THE LORD OF THE SABBATH
The riches of God’s rest
By Keith Weber. Day One. 168 pages. £7.00
ISBN 978-1-84625-068-2
This book takes us through some of the scriptural grounding and theological underpinning for keeping a ‘Christian Sabbath’. Taking its main cue from the fourth commandment, it argues that the moral force of that law is still relevant. More than that, the spiritual reality of keeping a day special to meet with and delight in God, in the company of other believers, is a precious privilege that too many are losing out on in their practice, or denying in their teaching.
It covers issues such as the role of the law in the life of the Christian, the place of the Sabbath law in the ten commandments, the teaching of the Lord Jesus about the Sabbath, the ‘rest’ of Hebrews 4, and the ‘Lord’s day’ reference in Revelation 1.10. It does mention in the end notes that there are alternative views, and comments fairly about Carson’s ‘From Sabbath to Lord’s Day’ that it is ‘scholarly and meticulous’. In the main text, however, there is far less interaction with other points of view than I would have expected in a book that mainly talks about the theology of the Sabbath. This seems to me to be a significant weakness.
