A keeping of a sabbath is left to GOD's people
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have you read the 4th commandment in it's entirety???
If you did,, you would certainly know God made reference to keeping the Sabbath on the 7th day!!!
There is no Commandment that says keep the Sabbath any day you choose. And you KNOW IT!!!!!
So,, why,, make a false claim that the Sabbath can be any day you want??? God never gave any such instruction.... You made that up and now you have decided that any day can be YOUR sabbath!
And you are as wrong as you can possibly be..
By saying any day can be your sabbath,, you have made void the Instruction of God.
And deep down , you know it.
All you have to do is read the 4th commandment in it's entirety and you would surely know you are wrong.
The Catholic church shortened Gods Sabbath command to 8 words,,,,,,,, and because of that,, Men slowly forgot Gods Sabbath..
With a shortened Command "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it Holy",,, men forgot the Command in it's entirety.... They no longer seen the 7th day that was mentioned in the Command... Like you,, then substituted Gods day, for a day that was more convienant to them,,,satan offered them sunday. he even gives reason you should observe it,, Jesus rose,, ect...
If you did,, you would certainly know God made reference to keeping the Sabbath on the 7th day!!!
There is no Commandment that says keep the Sabbath any day you choose. And you KNOW IT!!!!!
So,, why,, make a false claim that the Sabbath can be any day you want??? God never gave any such instruction.... You made that up and now you have decided that any day can be YOUR sabbath!
And you are as wrong as you can possibly be..
By saying any day can be your sabbath,, you have made void the Instruction of God.
And deep down , you know it.
All you have to do is read the 4th commandment in it's entirety and you would surely know you are wrong.
The Catholic church shortened Gods Sabbath command to 8 words,,,,,,,, and because of that,, Men slowly forgot Gods Sabbath..
With a shortened Command "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it Holy",,, men forgot the Command in it's entirety.... They no longer seen the 7th day that was mentioned in the Command... Like you,, then substituted Gods day, for a day that was more convienant to them,,,satan offered them sunday. he even gives reason you should observe it,, Jesus rose,, ect...
Hebrews 4:9 is very straightforward...
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
The word for rest here is different than that the author used in the previous verses. The words used are katapausis and katapauo and they mean rest. The word used in verse 9 is...
Sabbatismos and the Diaglott renders this verse as...
Heb 4:9 Therefore remains a keeping of a sabbath for the people of the God.
Now lest you think the author is not referring to the seventh day Sabbath, let's back up a few verses...
Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Now what rest is He referring to? Some ethereal rest that cannot be determined? ( My Sabbath is Jesus, somebody explain that to me. What has that to do with the seventh day mentioned here?) The day spoken of here is the seventh day Sabbath and it is the shadow (Col 2:16) of the 1000 year Millenium of rest on the earth after Satan is incarcerated (Rev 20:1:3)
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work (Man has been given 6000 years laboring under the heel of Satan) but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Eternal thy God (the glorious 1000 year reign of Christ on the earth, the Millenium).
How much of that truth does Sunday worship reveal?
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
The word for rest here is different than that the author used in the previous verses. The words used are katapausis and katapauo and they mean rest. The word used in verse 9 is...
Sabbatismos and the Diaglott renders this verse as...
Heb 4:9 Therefore remains a keeping of a sabbath for the people of the God.
Now lest you think the author is not referring to the seventh day Sabbath, let's back up a few verses...
Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Now what rest is He referring to? Some ethereal rest that cannot be determined? ( My Sabbath is Jesus, somebody explain that to me. What has that to do with the seventh day mentioned here?) The day spoken of here is the seventh day Sabbath and it is the shadow (Col 2:16) of the 1000 year Millenium of rest on the earth after Satan is incarcerated (Rev 20:1:3)
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work (Man has been given 6000 years laboring under the heel of Satan) but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Eternal thy God (the glorious 1000 year reign of Christ on the earth, the Millenium).
How much of that truth does Sunday worship reveal?
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God never gives us information that is in any way "only" what he is referring to. God shows our world as many interconnecting things. We are to keep the Sabbath and that and all things referring to it are never "only" it is always interrelated with every other thing that applies to that. When we keep the Sabbath we are working with the physical manifestation of a very complex spiritual reality, and we don't understand every aspect of it. When we break that command it is breaking a complex series of spiritual laws WAY beyond our understanding.
