The law - an explanation/revelation of its use/purpose

[prove-all]

reference volumes by Adam Clarke when there is information or insight
I want on some non-doctrinal aspects of the bible.

- I usualy stick to the bible, and not read long extra links from non doctrinal sites
but i did read youre post and will add my reply on the law.

-praise God for his laws of love

Exodus 12:49 "One law shall be to him that is homeborn,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."

-one law for all sounds good

we may see at once the nature, properties, and design of the law of God.
It is a system of INSTRUCTION in righteousness;
it teaches the difference between moral good and evil;

-a Good law to repel evil, for good instruction.

It is a revelation of God's wisdom and goodness, wonderfully well calculated to direct
the hearts of men into the truth, to guide their feet into the path of life, and to make straight, even,
and plain that way which leads to God, and in which the soul must walk in order to arrive at eternal life.
had not God given to man this perfect rule to judge by?

- wisdom from God given to man, well he knows best.


all nations of the world to the present day, where the governor is despotic,
and the laws not formed according to the revelation of God.

- you could add most churches to above,

it was hung up in the most public places, that it might be seen, read, and known by all men,
that those who were to obey the laws might not break them through ignorance, and thus incur the penalty.

-God wrote his laws in a Book and hearts, and given to mear man so he would be mindfull of God.

The Greeks call a law nomov nomos, from nemw, to divide, distribute, minister to, or serve,
because the law divides to all their just rights, appoints or distributes to each his proper duty,
and thus serves or ministers to the welfare of the individual and the support of society.

- when did greeks get anything right with God, or mans evil heart.

Hence where there are either no laws, or unequal and unjust ones,
all is distraction, violence, rapine, oppression, anarchy, and ruin

-thats mans thoughts, but Gods laws are just and righteous and given in love for us.
but everyone throws them away and now we have is anarchy, look around and see the results


For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?



"What happened to the sabbath/law keepers? The silence is deafening.............."

-here i am, so sorry you have no patiance to wait for my reply.

-a lot were myrted by the unholy roman church for judaizers, or sabbath keeping,
we wait for there fellow brothers to die the same way.

Jesus said to love everyone, that includes to honor our father,
And to keep Holy things God made Holy, and to obey him with youre whole heart
because that is where he wrote his laws at, in my heart to honor him and I follow.

 

[Dan_473]

Let me quote from the Contemporary English Version because it says it very clearly.

Leviticus 23:3 You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to Me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.

Did you know that Jesus said He is Lord of the seventh day Sabbath? He is Lord of THE Sabbath. THE? What do you think the word (THE) is referring to? It's referring to a literal day that Jesus said He is Lord of and it's not Sunday.

Say, I just wanted to with in with my opinion... Its clear... Six days to do our work... IMO a Christian aims for God's work all day every day... Example, we are the temple of the living God... Anything we do that fits with how God is supplying his temple with food clothes and shelter... IMO fits with God's work... Grace and peace to all!

 

[Timeline]

God said six days is for work and the seventh day is sacred. You say, "No! I'll rest seven days a week." Oh yeah, that's following God. It seems to me that you follow Adam Clark over The Father, the Son, the Spirit, the Apostles and the early church. Did you know that before Paul's conversion he would go from synagogue to synagogue every Sabbath pulling Christians out to beat them and imprison them for believing in Jesus?

Hebrews 4
Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. [SUP]2 [/SUP]For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard. [SUP]3 [/SUP]For we who have believed enter that rest, just 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. [SUP]4 [/SUP]For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; [SUP]5 [/SUP]and again in this passage, “They shall not enter My rest.” [SUP]6 [/SUP]Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, [SUP]7 [/SUP]He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“Today if you hear His voice,Do not harden your hearts.”

