The Sabbath is part the Testimony of God, Exo31:18 not Moses. I think you should consider looking at the Scripture on the Ten Commandments, God wrote them God claimed them as His Exo20:11, the Sabbath of the LORD Exo20:1 not Moses, My holy day Isa 58:13. Moses wouldn't even take credit for them Exo32:16 the Sabbath started before Moses Exo20:11 So lets not lower the works of God to be equal or less than man, when they are divine.
The New Covenant Is Not What Many Have Been Taught
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In the entire NT sabbath keeping is not mentioned once as a requirement after the cross
Sure it is, every time we see the commandments of God in the NT mentioned, it includes the Sabbath. Exo20:6 Exo20:1-17
Why the Sabbath rest, which literally translates into keeping, remains (not changed) for God's people
Heb 4:9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God
The meaning of the word rest in this verse
Original Word: σαββατισμός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Pronunciation: sab-bat-is-mos'
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos')
sabbatismos: Sabbath rest
Definition: Sabbath rest
Meaning: a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.
Why we see Sabbath-keeping from His faithful disciples with both Jew and Gentiles keeping every Sabbath decades after the Cross Acts 13:42 Acts 13:44 Acts 15:21 Acts 18:4 just as Jesus indicated Isa 56:6-7 Mat24:20-30 Isa66:22-23
Like I said, after the cross sabbath observance is not mentioned as a requirement in the entire NT. The σαββατισμός of Hebrews 4:9 is not the weekly sabbath.
Hebrews 4:9 - There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. (NASB) Everyone should take note that the Greek word “sabbatismos” here is used nowhere else in the Bible. I often hear Sabbatarians suggest that this is the word for "keeping the weekly sabbath" when it is never used anywhere else in the Bible!
W. E. Vine, Greek Dictionary points out:
Sabbath rest (4520) (sabbatismos from sabbatízo = keep the Sabbath) literally means a keeping of a sabbath or a keeping of days of rest. It is used in this passage not in the literal sense (meaning to keep a specific day, the "Sabbath" day) but to describe a period of rest for God’s people which is modeled after and is a fulfillment of the traditional Sabbath.
SABBATISMOS a Sabbath-keeping, is used in Heb. 4:9, R.V., "a Sabbath rest," A.V. marg., "a keeping of a Sabbath" (akin to sabbatizoµ, to keep the Sabbath, used, e.g., in Ex. 16:30, not in the N.T.); here the Sabbath-keeping is the perpetual Sabbath rest to be enjoyed uninterruptedly by believers in their fellowship with the Father and the Son, in contrast to the weekly Sabbath under the Law.
Because this Sabbath rest is the rest of God Himself, its full fruition is yet future, though believers now enter into it. In whatever way they enter into divine “rest,” that which they enjoy is involved in an indissoluble relation with God. (Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words)
Sabbath rest (4520) sabbatismos by Greek Word Studies
W. E. Vine, Greek Dictionary points out:
Sabbath rest (4520) (sabbatismos from sabbatízo = keep the Sabbath) literally means a keeping of a sabbath or a keeping of days of rest. It is used in this passage not in the literal sense (meaning to keep a specific day, the "Sabbath" day) but to describe a period of rest for God’s people which is modeled after and is a fulfillment of the traditional Sabbath.
SABBATISMOS a Sabbath-keeping, is used in Heb. 4:9, R.V., "a Sabbath rest," A.V. marg., "a keeping of a Sabbath" (akin to sabbatizoµ, to keep the Sabbath, used, e.g., in Ex. 16:30, not in the N.T.); here the Sabbath-keeping is the perpetual Sabbath rest to be enjoyed uninterruptedly by believers in their fellowship with the Father and the Son, in contrast to the weekly Sabbath under the Law.