The 4th Commandment sure does!!!
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. for six days you shall labour and do all your work. but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall do no work, you, nor you son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within your gates:
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: whererfore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
God knew men would forget His Sabbath. He knew that this would become an issue. I have no doubt that God knew exactly what He was doing when He began His 4th Commandment with the word "Remember"!
I believe that men lost sight of the importance of Gods Sabbath Command,,when it was shortened from 94 words to 8.
Once it was shortened to eight words,,,, men quitting seeing the word 'seventh",,, and then tradtion took root.
Teaching as Commandments, the Traditions of Men. (Sunday Observance).
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. for six days you shall labour and do all your work. but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall do no work, you, nor you son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within your gates:
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: whererfore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
God knew men would forget His Sabbath. He knew that this would become an issue. I have no doubt that God knew exactly what He was doing when He began His 4th Commandment with the word "Remember"!
I believe that men lost sight of the importance of Gods Sabbath Command,,when it was shortened from 94 words to 8.
Once it was shortened to eight words,,,, men quitting seeing the word 'seventh",,, and then tradtion took root.
Teaching as Commandments, the Traditions of Men. (Sunday Observance).
God made us to begin with whole that started with Adam and Eve, yet they ate from that evil tree, and well we became weak and all mankind is after the similitude of Adam and Eve. There is only one perfect and that is Christ and Christ came as life-giving Spirit to mankind to redeem us from death to life, Spirit filled of God by the resurrected Christ, and not all have received this free gift.
Either one is of God or of the flesh?
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
The above is today truth with me, has nothing to do with boasting, pride or arrogance, it is what it is!
Hoping one day for you to see this as well, this was not just for Paul as if Paul is better than anyone else. Paul was no more than a vessel used by God, by Paul's free will of asking God to show us the truth.
All God none of me, you or you or anyone. God gets all the glory
Love you deeper than you know
God can only be worshipped in Spirit and truth.
Oh and it is not that God hates our flesh, it is that our flesh does not serve God and never will. Flesh is weak, Spirit willing, but if Spirit dead and flesh alive, flesh wins
If born again by God through the resurrection of Christ then flesh is dead, and one is alive to God, with the peace, Joy, and righteousness that passes all understanding.
Either one is of God or of the flesh?
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
The above is today truth with me, has nothing to do with boasting, pride or arrogance, it is what it is!
Hoping one day for you to see this as well, this was not just for Paul as if Paul is better than anyone else. Paul was no more than a vessel used by God, by Paul's free will of asking God to show us the truth.
All God none of me, you or you or anyone. God gets all the glory
Love you deeper than you know
God can only be worshipped in Spirit and truth.
Oh and it is not that God hates our flesh, it is that our flesh does not serve God and never will. Flesh is weak, Spirit willing, but if Spirit dead and flesh alive, flesh wins
If born again by God through the resurrection of Christ then flesh is dead, and one is alive to God, with the peace, Joy, and righteousness that passes all understanding.
Homward,, I don't see things exactly like you do...
I believe Galations 2:20 is not as extreme as the author makes it sound..
Homward,,, I know that you are still you after recieving Jesus and becoming saved. You haven't turned into Jesus,, or sombody else... You are still Homward,, the same guy that was a little boy and even a toddler and before that a baby.
I'm still Michael. I still remember all of my sinful years of youth.....I have never been crucified. Nor have you. To claim you are crucified with Christ is nothing more than a figure of speech. We both know, neither of us were dragged to a cross and nailed to it. Neither of us have any scars that would make the claim that we are crucified, a fact. We both know we weren't
Paul is simply teaching that the INFLUENCE of Christ's teachings is what causes us to obey Him and have a desire to become like Jesus in Character.
That is the Point I was going to make yesterday.. But,, you left.
I don't believe Jesus is actually living inside me... I believe His INFLUENCE is what lives inside me and controls and subdues my human fleshly desire to sin.
Under my way of thinking,,, When I and my wife have our private time... It is me she is being sexual with,,, Not Jesus!
When i was a young boy,, there was another kid in the neighborhood that was a bad example... He did things like,, smoke, break bottles in the street.. My parents saw that I was beginning to act and talk like him...Soon,, they forbade me to hang out with that fellow,, cause they said,,, he was a bad INFLUENCE,, and that his INFLUENCE was showing itself thru my actions.
