August 13, 2025

Dear Saints,

I wanted to share that I was blessed to interview with Jacob Gantos at KPRZ 1210 AM (Salem Media’s KPRAISE, also 106.1 FM in North County) in La Jolla for his radio program M-F at 6:30 p.m. called “Tent Makers.”

Listen today at 6:30 pm for the first interview (and next Wednesday, his practical theology day, for part two).  You can hear it on the radio or online at kprz.com/listenlive.

As a realtor offering advice on the industry and buying and selling your homes, Jacob Gantos also interviews Christians from various different career backgrounds regarding their faith in the marketplace as vocation and working with purpose.  He has taken a big step himself especially as a real estate agent with a commitment to refrain from “seeking out new business” to rest on Sundays, the Christian Sabbath.  Check out Jacob’s previous shows as podcast posts along with his bio and program info here kprz.com/radioshow/tentmakers.

Here are some highlights of what was discussed during the program:

• Exodus 20:8-11 (on Genesis 2:2): Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
• Exodus 31:16-17: Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.  It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
• Isaiah 58:13-14: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Next Wednesday (August 20), the Westminster Standards on the Sabbath:

• Westminster Confession of Faith 21:7. “As it is the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in His Word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages, He hath particularly appointed one day in seven, for a Sabbath, to be kept holy unto Him: which, from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, was the last day of the week; and, from the resurrection of Christ, was changed into the first day of the week, which, in Scripture, is called the Lord’s Day, and is to be continued to the end of the world, as the Christian Sabbath.”
• Westminster Confession of Faith 21.8. “This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest, all the day, from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments, and recreations, but also are taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of His worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.”
• I reference the series on the Fourth Commandment in Westminster Larger Catechism 115-121.
• Westminster Directory for the Publick Worship of God, “AN APPENDIX, Touching Days and Places for Publick Worship”: “THERE is no day commanded in scripture to be kept holy under the gospel but the Lord’s day, which is the Christian Sabbath. Festival days, vulgarly called Holy-days, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued.”

Beloved, may this study help us review and come to a deeper personal commitment to something else I shared during the interview–what an RPCNA senior pastor (in age and godly influence) at a Presbytery interview asked of a fellow candidate for the ministry during his “Spiritual Development” examination before many elders and ministers: “Have you come to the place in your life where you recognize the Sabbath Day as a gift from God?”  For when we do, nothing gets in the way of our opening that present and sharing every bit of it with our family and brethren as a Gospel witness to the world.

Semper Reformanda,

Pastor Grant