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Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
[This shows that JESUS KEPT THE SABBATH So we should follow HIM.]
Matthew 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
LUKE 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
23:55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
[They kept the Sabbath here also, And didn't even go to the Grave with the spices for HIS body on the Sabbath]
Chapter 24
LUKE 24:1 Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.
24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
The Sabbath was kept till 321ad after after JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS. And the true believe kept right on any way, Some was burnt for keeping GOD's Sabbath, And if you can't see that Satan was working to try to stop people from keeping the Sabbath, Then you are in A very dark situation, and need GOD to help you get out of that DARKNESS, But GOD that it will be very dark in the last days.
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The ones that don't believe in keeping the Sabbath NOW must believe THAT Jesus was A vary POOR TEACHER.The women that HE loved Talt kept the Sabbath, after JESUS'S death, HIS disciples kept the AND CHURCH Till 321AD, when Constantine
MADE A LAW to try make every BODY keep the DAY OF THE SUN GOD, And about ANYBODY ALT TO know that was Satan work trying to stop PEOPLE from keeping GOD HOLY Sabbath, GOD does not force HE gives the choice for us to Chose. And the BIBLE TELLS US, That the antichrist would seek to CHANGE TIMES and LAWS, Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Now what laws has any thing to do with time??? GOD's Sabbath, He is trying to change GOD'S Sabbath from GOD's HOLY 7th day Sabbath to the first day of the week, that is just A working day according to GOD'S WORD. He is trying to Change GOD's Commandments by taking the second commandment out and spite the Tenth one into, So they would still have ten commandments, BECAUSE THEY bow to Idols, So they try to do away with the second commandment.
Acts 13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, [Ye] men [and] brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
13:16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
[This shows that JESUS KEPT THE SABBATH So we should follow HIM.]
Matthew 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
LUKE 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
23:55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
[They kept the Sabbath here also, And didn't even go to the Grave with the spices for HIS body on the Sabbath]
Chapter 24
LUKE 24:1 Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.
24:2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
The Sabbath was kept till 321ad after after JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS. And the true believe kept right on any way, Some was burnt for keeping GOD's Sabbath, And if you can't see that Satan was working to try to stop people from keeping the Sabbath, Then you are in A very dark situation, and need GOD to help you get out of that DARKNESS, But GOD that it will be very dark in the last days.
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The ones that don't believe in keeping the Sabbath NOW must believe THAT Jesus was A vary POOR TEACHER.The women that HE loved Talt kept the Sabbath, after JESUS'S death, HIS disciples kept the AND CHURCH Till 321AD, when Constantine
MADE A LAW to try make every BODY keep the DAY OF THE SUN GOD, And about ANYBODY ALT TO know that was Satan work trying to stop PEOPLE from keeping GOD HOLY Sabbath, GOD does not force HE gives the choice for us to Chose. And the BIBLE TELLS US, That the antichrist would seek to CHANGE TIMES and LAWS, Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Now what laws has any thing to do with time??? GOD's Sabbath, He is trying to change GOD'S Sabbath from GOD's HOLY 7th day Sabbath to the first day of the week, that is just A working day according to GOD'S WORD. He is trying to Change GOD's Commandments by taking the second commandment out and spite the Tenth one into, So they would still have ten commandments, BECAUSE THEY bow to Idols, So they try to do away with the second commandment.
Acts 13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, [Ye] men [and] brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
13:16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
Why Did they not say tomorrow the FIRST day. If the Gentiles did KNOW about the Sabbath, And why didn't PAUL say We can Meat tomorrow, If GOD wanted the DAY CHANGED, BECAUSE Paul knew that the only day that was MADE HOLY was the 7th day which is our Saturday, And no one can make a day holy, BUT GOD, HE made it HOLY AND HOLY it will be for ever and ever. As you can see THAT THE Sabbath is even going to be kept in the new Heaven AND the NEW EARTH, And to think that GOD does not want US to keep it NOW, With all the proof that is in the new and old TESTMENT, I do not see HOW NO one could even think that. it is the POWER of Satan and the darkness of this WORLD that is blinding the people'
Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
66:23 And it shall come to pass, [that] from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Acts 13:43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, [this also is showing us that PAUL was keeping the Sabbath ]
17:3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Why Did they not say tomorrow the FIRST day. If the Gentiles did KNOW about the Sabbath, And why didn't PAUL say We can Meat tomorrow, If GOD wanted the DAY CHANGED, BECAUSE Paul knew that the only day that was MADE HOLY was the 7th day which is our Saturday, And no one can make a day holy, BUT GOD, HE made it HOLY AND HOLY it will be for ever and ever. As you can see THAT THE Sabbath is even going to be kept in the new Heaven AND the NEW EARTH, And to think that GOD does not want US to keep it NOW, With all the proof that is in the new and old TESTMENT, I do not see HOW NO one could even think that. it is the POWER of Satan and the darkness of this WORLD that is blinding the people'
Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
66:23 And it shall come to pass, [that] from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Acts 13:43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, [this also is showing us that PAUL was keeping the Sabbath ]
17:3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
17:4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Acts18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
18:5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ.
COL 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
What we need to notice Here this is talking about the hand writings of Moses, And the Feast Sabbath days which was done a way with At the Cross, This is not talking about about GOD'S HOLY Sabbath that was in HIS Commandments, As it says in the HAND writings, GOD'S holy Sabbath was not wrote by HAND, BUT was wrote with GOD'S FINGER,
2:15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
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]:
2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
18:5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ.
COL 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
What we need to notice Here this is talking about the hand writings of Moses, And the Feast Sabbath days which was done a way with At the Cross, This is not talking about about GOD'S HOLY Sabbath that was in HIS Commandments, As it says in the HAND writings, GOD'S holy Sabbath was not wrote by HAND, BUT was wrote with GOD'S FINGER,
2:15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
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]:
2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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I have thought about this, and it's kind of interesting that many evangelicals will ask each other this but they give no answers. In the Lutheran tradition we actually give people the answer without ever asking this question, we call it vocatio, or vocation, and it really does give us the answer to who we are in Christ in a sense. So we look at we look at what we are, I'll use myself as an example, I am a son or my father and mother, I am a father to my son's and daughter, I am a husband to my wife, I am also a son of God, and a man of my church, and community. Each of these things are described and explained in the bible what it means to be all these roles. This defines your earthly role as a Christian.
I think the question is a little more interesting than this when you get to the root of the matter. This isn't as much a question of who you are in Christ alone, it's a question of who am I and what is the purpose and meaning behind my existence. It's actually a plea for justification; on a visceral level. Outside of Christ it's a grim prospect because as Ecclesiastes very clearly states it's all vanity or in other words it means nothing and there is no justification.
I think the question is a little more interesting than this when you get to the root of the matter. This isn't as much a question of who you are in Christ alone, it's a question of who am I and what is the purpose and meaning behind my existence. It's actually a plea for justification; on a visceral level. Outside of Christ it's a grim prospect because as Ecclesiastes very clearly states it's all vanity or in other words it means nothing and there is no justification.