We are told by GOD to REMEMBER and to KEEP the SABBATH HOLY.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
We are told by GOD SIX DAYS WE WOULD LABOR.
We are told SIX DAYS WE WOULD DO ALL OUR WORK.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work
We are told by GOD the SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD.
We are told by God we SHALT NOT do ANY work. Not just us- but our family. Not just our families- but our servants. Not just our families and servants but our animals. Not just our families, our servants, our animals but any strangers among us.
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gate
We are told by GOD that in SIX DAYS the LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS.
We are told by GOD, HE RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY.
We are told by GOD, HE BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY.
We are told by GOD, HE HALLOWED THE SABBATH DAY.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
We are told by GOD to REMEMBER. Each and every single seventh day of the week, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, we are to REMEMBER.
REMEMBER God cries out from HIS word! Remember! There written in stone by HIS finger- REMEMBER.
He didn't tell us to remember any other commandment of the ten, JUST that fourth commandment. When we REST and KEEP the DAY HOLY- we are automatically keeping EVERY other commandment without fail. If you were to break a single one of the other Ten Commandments on the Sabbath you would break the Sabbath commandment too. You cannot keep the Sabbath holy if you break any commandment, you just can't.
We were never supposed to forget any of the royal law, the Ten Commandments were written in stone by God's finger and then later etched out of stone by Moses. These law were placed in an ark to be known as - the Ark of the Covenant. That covenant was between GOD and man. Jesus did NOT do away with the Commandments He wrote. Yes, I said He wrote.
1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Christ was there in the wilderness with the children of Israel. God - the SPIRITUAL ROCK followed them.
Why would our Lord and Savior follow the children of Israel in the desert wilderness for forty years if He were not in complete and utter agreement with the royal law? He didn't come to change the royal law, but rather the ceremonial law, which His own death prefigured. The royal law was not to be touched- not a single dot of an i or a cross of a t.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Until HEAVEN and EARTH pass away… not a single bit of the royal law would pass- NOT until ALL be fulfilled. Is heaven still in existence? Yes. Is earth still in existence? Yes. Jesus came and KEPT (FULFILLED) the law and we too must keep the law He kept, and we will have to until heaven and earth are gone. Don't you get it? God is love and those who love God will keep His commandments. Why do people insist Christ did away with the Ten Commandments, and those who say He didn't do away with them often insist that He changed them? Why? He said PLAINLY for all to read that wasn't going to happen- not a single dot on an I would be changed! They insist He changed the Sabbath simply because He rose on the First day of the week, but He did not change it! He gave us the example He wanted us to keep which would point to His death and resurrection and it wasn't changing the day that was made Holy and Blessed at creation, and given to His people in the Royal Law. Man did that, man changed the day of worship, NOT GOD. Man has made God's word null and void with their traditions. Jesus said this would happen. Jesus warned us. Yet, so many just do NOT care at all whatsoever! But Jesus told us…
Joh_14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Jesus summed up the royal law- loving God and loving our fellow man. Right there in the royal law the first four commandments are completely about loving God and the last six are all about loving our fellow man.
You can't say not a single cross of a t would be changed in the law and then go and change it as you please, you just can't!
God made the Sabbath holy and told us to keep it that way. He even told us how we should keep it that way- by doing NO labor, by earning not a single cent through that labor. He didn't tell us to stop helping and loving each other on that day. He didn't tell us to lay in bed all that day. He didn't tell us to make the Sabbath impossible to keep Holy then tell people to do so. We keep it holy by doing no work on that day.
A book I'm reading- not of my faith (Christian) but from a Jewish author has a lot to say about the Sabbath. I don't agree at all with him that WE make the Sabbath holy- God did that. I do agree that we must keep the holiness God made the Sabbath and in doing so, God alone allows us to be holy through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
1Pe_1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
I am finding the book to hold a lot of insight though and so I will keep reading it and pray for the protection of the Holy Spirit to keep me safe in Him as I do so. May I take whatever truth I can from this work and be protected from believing any lies, misconceptions, misunderstandings and so on.
THE SABBATH By Abraham Joshua Heschel
'He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil.'
I'm going to remark upon this because I find it fascinating.
The Holy Sabbath which is on the seventh day of the week is just that- holy and if we want to KEEP the Sabbath holy we have to do NO work as mentioned earlier. Abraham Heschel hit the nail on the head- if we want to keep the Sabbath holy- to enter into the holiness of this day, we have to set aside anything that has to do with our weekly laboring for income, AND the fact that we are attached to the toil we do all week long. Toil, so much encompasses that word. We have to be willing to SET aside all that we can that would keep us from the unique holiness of this seventh day, something no other day of the week has. We have to love others on the Sabbath, and realize that the yoke isn't the Sabbath putting us in bondage, but the yoke is the work and self-serving we toil away at all the time.
Enough for now, as God leads will be writing more on all of this later.
All though the love of the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior now and forever!
Amen!!!!!!!
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