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Abiding in Christ at all times until the end of our lives is required for salvation.
looking for help reconciling the Sabbath with common observation?
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More Holy convocation, 7 out of 7 maximum
Abiding in Christ at all times until the end of our lives is required for salvation.
You need to read again, verse by verse, word for word.
Verses 4, 9 and 10 ARE speaking about the 7th day sabbath, explicitly.
Keeping them in context with the entire text (verses 1-11) shows verse 11 is a direct command to keep the 7th day sabbath or fall into unbelief.
How do you know which god you worship if you take the 7th day sabbath out of His own law?
It is the ONLY one of the 10 that actually tells us which God gave this law (Exo 20:11).
Without the Creator in His own law there is no way to tell which god you are worshiping.
It's quite clear that the Sabbath-keepers have not yet reckoned themselves "dead in Christ". Had they done so, they would not so easily divide their life into secular and spiritual categories. In Christ. the spiritual man has rested from all his own work, as God did from His. This is a life-binding standard that recognizes the supremacy of the Spirit over that of the flesh. The dead in Christ have no "secular life" - they are led by God's Spirit.
But what of the job of a spiritual man? Does he not have a job? Of course he may have a job. The dichotomy is not "physical/spiritual" as if all things in the physical realm are nonspiritual. That's a Gnostic heresy. The dichotomy is natural/spiritual - and it answers the question: Is the one led by the Spirit of God or by the proclivities of the flesh.
So the question of one's job is "Is that where the Lord has established you?" He reserves the right to deploy all his people in any area on the earth. But a spiritual man is only empowered by God, by His grace, if he goes where the Lord leads. Else, he is limited to the power of his flesh.
The Sabbath-keepers are actually "14%'ers": believing they only need to be led by God's Spirit 1 out of 7 days of the week. Those of us who understand our old self is dead in Christ, and that now we live a life that is eternal from God, we know our lives can never be set aside for something of our own design. Our lives are His 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. When we live in Him we are always at rest from our own work. Such a life is the acceptable standard of worship.
But what of the job of a spiritual man? Does he not have a job? Of course he may have a job. The dichotomy is not "physical/spiritual" as if all things in the physical realm are nonspiritual. That's a Gnostic heresy. The dichotomy is natural/spiritual - and it answers the question: Is the one led by the Spirit of God or by the proclivities of the flesh.
So the question of one's job is "Is that where the Lord has established you?" He reserves the right to deploy all his people in any area on the earth. But a spiritual man is only empowered by God, by His grace, if he goes where the Lord leads. Else, he is limited to the power of his flesh.
The Sabbath-keepers are actually "14%'ers": believing they only need to be led by God's Spirit 1 out of 7 days of the week. Those of us who understand our old self is dead in Christ, and that now we live a life that is eternal from God, we know our lives can never be set aside for something of our own design. Our lives are His 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. When we live in Him we are always at rest from our own work. Such a life is the acceptable standard of worship.
It is clear you still don't understand.
We don't worship mammon 6 days of the week and God only one day.
God's people (both OT and NT) worshiped God 7 days a week 24/7. Worship while we play, worship while we work, meal times, bed time prayers, etc.
That's not what the commandment says. Try reading it once in a while (Exo 20:1-11)
It explicitly tells us "In 6 days shalt thou do all thy work. But the 7th is the sabbath of the LORD thy God. In it thou shalt do no work."
And it tells us why "In 6 days God created...and rested on the 7th day" (verse 11).
God's work is to create (and recreate). He did this work in 6 days and rested on the 7th day.
As His people we follow this example. Do our secular work in 6 days and rest on the 7th day according to the commandment.
Jesus kept the sabbath. He was a carpenter by trade. Nowhere in scripture does it say He ever made anything out of wood on the sabbath. The Priests were upset He wasn't keeping THEIR traditions, the way they thought the sabbath should be kept. So they falsely accused Him of breaking the sabbath.
Nothing in Exo 20:8-11 does it talk about "resting in God" every day, or anything about worship, redemption, salvation."
