I will give you examples of how God has lead me to spend my Saturdays and you can judge by your standards if you believe I have broken the Sabbath and this deserved to be punished by God for sinning.
My God tells me He loves me and as long as I always seem to follow Him, I have nothing to worry about.
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Beginning of this month I spent Purim at the local Messianic Jewish congregation. I did start up my oven and warm up this pastry made of nuts and chocolate to share at the communal meal. Didn't clean or do laundry. Did have to drive 45 minutes to get to the meeting.
Next Sat...drive to my in-laws to get tax info because my husband had to volunteer to camp with boy scouts and wouldn't have time to. Went to a bake sale by my in-laws church for side money for Rally for life team
This Sat spent with family (we don't have it often) and I see it as a blessing from God when He says we can just rest and be together. Typically we are volunteering (camping with the boy scouts...wait Last weekend was the great day of service.., the church visited people in nursing home, did some spring cleaning, hard work, etc. We feed community workers painting the city benches breakfast.)
I still do my daily 5 practices: worship, prayer, bible reading, spiritual study and outreach.
I try my best to seek God's will, speak God's words and not my own every day of the week.
How do you keep your Sabbaths holy?
[FONT="]For me following the scriptures are key in relation to God's 4th Commandment Sabbath or anything else God required of us can only be done through Faith. Don't bother following God if it is NOT by FAITH in his WORD that works by LOVE through walking in HIS Spirit.
Scripture guides to the keeping God's Sabbath HOLY ....[/FONT]
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GOD'S 4TH COMMANDMENT
Exodus 20
8,[/FONT][FONT="] Remember the SABBATH DAY, to KEEP IT HOLY. <Why?> Because God made it Holy for mankind and commands us to keep it as a Holy day)
9, Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10, But the SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: <WHY>
11, For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the SEVENTH DAY: wherefore the LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH, and HALLOWED IT.
[FONT="]WHAT DAY IS GOD'S SABBATH?[/FONT]
[FONT="]v10[/FONT] The SEVENTH DAY of the week. (Saturday)
[FONT="]WHEN DOES THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK START?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Genesis 1[/FONT]
[FONT="]4,[/FONT] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
[FONT="]5, [/FONT]And God called the
[FONT="]light Day[/FONT], and the
[FONT="]darkness he called Night[/FONT]. And the
[FONT="] [/FONT]evening and the morning were the first day.
A day in God's time is the night (darkness) and the light make up one day. The DAY in God's WORD starts at SUNSET to SUNSET
[FONT="]ALL UNECCESSARY WORK TO BE DONE BEFORE FRIDAY SUNSET[/FONT]
[FONT="]Exodus 16[/FONT]
[FONT="]22,[/FONT] And it came to pass, that
[FONT="] on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread,[/FONT] two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
[FONT="]23,[/FONT] And he said to them, This is that which the LORD has said,
[FONT="]To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to the LORD: bake that which you will bake to day, and seethe that you will seethe; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning[/FONT].
[FONT="]Mark 15:42,[/FONT] And now when the
[FONT="]even was come[/FONT], because
[FONT="]it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath[/FONT]
The preparation day is the
[FONT="] 6th day of the week[/FONT]. This includes preparing to stop all business and secular work as well as any domestic work; cooking, cleaning; shopping, buying and selling that can be done on any other day of the week.
[FONT="]IT IS LAWFUL TO DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH?[/FONT]
Matthew 12
5, Or have you not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
[FONT="]6,[/FONT] But I say to you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
[FONT="]7,[/FONT] But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.
[FONT="]8, For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day[/FONT]
9, And when he was departed from there, he went into their synagogue:
10, And, behold, there was a man who had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying,
[FONT="]Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?[/FONT] that they might accuse him.
11, And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12, How much then is a man better than a sheep?
Therefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
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[FONT="]Mark 2:27,[/FONT] And he said unto them,
[FONT="]The sabbath was made for man[/FONT], and not man for the sabbath
It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
[FONT="]WHAT IS LAWFUL ON GOD'S SABBATH?[/FONT]
1. Remembering the creator and his creation (Exod 20:8-11)
2. Rest from all unecessary work (Ecodus 20:10-11)
3. Doing good (Matt 12:12)
4. Prayer (Acts 16:13; Matt 21:13)
5. Worship the creator (Isaiah 58:13-14; Ex 34:14; 1KING 9:6; Rev 14:6-12)
Song, praise, bible study, helping others, preaching the gospel, resting, prayer, seeking God, remembering the creator and his creation. Walking in nature, going to church with like minded believers. (too many scriptures)
[FONT="]WHAT IS NOT LAWFUL ON GOD'S SABBATH?[/FONT]
WORK; all [/FONT][FONT="]business and secular work as well as any domestic work; cooking, cleaning; shopping, buying and selling that can be done on any other day of the week and anything to do with work (Exodus 20:8-11; Ex 16:22-23; Matt 21:13).
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There is no purpose in FOLLOWING any of God's LAWs including the SABBATH if it is NOT done through FAITH that works by LOVE because it is ONLY as GOD writes his LAW to LOVE then we can take up our beds to follow him. LOVE is the fulfilling of GOd's LAW in those who BELIEVE (Rom 13:8-10)
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