[SUP]8 [/SUP]For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. [SUP]9 [/SUP]So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. [SUP]10 [/SUP]For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. [SUP]11 [/SUP]Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience. [SUP]12 [/SUP]For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. [SUP]13 [/SUP]And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. [SUP]15 [/SUP]For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

John 5
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. [SUP]3 [/SUP]In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters; [SUP]4 [/SUP]for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.] [SUP]5 [/SUP]A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. [SUP]6 [/SUP]When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He *said to him, “Do you wish to get well?” [SUP]7 [/SUP]The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” [SUP]8 [/SUP]Jesus *said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” [SUP]9 [/SUP]Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day. [SUP]10 [/SUP]So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.” [SUP]11 [/SUP]But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’” [SUP]12 [/SUP]They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?” [SUP]13 [/SUP]But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. [SUP]14 [/SUP]Afterward Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.” [SUP]15 [/SUP]The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. [SUP]16 [/SUP]For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. [SUP]17 [/SUP]But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”
[SUP]18 [/SUP]For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. [SUP]20 [/SUP]For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel. [SUP]21 [/SUP]For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. [SUP]22 [/SUP]For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, [SUP]23 [/SUP]so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. [SUP]26 [/SUP]For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; [SUP]27 [/SUP]and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. [SUP]28 [/SUP]Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, [SUP]29 [/SUP]and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
[SUP]30 [/SUP]“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
[SUP]31 [/SUP]“If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true. [SUP]32 [/SUP]There is another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
[SUP]33 [/SUP]You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. [SUP]34 [/SUP]But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. [SUP]35 [/SUP]He was the lamp that was burning and was shining and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
[SUP]36 [/SUP]But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me.
[SUP]37 [/SUP]And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. [SUP]38 [/SUP]You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.
[SUP]39 [/SUP]You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; [SUP]40 [/SUP]and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. [SUP]41 [/SUP]I do not receive glory from men; [SUP]42 [/SUP]but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. [SUP]43 [/SUP]I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. [SUP]44 [/SUP]How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? [SUP]45 [/SUP]Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. [SUP]46 [/SUP]For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. [SUP]47 [/SUP]But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

 

[phil112]

I am not in the legalistic camp in any way,
(1)But I don't think you should consider Clarke as a 'non-doctrinal' source.
(2)He is known for his Methodist bias, and even several recurring themes that mainline Methodist view as extreme.

I use his commentary often as a source, but also with the understanding of his biases.

He was a man of great understanding, and eloquence,
but like all of us, he did retain doctrinal "pets", which affect his conclusions.
(Arminianist doctrine to be specific, is the most notable and uncontroversial)

1. What brought that up? Anybody that teaches on the bible better be "doctrinal", because the bible is.
2. I see no bias, methodist or otherwise, here. This is a solid commentary on what the law is and does.

 

[phil112]

Let me quote from the Contemporary English Version because it says it very clearly.

Leviticus 23:3 You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to Me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.

Did you know that Jesus said He is Lord of the seventh day Sabbath? He is Lord of THE Sabbath. THE? What do you think the word (THE) is referring to? It's referring to a literal day that Jesus said He is Lord of and it's not Sunday.

What do you have against Christ? Why is it that what He had for you and I is less important to you than what God had for Israel? Don't you realize that the only way for you to go to heaven is thru Christ? He said "Paul, tell scuba that "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it." He'll ignore it, but I want you to tell him anyway. There will be those like Phil that will heed My word, and they all need to hear it. So go tell them Paul, because it's important for them to know.The gentiles are now God's people, Paul, and you have to tell them what I expect of them."

 

[KohenMatt]

Let me quote from the Contemporary English Version because it says it very clearly.

Leviticus 23:3 You have six days when you can do your work, but the seventh day of each week is holy because it belongs to Me. No matter where you live, you must rest on the Sabbath and come together for worship. This law will never change.

Did you know that Jesus said He is Lord of the seventh day Sabbath? He is Lord of THE Sabbath. THE? What do you think the word (THE) is referring to? It's referring to a literal day that Jesus said He is Lord of and it's not Sunday.

What do you have against Christ? Why is it that what He had for you and I is less important to you than what God had for Israel? Don't you realize that the only way for you to go to heaven is thru Christ? He said "Paul, tell scuba that "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it." He'll ignore it, but I want you to tell him anyway. There will be those like Phil that will heed My word, and they all need to hear it. So go tell them Paul, because it's important for them to know.The gentiles are now God's people, Paul, and you have to tell them what I expect of them."

So when Scuba starts talking about Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath, somehow you interpret that to mean that he has something against Christ? And moreover, that Scuba thinks there is another way to get to heaven other than Christ?

 

[Kerry]

So when Scuba starts talking about Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath, somehow you interpret that to mean that he has something against Christ? And moreover, that Scuba thinks there is another way to get to heaven other than Christ?

