What Day is the Sabbath? Do we still need to keep it?

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Benny,

re: " ‘I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.’"
Jer. 31:33

re: “‘A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.’”
Ezek. 36:26-27

To whom is He talking to and about here?

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He is talking about those people in the future whom He will adopt as His children. Notice that the tense in both quotes is the future tense.

The clue to whom He is directing this message is in “they” (not “you”) shall be my people (future tense). God already said that the Jews were His people so He clearly is talking about others. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile in Christ Jesus” Galatians 3:28 All those who accept Christ’s sacrifice on their behalf become members of God’s family.

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Fritz asked “What Day is the Sabbath? Do we still need to keep it?

I think a comprehensive answer to these questions would require more time and effort dedicated to the task than this forum is designed to support. It is a big question, requiring a big answer. This is partly because it deals with God’s design for humankind beginning with the beginning; Genesis 2:3 “Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested (sabat) from all His work which God had created and made.”.
However, the first mention of God imposing a Sabbath day of rest doesn’t come to Adam, or to any of the prediluvian men of God, or to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or his 12 sons; the first mention of an imposed Sabbath day shows up in Exodus 16, as Moses explains why there will be no manna on the seventh day. So many of the details in these accounts regarding the Sabbath are both historical fact and at the same time significant symbols; they really happened at points in time, but they also point to (shadow) something much greater and eternal. Creation, covenant, days, seven, rest, manna, etc are among these shadow symbols. These, and so many other concepts are contributors to a comprehensive understanding of God’s design for a seventh day of rest; a sabbath for His people. I’m sure many modern ideas regarding a requirement to keep a sabbath come mingled with tradition, opinion, poor teaching, and decontextualization of scripture. I’m sure mine does too. But, if we have been gifted with The Holy Spirit of God to paraclete our understanding of reality, then we can boldly ask for help to overcome our dullness, and ears that can hear from God. We can sincerely ask to be guided into truth.

I am convinced that the reality to which this Sabbath is symbolically pointing is fulfilled in Jesus the Christ. In Jesus we find our Sabbath; Jesus invites us to rest in Him. He is the symbolic seventh, the final, the complete, the eternal, and He alone is our rest. All who are in Jesus are perpetually in His rest; all who take His yoke are living His rest. Being “In Jesus” we ARE obeying the law, because Jesus perfectly obeyed (fulfilled) all that was in the law. He imputes that perfect righteoousness on us, who are “in Him”. Observing one day a week may be healthy, it may offer the confidence of obedience, and one may surely find it a blessing. We do not “miss-the-mark” if we observe the symbol in spirit and in truth. We only miss the mark when we come to rely on our obedience to the symbol as meritorious, as a work that entitles us to something.

I personally do observe one day in seven for “ceasing”, and I personally have found that routine to be a blessing to me, and a testimony of my strong desire to fellowship with Jesus. But my confidence is not in my obedience; my confidence is solely in the promise of God, the redemption of my soul by the death of the perfect Son of God.

“What Day is the Sabbath? My answer is Jesus, He is the Day of the Lord, He is the day in which we rejoice!
“The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD’S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:22-24

Do we still need to keep it? We ARE keeping sabbath in Jesus, we have been saved from our works, and we ARE resting in Him.

Read Isaiah 58:1-14

"Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.
Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God.
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’ "In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exploit all your laborers.
Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high.
Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the LORD?
"Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ "If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday.
The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
“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; And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

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KPuff,
re: “…we have been saved from our works, and we ARE resting in Him.”

From what “works” are you referring?

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rstats

I am speaking of those works one might consider to be meritorious; that is, works that we might feel compel God to respond in favor toward us. I am talking about works that one hopes substitute for The Grace of God. This kind of “works”…(below)

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."Ephesians 2:8-10 (NKJV)

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
Romans 11:6 (NKJV)

For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:10-11

… knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. Galatians 2:16 (NKJV)

"But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses (works) are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away." Isaiah 64:6

Of course we are NOT speaking of good works; works of faith, works of obedience, works that are testimonial of God, works expressed as love, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, etc. Against these works there has never been any law.:

This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. Titus 3:8

Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2:11-12

I hope I’ve been clear. This is how I understand the Word of God; this is my understanding at this point in my spiritual development.