I got on my Fleshy knees this morning for Prayer. My flesh serves God. We had a big wreck at the intersection near my home. When I heard the 2 cars hit each other.. I knew that it was probably bad. I went there to help,, with my fleshy body.
My spirit body,, wouldn't have done anything... For I cannot move as a spirit moves,,, Cause I have a flesh body!
So,, my flesh serves God. M flesh helped those in the car wreck.. I helped get the guy out of the car, before it caught fire.
My spirit man would have sat there and accomplished nothing...
Homward,, I'm a realist,, I'm not into fake. I'm not into phony..... I know that I haven't been crucified with Jesus. Again,, that is nothing more than word play.
If I believe Jesus is all the Bible says He is,, than His influence is what lives in me. The influence of the Holy Spirit lives in me.
Am I making any sense to you?
I believe Galations 2:20 is not as extreme as the author makes it sound..
Homward,,, I know that you are still you after recieving Jesus and becoming saved. You haven't turned into Jesus,, or sombody else... You are still Homward,, the same guy that was a little boy and even a toddler and before that a baby.
I'm still Michael. I still remember all of my sinful years of youth.....I have never been crucified. Nor have you. To claim you are crucified with Christ is nothing more than a figure of speech. We both know, neither of us were dragged to a cross and nailed to it. Neither of us have any scars that would make the claim that we are crucified, a fact. We both know we weren't
Paul is simply teaching that the INFLUENCE of Christ's teachings is what causes us to obey Him and have a desire to become like Jesus in Character.
That is the Point I was going to make yesterday.. But,, you left.
I don't believe Jesus is actually living inside me... I believe His INFLUENCE is what lives inside me and controls and subdues my human fleshly desire to sin.
Under my way of thinking,,, When I and my wife have our private time... It is me she is being sexual with,,, Not Jesus!
When i was a young boy,, there was another kid in the neighborhood that was a bad example... He did things like,, smoke, break bottles in the street.. My parents saw that I was beginning to act and talk like him...Soon,, they forbade me to hang out with that fellow,, cause they said,,, he was a bad INFLUENCE,, and that his INFLUENCE was showing itself thru my actions.
I got on my Fleshy knees this morning for Prayer. My flesh serves God. We had a big wreck at the intersection near my home. When I heard the 2 cars hit each other.. I knew that it was probably bad. I went there to help,, with my fleshy body.
My spirit body,, wouldn't have done anything... For I cannot move as a spirit moves,,, Cause I have a flesh body!
So,, my flesh serves God. M flesh helped those in the car wreck.. I helped get the guy out of the car, before it caught fire.
My spirit man would have sat there and accomplished nothing...
Homward,, I'm a realist,, I'm not into fake. I'm not into phony..... I know that I haven't been crucified with Jesus. Again,, that is nothing more than word play.
If I believe Jesus is all the Bible says He is,, than His influence is what lives in me. The influence of the Holy Spirit lives in me.
Am I making any sense to you?
Yes, from the way you are seeing what I am saying, yes.
You do not see what is said.
I never said literally, physically dead.
carnal mindedly dead the old way of thought pattern. A new mind of thought from God perspective, not yours, mine or any human being's thought pattern.
Michael from God's perspective, how many sins did God die for with Son at the cross?
How many are left for you? Whether you sin or not, does it ever take away the fact of what he did in above question.
so again how many from God's perspective are left for you? Whether you believe or not?
John 1:29 [ John Testifies About Jesus ] The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
In light of this fact that Christ did what he did for the whole world, via (cross) and thus we all are dead in the carnal mind of flesh and blood, not alive to God.
Romans 5:10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
1 Corinthians 15:29
Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
The above is baptized by the Holy Spirit of God, and one has new life in the Spirit of God while still in this flesh body, yet the old man is considered dead, as to the influence of that other boy that started the influence on you that your mother intervened, which is what God does by God's Spirit, God Woo's you this is not good and that is, never taking away our free wills.
So the enemy, flesh does its best to deceive and keep one on a fleshly mindset of, lust in the mind, whether one does it or not, that is what flesh does and you know it, and okay if you do not want to give it up for God, God is not harmed and neither am I.
