But the seventh day is an extraordinary day, in a substantive, urgent and necessary way:

¹⁴“And throughout the seventh day, a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God, you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14).

Most essentially dissimilar to other weekly days, the seventh has a notable and singular distinction.

Because: While one must avoid “any work”, and neither is to “undertake”, nor to do “work”, one must continue, and staunchly maintain one’s behavioural recall of “the day of the sabbath” “throughout” the continuation of the seventh day. For compliance with the Fourth Directive’s principal instructive requires an unceasing and everyday endeavour to…

“…Remember“; and “observe the day of the sabbath to make it holy [or ‘sanctify it’]” (deMSby Exodus 20:8 and Deuteronomy 5:12).

Continued through the seventh day, just like the other days, one must persist, and preserve this “practice”, though differently is it done on the seventh day.

A. Only “This”

For during and “throughout” this weekly seventh day, only “this, your sanctification” comprises, and specifies how you will be employed. Only “this, your holyization” exclusively authenticates your occupation this day, your personal and practical agenda this day.

Yes: “Your sanctification” and this alone singularly is your assignment “throughout” this specific day…

B. Nothing in Addition

Which condones no inconsistence or negligence. No substitute is permitted, or indulged: Nothing other than “this, your sanctification” is done, and exclusively done must be.

And this is recall of “the day of the sabbath”, that makes “practice” of it distinctly on the seventh day, in the original and cardinal way:

¹⁴“And throughout the seventh day, a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God, you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14).

For “modeled” it is on that, which first planned “the day of the sabbath” and God’s own treatment and disposition of it.

It is “remembrance” of just that “exemplar”. Of which “exemplar”, this is the all-important strategy of “practice”…

As God laboured “throughout” “the day of the sabbath”, and worked without ceasing at “your sanctification”, when his creative labour he first “ceased” (deMSby Exodus 31:17), and absolutely had made “ceasing” of that, do, as God did “throughout” the seventh day, devoting it exclusively to “your holyization”, after having discontinued, and having “ceased” your own occupation of the previous six days. As God laboured “throughout” that seventh day, when his constructive endeavours he “ceased”, and nothing but “your sanctification” then did, you do the same on the week’s seventh day, having “ceased” doing work of the previous six days: Be exclusively concerned for “your sanctification” and nothing in addition to this “undertake”.

C. “A Sabbath (or ‘Ceasing’)”

And this is a “ceasing” from your six-day work. During which, you persist at your seventh day concentration of attention on “your sanctification”…

After having worked through six days in sequence, completing your vocational and job-related work, you work the seventh at “your holyization”. And that alone foster as your occupation, recalling what God did to end the first week, which “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’)” is, and constitutes.

And is what the Fourth Directive drafts, and accredits “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God”.

¹⁴“And throughout the seventh day, ‘a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God’, you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14).

Precisely as God “ceased” creating, and making, and then began the maintenance of “your sanctification”, you such a “ceasing” make of the seventh day: “Cease” for a day your six-day work, and nothing do but “this, your sanctification”.

Which will effect to achieve, and fulfill “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14), the which patterned is on God’s own enterprise, God’s very deeds. Thus enabled you are, upon having so “ceased” to “remember”, and “observe the day of the sabbath to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Exodus 20:8 and Deuteronomy 5:12), “as did Yahweh, your God direct you” (deMSby Deuteronomy 5:12) initially in Exodus 20:8-11 (deMSby), specifically remembering that sabbath day, which “remembered” best is in these Exodus verses.

D. He Ceaselessly Worked

Because: All “throughout” that prime “day of the sabbath”, God spent the day at “your sanctification”, initially begun through conclusion and a “ceasing” of his constructive work:

“Throughout six days, Yahweh made the heavens and the earth. And on the seventh day, he ceased; and ithas been restored” (deMSby Exodus 31:16-17).

And he the “example” of “your sanctification” definitively, perfectly, absolutely is.

