Luke 6:1-5<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latter-day Saints take the concept of the Sabbath very seriously, though I sometimes think that we can easily clutter it up far too much and often do so.<\/p>\n
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But we don\u2019t make a fetish of it.<\/p>\n
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For that matter, I might add, neither do many Orthodox Jews, whose punctilious observance of the Sabbath some non-Jews like to mock as merely formal and legalistic. \u00a0Such mockery is unfair. \u00a0I\u2019ve seen examples of passionate Jewish love for the Sabbath that have moved me, and from which we Latter-day Saints could learn a great deal.<\/p>\n
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Jesus\u2019 claim, in these passages, to be \u201clord of the Sabbath\u201d is extremely important, as is his statement, preserved in Mark, that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.<\/p>\n
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The teachings of the Gospel don\u2019t exist for their own sake. \u00a0They exist for the sake of God\u2019s children.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor behold,\u201d the Lord has said, \u201cthis is my\u00a0work\u00a0and my\u00a0glory\u2014to bring to pass the\u00a0immortality\u00a0and\u00a0eternal\u00a0life\u00a0of man\u201d (Moses 1:39). \u00a0\u201cI am come that they might have life,\u201d Jesus declared, \u201cand that they might have\u00a0<\/span>it\u00a0more abundantly\u201d (John 10:10).<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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