Kohen, If want to honor the day and you honor it unto God then so what. If I do not honor the day, but yet honor Christ then so what. It is Christ that has saved us both. But, my friend and I speak mildly and with humility, if you want to keep the law then you must keep the whole law and that is an impossibility. There is no temple and no altar nor are their any priest. When Caiaphas tore his garment the priesthood was removed from the Aaronites. The only Priest we have is Jesus. Who stands before the Father in our favor.

Like I said keep the day, but realize that the day is Jesus and His work on the cross. Because that is the only thing that Father will accept and not our day keeping nor law keeping.

With that said, it is not a license to sin, be sure your sins will find you out. We are to live by God's moral code and the only way we can do that is by faith in the cross. Because the Holy Spirit will only help us if our faith is in the cross and not what we do.

 

[KohenMatt]

Kohen, If want to honor the day and you honor it unto God then so what. If I do not honor the day, but yet honor Christ then so what. It is Christ that has saved us both. But, my friend and I speak mildly and with humility, if you want to keep the law then you must keep the whole law and that is an impossibility. There is no temple and no altar nor are their any priest. When Caiaphas tore his garment the priesthood was removed from the Aaronites. The only Priest we have is Jesus. Who stands before the Father in our favor.

Like I said keep the day, but realize that the day is Jesus and His work on the cross. Because that is the only thing that Father will accept and not our day keeping nor law keeping.

With that said, it is not a license to sin, be sure your sins will find you out. We are to live by God's moral code and the only way we can do that is by faith in the cross. Because the Holy Spirit will only help us if our faith is in the cross and not what we do.

Honestly, it doesn't matter to me someone decides to keep the Sabbath or not. As you said, all I care about is that my brothers and sisters love the Lord their God with all their heart soul mind and strength and that they trust in gracious and merciful salvation.

The only reason that Paul said that anyone "has" to keep the whole Law is for salvation's sake. When God gave the Law, He also made a way of atonement when they faltered in it. So for those of us who find our salvation in grace alone, we do not "have" to keep the law anymore than Israel "had" to keep it for salvations' sake. When we falter, we have atonement in Jesus. Do you ever fail by hating your neighbor? Of course you do. But Jesus' salvation overcomes that. It is the same with me, and it is the same in regards to the Law.

 

[Kerry]

Honestly, it doesn't matter to me someone decides to keep the Sabbath or not. As you said, all I care about is that my brothers and sisters love the Lord their God with all their heart soul mind and strength and that they trust in gracious and merciful salvation.

The only reason that Paul said that anyone "has" to keep the whole Law is for salvation's sake. When God gave the Law, He also made a way of atonement when they faltered in it. So for those of us who find our salvation in grace alone, we do not "have" to keep the law anymore than Israel "had" to keep it for salvations' sake. When we falter, we have atonement in Jesus. Do you ever fail by hating your neighbor? Of course you do. But Jesus' salvation overcomes that. It is the same with me, and it is the same in regards to the Law.

I like what you said but the law did not provide atonement. The law only pointed out sin and the sin was covered by the sacrifice of a lamb. The OT saints when the died were held captive by Satan, they were no tormented but still held captive because the blood sacrifice did not atone but covered. This is why Jesus said " I have come to preach the gospel to the poor and to take the captivity captive". When Jesus died on the cross all the OT saints that believed and used the symbol of blood sacrifice of a lamb were set free. Why trust in the law when you have the real thing at your fingertips.

 

[Flamingspirit]

The Law hangs from loving God and loving neighbor, not cut off and done away with.



Why! Who's worshiping the seventh day? God rested on the seventh day, Jesus rested on the seventh day, Paul rested on the seventh day and the early church rested on the seventh day Sabbath. Honoring the seventh day as being special to God is in itself an act of worship. I don't worship may parent because I honor them according to God.



Amen Jesus healed on the Sabbath and He also taught that it wasn't a violation of it.

Jesus did not rest on your Saturday Sabbath. He said that as long as it is DAY/or as long as a person has light or life in him, HE must do the work of Him who sent Him.

He only went to the synagogue because it was the TRADITION of the people of HIS day. Tradition, or custom is not law, but the collective habits of the people.

 

[sparkman]

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.