Hi, I am trying to keep God's Holy day in the correct way, I do not go to a church because there are only two churches in the village in which I live and although I have been asked to join one of them, they do not keep God's Holy day on a Saturday.
I wondered if any one else have the same problem, and if so what you do.
Up until about eight years ago, I too, was what you would consider a Seventh Day observer (though not to be confused with a Seventh Day Adventist). And a strict one at that. So strict that I virtually ceased in any activity that could be construed as “work.” However, it wasn't until some time down the road that I heard a sermon from Jim McClarty entitled “The Irresistibility of God.” It rang to my ears, and brought such joy. It revamped
everything.
I would like to point out a couple different things. But before that, let me just say that it takes true growth, and maturity to understand what I'm about to say.
Neither was the OT Law abolished, nor are Christians bound by it. We have something greater than the Law. Christians have what the Law could not achieve.
You see, it wasn't until the crucifixion that the new covenant took effect. Thus, while Jesus walked this earth the old covenant was still in force.
“For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
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.
For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.” (Hebrews 9.13–17)
Paul very much distinguishes between the “ministry of death, carved in letters on stone,” as that which once had glory, and the “ministry of the Spirit,” which surpasses it in glory (2 Corinthians 3). His point being that while Christians are not bound by the letter of the law, God has written on their hearts. The Spirit will guide, and restrain. They will no longer do what is “required” of them, but will live in accordance with their new nature. It’s called being “born again.”
When a person is born again, they achieve the rest that Israel failed to achieve because of their unbelief, not in observing the commandments of the Law or observing a particular day, but in resting in the finished work of Christ. He is the true Sabbath rest – “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”
Jesus is the perfect reflection of the Law, and without Him we are nothing but the perfect deviation of the Law. To quote Ravi Zachariah, “You can look at a mirror and find that your face is dirty, but you don't go and rub your face on the mirror to clean it.”