Rejoicing In the Sabbath:

[Aquila]

Taking time to rest from your own labors and worship God when He has established time to worship IS a moral issue. We want God on our schedule... few struggle to re-arrange their own lives to God's.

A final word until next posting. Please understand... keeping the Law doesn't justify anyone. Jesus is the door. One must be SAVED through Christ and His shed blood and obey the Gospel. However, we are saved unto good works. We are called to sanctify ourselves. This is where an understanding of God's Law comes into play in our spiritual walk. You might not be perfectly obeying God's Law at the moment. Just repent and pray that God reveal His will and way to you. That God correct those circumstances that prove to be an obsticle to your obedience. And then walk in faith knowing that GOD will reward your efforts to obey, no matter how small.

What I'm trying to show you my born again brethren is that you don't need dress codes and legalistic bondage to sanctify yourself or be "holy". You simply have to obey the LORD's commandments:

The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)

1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

The Ante-Nicene Fathers put it this way....

"Have before thine eyes the fear of God, and always remember the ten commandments of God, - to love the one and only Lord God with all thy strength; to give no heed to idols, or any other beings, as being lifeless gods, or irrational beings or demons. Consider the manifold workmanship of God, which received its beginning through Christ. Thou shalt observe the Sabbath, on account of Him who ceased from His work of creation, but ceased not from His work of providence; it is a rest for meditation of the law, not for the idleness of the hands." (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, p. 413, 1951 edition).

[Aquila]

Thought:

Jesus said,

Mark 2:27
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Jesus never said that the Sabbath was for strictly for the Jews. Jesus indicates that the Sabbath is for all mankind. Please note, God sanctified and hallowed the seventh day LOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG before the nation of Israel existed:

Genesis 2:3 (KJV)
3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

To "sanctify" something means to separate it for a sacred purpose. The Sabbath was established and ordained at creation for mankind's benefit. Not just given as part of the law delivered to Israel.

Now... if Jesus IS your Sabbath and you rest in Him from your own works of self righteousness... you have the most essential understanding. However... this does go deeper into being an applied teaching. Especially when one discovers the importance of the Ten Commandments. Keep pressin' in my brethren!

[Scott Hutchinson]

If you brothers and sisters have a conviction on this issue,I rejoice with you,I don't see it the way you do,I won't belittle you for your opinion.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

If you brothers and sisters have a conviction on this issue,I rejoice with you,I don't see it the way you do,I won't belittle you for your opinion.

That's a very respectful position. Thank you!

Do you believe that the Ten Commandments are applicable today?

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Do you believe that the Ten Commandments are applicable today?

Yup. To me. I apply them to me. I apply Grace to everyone else. I hope.
Grace to you.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Yup. To me. I apply them to me. I apply Grace to everyone else. I hope.
Grace to you.

LOL

Great line of logic.

[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Yup. To me. I apply them to me. I apply Grace to everyone else. I hope.
Grace to you.

Ditto.

I simply can not find any scriptural justification for Sunday worship. I do find a lot in history proving that Sunday worship was started with a deliberate intention to undermine true Christianity.

When looking for a time for worship unstained by corruption, Sabbath stands alone as a God ordained day of rest and worship. Simple, really, for me anyway.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

Ditto.

I simply can not find any scriptural justification for Sunday worship. I do find a lot in history proving that Sunday worship was started with a deliberate intention to undermine true Christianity.

When looking for a time for worship unstained by corruption, Sabbath stands alone as a God ordained day of rest and worship. Simple, really, for me anyway.

We have been fence-sitters for a while on the issue of the Sabbath. What made you decide to keep the Sabbath? Was there any particular scripture that made it clear to you?

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Yup. To me. I apply them to me. I apply Grace to everyone else. I hope.
Grace to you.

You hit the nail on the head!

[Scott Hutchinson]

I do believe that God does have moral principles for us today and I do believe the principles contain in the 10 commandments are applicable for us today,except I don't see The Sabbath binding for believers,but I could be wrong.