Because this Sabbath rest is the rest of God Himself, its full fruition is yet future, though believers now enter into it. In whatever way they enter into divine “rest,” that which they enjoy is involved in an indissoluble relation with God. (Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words)
Sabbath rest (4520) sabbatismos by Greek Word Studies
Hi, Below I explain in more dertail what I meant;
Here are clear verses from the Old Testament where God Himself says the Ten Commandments are the covenant. I will use New King James Version (NKJV) and keep the language simple.
1. Exodus 34:28 (NKJV)
“So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.”
This verse plainly says the covenant is the Ten Commandments.
2. Deuteronomy 4:13 (NKJV)
“So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.”
God Himself calls the Ten Commandments His covenant.
3. Deuteronomy 9:9 (NKJV)
“When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.”
The stone tablets are called the covenant.
4. Deuteronomy 5:2 (NKJV)
“The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.”
This chapter then repeats the Ten Commandments, showing what that covenant was.
5. 1 Kings 8:21 (NKJV)
“And there I have made a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
Inside the ark were the stone tablets, the Ten Commandments, called the covenant.
Taken together, these verses leave no doubt. In the Old Testament, God clearly says the Ten Commandments are His covenant.
As written in the Old Testament, God Himself clearly says that the Ten Commandments are His covenant. When Moses was on the mountain with the LORD, God wrote the commandments with His own finger. Scripture says, “He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments” (Exodus 34:28, NKJV). Again it says, “So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone” (Deuteronomy 4:13, NKJV). The stone tablets are directly called “the tablets of the covenant” (Deuteronomy 9:9, NKJV). When Solomon later spoke about the ark, he said the ark held “the covenant of the LORD which He made with our fathers” (1 Kings 8:21, NKJV). What was inside that ark was the covenant, and that covenant was the Ten Commandments.
God also made a clear difference between this covenant and what is often called the law of Moses. The Ten Commandments were placed inside the Ark of the Covenant, under the mercy seat, showing their lasting place at the heart of God’s covenant. But the book of the law that Moses wrote was not placed inside the ark. God commanded, “Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 31:26, NKJV). This shows a clear separation. One was inside the ark, the other was placed beside it.
The law that Moses wrote was given later because of Israel’s sin and disobedience. After the people broke God’s covenant by worshiping the golden calf, many additional laws were given to deal with sacrifices, offerings, priests, and rituals. These laws were added to guide and restrain a sinful people and to teach them the seriousness of sin. They were not written by God’s finger on stone, and they were not placed inside the ark. They were temporary rules meant to deal with transgression and point the people back to obedience to God.
So the Old Testament itself shows the difference. The Ten Commandments are called the covenant of God and were placed inside the Ark of the Covenant. The law of Moses was written in a book, placed outside the ark, and given because the people had transgressed. One stands at the center of God’s covenant, the other served a temporary purpose to deal with sin and disobedience. cont.......
cont ,. from previous post;
In the Old Testament, God commanded that the two stone tablets, the Ten Commandments, be placed inside the Ark of the Covenant, and above them was the mercy seat. This was not by accident. God was teaching a deep truth in a simple picture.
The mercy seat was the solid gold cover placed on top of the ark. God said, “You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you” (Exodus 25:21, NKJV). The “Testimony” was the Ten Commandments, the covenant written by God Himself. So the law was inside the ark, and the mercy seat was directly above it.
This shows that God’s law is holy and true, but God does not deal with His people only by strict judgment. The law reveals sin. It shows where people fall short. If the law stood alone, it would condemn everyone. That is why God placed the mercy seat above the law. Mercy covers judgment.
Once a year, on the Day of Atonement, the high priest sprinkled blood on the mercy seat. God said, “There I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat” (Exodus 25:22, NKJV). God did not say He would meet the people at the law, but at the mercy seat. The blood stood between the broken law below and the holy presence of God above.
This teaches that sin brings death, but God makes a way for forgiveness. The blood showed that life was given to cover sin. Mercy did not remove the law. The law stayed in the ark. But mercy stood over it, showing that forgiveness comes from God, not from ignoring His commands.
