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Dr. Robert Rayburn once told the story of a man who was approached by a beggar on the street. 16 The man reached into his pocket to see what he had. Finding seven dollars and feeling somewhat sorry for the beggar, he held out six bills and said, "Here you go." Not only did the beggar take the six dollars, but with his other hand he struck his benefactor across the face and grabbed the seventh dollar, too. What do you think of the beggar? Don't you think he was a scoundrel? Then what do you think of a sinner, saved by the grace of Jesus Christ, who insists on taking seven days a week - or even six and a half - for himself?

Remember the Lord's Day by keeping it holy.

Notes
1 Bill Gates, quoted by Walter Isaacson, "In Search of the Real Bill Gates," TIME (January 13, 1997)7.
2 Lance Morrow, quoted in Mark E. Dever, "The Call to Work and Worship," Regeneration Quarterly (Spring, 1996),5.
3 Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments (1890; repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1965),93.
4 Umberto Cassuto, A Commentary on the book of Exodus, trans. By Israel Abrahams (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1967),244.
5 See James T. Dennison, Jr. The Market Day of the Soul: The Puritan Doctrine of the Sabbath in England, 1532-1700 (New York: University press of America, 1983).
6 Watson, 97.
7 Watson, 95.
8 Watson, 99.
9 Leland Ryken, Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2995), 178.
10 Ignatius, Letters to the Magnesians, quoted in Douma, 139.
11 Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Selected Shorter Writings (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1970),319.
12 Watson, 101.
13 David C. Searle, And Then There Were Nine (Fearn, Ross-Shire: Christian Focus, 2000), 67.
14 The best book on this subject is Leland Ryken's Redeeming the Time, previously cited.
15 See Dennison, 94.
16 Roberts G. Rayburn, "Should Christians observe the Sabbath?", quoted in a sermon by George W. Robertson at Covenant Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri.

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