​1. The Sabbath is not a Jewish institution. It dates back long before the Ten Commandments, and even they are not Jewish!
2. The Sabbath was instituted by God at Creation (Genesis 2:1-3).
3. There is evidence that nations other than Israel observed a Sabbath from the earliest times.
4. ​During their captivity in Egypt, the Children of Israel were unable to keep the Sabbath, and religious knowledge was reduced to a low ebb.
5. After their deliverance, we read of the restoration in the wilderness of the well-known, though neglected, Sabbath institution (Exodus 16).
6. At Sinai the Sabbath was included in the Decalogue, the summary of God's Moral Law.
7. The Fourth Commandment is the only one beginning "Remember".
8. ​It is a positive command, not a "Thou shalt not..."
9. It is the longest and most detailed of the ten.
10. To break it is as serious as killing or adultery (James 2:10-11).
11. It links both the Godward and the manward aspects of the moral law.
12. It links both the moral and ceremonial aspects of the law.
13. Christ abolished the ceremonial law, but not the moral law.
14. Christ came not to destroy the moral law but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17).
15. He said that anyone who violated the moral law would be least in the Kingdom of God (Matthew 5:19)