How do you REST AND SET APART FOR GOD "one" day of the week?

[WomanLovesTX]

OK, many are going to look at this as a another debate or challenge...which it is and isn't. Just the nature of CC.

I know we Sabbath keepers are still in the minority here in CC, and because there are so many Sunday worshippers, I was just wondering how you keep "Sunday" set apart for God?


For me, the Sabbath is a day of REST and refraining from doing ordinary and normal duties (but doing loving things is always in order) and in this manner I keep it HOLY (ie SET APART FOR GOD). All my weeks are focused on doing what ever needs to be done before Friday sunset. The garbage doesn't have to be taken out, the mail doesn't need to be checked, the laundry and dishes do not need to be done, no housework, nor do I shop or eat out, or ask anyone to serve me at this time, etc. It is a day (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset) that I look forward to all week long. Some weeks I can hardly wait for it to arrive so I can just stop and rest and enjoy even more fellowship with God and the fellowship with other believers. It changes your life and your attitudes toward God. You think about how to prepare all week so you can honor God by remembering and keeping the Sabbath. The focus is in keeping God's Sabbath as He commanded. But I never here a Sunday church goer say they stop and truly REST and set it 100% apart because they are too busy defending that any old day is good enough for God. Do any Sunday keepers keep the day holy and set apart just for God alone? If so, would you share in this?

 

[fredjames]

Peace be with you, i wish JESUS did the same and not come in contention with the Pharisees mostly doing the FATHER's will on the day of Sabbath. Moreover HE claims that the SON of man is the LORD of the Sabbath. Also HE claims; 'My FATHER is always working.'
This proves JESUS the New Covenant builder our LORD of the Sabbath, did not sit around and relax on the day of Sabbath but did GOD's will, charitable service for the poor on that day.
Friend, if you believe in this that you speak of, then it is only for you in your honor to the LORD that you practice and it does not include others.
If you are referring to the Old Covenant Law about Sabbath, then i lovingly caution you of the consequences; 'If you practice one, you must practice all.' 'If you disobey even to the least, you disobey all and you are under curse.'
Stay awake and be alert of the signs according to the truth and for CHRIST who is coming soon.
May GOD the FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST bless you in spirit and truth.

 

[follower2]

I think saturday is the true sabbath, there was another thread on this about the sabbath.
I try not to toil unless obligation comes up, I tend to shy away from doing any thing I would normally do, I try to pray extra, and just enjoy the Lord, and give thanks.

fredjames, not sure what your point was brother.

 

[musiclover123]

I respect that you keep a day to rest in the Lord, and especially that you do it to standards that many 'Sabbath-keeping' Christians (for lack of a better term) do.

I guess I'm what you referred to as a 'Sunday-worshipper' myself, but I do not believe Sunday is the Sabbath day, because it seems obvious that the seventh day of the week is Saturday. There was a point where I struggles with this, not understanding how I was supposed to keep the Sabbath, and wondering if everyone I knew was actually breaking commandments by not keeping Saturday a day of rest as stated in the Law.

What really enlightened me on the subject was reading Hebrews 4. I know that there are many things from the Old Testament that are shadows what was to come, that is Christ. I believe that the Sabbath day commanded to the people of Israel was one of those shadows, and in Christ I keep my Sabbath. To me, it's more than any one day, or as you put 'any old day', but it's all the time through the power of the Spirit of God.

 

[4enlightment]

We have to keep God words with us at all times for our spiritual soul can be at rest all the time. Our physical bodies need one day of a week a solemn rest from any type of work so that it can function properly the rest of the six days of work. But the real rest that we need is the rest from th evil that is all around us and by us focusing on God's word can only give us this rest from the evil one, for it'll keep our heart from being weary. Stress and being in a state of depression is from the evil one, and by us not focussing on God can lure us away from Him; and it will cause us to be lost and confuse and which darkness will come and it will pretend to be our guide, and to lure us into the pit where it is going. It loves company.

 

[RedTent]

I think it is a terrible dilemma for those of us who know the truth. We know God especially blessed this day, that the pagans always used Sunday so Paul said that if you keep Saturday because of becoming a Jew, you don't have to. I'm not an ex pagan, so I want to do as God blessed. But my church follows pagan ways, and I want to be with my brothers and sisters in Christ.

I do special prayers on Friday night with candles to symbolize light and my flame for Christ, but I live alone so I can. I spend Saturday in study and prayer, but if my family wants me with them that day I don't let them know it is my Sabbath, they don't understand and said it was putting ritual before worship. Christ said the law of love aces out the law to keep the Sabbath when he healed and picked food on the Sabbath, so I spend time with my family when they ask me to on Saturday. I go to church on Sunday morning, but in the afternoon I follow the "pagan" way. I will shop, cook, and follow what my church does.