Blessings
KP

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Greetngs
If I may
Here is the law of Sunday Service man-made over the law of the Sabbath

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Matt 28:16-20 (KJV)Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

According to the book of Revelation, there will be two calls to worship and two claims on authority.

Dan 7:25 (KJV) And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Lucius Ferraris Prompta Bibliotheca

The {Bishop of Rome} is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws….The {Bishop of Rome} can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent {representative} of God upon the earth. Artcle “papa” II vol. VI p. 29

Rev. Peter Geierman

Q. Which is the Sabbath Day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath Day.

Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe that the Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
The Convert’s Catechism of Doctrine

The Catholic Encyclopedia

The Church, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath of the seventh day of the week to the first, made the Third day commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord’s day. Vol. 4 page 153

American Catholic Quarterly Review January 1883

Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the church, has no good reason for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday with the Jews

Canon and Tradition

The authority of the church could not therefore, be bound to the authority of the Scriptures because the church had changed the Sabbath to Sunday not by the command of Christ, but by its own authority page 263

Our Question today is?

Can Sunday-sacredness be supported from the Bible or is it merely a relic of Church tradition, a command of the Roman Church-State?

The Ten Commandments, the sixth commandment: Remember!

Ex 20:8-11 (KJV) 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.

Because the sixth day is the Sabbath Day!

Why?
Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the church, has no good reason for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday for the Jews.

But your LORD thy God sanctified the sixth day to set apart” for God’s people. Not just for the Jews but for their entire people.

Rev 14:6-7 (KJV) And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

The fourth commandment
Ex 20:11 (KJV) 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.

Ezek 20:10-26 (KJV)Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. Moreover, also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Nevertheless, my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness. But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them**; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God**. Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. I lifted up my hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.

By worshiping the God of Sabbath, you will know there is the true God, because it shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

Any other day but Saturday is worshiping, is manmade, or of Satan.

The Apostolic Creed: Oh Lord Almighty, Thou hast created the world by Jesus Christ, and hath appointed the Sabbath in memory thereof.

Col 1:14-20 (KJV) the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

John said,
Rev 1:10 (KJV) I was in the Spirit *** on the Lord’s day***, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, The Sabbath day!

Because in the future, Daniel the prophet warned us, we read

Dan 7:21-28 This may be the new one-world religion system

My feeling is that in the New Covenant, every sixty days or on the sixty months
to bring on the altar, it’s just a thought, looking beyond

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OneIsTheWord,
re: “The Ten Commandments, the eighth commandment: Remember!”

“You shall not steal.” ?

re: “Because the sixth day is the Sabbath Day!”

Shouldn’t that be the seventh day?

re: “But your LORD thy God sanctified the sixth day to set apart” for God’s people.”

Same question.

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KPuff,
re: “I am speaking of those works one might consider to be meritorious; that is, works that we might feel compel God to respond in favor toward us. I am talking about works that one hopes substitute for The Grace of God. This kind of “works”…(below)”

I don’t see where you listed any of the works that you are resting from, i.e., not doing anymore.

re: “Of course we are NOT speaking of good works…”

What are some of the bad works being used to gain favor?

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Rstrats

I posted a long reply to you, and later today I came back to see if you got it. I reread your statement this afternoon and this time I read very differently than it did this morning. I don’t know, maybe I wasn’t awake yet.

You said

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When I said “This kind of “works” …(below)”, It seems you may have been expecting a list of works to follow. But. when I said "this kind of works (below) I was referring to the kind of works that were being spoken of in the passages of scripture that I was sharing “below”. The kind of works being referred to in Ephesians 2:8-10, Romans 11:6, Hebrews 4:10-11, Galatians 2:16, and Isaiah 64:6.

The doctrine that salvation, or favor from God, cannot be earned is a key distinction between Christianity and other religions. To Christians, salvation is a gift from God, it is completely an act of God’s grace expressed as His mercy. It cannot be earned or acquired any other way it can only be received. Many pagan religions, including those with whom the first century writers of The Bible were familiar, and from which many first century gentiles had come out of, taught that any god, or gods, must be appeased with gifts and acts of service, and/or propitiation must somehow be purchased. In true Christianity, the reason for our actions is paramount to the actions themselves. The bible speaks of our “reasons” or our “motivations” as being from “the heart”. I can’t speak for others, or provide a list of “works” that some may try to employ to gain favor with God, because Only God knows what is in the heart of a man, and so Only God knows what might be on this “list” for any individual. Only god knows for sure who has recieved his free gift and who has not.

