40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Episode 86 (Exodus 20:8-17)

Episode Date: June 21, 2017

Chad Bird and Daniel Emery Price finish up the 10 Commandments. They spend a lot of time talking about the Sabbath and why it contains almost as many words as the rest of the commandments put together. Most the the remaining commandments are in the negative (you shall not) but is there a positive flip-side to them? They talk about these things and more in this episode. Check it out!

welcome to another episode of 40 minutes in the old testament I'm Daniel Emery Price, joined by the Chad Bird. Hey, good morning. Yeah, there he is. There he is. Jumping right in there. Chomping at the bit. Yeah.

You can't wait to get into them commandments. Yeah, I've been practicing them all week. I think I've got it down now. I'm ready. Especially been working on the last eight since that's what we're covering today. You're like, you don't want to talk about things that you haven't walked in perfectly. Right. Yeah.

That's it. Got them down. Awesome. Well, what are the last eight? Yeah, so we're going to start with the Sabbath. We spent a little bit of time, actually we spent almost the whole time last week, introducing the Ten Commandments and then talking about the first two, especially the first, because as we discussed last time,

the first really is the head of the commandments, It's not just in numbering, not just in sequence, but in importance, because if you keep the first commandment, then you're going to keep all of them. If you don't keep the first commandment, then you're going to break all of them. So it's all about having the right God, fearing, loving, and trusting in him above all things. But if idolatry is involved, which, of course, with sinners it always is, then everything else, all the other dominoes are going to fall. So we talked about that quite a bit, and then we moved on to the second commandment, which in the numbering system that we're following is not to take the Lord's name in vain. Some of you may be raised with a different numbering of the commandments,

so you just kind of got to keep that in mind and have to make the switch in your own head as we're going through here. We had to pick one. yeah we couldn't go with uh we couldn't bounce between the jewish the the protestant and the uh roman catholic slash lutheran numbering system so we're we're going with uh with the lutheran going with the middle one with the middle one so uh yeah so the second we talked about uh what what it means uh to really to literally to lift up the name of the lord your god to to emptiness or to nothingness and so uh now we're ready for number three and we have actually talked about the third commandment in a different context a couple chapters earlier when we talked

about the gift of manna we we brought up the sabbath day and and discussed it there because when god gave the gift of manna to the israelites that started after the red sea and before they got to sinai so when god gave the gift of uh of manna he gave it he gave him a daily portion except for for friday and on friday he doubled down he gave them an extra amount of manna because on the following day which was in in our language saturday but for the jews it would have been sabbath on that day they were not to gather any manna so they had an extra amount on friday to tide them over on the sabbath so we talked about the sabbath then we'll uh we'll say a few things about it today and then we'll move on to what is usually called the second table of the law

which begins with the commandment to honor your father and your mother so let me just read uh sometimes we forget that there's more to the commandments than just usually what we have memorized or maybe what's printed on some plaque on our wall there's actually one two three four there's four verses that discuss the sabbath day in etudist chapter 20 so let me just read that and then we'll talk about it remember the sabbath day to keep it holy six days you shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is a sabbath of the lord your god in it you shall not do any work you or your son or your daughter your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you for in six days the lord made the heavens and the earth the sea and

all that is in them and rested on the seventh day therefore the lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy so right away one of the things that uh that is noteworthy about this particular commandment, is that explicitly it's rooted in creation itself. That last verse that I read takes us all the way back to Genesis chapter 1, that God worked for six days. In six days, he made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them. And then after that, on the seventh day, he rested. So this is exactly the language that we see all the way back in genesis chapter one and then chapter two so one of the one of the the functions one of the theological functions of the sabbath day is to take us back to creation it's to remind us of

who god is and who we are in terms of in terms of creation that he is the one who is the maker the creator, the giver, the provider for us, because it wasn't like we were laboring alongside him for six days in the creation of the world. Instead, we were those who were gifted. We were the recipients of his acts of love, which is really what creation is. Everything that God did in creation was prompted not by some lust for power or some desire for glory. Everything that God did in the creation of the world was prompted by by love so creation is a is a pouring forth of a love of god in concrete form so that we might exist to begin with so that we might be and then also that we might receive from all the other parts of creation the the gifts the gifts

