As mentioned in a previous post, I was sent to studying the New Testament by a dear brother years back to understand the believers relationship to the Ten Commandments.

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Commandment #4 – No Working on the Sabbath

Exodus 20:4

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 to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

For in six days the LORD made heaven and 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.

Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time/ July 27, 2020

Gospel: Matthew 13:31-35

Friends in today’s Gospel Jesus spoke parables to the crowds ‘to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.”

What was that, which has been lain hidden from the foundation of the world? That was the so-called “Secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven.” The secrets which has been announced to the childlike and hidden from the wise and the learned. The secrets which has been bestowing on us from the beginning of the world. The secrets which has been offered to us in and through the cross. The secrets which is already within us, and within our reach; the Love, Kindness, Mercy, Generosity, and Peace of God. “For God so loved…