short study on the Sabbath and the new covenant.

[gotime]

1. Who is the source of rest? · Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord is our only Source of rest. In fact Jesus is our Rest! Read Matthew 11:28-30.

2. What is the relationship between rest and righteousness? · Rest is the result of righteousness. Read Isaiah 32:17, 18; Romans 5:1.

3. Who is our righteousness in the New Covenant experience? · Jesus Christ is the Lord our Righteousness and therefore He is also our Rest . Read 1 Corinthians 1:30; Jeremiah 23:6.

4. How does the believer enter into God’s Rest? · By faith, faith in Christ. Read Hebrews 4:3.

5. Why did the Israelites in the Sinaitic Old Covenant not enter into God’s rest? · Unbelief prevented them from entering into God’s rest. Read Hebrews 3:10,11 & 19; 4:1,2.

6. With what original restfulness does Paul compare the rest of salvation? · The rest the believer has in Christ is the same rest which the creation enjoyed in the beginning at the end of creation-week before Adam’s fall. Read Hebrews 4:3, 9, 10.
The sweet harmony, peace and rest which characterized the oneness between God and man before the entrance of sin into the world, is the same harmony, peace and rest which the believer has in Christ in the New Covenant experience.

7. How did God celebrate the creation rest in the beginning? · God celebrated the creation rest by resting upon, blessing and sanctifying the seventh day of creation-week. Read Genesis 2:1-3; Hebrews 4:4.

8. According to Jesus, for whom did God make the Sabbath? · The Sabbath was made for man. Read Mark 2:27, 28.

9. Are New-Covenant believers in Christ to celebrate their salvation rest in the same way as, or in a different way to, how God celebrated His creation rest? · The believer who has entered into rest ceases from his own works as God ceased from His. And how did God cease from His? Read Genesis 2:1-3. Read Hebrews 4:9,10,4. Therefore both the New-Covenant rest and the creation-rest are celebrated on the seventh day of the week.

10. Is it true that circumcision was the entrance sign to the Old Covenant? · Here Paul states very clearly that circumcision was given to Abraham as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had before circumcision. Therefore circumcision was given as a sign of the New Covenant. But Israel perverted the whole arrangement and came to regard circumcision as salvation itself! Read Romans 4 especially verse 11.

 

[gotime]

11. Is it true that the Sabbath was the memorial sign of the Old Covenant? · The Old Covenant was established by people through their promises and not by God. Therefore God never gave any initiating or commemorating sign to that faulty covenant. What God says about the Old Covenant condition is that it must be “cast out!” Galatians 4:30, 31. Read Hebrews 8:6-10. The Sabbath was spoken as part of the moral law, which describes righteousness and defines sin, which law, according to Jesus is changeless. Matthew 5:1719.

12. Why is it impossible for the seventh-day Sabbath to be a memorial sign of the Old Covenant? · The seventh-day Sabbath was instituted before the entrance of sin into the world i.e. before the fall. Therefore it could not initially have been a sign of any covenant, far less of the old! If there were no fall mankind would have celebrated God’s seventh day Sabbath every week. Therefore the seventh-day Sabbath is not a type or shadow. “Shadows” or “types” were things instituted after the fall to point forward to the redemptive work of Christ. The yearly feast days or annual Sabbaths were the shadows Paul talks about in Colossians 2:16, 17. The seventh-day Sabbath was instituted before the fall to commemorate the rest of the oneness between God and His unfallen creation on earth. That same oneness has been restored through the plan of salvation in Christ and its rest is celebrated on the same seventh-day as the creation rest.

 

[Jon316]

I know some people that believe the church should be keeping the Sabbath. They are afraid to speak up because of possible critique and backlash from the church they attend. They don't know how to go about it because keeping the Sabbath often means you're a Jw or 7th day adventist.

 

[beta]

I know some people that believe the church should be keeping the Sabbath. They are afraid to speak up because of possible critique and backlash from the church they attend. They don't know how to go about it because keeping the Sabbath often means you're a Jw or 7th day adventist.

Yes, there is a lot of injustice, false accusations and lies directed at anyone who keeps the sabbath of God. People/christians are just so ignorant and hateful showing their rejection/denial of scripture telling us that the Sabbath is one of GOD's holy days Lev 23. It was actually established at Creation Gen 2v3 when man was created and never has been 'jewish'.

 

[gotime]

I know some people that believe the church should be keeping the Sabbath. They are afraid to speak up because of possible critique and backlash from the church they attend. They don't know how to go about it because keeping the Sabbath often means you're a Jw or 7th day adventist.

Sorry to hear that. I know that is common today. So many do not understand the importance of the 7th day Sabbath. There is a very unnatural spirit against this specific commandment. There is also a blindness in many, a vail over their hearts so that they can not see the Sabbath as it is.

 

[gotime]

I should add that most Christians are brought up to believe that the Sabbath was for the Jews and only given in the time of Moses. While the bible is most clear that this is not true. Its hard for people to get past their popular theories.