of god so this is one way the sabbath day is one way of reminding us that we are creatures and then by net by definition as creatures we are recipients of the good gifts of god because it's one of my favorite quotes from saint erinus you may have heard me say it more than once uh that that god created man in order that he might have someone upon whom to bestow his blessings so god did not create adam and eve to get something from them god created adam and eve in order to give something to them so they are the those who receive his creation those who receive his love he created them in order to give good gifts to them and by remembering the sabbath day we remember that we remember who we are and who our loving and giving

giving God is. And then on the seventh day, by resting, we remind ourselves then that everything that we have is a gift of God. We may be working the other six days, but on the seventh day is a special day in which there is no labor. Even the cattle don't labor. I don't know if you noticed that or not, but even the cattle are not to work on the seventh day, so that all creation is encompassed in this commandment as a uh as a temporal reminder that everything that we have is pure gift pure gift from above it's interesting that this is the commandment that in the new testament gets the most jacked up the pharisees and the religious leaders they this they do a number on the sabbath man uh and make this when you just lay it out what it is it sounds like it

sounds like a pretty great day you know yeah it sounds like it was actually made for man right it doesn't sound like a like a terrible commandment at all it sounds pretty good and like somehow they turn what should have been just like the greatest day of the week uh into the absolute worst day or you were just scared to death that you were going to be doing too much you know and that's that's how we do i mean like we we are pro at uh making gifts into burdens and that was what we do we're like oh this is a gift well let me see if i can turn it into a burden and make it terrible uh that's that's what they did with the sabbath and jesus of course comes in and they and like out of all the commands that they continually try to trap jesus with it's this one that they

want jesus to be a lawbreaker really bad and so you'll see time and time again they will try to trap him with the sabbath uh because jesus is do always doing some stuff on the sabbath uh he's because he's god and as you were saying like the sabbath is about receiving god's gifts so jesus who is god comes and he gives out lots of gifts on the sabbath so he's he's like healing people on the sabbath and restoring people on the sabbath and all this kind of stuff and they got a huge problem with the very heart of this commandment which is god giving out gifts of restoration and and healing and this sort of thing uh to people and they got they got a big problem with that and jesus response is yeah check it out i'm uh i'm lord of the sabbath in case you didn't

know and uh and what's cool about that is that you do see god you know he rested in creation but on the sabbath while we're not to work like god is working on the sabbath so he he rested in the on the seventh day of creation and then gives that day of rest to us in which he gives out his gifts or he he works and obviously we've moved the sabbath from saturday to sunday because of the resurrection. But I would argue that the Sabbath is where we come to find rest, but God doesn't rest on the Sabbath. God is still, like Jesus, working on the Sabbath. That is where he is working his restoration. That is where he's working his gift giving is going on. It's sort of like God takes this day of rest that was his, as Lord of the Sabbath, it's his to give, gives it

to us and then works on that day and we see that in the life of christ and i think that that's continued in the church until now when you when you go into church on sunday uh you don't go there to serve which is what i think a lot of people think that like i go to church to serve god but rather it's the sabbath where you go to to be served by god yeah it's it's as if the sabbath the work that christ does on the sabbath is the clearest expression of the purpose of the sabbath to begin with so we don't labor in order that god might labor and the labor that he does exemplifies the best work that he does for us that is he works through his word to give us life to give us forgiveness to take away our shame to wash away our sins and baptism to

feed us his body and his blood so all the work that he's doing on the sabbath day when we're simply sitting there receiving is uh is driving home the real purpose of the sabbath day to begin with and that is to to show us that while we're doing nothing he's doing everything while we're receiving he's he's doing all he's doing all the giving yeah so it's sort of a good news that jesus works on the sabbath it is good news yeah yeah yeah but you know by the by the first century there were historically speaking anyway there were there were several several aspects of jewish life that really came to define what it meant to be a meant to be a jew and part of these were simply due to historical circumstances you know there were uh after the end of the old

testament at least the writings the old testament in those intervening centuries the jews run to the domination of uh various people uh the greeks and then eventually the the romans by the time we get to the first century and and one of the distinguishing marks of of being a jew was to was to practice circumcision of course this has been there throughout the old testament this camp this kind of came to be like you know the defining mark literally of being a jew and so circumcision was was talked about a lot it was a huge deal because at one point the jews had been forbidden didn't circumcise so this because of that because of that pressure on them from pagan uh forces that were dominating their country this this came to be even more important to them and