You have accepted what you have been taught from childhood like Saul did, even though Saul thought what he did was righteous, even before he started killing Christians, he said this about it
[h=3]Philippians 3[/h]New International Version (NIV)
[h=3]No Confidence in the Flesh[/h]3 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. [SUP]2 [/SUP]Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. [SUP]3 [/SUP]For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—[SUP]4 [/SUP]though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: [SUP]5 [/SUP]circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; [SUP]6 [/SUP]as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. [SUP]8[/SUP]What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ[SUP]9 [/SUP]and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.[SUP]10 [/SUP]I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,[SUP]11 [/SUP]and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.[SUP]13 [/SUP]Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
[SUP]14 [/SUP]I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
So as I grow in this same desire as Paul, here I am and it is what it is, love you Michael, I am in no way condemning you, because God's grace is God's grace and just love us all. I am just taking a deep walk with the Savior in hopes all will do this too.
Now about our bodies being alive to God, they are after we decide to be dead to self carnal nature and then
[h=3]Romans 12[/h]New International Version (NIV)
[h=3]A Living Sacrifice[/h]12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. [SUP]2 [/SUP]Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
It is seeing things from God's perspective, not man's, and the Spirit keeps you physically alive, not flesh anymore by the mind's belief, no doubts. Either God is in control at our will's or flesh
And all flesh works will burn up and all God works will not 1 Cor.3
John 4:23
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Anyway Brother in Christ, I know you believe and are at war as many are. The war is between Flesh and Spirit
Love you deeper than you may know, Gal 5 clear on this flesh and Spirit.
You do not see what is said.
I never said literally, physically dead.
carnal mindedly dead the old way of thought pattern. A new mind of thought from God perspective, not yours, mine or any human being's thought pattern.
Michael from God's perspective, how many sins did God die for with Son at the cross?
How many are left for you? Whether you sin or not, does it ever take away the fact of what he did in above question.
so again how many from God's perspective are left for you? Whether you believe or not?
John 1:29 [ John Testifies About Jesus ] The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
In light of this fact that Christ did what he did for the whole world, via (cross) and thus we all are dead in the carnal mind of flesh and blood, not alive to God.
Romans 5:10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
1 Corinthians 15:29
Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
The above is baptized by the Holy Spirit of God, and one has new life in the Spirit of God while still in this flesh body, yet the old man is considered dead, as to the influence of that other boy that started the influence on you that your mother intervened, which is what God does by God's Spirit, God Woo's you this is not good and that is, never taking away our free wills.
So the enemy, flesh does its best to deceive and keep one on a fleshly mindset of, lust in the mind, whether one does it or not, that is what flesh does and you know it, and okay if you do not want to give it up for God, God is not harmed and neither am I.
You have accepted what you have been taught from childhood like Saul did, even though Saul thought what he did was righteous, even before he started killing Christians, he said this about it
[h=3]Philippians 3[/h]New International Version (NIV)
[h=3]No Confidence in the Flesh[/h]3 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. [SUP]2 [/SUP]Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. [SUP]3 [/SUP]For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—[SUP]4 [/SUP]though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: [SUP]5 [/SUP]circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; [SUP]6 [/SUP]as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. [SUP]8[/SUP]What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ[SUP]9 [/SUP]and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.[SUP]10 [/SUP]I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,[SUP]11 [/SUP]and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.[SUP]13 [/SUP]Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
[SUP]14 [/SUP]I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
So as I grow in this same desire as Paul, here I am and it is what it is, love you Michael, I am in no way condemning you, because God's grace is God's grace and just love us all. I am just taking a deep walk with the Savior in hopes all will do this too.
Now about our bodies being alive to God, they are after we decide to be dead to self carnal nature and then
[h=3]Romans 12[/h]New International Version (NIV)
[h=3]A Living Sacrifice[/h]12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. [SUP]2 [/SUP]Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
It is seeing things from God's perspective, not man's, and the Spirit keeps you physically alive, not flesh anymore by the mind's belief, no doubts. Either God is in control at our will's or flesh
And all flesh works will burn up and all God works will not 1 Cor.3
John 4:23
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Anyway Brother in Christ, I know you believe and are at war as many are. The war is between Flesh and Spirit
Love you deeper than you may know, Gal 5 clear on this flesh and Spirit.
S
The Ten Commandments are a summary of the Old Covenant
Exodus 34:28 “So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the word of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 31:18 “And he gave to Moses when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Deut 4:13 “And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone”.