I would prefer to have a dinner with my loved ones around me on Friday night to share in praising the Lord and just being blessed, but my family does not agree to that.

I think that when gentiles were made head of the church by God, we went wrong almost right away by separating ourselves so completely from the principles of the OT. We had to separate ourselves from the Jewish race, but we went too far. When Constantine made it illegal to have anything to do with anything Jewish, we also severed ourselves from God the Father. Christ made many things new, and through Him the gospel is opened to the gentile. But the gentile made that into a brand new religion instead of completing and perfecting the old, and that is the organized church we have. It makes it difficult for those who want to follow God, and how to keep the Sabbath is really just part of it.

 

[jb]

For me, everyday is the same...so, I live for Jesus 7 days a week not just on one (the Sabbath)!

 

[hattiebod]

If I am fortunate, I can go to church on a Sunday, if my husband who is unsaved wants to do something that day with me, I do it. He has learnt church is important to me, so rarely asks but I am not legalistic about this. Also, many years of working weekends nursing showed me the day does not matter, setting a day apart to rest and recharge, worship and give thanks to God is lovely, if you can but it's the heart that matters. Spending your day out in creation with your family can be honoring and worshipful too! I agree wholeheartedly with JB, ALL days are for the Lord and the most important thing is reaching others with the gospel! So if we get too legalistic....we could block this. We walk with Jesus in a myriad of ways... Let's give thanks He blesses us all in our feeble attempts to honour Him. . God Bless, <><

 

[RedTent]

For me, everyday is the same...so, I live for Jesus 7 days a week not just on one (the Sabbath)!

If you devote every day to Jesus, when do you get your work done? And if you devote it to Jesus alone, how can you say the Lord's Prayer that addresses God the Father, and includes Jesus? We are told to set it apart, and how can you set every day apart from all the others, and treat every day the same. I don't follow your thinking and God's instructions at the same time. God is eternal, without time. Maybe that is it. But God uses time for teaching us.

 

[justamazed]

If you devote every day to Jesus, when do you get your work done? And if you devote it to Jesus alone, how can you say the Lord's Prayer that addresses God the Father, and includes Jesus? We are told to set it apart, and how can you set every day apart from all the others, and treat every day the same. I don't follow your thinking and God's instructions at the same time. God is eternal, without time. Maybe that is it. But God uses time for teaching us.

Jesus devoted every day to God and still got His work done. Maybe the question should be "what work are we to do?"

 

[4enlightment]

If you devote every day to Jesus, when do you get your work done? And if you devote it to Jesus alone, how can you say the Lord's Prayer that addresses God the Father, and includes Jesus? We are told to set it apart, and how can you set every day apart from all the others, and treat every day the same. I don't follow your thinking and God's instructions at the same time. God is eternal, without time. Maybe that is it. But God uses time for teaching us.

Deuteronomy 11:18Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

This scripture were telling the Jews to basically keep God always on their mind, but they had taken what God has said literally by tying little books of the scriptures on their hands and on their foreheads; but it still hasn't did any good. You can work and still have God in your heart, just as a person that work and has their family on their minds. Whom you truly love, will always be on your mind.

Matthew 6:20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Matthew 6:21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

God knows our heart, for it speaks the truth.

 

[jb]

If you devote every day to Jesus, when do you get your work done? And if you devote it to Jesus alone, how can you say the Lord's Prayer that addresses God the Father, and includes Jesus? We are told to set it apart, and how can you set every day apart from all the others, and treat every day the same. I don't follow your thinking and God's instructions at the same time. God is eternal, without time. Maybe that is it. But God uses time for teaching us.

Secular work, family life relationships, friendships, spiritual devotions etc, done for Jesus is JUST as sacred as any minintry! Rom 14v5, Col 3 (all) (esp 3v23,24). It is doing the everyday things in life that we will be judged and rewarded for!

So, don't get hung up on being super spiritual on one day of the week (ie the sabbath) and simply chill and enjoy your salvation, doing everything for the Lord Jesus!

 

[A-Omega]

I hope no one is cooking, shopping, sleeping, using any type of machinery, having causal conversations or doing anything pleasurable on Sabbath!! And be sure to not say anything or think anything about yourself at all.



Biblical Sabbath

The purpose of us resting on the sabbath is so we can be mentally, spiritually, and physically refreshed.