the sabbath kind of became that too because the sabbath became the the characterizing aspect of being a jew and so all these laws started creeping up about the sabbath day that were just compounded And it compounded even more so that keeping the Sabbath day, obeying all of these very, very minute strictures on behavior became really the defining characteristics of being a Jew. And so when you get to the New Testament and the work of Christ and then after that, the history of the early church, you know, what is it that comes up a lot in disputes that are happening in the church? well circumcision and the sabbath day because those were two big deals among among the jews well it's a it's a good thing that we don't continue to do that it's a good thing that we don't as christians determine that there are uh that we have that we it's good that we haven't made up some rules that we say are defining marks of the christian yeah we never fall into the error

of the uh of the judaizers too no we would never be like listen christians don't do that or christians do this it's not we never say christians don't smoke or drink or dance or yeah go to r-rated movies or don't don't don't whatever yeah don't uh don't cuss drink or chew or go with girls that do and we don't we don't we don't we would not do that sort of thing yeah I think what's happening is what we want is to be able to define ourselves, our community, our identity, not in terms of what God has done for us, so not in terms of gift, but in terms of what we have control over, so in terms of work. so if i you know if i say being a christian is defined by being baptized and believing well that's that's all a gift because god baptizes us and god gives us the gift of faith and that then leaves thing completely in the hands of grace but if i say being a christian

is defined by not doing this and doing this and avoiding this and voting for this party and refraining from this kind of activity and etc then i've defined my identity in terms of works which i have which at least what i think i have control over and so once more we've we've we've taken ownership of our identity just like happened in the early church just like happened among the jews we've taken ownership of our identity and said that we who we are is defined by these things we have we have control over because you know it really boils down to this uh the last thing that we want to do is to live by grace because it's frightening and it's and it's uh and we lose control and ultimately we have to admit that we're dead and there's nothing that we can do

and god has done all of it so grace as beautiful as it is is is uh revolting and frightening to the old into the old adam to our sinful nature and so he'll grasp at anything by which even if it's a religious sounding thing he'll grasp at anything by which to wrest control from god and be able to define who he is and control who he is based upon his own his own actions yeah it's also a convenient way to we have a problem with an us versus them mentality and we want to set up ways to define us and them right so we set up fake stuff that has that god is the distinguishing marks that god has not set up but we set up so we can know the difference uh between you know the righteous and the unrighteous uh now biblically speaking the difference between

the righteous and the unrighteous is jesus and that's it that's it but we but we want to have a lot of other things that distinguish us that we are uh because you know some people that like that have jesus it's hard to tell them apart from the people that don't sometimes you know so we gotta like we gotta have some external things i mean so uh just like the jews you know circumcision made it easy i could i could tell observing the sabbath made it easy well if you're doing this stuff on the sabbath then i know uh but for christians when it just comes down to hey do believe that uh this jewish guy died naked on a cross 33 years ago at 33 years old for your sins oh you do oh okay that's too easy i mean like that you can't that can't be the mark

how do i how do i know like so i set up a bunch of other stuff yeah it's the uh jesus and syndrome right yeah i mean it's not like not as if we're prepared to leave jesus behind to define ourselves completely in terms of what we do we just simply want to add to what god has done so it's fine i mean we want to keep jesus but we just want to say jesus and jesus and doing this jesus and avoiding that jesus and buying this jesus and practicing that jesus and voting for this particular party jesus and whatever so we're uh it's we would it's not that we want to remove jesus we're always simply wanting to add to what he has done as if it's as if it's deficient in some way yeah no yeah the judaizers absolutely thought believing in jesus was necessary

they just didn't think it was sufficient yeah yeah that's all put your percentage on it you know jesus is 50 or even 99.9 whatever wherever it is uh they still believe that there's there's something lacking that uh something still needs to be added whether it's in uh what we do or what we don't do. Back then it was circumcising and keeping the Old Testament festival days and observing the Sabbath and obeying the kosher laws. Today we have a lot of other things that are that we deem to be kosher according to Christianity. But in the end, it's all adding to the cross. It's tacking on our own works alongside the body of Jesus on the cross. and instead of simply accepting the fact that god has done it all and there's nothing more to be

