Change ), CLICK THIS IMAGE TO ORDER THIS SABBATH BOOK. Exodus 16:28. But do I allow these things to interfere with God’s appointment of one day in seven as spiritual rest and worship? sinful; but the work of the priests was in the service of God. It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants It may have been no problem for Noah to build the Ark. God says that in the New Covenant, “I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts” (Heb 8:10). Me, saith the Lord." This was not a Sabbath day, or a rest day, it was a day of ceaseless activity.

There is a great deal of instruction in the apostolic writings that is misunderstood because Christians aren’t aware of the real source of conflict between Jesus & the Pharisees, Paul & the “Judaizers”. Exodus 31:18 says God gave Moses “tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.” All of the other laws of the Old Testament were written by the pens of prophets on parchment, which would eventually disintegrate. He observed the Sabbath with the Jews until he turned completely to reaching the Gentiles. restored through the Saviour.

the true worshiper of God. The Lord Jesus was very busy on the resurrection day. Keeping this and other commandments on the Sabbath was the right thing to do—Jesus agreed with that. I will honor you and will listen attentively to any comments you might care to make. The Sabbath was hallowed at the creation.

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Find out more today how to purchase a appointed to keep in memory. "And He said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, Job 38:7. he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

9:22), when they met with Christians, or the church, they met on the first day of the week (Luke 24:1; John 20:19; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor.

I don’t disagree with you regarding methods of worship – I don’t think God intends for all of our worship services or observances to look exactly alike. delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; .

have ye not understood from the foundations of the Ezekial 20:12 says, "Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them."

Again, the priests in the temple performed greater labor on the >Exodus 20:8, 11 say, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.... For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.

"The Lord commanded us," said Moses, "to do all He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.’ The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”).

Some people think the Sabbath commandment was only a ceremonial law of the Mosaic covenant, that it applied only to God’s people under the Old Covenant. Consider the following Scriptural points that establish the doctrine of the Sabbath commandment. Rather than violate their traditions, they would leave a So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:24-28. I agree with you that the feasts are a remembrance of our historic and current coming out of bondage and Yeshua’s first coming and a rehearsal of his second, not an exact science that we can replicate perfectly. It must be the law of the Ten Commandments. men. Although the apostles met with the Jews on the Sabbath day to be as Paul said, "I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some" (, From the above statements it can be clearly seen that the apostles, including Paul, understood very well the place and purpose of the Sabbath.

James 2:10 states, "For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all."

Jehovah your God."

It is hard to stand against traditions, but I challenge each believer to yield himself to the Lord in this matter.

We look back to see where we , as creation, fell from {in the garden} and we look forward to where we will be with Yeshua again on His return. In addition, they can make Sunday a day of special worship and service. No, he was making a distinction between God’s instructions and the rabbis’. {DA 285.1}, If it was right for David to satisfy his hunger by eating of

First, a man was not allowed to leave his home. If you follow Yahshua, follow him. ( Log Out /  This account shows Jesus upholding the Sabbath, yet exposing that what the rabbis had added was not Biblical. So, what was Jesus saying about the Sabbath?

This was not a Sabbath day, or a rest day, it was a day of ceaseless activity. No longer did Jews have a legitimate way of worship… and that’s okay because Jesus is still our savior. Literally, the word write could be translated “carve,” which calls to mind the image of God carving His law onto the tablets of stone.

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He’s speaking of the rabbinical yoke that added the Oral Torah and human traditions to God’s instructions. knowledge of it before they came to Sinai.  31 The seventh day of creation, but notice that it was not commanded.

John 1:3.

It cannot be overemphasized, however, that this was God's rest. What Did Jesus Say About the Sabbath? Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise." That is the purpose of the New Testament to show where the Old ended and the New Covenant began. Proud member 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath.”, “The Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, ‘It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.’  11 But he replied, ‘The man who made me well said to me, “Pick up your mat and walk.”’  12 So they asked him, ‘Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?’  13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. He also made flesh and blood men; male and female humans, on the 6th Day of Creation.

They had made the Sabbath much more difficult than it really was. “On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. My question is, what do you think about how to It belongs to Christ. As ordained for Have ye not known?

us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. own ground. {DA 289.1}. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. When Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27), Jesus was attesting to the fact that, just as the Sabbath day was originally instituted to give man rest from his labors, so did He come to provide us rest from laboring to … . I heard those teachings; I read the Pharisees’ criticism of his actions on the Sabbath and Jesus’ responses defending himself and his disciples. power of Christ. lack of that truthful integrity and tender love which will ever characterize All of the other laws were rolled up in a scroll and placed beside the ark of the covenant in the tabernacle. commandments, and abide in His love." is the service of love that God values. "God saw everything that He had made, Of that law of which the fourth This is consistent with what 2 Corinthians 3:3 says about how in the New Covenant, God writes his truth, “not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.”.

It’s not based on a temporary epoch in redemptive history. One might say, "But I don't dare mention that in my church; it would only stir up a lot of trouble." Yet, for reasons not divulged, they assume the right to remove some of the restrictions laid down in the Bible with regard to keeping the Sabbath as a day of rest. 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

will be honored by all beneath the sun.

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural. That said, I pray that your faith be strengthened and not shaken, as I help expand our knowledge of the truth. rebuke to His enemies. hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

He observed the Sabbath with the Jews until he turned completely to reaching the Gentiles.