 

[Jon316]

Its good to know there are Christians that believe in keeping the Sabbath. I know the more we submit to God and obey Him; the more He can glorify Himself through us. The more the Holy Spirit will work in us. I wonder if the church is missing out on more from God because of this and other things.

 

[gotime]

Its good to know there are Christians that believe in keeping the Sabbath. I know the more we submit to God and obey Him; the more He can glorify Himself through us. The more the Holy Spirit will work in us. I wonder if the church is missing out on more from God because of this and other things.

I agree. I think there is a blessing that they miss out on.

Isa 58:13 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:
Isa 58:14 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.

 

[Jon316]

I didn't know of this scripture. Thanks so much brother. I'll share this whenever possible. This is very encouraging.

 

[Ahwatukee]

Its good to know there are Christians that believe in keeping the Sabbath. I know the more we submit to God and obey Him; the more He can glorify Himself through us. The more the Holy Spirit will work in us. I wonder if the church is missing out on more from God because of this and other things.

A believer can observe the Sabbath with God's blessing. Others consider everyday a like. One believer eats only vegetables with God's blessing and another's faith allows him to eat anything and that with God's blessing as well. It is when a person observes those things as a requirement for salvation that it becomes a problem. That said, the Sabbath is not a requirement for salvation.

Jesus met the righteous requirements of the law on our behalf, rescuing us from the curse of the law. The law is what gives sin its power. Our focus should be on Christ as the One who fulfilled the law and paid the penalty for our sins. It is by trusting in Him and Him alone that we are saved. Anyone trying to gain favor with God by their own works will not inherit the kingdom of God.

 

[gotime]

I didn't know of this scripture. Thanks so much brother. I'll share this whenever possible. This is very encouraging.

Its a great scripture. Isaiah 56 speaks of the Sabbath for the gentiles in light of when God gathers in the Gentiles. Also the scripture above note the power of the promise:

Isa 58:13 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:
Isa 58:14 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.

The Sabbath was made holy and set a part on the 7th day of Creation. So it is directly connected with creation. In creation notice these words:

Gen 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Notice "God said" and "it was so". There is power in the word of God to do exactly what He says. Thus the significance of what God says after he makes the promise in verse 14, "The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it". Thus the power of the promise is in the creative power of the word of God.

Here is the scripture from 56:

Isa 56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Note that Christ is the righteousness of God:

1Co_1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

1Th_5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,




So this prophecy refers to when Jesus shall be revealed. He is the righteousness of God and our salvation.

Notice what is said next.

Isa 56:2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Isa 56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Isa 56:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Isa 56:5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isa 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Isa 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.


The Sabbath for the stranger/Gentiles. the sacrifices will be accepted which are:

1Pe_2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

We noticed that Jesus is the salvation and righteousness of God now note when the Gentiles will accept and keep the Sabbath:

Isa 56:8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.


The Sabbath is prophesied for after the cross. Blessings.

 

[garee]

10. Is it true that circumcision was the entrance sign to the Old Covenant? · Here Paul states very clearly that circumcision was given to Abraham as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had before circumcision. Therefore circumcision was given as a sign of the New Covenant. But Israel perverted the whole arrangement and came to regard circumcision as salvation itself! Read Romans 4 especially verse 11.

Circumcision used to represent to work of redemption of our bloody husband, Christ like water baptism are both ceremonial laws used as shadows that a person could use to show they had the spiritul understanding of God that Christ the high priest was coming in the flesh beforehand and the glory that did follow. Every ceremonial object that were used in parable to include the tent poles testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

It was at that time of reformation that the era of Sabbath was moved from the last day of the 7 days to the first day. The new era of Sabbath . The day God said let there be light as children of light in regard to His new creation .


1Pe 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

Today many preach the old testament saint did not have the Holy Spirit in them. Therefore there was nothing testifying to them beforehand .

 

[BeyondET]

A believer can observe the Sabbath with God's blessing. Others consider everyday a like. One believer eats only vegetables with God's blessing and another's faith allows him to eat anything and that with God's blessing as well. It is when a person observes those things as a requirement for salvation that it becomes a problem. That said, the Sabbath is not a requirement for salvation.

Jesus met the righteous requirements of the law on our behalf, rescuing us from the curse of the law. The law is what gives sin its power. Our focus should be on Christ as the One who fulfilled the law and paid the penalty for our sins. It is by trusting in Him and Him alone that we are saved. Anyone trying to gain favor with God by their own works will not inherit the kingdom of God.

The food part reminded of the disciples picking the heads of grain while walking with Jesus through the grain fields.
David and His companions eating bread in the Temple.

Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

 

[Grace777x70]

Have we ever read where Jesus said that the priests who stand in the temple - break the Sabbath which is in the Law?...or that David and his men ate of the bread which was in the temple?