done he has reconciled the world to himself in the death of his son and he doesn't need our cooperation he doesn't need our participation he doesn't need our addition uh instead he just simply says believe it and it's it's done yep yep amen amen judaizing is uh always an attempt to have some skin in the game whether it be literal or you can have your figurative skin anyway a million different ways yes exactly right yeah so uh it is worth i guess making explicit what has been implicit in our conversation so far and that is that you know for the jews that well let me back up that that the ten commandments as they are given in exodus chapter 20 do and do not apply to to christians they do apply insofar as they express the will of god

for our life in terms of what we do what we don't do uh but they are they don't apply to christianity in some particulars and that is and the example here is to remember the sabbath day that is saturday so part of this commandment is that it's for the jews anyway that they were to remember saturday so that was their sabbath day that was their their holy day and for and for for us for those who live on this side of christ fulfillment of of the law well that that no longer applies to I know there are some out there who believe we still need to be, not only need to be, but must worship on Saturday. But Paul makes it quite clear in his epistles that we are no longer to give in to those who demand that we keep the Old Testament festival days and the Sabbath and circumcision and all of that stuff. That was part of the Old Testament ceremonial law, but no longer applies to us.

So the essence of the commandment still does, that is that we are to remember the work of God and to devote ourselves to the word of God, whereby he still does his work in our lives. So that's the third commandment. Anything else we need to add there? No, I think that was pretty good. We have said quite a bit, and now we're going to struggle to get through the rest of these. Yeah, we still got half the time. I bet we can do it. So there's not nearly as much said about the rest of the commandments.

In fact, I mentioned that the Sabbath day, at least in the way, of course, the versification of the Bible appeared much later. But if you just look at it in your Bible sometime, there's almost as many words devoted to the Sabbath day commandment as there are to the whole rest of the commandments. I mean, if you just open your Bible sometime to Exodus chapter 20 and look at the words about the seventh day and then look at the words about the whole rest of the commandments, and it's about and it's really about the same. so these are there's not nearly as much said and and that i think is for obvious reasons because what we have in the second table the law is pretty much the kind of stuff that you would expect in almost any kind of legal code in the ancient near east you know you need to honor your your parents and don't go around murdering people don't commit adultery don't be stealing from your neighbor don't be lying about your neighbor don't be coveting the stuff that your neighbor

that your neighbor has. I mean, there's nothing in the second table of a law that's necessarily uniquely biblical. We can find these same sorts of proscriptions and prohibitions in lots of different religions. I mean, these are kind of universal kinds of laws, laws that that makes sense laws that lead to justice and equity and and right treatment of of others in in society that keep that keep society from fragmenting and falling apart and just dissolving into into anarchy so the second the first table law is is very very different from the second table and that the first table first of all there's a whole lot more words used to explain it It's distinctly biblical.

And, of course, the first table is all directed toward our relationship with God. But the second table is much more universal. It deals with our neighbor-to-neighbor kind of life. And it's what's commanded and what's prohibited. You'll find commanded and prohibited in lots of different legal systems and lots of different religious codes. so uh it gives i think that the fact that there is this universality to it gives testimony to to the fact that uh the one who gave it is the one who is the lord not just the jews but of the of the whole earth yeah i mean you don't need to be a uh you don't even need to believe in god

any god um to probably affirm the second table i mean i have atheist friends that of course believe that murder and theft should be illegal yeah they think that that's a society that would uh extol murder or theft or lying like they don't okay there's not any uh you know there's not there's not like there's a lot of societies out there where lying is a virtue yeah it's considered like you know a virtuous thing there's no like oh yeah lying that's uh that's something that we actually like we yeah that's that's something that we we actually think it is a great character trait uh no i mean no people don't like that at all so yeah it's pretty universal i also think it's interesting that you were talking as you're talking about the the how many words are in

um and the the sabbath commandment i've said this before i don't know if i've said it on the on this program or not but i think that that helps with this sort of view too because we have this sort of static view of the Ten Commandments, right? And we've talked about how maybe that's not the best way to phrase it, right? Like it's the ten words or the ten sayings. Because right shot down through the heart of the law is really a word of gift and grace in the Sabbath that God spends almost as much time talking about as all the actual sort of law so while the sabbath is part of the law and and there is a it is as some command language