Deut 9:9 “When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you.”
Deut 9:11 “And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.”
The Old Covenant was an agreement between God and Israel, not God and Christians
Ex 31:12-17 And the Lord said to Moses, “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you. You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.”
The Old Covenant is no longer in effect for ANYONE
Heb 8:13-9:4 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table, and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
Gal 3:17 This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterwards, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
Gal 3:19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Gal 3:24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith
Gal 3:25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a guardian
2 Cor 3:4-18 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even much more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory. Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
The Sabbath, as part of the Old Covenant, is not in affect for ANYONE
Gal 4:10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Rom 14:5-6 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Col 2:16-17 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ
Jesus is our Sabbath or spiritual rest, and we enter into that spiritual rest by placing our faith in Him
Matt 11:28-30 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and lean from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Heb 4:1-8 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter my rest. “ although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.”. Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, “Today”, saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted. “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had not given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from is works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Christians are under the New Covenant, which has much higher demands and different commandments
Luke 22:20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”
Heb 9:15 Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Jn 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Jn 15:12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Jn 15:17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another
Rom 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
I am a former Sabbathkeeper due to my association as a new believer with Worldwide Church of God (now called Grace Communion International). Worldwide Church of God came to realize in 1995 that Christians are under the New Covenant, and not the Old Covenant, and the Sabbath does not apply to Christians under the New Covenant. It was a sign of the Old Covenant (like baptism and the Lord’s Supper are signs of the New Covenant), and is not a moral absolute like Sabbathkeepers claim. Sabbathkeeping doctrine invariably takes the focus off the true gospel, which is about Jesus Christ and salvation by grace through faith in Him (Eph 2:8-9). As a Sabbathkeeper, I rarely heard messages about God’s grace and love; the message of such organizations invariably focuses on the Sabbath. Jesus Christ was also placed on the backburner and was not the focus of their teaching. If you would like good sources of information in regards to the Sabbath check out Grace Communion International’s website at https://www.gci.org/law I now attend an Evangelical Free church that focuses on Jesus Christ and salvation through Him, which is the true gospel.
Exodus 34:28 “So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the word of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 31:18 “And he gave to Moses when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Deut 4:13 “And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone”.
Deut 9:9 “When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you.”
Deut 9:11 “And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.”
The Old Covenant was an agreement between God and Israel, not God and Christians
Ex 31:12-17 And the Lord said to Moses, “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you. You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.”
The Old Covenant is no longer in effect for ANYONE
Heb 8:13-9:4 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table, and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
Gal 3:17 This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterwards, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
Gal 3:19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Gal 3:24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith
Gal 3:25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a guardian
2 Cor 3:4-18 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even much more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory. Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
The Sabbath, as part of the Old Covenant, is not in affect for ANYONE
Gal 4:10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Rom 14:5-6 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Col 2:16-17 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ
Jesus is our Sabbath or spiritual rest, and we enter into that spiritual rest by placing our faith in Him
Matt 11:28-30 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and lean from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Heb 4:1-8 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter my rest. “ although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.”. Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, “Today”, saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted. “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had not given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from is works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Christians are under the New Covenant, which has much higher demands and different commandments
Luke 22:20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”
Heb 9:15 Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Jn 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Jn 15:12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Jn 15:17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another
Rom 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
I am a former Sabbathkeeper due to my association as a new believer with Worldwide Church of God (now called Grace Communion International). Worldwide Church of God came to realize in 1995 that Christians are under the New Covenant, and not the Old Covenant, and the Sabbath does not apply to Christians under the New Covenant. It was a sign of the Old Covenant (like baptism and the Lord’s Supper are signs of the New Covenant), and is not a moral absolute like Sabbathkeepers claim. Sabbathkeeping doctrine invariably takes the focus off the true gospel, which is about Jesus Christ and salvation by grace through faith in Him (Eph 2:8-9). As a Sabbathkeeper, I rarely heard messages about God’s grace and love; the message of such organizations invariably focuses on the Sabbath. Jesus Christ was also placed on the backburner and was not the focus of their teaching. If you would like good sources of information in regards to the Sabbath check out Grace Communion International’s website at https://www.gci.org/law I now attend an Evangelical Free church that focuses on Jesus Christ and salvation through Him, which is the true gospel.