He ceaselessly worked at “your holyization”: Constantly worked he “throughout” that seventh day, after having first “ceased” his constructive work.

E. Obviously

Which obviously cannot be a tale of “rest”. Of idleness and inactivity, it can not cite.

It cannot, then, stipulate, sanction, or authenticate instruction to “rest” or directive to “resting”: It doesn’t tell one exclusively to “rest”, and to do nothing at all on the week’s seventh day.

F. In Effect

For that, in effect would construe as directive to violate every seventh day God’s “will”. “For this, your sanctification is” God’s “will” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) today:

“…Observe”; and “remember the day of the sabbath to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Deuteronomy 5:12 and Exodus 20:8).

Such, in effect would amount to “commandment” to disregard God’s “will” every seventh day, and renders contradictory this Directive’s words, which urge daily “practice” of “your sanctification” and not interruption of this daily “practice”. Which would “ludicrously inappropriate” be.

Therefore has tradition

Example become

Of mistake plus confusion

The ultimate sum

For tradition must here

Represent, and equate

To requirement, that you

Its intent violate

Of itself does tradition

Here yield such account

Which to blatant absurdity

Is tantamount

Prattle not, that tradition, then

Here can provide

Explanation of this

Which becomes justified

And make neither “religion”¹

Your tutor and guide

That “religion” assist you

To choose, and decide

For religion here does

But accomplice provide

As itself and tradition

In concert abide

Most astute is it here

To decide for oneself

And judicious be of

This conventional shelf

Where tradition and truth

Are identically sought

And for either the fee

Means the other is bought

As God “ceased” at the seventh day’s dawn from all his work at construction of the world, and then sanctified all he had made, you are to “cease” your six-day work, and to occupy yourself with “your sanctification” “throughout” and exclusively “throughout” “the seventh day”.

“And throughout the seventh day, ‘a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God’, you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14).

For strictly and exclusively on “the seventh day” are you to “remember the day of the sabbath to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Exodus 20:8), and nothing do but “this, your sanctification”.

Which will consistently “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” define, and fulfill in accordance to Scripture, as you provided now are with awareness. Therefore, this reveals, and explains what is meant by “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14).

G. The “Example”

Which the “example” of “your sanctification” recalls, constitutes, and is this day: This is the “example” once “set” by God of how you achieve “this, your sanctification” specifically through and on the seventh day.

H. As Directive to Violate

Which doesn’t chronicle a narrative of “rest”. Of idleness and inactivity, it doesn’t cite.

It cannot, then, be realistically and sensibly a mandate to “rest” or requirement of “resting”: It doesn’t tell one exclusively to “rest”, and to do nothing at all on the week’s seventh day.

For that, in effect would construe as directive to violate every seventh day God’s “will”. “For this, your sanctification is” God’s “will” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) today:

“…Observe”, and “remember the day of the sabbath to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Deuteronomy 5:12 and Exodus 20:8).

Such, in effect would amount to “commandment” to disregard God’s “will” every seventh day, and renders contradictory this Directive’s words, which urge daily “practice” of “your sanctification”, and would not forbid, or prohibit that intent.

Our traditions routinely

The sabbath profane

By professing it means

Something, which is inane

Thus “your sanctification”

This cannot obtain

Or compliance with God’s “will

Rightly explain

But this explains why Christ answered “the Jews”², and reminded them, and educated them “on the sabbath” (John 5:16), which “optimizes” what the New Testament calls this “sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God”: “My Father is until now working. And I also am working” (deMSby John 5:17). And “work” he constantly, everyday did to promote, and to foster “this, your sanctification”.