like keep the sabbath right remember the sabbath and keep it holy um it's more like okay think about it like this it's sort of like come to me all you are weary and heavy laden now the language is telling you to do something it's telling you to come but you don't hear that i mean and if you do hear this you're hearing it wrong you don't hear that as as somehow like oh there you go telling me what to do again you know i'll here you go giving me like giving me this impossible task no he's saying are you heavy laden are you weary come to me i'll give you rest i mean that's that's really what this command that that commandment is and it's interesting that 50 of the words given in the law are essentially remember my rest like giving you this like shot of grace this shot of

gift like right down to the heart of the law so i like the 10 sayings or the 10 words better because half the words are words that are similar to the words of jesus of come to me i'll give you rest yeah i'll get that's what he's saying right like come to me i'll give you sabbath yeah that's exactly what he's saying he's uh he is telling those who are listening that hey i i'm the sabbath i mean the sabbath is no longer a day the sabbath is a person and that's me so come to me with all your burdens and all your worries and all your shame and all your sin and all this stuff that works on you and that you work to overcome well bring that all to me and i'll be your rest i'll give you rest i'll give you myself so i'm gonna i'm gonna be for you

in the flesh what the sabbath day has has always been pointing toward yeah i mean it's really only in me that you're going to find that rest that you're seeking yeah i mean i would say as you look through the second table and and find out which i think you will if you are honest uh as you look through the rest of it and you say like okay honor your father and mother and don't commit adultery which of course jesus ends up saying uh yeah if you lusted if you ever lusted after anyone you've you've broken this commandment don't murder and he says uh if you've ever been angry with with somebody you've broken this commandment don't covet don't lie and you look at it and you try to figure out uh because the law is not a recipe for righteousness it's just

describing a righteous person uh and so either it describes you or it doesn't it won't make you righteous uh either either perfectly describes you as an individual in that case you already are righteous or it doesn't and you can never be righteous like that's that's how it goes it's not to tell you how to be righteous just this is what a righteous person is so if you could say yes then that is you are in fact righteous so if you then look at the second table and uh determine that's not describing me that's not that's not descriptive of me the good news is that it is descriptive of someone and only one that would be christ so circle back around to the to the commandment of the sabbath and know that that rest is him i mean i mean the the remember the

sabbath or the come to me and i will give you rest is for those whom the second table and the first two commandments as well who the rest of the law does not describe yeah it's perfectly positioned to be at the forefront of our minds as we jump into the rest of the commandments right because when we're not honoring our father and mother or when we're hating and thus murdering our brother in our hearts when we're lusting and thus committing adultery in our hearts or committing adultery in the act or stealing and or simply wanting to steal whatever it is that offer that invitation for rest in yahweh in christ pulls us back in order that we might find in him the rest and the righteousness that we can't have otherwise yeah yeah which is pretty

cool man yeah it is it is pretty cool there's nothing there's nothing better so i mean i don't we have to spend a ton of time on these uh uh of course they're uh they're uh they're they're all except for the honoring your father and your mother they're they're in the negative so the first one's positive honor your father your mother uh but the other ones are prohibitions so don't murder don't commit adultery don't steal don't bear false witness don't don't covet now there's of course there's the flip side to that well if you shall not murder that also means that you shall do everything to help your neighbor to support your neighbor in his in his or her bodily life yeah this is how luther approaches the commandments which is is really luther if you

we we probably won't do this but if you want to just read like a great for the for the for the listener if you want to just read a great exposition of the commandments just go to go to luther's catechism large or small either one and uh and read just kind of what he does with them because he does this brilliant thing where he he gives you the the obvious which is hey don't lie and you're like all right got it but then he says like hey wrapped up in this is also defending your neighbor's name and reputation and uh it's really good and and and so there is uh there is a don't but there is also a do wrapped up in it and uh we won't sit here and read them all but i would encourage you if you are interested in that that that's about the best exposition of

the commandments that uh that i know of yeah and the way that he does that is uh is really i think drawn from the approach that jesus himself takes in the sermon on the mount where he draws out the full implications of these commandments you know you have heard that it was said you should not commit adultery but i say to you if any man lust after woman in his heart then he's already he's already committed adultery with her in his heart so what jesus and he does that with with the other commandments as well so he's he's not he's not expanding the commandments he's drawing out the full implications that are already embedded that are already embedded within the commandments and the reason he does that is because the jews of his time and of course we're exactly the same