Exodus 23:12, "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed."​

• We are to do no ordinary/secular work on the sabbath (Exodus 20:10; 23:23; 31:14-15; 35:2, Leviticus 23:3, Deuteronomy 5:14, Jeremiah 17:24), nor carry a burden on the sabbath day (Jeremiah 17:21-24). We should not do unnecessary things on the sabbath, such as going on journeys, paying worldly visits, washing, working, etc., especially if it could be done on another day. It is a day not to be devoted to worldly business, conversation, reading, travelling, visiting, or amusement, nor to sleep, idleness, or worldly thoughts and feelings, but to be employed in worship, and in the promotion of our own spiritual good and that of our fellow-men.
• One shouldn't prepare an elaborate meal on the Sabbath day....but should try to either have meals ready (on the 6th day, the preparation day)...or at least fix very simple meals on the Sabbath (Exodus 16:23).
• We shouldn't buy or sell on the Sabbath day, not even food. God says this will “profane the sabbath day.” The gates to Jerusalem were shut as it began to get dark towards the sabbath, and were opened again after the sabbath was over. This was to keep the merchants and sellers from buying and selling on the Sabbath (Nehemiah 10:31; 13:15-22).
• It's good to heal and do good to both people and animals on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-13, Mark 3:1-5, and Luke 13:10-17, John 5:8-13).
• We should not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but comfort and exhort one another (Matthew 18:20, Hebrews 10:25), especially on the sabbath day (Leviticus 23:3). This also includes reading books and materials from those who write about God's Word, or listening to and watching others preach on pre-recorded devices (provided we do not watch or listen to the things of the world, such as being bombarded with commercials while listening to a sermon).
• And finally, we should not do our own pleasure on the Sabbath day (Isaiah 58:13-14).
  Isaiah 58:13, "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, so as not to do thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, holy to the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:"​

Isaiah 58:13 says twice that we should not do our own pleasure on God's holy day. To take it for our pleasure is to rob Him of His own pleasure. This is the very way in which the Sabbath is mostly broken; it is made a day of carnal pleasure instead of spiritual "delight." Now, this "pleasure" does not refer to the pleasure of learning God's Word, or the pleasure of eating, or the pleasure of helping others, etc., it refers to the pleasures of the world, such as entertainment, traveling for our mere pleasure, doing our own ways. In other words, the sabbath is not made for our recreation! To keep the Sabbath in an idle manner is the sabbath of oxen and asses; to keep it in a jovial manner is the sabbath of the golden calf, when the people sat down to eat and drink, play and engage in physical pleasures; to keep it in overindulgence, excess, or to keep it unrestrained, arrogantly ignoring God's Will, is the sabbath of satan, the devil's holiday.
Isaiah 58:13 also says we are to avoid speaking certain words! We should not only avoid doing our own pleasure on the sabbath, but we should avoid speaking words concerning it. We should avoid speaking vain and profane words, and the words of the world. You should not talk about yourself or your past history, or your personal life, for this concerns "me, myself, and I," whereas we are to concern ourselves with God. God has appointed the Sabbath as a day of holy rest, not only from worldly labor, but also from worldly thoughts and conversation.
Isaiah 58:13 also says that we should call the Sabbath a delight....do we call the Sabbath a delight? When it gets toward the end of the week, are you anxious for the Sabbath to come? It should be our favorite day of the week because in our thoughts we can spend the whole day with Jesus. Now I realize that we should have Jesus in our thoughts Sunday through Friday, and I'm sure we do, but not like on the Sabbath. During the week we've got to think about what we're doing while working, and we try to keep a dialog going with God as we work....but on the Sabbath, we don't have to think about work at all.
Verse 14 continues by telling us what God will do for us if we honor his sabbath. It says we will delight ourselves in the Lord, God will cause us to ride upon the high places of the earth and will feed us with the heritage of Jacob. These are biblical sayings for the experience of feeling joy, and peace, and being filled with love for God and His Son.

 

[follower2]

O.k. I'll try that tomorrow, ive never actively tried to keep the Sabbath on a Saturday, it will be a blast ^_^
Going to watch a live tube stream from 7th day adventist church, slight chance I might drive to my local one ( 10 miles away =/ )

 

[justamazed]

I hope no one is cooking, shopping, sleeping, using any type of machinery, having causal conversations or doing anything pleasurable on Sabbath!! And be sure to not say anything or think anything about yourself at all.



Biblical Sabbath

The purpose of us resting on the sabbath is so we can be mentally, spiritually, and physically refreshed.

