation, not bondage.
How can we be sure that Yahweh will do what He says? For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it. This seals the matter. His word is not negotiable; it is not symbolic, and it is not temporary. Yahweh’s word does not expire. So today, let us remember Yahweh’s Sabbath. The Sabbath is not just a command; it is relationship. The Sabbath is a heart issue, not a ritual. It is a weekly reminder that Yahweh is our Creator, our Redeemer, our Sustainer, our Everything. It is a taste of the world to
come. May your Sabbath be peaceful, joyful, and full of His presence. May you delight yourselves in Yahweh and find rest for your soul.
This has been another Sabbath discussion at Vision Life Ministries. Please follow us next week as we continue our discussion about one of the greatest gifts Yahweh has given to mankind – His seventh-day Sabbath. On behalf of Pastor Jackson and the Vision Life church family, we say….Shabbat Shalom from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Give Yahweh the praise!
January 10, 2026 | 22 Tevet 5786
As you may be aware by now, we here at Vision Life Ministries are very passionate
about keeping Yahweh’s Word, which includes the Fourth Commandment that tells
us to keep His seventh-day Sabbath. Yeshua kept the seventh-day Sabbath.
His first-century followers, Jew and Gentile, all kept the seventh-day Sabbath; and
throughout history a continuous line of faithful believers have kept
it as well – just as Yahweh commands. Our hope is to remain steadfast, follow
Yahweh’s commands, and keep the faith in Yeshua until the end, so that we may be
considered among the faithful.
A big question that many have today is how should we keep the seventh-day Sabbath? As always, the answers we need are waiting for us in Yahweh’s Word. Yahweh’s answer to the question of how to keep the Sabbath is made plain throughout Scripture, as many key biblical passages show.
We will be addressing this question (How should we keep the seventh-day Sabbath?) over the next few weeks; but let us begin today by acknowledging that Yahweh’s seventh-day Sabbath
is more than a Jewish custom.
There are two common mistakes we must avoid, and the first one we will address today: the belief that we should look to Jewish practices to understand how to keep the Sabbath. This is a mistake for several reasons.
First, over the centuries, Judaism has added many additional man-made regulations, restrictions, and conditions that Yahweh never intended to be part of keeping His Sabbath. Allow me to give you an example.
Throughout Yeshua’s ministry, He challenged the Jewish leaders about how they made Yahweh’s Sabbath a burden. In Mark 2:23-24, we find that “it happened that Yeshua went through the corn fields on the Sabbath day; and His disciples began to pluck the ears of corn. The Pharisees said to Yeshua, “Behold, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
If we search the Scriptures carefully from Genesis to Revelation, we will not find any Scripture in which Yahweh says we cannot feed ourselves by plucking a few heads of corn on the Sabbath day.
In Exodus 34:21, we will find instructions not to use busy times of the year, such as plowing and harvesting times, as an excuse not to keep the Sabbath; but no one would rightly call what Yeshua’s apostles were doing as “harvesting.” They were violating the overly strict, unbiblical regulations of Judaism, but they were not guilty of breaking Yahweh’s Fourth Commandment. If that were the case, then Yeshua broke His Father’s law also, and we know that Yeshua never broke any of His Father’s commands.
In Mark 2:27-28, Yeshua stated, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.” Yeshua pointed out that Yahweh created the Sabbath to benefit man, not the other way around; and that the unbiblical requirements that the Jewish authorities had added to the Sabbath command were making it a burden that Yahweh never intended it to be.
There are other examples of Yeshua correcting the supposed experts about proper Sabbath-keeping in the gospels. The scribes, Pharisees, and priests may have been experts in Judaism, but they were not experts in keeping Yahweh’s laws as He intended them. This is still true today.
Notice what Paul said in Romans 10:2. The Apostle Paul described his fellow Jews as having “a zeal for Yahweh, but not according to knowledge.” It is Yahweh’s Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh), working through the ministry of His church, which brings truth and understanding of the Scriptures.
Keeping the Sabbath does not mean adopting practices rooted in Judaism or the teachings of the various so-called “Hebrew roots” movements. Yahweh’s commands are often far simpler than people give them credit for. To keep the Sabbath, no one needs to adopt Judaism or any of the many movements that seek to imitate it in varying degrees.
This has been another Sabbath discussion at Vision Life Ministries. Please follow us next week as we continue our discussion about one of the greatest gifts Yahweh has given to mankind – His seventh-day Sabbath. Next week, we will discuss the second biggest mistake people make when discussing and keeping Yahweh’s seventh-day Sabbath. On behalf of Pastor Jackson and the Vision Life church family, we say....Shabbat Shalom from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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