today we think that as long as we have not done the explicit act that we've somehow kept the commandment i mean if you ask nine out of ten people on the street if they've committed murder they're going to say no or have you stolen well they might admit to some young little theft yeah i took some paper home from work or whatever whatever i stole but most people don't think themselves as thieves or as adulterers or as murderers or as liars because especially on some of these they haven't committed the external act but what jesus does and what luther then reflects in his in his catechisms is it hey it's more than that it's not simply uh not doing these things but it's also doing the positive uh flip side of them so it's not enough simply not to murder but

first of all you're not to even hate your neighbor in your heart because if you have you've already murdered him yeah yeah then also you're to take care of his bodily needs yeah what's what's wild about what jesus does in the sermon on the mount is uh he takes intentionally he takes the two boxes that you think for sure you've checked like so you might look at the law and be like all right coveting like i've coveted stuff like i've wanted things that i don't have that's yeah like okay have you ever have you ever lied okay yeah like i've i've i have not been a hundred percent truthful every moment in order to you know whatever right uh have you ever have you ever exaggerated the truth you know to impress your friends yeah you ever done that you know whatever ever stolen

anything that kind of thing um and everyone's probably like yeah like yeah that's i've done that but then you get to when you get to murder and adultery there's a big group of people that that can be like no oh man got that one yeah no i've never done those i've never killed anybody I'm not even married, so of course I haven't committed adultery. Whatever, or maybe you are married, and you're like, no, I've never done that. That's a lot of people who haven't done that. And so Jesus intentionally goes right after those two, especially with the Pharisees, because those are certainly boxes that they're checking.

We don't murder anyone. We're not unfaithful to our spouses. We don't do that. and uh and then blows everyone up and just says i know you think that like maybe a good separating line between the righteous and the unrighteous so maybe the unrighteous and the righteous have all coveted and maybe they've all you know lied but you think that this line is like yeah but the really unrighteous people are the murderers and the adulterers and uh that that those are boxes that those are doable and uh jesus comes in and says nah you're all a bunch

of murderous adulterous lawbreakers yeah he goes right for the throat man yeah he does yeah i mean he of course he does that on purpose because those i mean of all the commandments those are the two that uh you'll hear most often people shocked when you accuse him of that oh of course especially the murder part yeah yeah well we would you know even still we still do this where if we find out if you like if you went up to me and you said uh dan i gotta tell you uh hank i just found out that uh i'm really concerned i think he i think he's coveting i think he's coveting that truck that he's like i mean i heard he's like really like he's saving up for it and like he really wants it No one's going to be like.

You'd be like waiting for the punchline, right? Yeah, right. No one's going to be like, we should probably sit down with him. I mean, we should probably talk to the elders. There's probably some church discipline in order here. No one's doing that. No one's doing that. But if you come up to me and said, dude, Hank Strait killed his neighbor.

Yeah, that's, yeah, of course. uh and yet uh we know from from scripture that hey you break one you break them all like that's that's how it goes and that's a jarring thing for us because we're like i don't want to be a murderer like don't put that on me yeah it gets back to the old us and them right as that we want there to be some way of distinguishing between us the law keepers and them the law breakers so if we can maintain even a foothold in one of the commandments that will distinguish us from them then we're going to do that right and really that's murder or adultery or stealing or whatever whatever it might be well i haven't done that well actually you have i mean i uh i break all

ten commandments every day that's just this is the life that's the life of the sinner yeah and so uh i'm i'm in need every day of the of not only the forgiveness that god gives me because of christ but the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, his righteous keeping of the law in my stead. I'm in need of those daily. I need my own breaking of the law washed away and Christ keeping of the law washing over me so that my unrighteousness is taken away and his righteousness is given to me. Because the Ten Commandments, even though they teach us a lot about God's will for us and tell us what to do and what not to do,

Ultimately, the law is there, the commandments are there, pointing a finger at us. They're always accusing us because they always find something within us worthy of accusation. And so they drive us then ultimately to the gospel, to the crucified and resurrected Christ, where our breaking is forgiven and Christ's keeping is given to us. that's it and yeah so what you end up finding is that uh the distinguishing mark of the christian is not those who have done the things but those who have received the sabbath rest amen and that's it we're out of time there's the there's our 10 commandments again if you want to like really dig into the the nitty-gritty uh you know go google uh luther's small catechism you can find it online

for free and and and read through what he has to say about him and it's really good chad that's it dude and so we will see you next week all right see you then thanks you