But it is the ONLY precept in the 10 that actually tells us which God gave this law (our Creator - again 20:11). The other 9 do not say.
So keep the other 9 and so what. How do you know which god you obey? You have taken the Creator out of His own law so any ole god will do for you now.
Reading your post it sounds like you think every Christian should quit their secular jobs in order to "rest" in Jesus. Imagine the world's economy if that happened.
No, he understands correctly.
The sabbatarians try to claim the high ground but they not as high as they suppose.
That's because that was back before we had Jesus to abide in like we do not to be able to rest in Him.
New Covenant rest in Christ is far better that any resting that was done on Saturday in the OT
Jesus was also under the law. Haven't you heard: Jesus died.
You can dress it up however you like but you still separate "your work" from "God's work". You have no work of your own if you understand you've been purchased by the blood of Jesus. If you don't understand that you'll believe you can do something for God. This is the mindset of the old covenant that makes only slaves of its adherents.
Your declaring that you are not under the law.
You just stated that Jesus fulfilled the law and the law is obsolete.
Yes, there is evidence that circumcision is no longer required.
Then for some unknown reason you imply Jesus did not fulfill the law in Exodus 20, so we must fulfill that law?
You call Exodus 20 the moral law?
What?
Your saying that there is no moral law in the ordinances, ceremonial law?
You obey the commandment to rest on the seventh day and ignore the plight of widows and orphans?
You can get drunk everyday because drunkenness is not listed in the ten commandments.
As long as you don't commit adultery every other sexual sin is permissable?
You call exodus 20 the moral law and it must be obeyed?
Your free to commit a thousand sins but you religiously sit around and do nothing on saturday?
Yeah and Jesus and the Apostles went where people were gathering to share the Gospel.
They even went to markets and celebrations off various sorts including funerals too
To identify sin but they appear often among a stack of other sins.
Romans 1:29-32
People having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, and malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil,
disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful; and although they
know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same,
but also approve of those who practice them.
Well, we got two mentions of the law (Exodus 20) in Romans 1:29-32.
So that means we must be under the law?
In the New Covenant we are not under the law of Moses - we are under the Law of Christ
(Galatians 6:2, 1 Corinthians 9:21, James 2:12, James 1:25, Romans 8:2)
Of course, that's the follow-up.
"Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God."
We do not become dead to the law through the body of Jesus. We became dead to the law through the Body of Christ. Jesus did not die to become Jesus. He was raised as The Christ, the many-membered Son, Who is a Life-giving Spirit. He was resurrected with a life that could not be extinguished, with a Body that could not be destroyed and under a covenant that existed before Sinai - from the foundation of the world.
That is incorrect and I can prove it.
The seventh day of the week is a day of COMPLETE rest.
The seventh day of the week is not called Saturday or the seventh day, it is called the "sabbath day'.
Holy days or feast days or weeks in Leviticus 23 are never called "sabbath days".
There is a sharp distinction in Leviticus 23 between any feast day or week and the sabbath day.
You have to read the following paragraphs carefully then you will never again call a feast day a sabbath day of rest.
Leviticus 23
For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall
not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings. These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover. Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days
you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.
Did you notice the distinction between "you shall not do ANY work" and "you shall not do an LABORIOUS work".
On the sabbath day cooking is prohibited but during the week of Unleavened Bread cooking is permitted.
Only LABORIOUS work is forbidden on the first day of Unleavened Bread and it is not a sabbath of COMPLETE REST!
Did you notice those scripture references I posted?
There's your starting point to finding out.
Hebrews 10:9 - Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
(God said He would make a New Covenant - see Jeremiah 31:31-34)
Hebrews 8:6 - But now hath Jesus obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 7:12 - For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Yeah, it's where the "But Jesus did this" argument dies. Jesus was a man under the Law of Sinai. But He died. He did not rise as a man under the Law, because nothing of Adam (the portion from Mary) survived the grave. He arose as Christ, the Life-Giving Spirit.
