To LEPIDUS, Sorry, you lie, because you don't use the WHOLE "context" of the NEW T.. Paul forbade the keeping of the Sat. sabbath, and all other sabbaths. Do you have a conscience? Or have you seared it so much, it can not speak to your heart anymore? Love Hoffco
Verse please
I look at the Sabbath as the seventh day. It is a day of ceasing from our own works, but not from God's work. That make sense? I don't remember anywhere in scripture that Paul specifically forbade the keeping of the Sabbath unless you are referring to it as a justified by our own works thing.
The following scripture is the way I see keeping the Sabbath day holy. Ya can't keep it holy by observing it to justify yourself, but you can keep it holy by doing the works of faith through Christ Jesus. As per the name of this thread it's time to rest in "
The New Covenant with Christ Jesus."
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Acts 15:19-21
19 Wherefore my sentence is , that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
This is a history of the first instituted sabbath when manna fell from heaven in the 2nd month
Hebrews 3:15-18
15 While it is said , To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard , did provoke : howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned , whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not
enter into his rest, but to them that believed not ?
Then we read Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear , lest, a promise being left us of
entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it .
And to summarize Hebrews 4:8-10
8 For if Jesus had given them rest , then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For
he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
The Sabbath day is a day of rest and if a person observed it minus faith, that only produces self works of self righeousness then no matter how good it may appear to others the day cannot be holy by self works. It is only holy by the works that God would have us to do.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
