So what about the fourth commandment?
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I see the Sabbath rest as twofold.
1. (Easy one first.) Earthbound. Man cannot keep working 24/7/365. We absolutely need one day a week to rest or effort is diminished, muscles breakdown, bones weaken, the brain fogs, and our emotions overload.
It's been proven for ages that if we work the ground year after year without giving it rest, it produces less too. Same with animals. It's a built-in safeguard God instituted.
2. (The part I'm not so sure how to translate this into what we're supposed to do about it.) Godbound. It's not just resting that is required on the Sabbath. It's relationship renewal. When I was growing up, it was common for families to hop in their cars (or walk down the street) to go visit the parent's family every weekend. It wasn't like the parents didn't talk to their parents all week. They did, by phone, but come the weekend there needed to be a Sabbath meal too. It was a time to renew bonds with all generations at one table.
I think that is what God wants from us too. Sure, we talk with him all week, but more in passing. I think the other purpose of the Sabbath is supposed to give us time to reconnect with God.
1. (Easy one first.) Earthbound. Man cannot keep working 24/7/365. We absolutely need one day a week to rest or effort is diminished, muscles breakdown, bones weaken, the brain fogs, and our emotions overload.
It's been proven for ages that if we work the ground year after year without giving it rest, it produces less too. Same with animals. It's a built-in safeguard God instituted.
2. (The part I'm not so sure how to translate this into what we're supposed to do about it.) Godbound. It's not just resting that is required on the Sabbath. It's relationship renewal. When I was growing up, it was common for families to hop in their cars (or walk down the street) to go visit the parent's family every weekend. It wasn't like the parents didn't talk to their parents all week. They did, by phone, but come the weekend there needed to be a Sabbath meal too. It was a time to renew bonds with all generations at one table.
I think that is what God wants from us too. Sure, we talk with him all week, but more in passing. I think the other purpose of the Sabbath is supposed to give us time to reconnect with God.
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Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 ¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 ¶ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 ¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 ¶ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth
well, I can read what His Word says at least. I don't have to make twisted up excuses why I can do what I want. It isn't popular to go this road sister. I don't have a fan club at the moment.
And as far as your Romans 8:28, if you love God, keep His commandments (John 14:15). How much more straight forward can it be?
And as far as your Romans 8:28, if you love God, keep His commandments (John 14:15). How much more straight forward can it be?
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And the Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. (2Timothy 2:24-26).
seems Shaul might be talkin to yah
seems Shaul might be talkin to yah