Why I keep the Sabbath FYI.
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Galatians 3:2-3
[SUP]2 [/SUP]This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Does 'keeping' the sabbath bring a person closer to Christ?
No. It can't. Anymore than abstaining from murder or adultery brings someone closer to Christ.
The law is a tool to bring someone to Christ. After the tool has done its job it is no longer needed. Because the tool is designed to start someone in their walk in the Spirit by causing a person to come to the One who can help. The law has no power to cause someone to grow or walk in the Spirit. Only the Lord Jesus Christ has the power to cause you to grow and walk in the Spirit.
The law does show sin. And that is all it can show. What it can never do is show obedience. The law always requires something that you can't perform. Its because the law is spiritual but people think they can perform it by their physical work.
Around and around we go. I keep the sabbath on saturday because I am obedient. Well, no, you think you are obedient. That is relying on your own understanding. Trusting in the Lord with all your heart would be believing that He indeed gives you rest from all your work at the law. You would trust that it is He who perfects you and nothing else.
I am dead to the law so that I might live unto God. That statement is a complete contradiction to the law keepers and their philosophy. "Well, I don't do it to be saved". That's for sure. "I'm blessed by my work at the law". That's not what Galatians 3 says. That's not what Christianity says. Christianity says we rely on Christ to be blessed. And He blesses us more than we can think or imagine. Not by our work or understanding but by The Lord's work and understanding.
I appreciate people trying to obey Gods Law. Its a good first step. But keep going. Read Matthew 5. Let it do what its designed to do. Then, when it has, let it go. Don't look back.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Does 'keeping' the sabbath bring a person closer to Christ?
No. It can't. Anymore than abstaining from murder or adultery brings someone closer to Christ.
The law is a tool to bring someone to Christ. After the tool has done its job it is no longer needed. Because the tool is designed to start someone in their walk in the Spirit by causing a person to come to the One who can help. The law has no power to cause someone to grow or walk in the Spirit. Only the Lord Jesus Christ has the power to cause you to grow and walk in the Spirit.
The law does show sin. And that is all it can show. What it can never do is show obedience. The law always requires something that you can't perform. Its because the law is spiritual but people think they can perform it by their physical work.
Around and around we go. I keep the sabbath on saturday because I am obedient. Well, no, you think you are obedient. That is relying on your own understanding. Trusting in the Lord with all your heart would be believing that He indeed gives you rest from all your work at the law. You would trust that it is He who perfects you and nothing else.
I am dead to the law so that I might live unto God. That statement is a complete contradiction to the law keepers and their philosophy. "Well, I don't do it to be saved". That's for sure. "I'm blessed by my work at the law". That's not what Galatians 3 says. That's not what Christianity says. Christianity says we rely on Christ to be blessed. And He blesses us more than we can think or imagine. Not by our work or understanding but by The Lord's work and understanding.
I appreciate people trying to obey Gods Law. Its a good first step. But keep going. Read Matthew 5. Let it do what its designed to do. Then, when it has, let it go. Don't look back.
Its practice. Re-hearsal.
Re-hearsing with the understanding of a child until we have grown in the understanding that the Lord Jesus Christ gives us.
Showing Love and Loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ means dying to the law and our own "righteousness" and living for Him. Trusting and having Faith that He perfects us and not our works of the law.
Re-hearsing with the understanding of a child until we have grown in the understanding that the Lord Jesus Christ gives us.
Showing Love and Loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ means dying to the law and our own "righteousness" and living for Him. Trusting and having Faith that He perfects us and not our works of the law.
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why do I try to take a day of rest.
1. I work hard all week, My body needs a day to recover
2. My mind works hard all week, it needs a day to relax and not be so stressed.
The day of sabbath was given for man, for for God..
Your not holy if you keep it, your not a child of God if you keep it. Your not anythng if you keep it but rested (even a sinner who does not believe in God can keep it and keep the benefits of it)
so why do people want to keep focuing on the law. And not Christ?
1. I work hard all week, My body needs a day to recover
2. My mind works hard all week, it needs a day to relax and not be so stressed.
The day of sabbath was given for man, for for God..
Your not holy if you keep it, your not a child of God if you keep it. Your not anythng if you keep it but rested (even a sinner who does not believe in God can keep it and keep the benefits of it)
so why do people want to keep focuing on the law. And not Christ?
Nobody's man enough, or honest enough with themselves, to say it directly and openly. This is how it's presented: No one is saved by works, but true faith will produce works. What they really mean is: No one is saved by works of law, but true faith will produce works of law. A double-minded contradiction.
You're right, no one can keep the Law perfectly.
But that doesn't mean their principles and God's desire to follow them aren't still in effect. It's about putting obedience to the Law in proper perspective. And that's recognizing you don't have to keep them perfectly, but they're good instructions on how to live.
But that doesn't mean their principles and God's desire to follow them aren't still in effect. It's about putting obedience to the Law in proper perspective. And that's recognizing you don't have to keep them perfectly, but they're good instructions on how to live.