Matthew 12:2-6 (NASB)
[SUP]2 [/SUP] But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath."

[SUP]3 [/SUP] But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,

[SUP]4 [/SUP] how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

[SUP]5 [/SUP] "Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?[SUP]6 [/SUP] "But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here.

Why were the priest not breaking the Sabbath law - because they were in the temple. Why did David be able to eat of the bread? Because he was in the temple.

This is why the true believer in Christ will not be breaking any Sabbath law because we are in the temple. Know you not that you are the temple of God?

Those that are in the temple are not breaking the Sabbath law by doing work because we are in Christ. He is the true temple of God as we are in union with Him and are one in the spirit.

Until we understand the reality of our union with Christ and what that means - we will be resorting to going back to the Law and trying to live by our own flesh and we are exchanging the life of Christ and what He has done for law. We are in effect really exchanging Christ Himself for an outward act of an obsolete Old Covenant law of Moses.

There does remain for us in Christ a Sabbath rest and it is Christ Himself and all His work that was accomplished for us.

 

[zone]

It was actually established at Creation Gen 2v3 when man was created and never has been 'jewish'.

can you provide the passages showing Sabbath established for man at Gen?

 

[garee]

11. Is it true that the Sabbath was the memorial sign of the Old Covenant? · The Old Covenant was established by people through their promises and not by God. Therefore God never gave any initiating or commemorating sign to that faulty covenant. What God says about the Old Covenant condition is that it must be “cast out!” Galatians 4:30, 31. Read Hebrews 8:6-10. The Sabbath was spoken as part of the moral law, which describes righteousness and defines sin, which law, according to Jesus is changeless. Matthew 5:1719.

The Sabbath is a memorial sign of the eternal rest we already have in Christ, therefore coming from Christ our rest.

This is according to the parable of the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. God is not a lamb. This shows a parable is in view. We walk by faith (Christ’s) the eternal not seen. And not after the rudiments of this world. The lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, the pride of the things of men

2Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen "are temporal"; but the things which are not seen "are eternal".

It is I believe the reason for the two renderings of the same ceremonial laws, speaking of the same eternal rest in two different ways .

We can see it being used as a historically true parable twice using the first time creation that pointed to the rest we will receive fully when we receive our new incorruptible bodies. This is one rendering of the that ceremonial law as a shadow (for ceremonies) not moral laws for outside of religious ceremonies.

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. Exo 20:8

The other parable of the same one ceremonial law.

Six days thou shalt 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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. Deu 5:13

That parable is compared to the other parable in respect to ceremonial laws used as shadows. Using Egypt this time is to represent this world and the Pharaoh the god of this world The Exodus , to represent leaving this world to remind men they are being led to the eternal promised land where we will finally receive that rest.

Parables are not needed to explain moral laws used to govern the whole world . One rendering with the ceremonial laws would have been enough to understand that moral laws are used outside of ceremonies. (holidays) Again it’s not a sign of the covenant it’s a sign of the rest we already have in Christ and is why we are not to judge one another in respect to shadows.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.Col 2:16

 

[garee]

can you provide the passages showing Sabbath established for man at Gen?

The rest was not established for God to rest .He does not tire from saying let there be; and it was good. as a work of His faith .

He could of created what the eyes see in a twinkling of the eye, as he did our salvation and will when we receive our new incorruptible bodies we will rest in..

 

[mpaper345]

Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Yet they would not hear,that it is a spiritual Sabbath by the Holy Spirit in the New Testament.

Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Jesus took the physical ordinances of Israel out of the way,for they had no bearing on spiritual salvation,so do not let any person tell you to keep the physical Sabbath day.

 

[Grandpa]

Did you know that if you take the Law and make it something that you can work at and fulfill by your own understanding that you are making it into a carnal commandment?

That is what you do when you misplace the emphasis of what sabbath is and what it means. It means rest and rest should be the emphasis. But when you make it a carnal commandment you turn rest into work by your own understanding.

Are you made perfect by your work and understanding? No. You are perfected by the Spirit.

How do you live in the Spirit? By faith in Christ.


Look at it this way. Is not murdering someone a fulfillment of the law? No. Loving someone is the fulfillment of the law. Why? Because Love is from the Lord Jesus Christ and not from your natural self.

Is resting on saturdays a fulfillment of the law? No. Resting in Christ is a fulfillment of the law. Why? Because rest is given by the Lord Jesus Christ and not from your natural self.


If you are resting in Christ you aren't working at the law. You have to be actively doing one or the other. You can't do both at the same time. Like looking in the mirror or turning away from the mirror. You have to choose one and then do it. The awesome thing about turning away from your own work and turning to the Lord is that the fruit grown by this activity IS the fulfillment of the law. It is the only way we can keep the law and it is not by our works, it is by Grace through Faith.

 

[Grandpa]

can you provide the passages showing Sabbath established for man at Gen?

Zone!!!!!!!!