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He is equating "their" Sabbath with God's. Jesus was clear that the Mainstream Preachers of His time were "Transgressing the Commandments of God by their doctrines and traditions". We know they had created their own version of the Sabbath which included not being able to help a brother in need, or take a walk and eat a blackberry. That was their Sabbath, not Gods.
This preacher you trust forgot to include this very important fact. And as is the custom of Mainstream Preachers he only uses the scripture that can be used to support his own doctrines.
Matt. 24:
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ;
and shall deceive many.
So what is the Doctrines and Traditions of the MANY who come in Christ's Name that make up Mainstream Christianity?
Do they preach to follow God's instruction that Jesus clearly followed, including the Sabbath created by Him and for Him, that He taught was made for man? That we should "Walk even as He walked" . as the Scriptures teach?
Or do the "MANY" which come in His name preach we should reject God's Sabbath, like the Pharisees did, and create their own Sabbath, as the Pharisees did.
Why don't he include the whole message from Isaiah instead of just that part which can be used to support their rejection of God's Sabbaths.
Is. 1:
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and
your appointed feasts
my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear
them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers,
I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
What is the difference between this scripture and Matt. 7:22?
16 Wash you, make you clean;
put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
So are you preaching the Sabbath God/Jesus created for man is evil?
17 Learn to do well;(according to who, God or man) seek judgment,(Whose', God or man?) relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Willing and obedient to what? The Commandments of God, or the traditions and doctrines of man?
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
it.
Refuse and rebel against what? God's Word, or the traditions and doctrines of man?
Ez. 20:
11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which
if a man do, he shall even
live in them.
12 Moreover
also I gave them my sabbaths, to
be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I
am the LORD that sanctify them.
As opposed to the god's of the land which have Venerable Day of the Sun, and Venus and her laying of eggs, and the Winter Solstice celebrated by pagans in ancient days.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
they walked not in my statutes, and
they despised my judgments, which
if a man do, he shall even
live in them;
and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
The Preachers words you posted didn't use these scripture, why, aren't they relevant?
Ez. 44:
23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the
unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment;
and they shall judge it according to
my judgments: and they shall keep
my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies;
and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.
So the preachers you posted. Does it look like they were interested in Christ's teaching, or were they part of the "MANY" who Jesus warned us of.
How does one or two sentences of Isaiah, taken out of context, make the rest of the Bible null and void?
I mean to try and make a case that the Old Testament taught the rejection of God's Commandments, including the Sabbath, is a pretty good stretch given what is actually written.
Was Peter born into a religion that Transgressed the Commandments of God by man made traditions? Was Jesus? Were you and I? The truth shall set you free.