Exodus 23:12, "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed."​

• We are to do no ordinary/secular work on the sabbath (Exodus 20:10; 23:23; 31:14-15; 35:2, Leviticus 23:3, Deuteronomy 5:14, Jeremiah 17:24), nor carry a burden on the sabbath day (Jeremiah 17:21-24). We should not do unnecessary things on the sabbath, such as going on journeys, paying worldly visits, washing, working, etc., especially if it could be done on another day. It is a day not to be devoted to worldly business, conversation, reading, travelling, visiting, or amusement, nor to sleep, idleness, or worldly thoughts and feelings, but to be employed in worship, and in the promotion of our own spiritual good and that of our fellow-men.
• One shouldn't prepare an elaborate meal on the Sabbath day....but should try to either have meals ready (on the 6th day, the preparation day)...or at least fix very simple meals on the Sabbath (Exodus 16:23).
• We shouldn't buy or sell on the Sabbath day, not even food. God says this will “profane the sabbath day.” The gates to Jerusalem were shut as it began to get dark towards the sabbath, and were opened again after the sabbath was over. This was to keep the merchants and sellers from buying and selling on the Sabbath (Nehemiah 10:31; 13:15-22).
• It's good to heal and do good to both people and animals on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-13, Mark 3:1-5, and Luke 13:10-17, John 5:8-13).
• We should not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but comfort and exhort one another (Matthew 18:20, Hebrews 10:25), especially on the sabbath day (Leviticus 23:3). This also includes reading books and materials from those who write about God's Word, or listening to and watching others preach on pre-recorded devices (provided we do not watch or listen to the things of the world, such as being bombarded with commercials while listening to a sermon).
• And finally, we should not do our own pleasure on the Sabbath day (Isaiah 58:13-14).
  Isaiah 58:13, "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, so as not to do thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, holy to the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:"​

Isaiah 58:13 says twice that we should not do our own pleasure on God's holy day. To take it for our pleasure is to rob Him of His own pleasure. This is the very way in which the Sabbath is mostly broken; it is made a day of carnal pleasure instead of spiritual "delight." Now, this "pleasure" does not refer to the pleasure of learning God's Word, or the pleasure of eating, or the pleasure of helping others, etc., it refers to the pleasures of the world, such as entertainment, traveling for our mere pleasure, doing our own ways. In other words, the sabbath is not made for our recreation! To keep the Sabbath in an idle manner is the sabbath of oxen and asses; to keep it in a jovial manner is the sabbath of the golden calf, when the people sat down to eat and drink, play and engage in physical pleasures; to keep it in overindulgence, excess, or to keep it unrestrained, arrogantly ignoring God's Will, is the sabbath of satan, the devil's holiday.
Isaiah 58:13 also says we are to avoid speaking certain words! We should not only avoid doing our own pleasure on the sabbath, but we should avoid speaking words concerning it. We should avoid speaking vain and profane words, and the words of the world. You should not talk about yourself or your past history, or your personal life, for this concerns "me, myself, and I," whereas we are to concern ourselves with God. God has appointed the Sabbath as a day of holy rest, not only from worldly labor, but also from worldly thoughts and conversation.
Isaiah 58:13 also says that we should call the Sabbath a delight....do we call the Sabbath a delight? When it gets toward the end of the week, are you anxious for the Sabbath to come? It should be our favorite day of the week because in our thoughts we can spend the whole day with Jesus. Now I realize that we should have Jesus in our thoughts Sunday through Friday, and I'm sure we do, but not like on the Sabbath. During the week we've got to think about what we're doing while working, and we try to keep a dialog going with God as we work....but on the Sabbath, we don't have to think about work at all.
Verse 14 continues by telling us what God will do for us if we honor his sabbath. It says we will delight ourselves in the Lord, God will cause us to ride upon the high places of the earth and will feed us with the heritage of Jacob. These are biblical sayings for the experience of feeling joy, and peace, and being filled with love for God and His Son.

What pleasure do men partake of?

Ezekiel 18:23

[SUP]23 [/SUP]Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Romans 1:28-32

[SUP]28 [/SUP]And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
[SUP]29 [/SUP]Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[SUP]30 [/SUP]Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[SUP]31 [/SUP]Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[SUP]32 [/SUP]Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Men take pleasure in death.

 

[follower2]

Hattiebod, you should really consider saving your husband XD I'm sure you have tried, but you should not give up ^_^

 

[A-Omega]

What pleasure do men partake of?

Ezekiel 18:23

[SUP]23 [/SUP]Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Romans 1:28-32

[SUP]28 [/SUP]And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
[SUP]29 [/SUP]Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[SUP]30 [/SUP]Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[SUP]31 [/SUP]Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[SUP]32 [/SUP]Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Men take pleasure in death.

Respectfully when The Lord says "pleasure" in Isaiah 58:13, I do not believe he is referring to death or killing someone.

 

[justamazed]

Respectfully when The Lord says "pleasure" in Isaiah 58:13, I do not believe he is referring to death or killing someone.

Cooking food is not a pleasure of men. Again I say that we love the wages of sin, and that is why the world is the way it is. We have the power to change that however if we can get away from traditions. Look around you at the abundance of the Lord. Can we all rest now?

 

[follower2]

So does that mean I cant use my laptop on the sabbath even if i use it to read the bible/look up hebrew translations / talk to people on this forum about the gospel, etc?