I. Its Daily Schedule

Because: Realistically “your sanctification” is given its daily schedule in these words, which apply to the seventh day as any other (deMSby Deuteronomy 5:12-15):

¹²“…Observe the day of the sabbath to make it holy” [or ‘sanctify it’], as did Yahweh, your God direct you: ¹³Throughout six days, you shall labour, and do all your work. ¹⁴And throughout the seventh day, a sabbath [or ‘ceasing’] to Yahweh, your God, you shall not undertake any work, you with your son and your daughter, and your manservant and your maidservant, and your ox, and your donkey, and any of your cattle, and your stranger, who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you. ¹⁵You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt,and Yahweh, your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore, Yahweh, your God directed you to practise the day of the sabbath”.

Because: As manifestly validated here, God ever works at “your sanctification”, and never discontinues, or halts such “work”, which “sets” the “example” of “your sanctification”.

With which, a person must cooperate constantly:

Each and every

Day this needs

Expressed to be

In words and deeds

Alone is this

How one succeeds

To warrant, that

God’s “will” one heeds

Or he or she will oppose “the will of God”. For “daily” must mean all “throughout” the seventh day and nothing less.

J. Do It

Thus, if your elderly neighbour should need your help chopping wood on the week’s seventh day, do it to achieve “your sanctification”, and consequently do, and fulfill God’s “will”. Or if a handicapped person should need your help and assistance with mowing his lawn, and this is required on the week’s seventh day, do it to achieve “your holyization”, and consequently do, and fulfill God’s “will”. Or if a woman, alone should need you to shovel, and clear snow from her driveway, which must necessitate seventh day exertion, do it to achieve “your sanctification”, and consequently do, and fulfill God’s “will”.

And what is the reason, approving such effort, and needing such effort, despite its occurrence on the week’s seventh day? Why is it right, that one so laboriously work, and exert on the week’s seventh day? What rationale vindicates, and approves one’s arduous exertion “throughout”, on and during the week’s seventh day?

Because: These questions, pertaining to behaviour, necessitating “work” on the week’s seventh day await one response, and expect one response. And only this will they accept as response:

“You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt,and Yahweh, your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore, Yahweh, your God directed you to practise the day of the sabbath” (deMSby Deuteronomy 5:15).

Consideration of others and plainly not “rest” is the purpose of the “practice” of “the day of the sabbath”, and “remembers” the original Exemplar of such authentically, correctly, realistically and biblically.

Which doesn’t chronicle a narrative of “rest”. Of idleness and inactivity, it doesn’t cite.

It cannot, then, warrant, stipulate, or authenticate requirement to “rest” or directive to “resting”: It doesn’t tell one exclusively to “rest”, and to do nothing at all on the week’s seventh day.

For if consideration and thoughtfulness of others necessitates exertion “throughout” the seventh day, do it. For “the will of God” “is” “your sanctification”, “throughout” each consecutive, successive weekly day.

“You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt,and Yahweh, your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore, Yahweh, your God directed you to practise the day of the sabbath” (deMSby Deuteronomy 5:15).

Which best becomes epitomized, exemplified, and “patterned”: It “modeled” best is through “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14) exclusively “exerted” on the week’s seventh day, when “your sanctification” is what one does, and is actively and energetically what one does, which compulsory and needed is, assuming one committed is to do “the will of God”.

¹Remember: In all of that, which Christ called “Scripture”, you will not one time, anywhere, ever, at all find any such words as “religion” and “religious”.

Because: In that, which Christ called “Scripture”, “religion” is as alien as God’s having “rested”.

Instead, John 17:17 says, and cites Christ himself, as he thus petitions: “Sanctify them through truthfulness”.

Which means: “The will of God” achieved is “through truthfulness”, not “through” “religion”, or what defines “religious”.

²Now, let us, one and all understand clearly: There is a very good reason why the Pharisees were so keen to confine the focus of “practice” of “the day of the sabbath” specifically to “rest”, inactivity and idleness.

In this, they had deliberate, personal motive. And this personal motive explains their reaction and attitude to Christ, which will be discussed, and elaborated thoroughly in the book, This, Your Sanctification, Second Remembrance, a Contemplation, which soon to be published is by de MontSabbathby at deMontSabbathby.org.