Reading what I just wrote, I’m not really sure I answered your question. Maybe I need to sleep on it.

Blessings
KP

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greetngs
thank you
I miss that
Here is what I know

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Everybody needs a day of rest each week. Even the Lord rested on the seventh day.

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Fritz

I don’t think, from my reading, that the first century Christians ever had the thought that the sabbath had changed from the seventh day to the first day of the week. The earliest Christians were Jewish, and having understood that the messiah had come, died, and was resurrected did not immediately change their ingrained traditions and practices. We see many, including disciples, maintaining their Jewish adherence to Torah after the resurrection. Even Paul continued to keep Torah law throughout his entire career as a carrier of the Gospel of Christ (vows, festivals, feasts, synagogue, etc.). The sabbath law, as a day of the week, was for practicing Jews.

Those Jews who received Jesus as their savior had a fuller (not a lesser) appreciation for sabbath. Not only as a law, but as a revealed reality to be found fulfilled in the Messiah. Jesus was raised from death on the first day of the week. Resurrection day became a defining doctrine of the new Body of Christ. From the very first week, we find the disciples meeting together, not in synagogue on the seventh day, but in the upper room. Surely they had all attended synagogue the day before, but that was different. Meeting with the body of Christ was counter-sabbath, and has always been practiced on resurrection day, or what John the apostle called “The Lords Day”. I believe most early Christian Jews continued to attend synagogue on the seventh day, and then met with the Body of Christ on the first day of the week. There was no disconnect for them, no substitution of one day for another, no conflict of teaching. No one thought the sabbath had changed days. No one called the first day of the week the day of rest. The first day of the week was a work day, but it was also resurrection day, it was also meeting day, it was also Remembrance Day, it was also table-fellowship day.

A problem arose once Samaritans, then Gentiles were being called into the Body of Christ. They too were being undeniably saved, and with all the signs of true fellowship given by The Holy Spirit. Were these gentiles being called into Judaism or were they being called into the Body of Christ as gentiles? Paul says, not into Judaism, but as gentiles. According to Paul, there was no compulsion for gentiles to keep the laws and commandments of Jews. Jew and gentile alike were saved by grace, apart from the law, and no flesh was ever justified by the law. Like Jews, their salvation was sealed by The Holy Spirit of grace, apart from adherence to the law. Some Jews had difficulty accepting this, but Paul continuously drove this point home, until it was eventually made official at the first counsel of Jerusalem. There after Peter spoke about the conversion of the gentile Cornelius. Then James makes the declaration that Gentiles are not under the requirements of the law. They were only admonished to keep themselves sexually pure (non-participation in ritualistic cultic social practices) and to not eat things strangled (that contained the blood), and from things that have been offered to idols. There were no other requirements laid on the gentiles, including no requirement for keeping sabbath.

All of the Jewish laws had been fulfilled in Jesus, all of the shadows had the reality to which they were pointing exposed in The Messiah. We do well to heed the counsel of our elders; we do well to put no salvific stock in shadows that have now been revealed in the Living resurrected Messiah. Jesus “having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us (laws), which was contrary to us, aAnd He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. Colossians 2:14-17

We may still practice some of those shaddows found in the law, but now with very different reasons.

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KPuff,
re: “When I said ‘This kind of ‘works’ …(below)’, It seems you may have been expecting a list of works to follow.”

I was.

re: “But. when I said 'this kind of works (below) I was referring to the kind of works that were being spoken of in the passages of scripture that I was sharing ‘below’. The kind of works being referred to in Ephesians 2:8-10, Romans 11:6, Hebrews 4:10-11, Galatians 2:16, and Isaiah 64:6.”

I don’t see where those verses show any specific works.

re: " I can’t speak for others, or provide a list of ‘works’ that some may try to employ to gain favor with God…"

I’m only asking what some of the bad works were that you are no longer doing.

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OneIsTheWord,
re: “thank you”

You’re welcome, but I’m not sure what the “thanks” is for.

re: “I miss that”

And to what would “that” be referring?

