Sunday Laws

Blue Laws- 

"As Protestant moral reformers organized the Sabbath reform in 19th-century America, calls for the enactment and enforcement of stricter "Sunday laws" developed. Numerous Americans were arrested for working, keeping an open shop, drinking alcohol, traveling, and recreating on Sundays."

From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law> 

Did you read the above? NUMEROUS people were arrested for breaking the Sunday Sabbath law created by man.  Why were they arrested? For doing what wasn't considered lawful to do on Sunday. People were persecuted for breaking a law to rest. Were they persecuted because they didn't recognize Sunday as a day of rest, or that they did recognize it as such but chose not to obey the law? For the most part they were accused of not keeping Sunday Sabbath because of the things they chose to do. Even if they went to church on that day then went home and broke the law, they were arrested. They kept the law in part, but not in whole.

Jesus was NEVER accused of NOT recognizing the Sabbath - from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.  Jesus WAS accused of committing UNLAWFUL acts on the Sabbath.  You can well imagine that if Jesus took a stance that Friday sunset to Saturday sunset was NOT the Sabbath to keep, that the Jewish leaders would have been all over Him for that. If Jesus even IMPLIED that the day the Jewish people (remember Jesus is of Jewish descent!) kept as the Sabbath WAS NOT the Sabbath day at all, He would have been stoned instantly- so grave was the breaking of that commandment in that way. 

The thing is Jesus DID keep Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, holy, because that was the day that had been blessed and sanctified from Creation and He WAS THERE when it was blessed and sanctified! He never even hinted in the smallest way that the blessed seventh day of every week, was going to be changed to another day, not once!

Jesus DID reveal to the Jewish leaders that they had placed upon the Sabbath laws and strictures that had never been intended to be placed upon that day. Just as Jesus said that it was wrong to be angry with your brother and you can commit murder in your heart, and it was wrong to look on a woman other than your wife with lust in your thoughts because then you commit adultery already without ever touching the woman physically. Jesus revealed the HEART of the laws that were given at Sinai, laws that were written down, but laws that were meant to be kept from Creation, naturally before the fall and intentionally after the fall. Murder and adultery, stealing and choosing other Gods were NEVER acceptable, never. They didn't instantly become unacceptable when the ten commandments were given, they were already unacceptable. 

Jesus healed on the Sabbath. 

Jesus told a man to pick up his bedding on the Sabbath.

Jesus told His followers it was okay to pick a little grain and eat it on the Sabbath.

Jesus did NOT tell the man to go make his bed and start cleaning up his house and get to work, now that he could walk. He told him to pick up bedding he's lain upon because he'd not been able to walk and to just leave it there, what was the purpose of that? The man was going to go somewhere to sleep and that bedding could be all the possessions he had.  Jesus did not tell His followers to cut down the field of grain and process it so they could eat, He allowed them to eat from what was there available to eat for the mere taking of it.  

Jesus NEVER broke the Sabbath by not keeping it holy, the entire day!

Jesus loved the Sabbath and wanted all of His followers to love the Sabbath as it was intended to be loved, because it was created for THEM. They were NOT created for the SABBATH.

This Holy Blessed SEVENTH Day was and IS a gift from God for us! Such a blessing for us to have the knowledge of this Sabbath day throughout history, to KNOW that Jesus kept the SEVENTH DAY - FRIDAY to SATURDAY - sunset to sunset  - and He did so His ENTIRE LIFE. He even remained in the GRAVE on the SABBATH! How amazing is it when we realize the depths our Savior went to in order for us to know which day and how we are to keep HIS HOLY SABBATH! 

ANY attempt to alter HIS LAW by something as monumental as moving it to another day, was truly breaking His Sabbath commandment, it's CHANGING HIS law and ONLY HE would have the right to do that, not any man, no matter what title that man lay claim to could change His royal law! If it were meant to be moved to another day, our LORD would have made sure that was His intention in no uncertain terms, beyond any doubt. To change one of the royal laws would be admitting that it wasn't perfect to begin with and IT WAS and always will be!!!!!!! Only man's arrogance has led them to play God, and that's exactly what they've done, daring to change times and laws! God help us! Open the hearts and minds to TRUTH! To follow deception once you've been allowed to realize truth, is to blindly be led to perdition, to be among those Jesus will NOT know when He returns, even though those people will THINK they are His.

To belittle truth is to belittle our GOD.

Please, Lord, Father God, please, let the Holy Spirit live in us and let us seek and follow ONLY Your truth! All through YOUR LOVE ALWAYS!

Amen!

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Christ and the Pharisees -OR Christ's Faithfulness in Sabbath-Keeping.

BY A. T. JONES.

[Religious Liberty Library, No. 18]

They had heard his word, "Thy sins be forgiven thee," but as they could not see the power of his word in this, he said also to the man, "Arise, take up thy couch and go into thine house." Then they saw that there was divine, even creative power in the word which he spoke. It followed from is that there was power to forgive sins in the word of forgiveness which he had spoken. And as they themselves had said, "None can forgive sins but God," it followed  from the evidences which he gave them, that upon their own proposition he was God. 

Yet their selfish hearts would not yield, and although Jesus had given them the proof upon their own proposition, that he was God with them, and God there present, they did not accept it, but went on with their reasonings about his

being a blasphemer.

It is seen from this passage, how extended the attention was at this time among these classes,-the Pharisees, and the scribes, and the doctors of the law,-and the reasons of what followed. This verse shows plainly that Christ had by this time attracted the interested and selfish attention of this class of men all over the land, from Jerusalem as well as elsewhere. 

And in nothing had the selfishness of the Pharisees and doctors of the law taken a more perverse turn than in the matter of the Sabbath and its true meaning and purpose. 

So far as the Lord's meaning and purpose in his Sabbath is concerned, they had utterly lost sight of it themselves, and by their traditions and exactions had

completely hidden it from the minds and hearts of the people. This was the crowning result of their perverse-minded course. And as Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath, and to bring to mind what he is to mankind being the true intent of the Sabbath,-in other words, he himself as he lived among them being the manifestation of the true intent of the Sabbath,-it is evident that in nothing could his course arouse more, or more bitter antagonism from these men than in his words and actions with relation to the Sabbath.

The passage just quoted was at the end of his first full year, near the second passover that he attended; the following passage was at his second passover. It may have been within a few days of the other, but whether it was less or more, it was but a short time.

"After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel  went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the

water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy

bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore laid unto him that was cured, It is the Sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed and walk. Then asked they him, What man is that which

said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole." John 5:1-15.

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