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Re: Sabbath: In A Ditch Regarding the Seventh Day

We also have to remember that the sabbath is a gift to man. Under the Law it was a time when men entered the presence of God to worship. Today, we can enter that rest at any time through the Holy Ghost. The issue with the sabbath isn't so much the day that it falls on... but it's spiritual reality in our lives. Do we personally take TIME away from our cares and work to devote entirely to God? And it's not a burdensome command by which we might be condemned in the New Covenant. It's a blessing to enter in and rest in Christ, through the Spirit, at any given time.

Frankly, if one only enters the sabbath one day a week (be it Saturday or Sunday)... they are falling terribly short of the blessings Christ would bestow upon them daily.

Re: Sabbath: In A Ditch Regarding the Seventh Day

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Originally Posted by FlamingZword (Post 1101826)

We do not read everything that Jesus did after the Cross, so an argument from silence is not really an argument at all.
A person could say all kind of weird and crazy things based on what jesus didn't do, but they are all suppossitions.

Paul preached in the Synagogues even when preaching to gentiles it is in the book of Acts. nowhere does it say that he preached to Jews on one day and to the gentiles on another day. every mention of gentils mentions sabbath.

There is nothing in theb books of Acts that says they only kept the Sabbath when they were only with other jews, once again it is a suppossition based on zero evidence.
After Acts 18 there is very little said about other things, including baptism in Jesus name.
Of course every day belongs to God, we have to live every day for God.

In fact (Sunday keeping) helps the error that we serve God one day a week and then do what we want the rest of the week. lol

Nowhere in the scripture does it say that there is no Sabbath now. How strange, I see the Sabbath in the calendar every week.

Contrary to popular belief the Sabbath preceeded the Law by thousands of years, the first Sabbath was kept by God Himself, then the Sabbath was kept by the Israelites way before the Law was given.:stop

I'm tending to go with Mike on this one.

Attending church services "the first day of the week" isn't the same thing as that old Puritan "Sunday Sabbath" whereby the restrictions of the OT weekly Sabbath was rolled over to Sunday.

Folks just go to church on Sunday, and most "violate" the "Sabbath" to get there.

See also, "the first day of the week..." Acts 20:7 and 1 Corinthians 16:2.

The NT church met on the first day of the week (Sunday) for their long winded sermons, to eat out and to take up an offering. What else does anyone do on a Sunday today but to follow this pattern. http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...ons/icon10.gif

Re: Sabbath: In A Ditch Regarding the Seventh Day

Paul actually compared keeping any day holy with being weak in the faith, categorized with eating only herbs as opposed to eating meats. Romans 14. What he meant by referring to those weak in faith was in saying they are folks who require to physically see, touch abstain, etc., as their key to serving God. It is the "touch not, taste not, handle not" realm of things of Colossians 2. It is thinking of the lower, material realm of things, to which Paul said we're supposed to be dead. And chapter 3 says we are raised with Christ to heavenly places, so we should be focusing on higher things than abstinence from physical things, or what threads, buttons and sleeve lengths we wear.

It is not the issue of whether sabbath was in Mosaic law or not. It is whether or not sabbath is something categorized as earthly focus of what we physically do or do not do, rather than SPIRITUALLY. And that is of the elementary school system of all, that came before the cross, not just Law. Elementary school is what the ELEMENTS and RUDIMENTS of the world refer to in the epistles.

Paul said to think on HIGHER things like forebearing one another, love, forgiving, etc.