The cherubim on the mercy seat faced each other and looked down toward it. This shows heaven itself looking at God’s mercy. It tells us that mercy is not weakness. It is part of God’s holiness. God remains just, and yet He shows compassion to those who come to Him in humility and obedience.
So the meaning is clear. The Ten Commandments inside the ark show God’s perfect standard. The mercy seat above them shows God’s grace. God rules with truth, but He invites His people to live under mercy. Judgment is real, but mercy has the final word for those who turn back to Him and walk in His ways.
While vassal makes a reasonable case that the old covenant is the ten commandments, the implication that Christians are under that covenant is untenable.
Christians are under the new covenant in Christ's blood (Luke 22:20, Hebrews 12:24).
Those verses pertain to sabbaths in Jewish synagogues. Had nothing to do with Christ and his law.
The "rest" remaining for the people of God is not the weekly Sabbath. That's where the Sabbatarians, Adventists, and Judaizers go wrong.
It says the Sabbath-rest, which is according to the commandment Luke23:56. Who defines this us or God? And we if change it to a different meaning it makes Scripture nonsensical why we are told not to.
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on thesabbath day (edit): add (Jesus )
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with
Acts 13:44 And the nextsabbath day( add Jesus) came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
God defined what the Sabbath is, in His written and spoken Testimony
Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God
There is only one God and He asked us not to speak from Him. Deut4:2 Ecc3:14 Mat5:18 Rev22:18 Pro30:5-6
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with
Acts 13:44 And the next
God defined what the Sabbath is, in His written and spoken Testimony
Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God
There is only one God and He asked us not to speak from Him. Deut4:2 Ecc3:14 Mat5:18 Rev22:18 Pro30:5-6
Again, to stay on track, nowhere in the NT after the cross are sabbaths said to be required
The tares teaching so called once saved always saved believe God is pleased with disobedience and the Lord is all good with Christians living in sin.
This is why these people go around arrogantly and very proudly proclaiming they are sinners because they still live in sin and enjoy it so much.
They don't understand that Christians are called to be new creatures in Christ having died to sin as in not living in sin any longer thru the power of the Holy Spirit.
But the so called once saved always saved people enjoy sin so they must keep the door open for them to engage in some sinful behavior while trying to claim they are still saved which is in error.
This is why these tares claim God lied in Ephesians 2:10, but this can be expected from those that don't accept all the Lord teaches in His Word. This is commonly known as CPS (cherry pickers syndrome) which is a disease that inflicts tares
polly ester man
Luke 6:46
Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I say?
The tares are not real believers and so they reject the leading of the Holy Spirit based on the whole counsel of God as they continually claim proudly with great arrogance that that they are
Yeah the co called once saved always save people believe they can sow to the flesh (live in sin) and not
And then they claim God CAN be mocked, they falsely believe they do not reap what they sow in that they can sow to the flesh and not reap corruption
2 Timothy 2:12
If we deny Him, He also will deny us
They claim even if a person turns away from the Lord to go back to living in sin they are still saved.
They teach this doctrine of demons because they are being led by demons
Their end is bad, very very bad.
Luke 23:56 says the followers of Jesus rested on the Sabbath that occurred between His death and resurrection. Were these followers Jews or Gentiles?
That doesn't make sense.
Nor does that.
Wrong.
That is what legalists say the OSAS people believe, but it is not what OSAS people believe. In other words, it's a lie.
It's obviously a common lie, because every legalist I've encountered has claimed it.
If you think otherwise, then find and post ANY actual quotation where a person who also believes "once saved, always saved" claims what you say they believe.
Well it's sad what's going to happen to those that teach heresies such as so called once saved always saved.
Heresy is one of the works of the flesh and is on God's list of things causing people to not be accepted in to God's Kingdom
These people are going to find out that their disobedience will land them in hell.
The young man went away sad because He didn't recognize Love right in front of him because he was going on the definition of the world's twisted exhibition of love which says you have to be perfect to deserve it, that you have to earn it (even though they know this is an impossible task and, deep down, they just want an excuse to hate you).