Rejoicing In the Sabbath:

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

The scripture clearly tells us that he that loves God keeps his commandments 1 John 5:3, but if the Ten commandments be done away with, then what commandments are we to keep? should we then allow each denomination or pastor to create their own commandments?

They're not done away with, though.

The Ten Commandments are our guide and if we love God then we will keep his Ten Commandments 1 John 2:3

If we substract one of the commandments from the Law of God, then they are not longer 10 commandments but 9. The Sabbath is in the middle of the Ten commanmdents so it can not be separated from the other commandments. The Ten Coommandments is a package deal, they came bundled in two tables of stone and put inside the ark together.

The sabbath is the 4th, between the first three (God's number) and the last 6 (man's number). It bridges the two. And, wonderfully enough, it is the ONLY ONE that was a shadow that is now embodied in Christ.

The only commandments that God has directly given to us is the Ten commandments, for they were written by the finger of God, the rest of the law was not written by God himself, but was written by Moses.

If we love God then we will surely keep his Ten Commandments and that means keeping the Sabbath too.

Instead of keeping the SHADOW of the actual sabbath, we keep the actual sabbath by resting in Christ. This is an eternal sabbath.

That does not mean we do not need a physical day, but it now no longer matters which day.

Jesus did not came to destroy the law of God but to fulfill it. Since Jesus and the Apostles reconfirmed the Ten Commandments then it is obvious that they still stand.

The law is not destroyed, BUT FULFILLED. Think of a sacrifice of animal blood that was fulfilled in Christ. Sabbath day was fulfilled in Christ as much as sacrifices in the OT were foreshadows of the real one, Christ.

Everywhere we see the Ten Commandments, they are separated from all the Jewish laws and rituals, you never see the Ten Commandments surrounded with all the extra Laws, so it is quite clear from standard practice that The Ten Commandments are seen as a complete set, which is apart from the Law of Moses.

The Ten are still here. Yet the fourth is special. It was a shadow of Christ! By resting in Christ, and ceasing from our own labours, we truly keep sabbath!