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KPuff,

I have a couple of comments with regard to your post to Fritz -

re: “Jesus was raised from death on the first day of the week. Resurrection day became a defining doctrine of the new Body of Christ. From the very first week, we find the disciples meeting together, not in synagogue on the seventh day, but in the upper room.”

I assume you’re referring to John 20:19. I don’t see, though, how the verse is a “defining doctrine of the new Body of Christ”.

The verse has the disciples together in a closed room after the crucifixion because they were afraid of their fellow Jews. it couldn’t have been in remembrance/recognition of the resurrection because at that time they didn’t even believe that the resurrection had taken place.

re: "Meeting with the body of Christ was counter-sabbath, and has always been practiced on resurrection day, or what John the apostle called ‘The Lords Day’”.

I’m not aware of John ever saying that the first day of the week was the Lord’s Day.

re: “Then James makes the declaration that Gentiles are not under the requirements of the law. They were only admonished to keep themselves sexually pure (non-participation in ritualistic cultic social practices) and to not eat things strangled (that contained the blood), and from things that have been offered to idols. There were no other requirements laid on the gentiles, including no requirement for keeping sabbath.”

Also, nothing is said about at least 8 of the other commandments.

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Greetings

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because
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
The man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
2 Tim 3:16-17 (KJV)

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Therefore, many of them also believed honourable women, among whom were Greeks, and men, not a few.
But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people
Acts 17:11-13 (KJV)

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A post was split to a new topic: Does Easter Have Pagan Origins?

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The Book of Leviticus is a Law Book. What dose this all mean? Laws and Sacrifices, To instruct the people on how to be holy and to be a blessing….. The Sabbath Day……

                                                    The Feasts of the LORD

Lev 23:2 (NKJV) Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.

Saturday the Sabbath Day and God sanctified it “set apart” for God’s. special day

Lev 23:3 (NKJV) 'Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

Six days shall work be done: Perhaps as important to human well-being as the day of rest are the six days of work. Work was given to the human race in the Garden. Work is one of the ways humans bear the image of God. Work itself is not a curse on the race. Instead, it remains, even after the Fall, God’s good gift. The regular seventh day of rest and other holidays from work are ordained for our refreshment and the chance to commune more closely with God and His people. A Sabbath of solemn rest may be restated as “a Sabbath that is all a Sabbath should be”—a day of rest and of solemn, joyful worship. In all your dwellings emphasized the universal nature of the Sabbath. It was not to be observed only in the sanctuary; it was to be celebrated in every household.

A Day of Rest

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When God “rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done” (Gen. 2:2), He was modeling for humanity His intention for a weekly day of rest. Clearly He did this for the sake of Adam and Eve (and for us), because God Himself does not tire or need to “rest,” as people do. In what sense, then, did He “rest” from His labors, and in what sense should we “rest” from ours? The term Sabbath has the root meaning of “cessation.” On the seventh day God ceased His work of creating the world (Ex. 20:8–11). However, He did not cease His work of sustaining and maintaining the world (Ps. 145:15, 16; Col. 1:17). This distinction helps to clarify the significance of the Sabbath, a day which God set aside (or sanctified) and blessed. His clear intention was that people would emulate Him by pausing from their labors—the exercise of their dominion over the creation (Gen. 1:28–31)—for one day out of seven.Was this day of “rest” given merely as a day off? No, one of the most important purposes of the Sabbath was to provide a day for believers to worship and focus on God, as individuals and communities (Is. 58:13, 14). It is not that we are free to ignore God on the other six days; every day belongs to Him. But by designating one day as a special opportunity to come before the Lord, we demonstrate our dependence on Him as Creator and our obedience to Him as Lord.
This means that the Sabbath—or in NT times, the Lord’s Day—was not intended simply as a “day off” to catch up on chores or pursue leisure activities. Not that these are wrong, but the point of the day is to “stir up love and the works of Christ’s , not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another” (Heb. 10:24, 25).

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Excuse my critical remarks, but you are painting with very broad strokes about others in denominations that you may disagree with ….None of us have ALL truth- if that were so, we wouldn’t have 52,000 Christian denominations !! It shouldn’t bother you that others believe certain things are heaven or hell. But if you don’t that’s ok. I really don’t see how someone telling me something that not only do I disagree with but can back it up with Bible why. I appreciate Page Turner giving scripture

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OneIsTheWord,

You directed your post to me, but I don’t see what it has to do with my post.