Matthew’s Musings, How to Keep the Sabbath
October 24, 2026
How do you actually keep the seventh-day Sabbath? Can you cook, travel, shop, carry things, attend a wedding, or even use a microwave? And which restrictions come from Scripture rather than religious tradition?
In this teaching, we return to the Torah, the Prophets, and the words of Yahusha to examine what יהוה actually commanded concerning the Sabbath and what centuries of religious interpretation may have added.
From Exodus 16 and 20 to Isaiah 58, Nehemiah, Mark 2, Colossians 2, and Hebrews 4, we explore the practical meaning of keeping the Sabbath holy, ceasing from ordinary work, preparing beforehand, gathering for worship, and doing good. The Sabbath was never intended to become an exhausting collection of rules and loopholes. It was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.














