14 Vaera 2025

All activities are not okay to do on the Sabbath. 
Consider if what you are doing for fun is work. For example, it says in Isaiah that not all conversation is proper on the Sabbath.
Isaiah 58:13-14 NKJV says,
If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the LORD.

Let's talk about this scripture in more detail. The word pleasure can mean to do whatever you want to do according to Strong's Dictionary. So, we are not to do just anything we want on the Sabbath. Notice we are to delight in the Sabbath. In ancient times, the people could be consumed with work 7 days a week, especially those who served others. Notice that the Bible says those that serve us and even our animals are to rest on the Sabbath. Unlike the majority of the world, God gives us a day off once a week. Deuteronomy 5:14 NKJV says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you." The Sabbath is to be a delightful day for all. 

Honoring God there in Isaiah refers to keeping the Sabbath. We are to rest on the Sabbath and keep the Sabbath holy. Holy means to make it separate and different than an ordinary day. By honoring the Sabbath, we acknowledge that God is the creator who rested on the Sabbath and made it holy. Genesis 2:2-3 NKJV says, "On the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made." To sanctify the Sabbath is to make it holy, it is to be different than the other days of the week. In ancient times, people often had long workdays. It then makes sense that not resting on the Sabbath and not keeping the Sabbath holy is to not honor the creator God. Some people will say that we do not have to keep the Sabbath because it is Jewish. The Sabbath was instituted by God at the time of creation. Remember, they are God's feasts and God's commandments. Do you want to honor God or not. I choose to honor God and keep His commandments and Sabbath.