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1 | Honoring the Sabbath | Col 2:13 | sincerebeliever | 130560 | ||
I have felt that God has impressing upon me over the last 20 years to honor the Sabbath. I see all the way back to God's initial creation and even in the Ten Commandments that we are to honor the Sabbath. What I want to know is WHY Christians are not honoring the Sabbath when it is written clearly we are to do so. EVEN IF we "thought" or "think" that the Sabbath is on Sunday the VAST MAJORITY of Christians are not refraining from buying or selling and are not refraining from "doing their own pleasure" on that day. I have gone personally in and out of personal "revelation" on this issue and have honestly honored the Sabbath for about half of the last 20 years in long sequences of years. Isn't this part of our obedience to the word to honor the Sabbath? SUNday is actually the day to "worship the sun". Whether or not we all join a church that honors the Sabbath it seems like we should as Christians be honoring it on Saturday. Any comments. | ||||||
2 | Honoring the Sabbath | Col 2:13 | DocTrinsograce | 130569 | ||
You do an injustice to many believers to suggest that worship on Sunday is hethenistic. There are many of us who believe that Sunday is the Christian Sabbath for very specific reasons. Consequently, we worship in a very intentional way on that day. I actually prefer Hebrews 4 as a superior proof text on the adoption of Sunday by Christians for worship (i.e., God finished His work on the seventh day of the week, Christ finished His work on the first day of the week.) However, I'd like to quote from Chapter 22, paragraph 7 of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, which states "As it is the law of nature, that in general a proportion of time, by God's appointment, be set apart for the worship of God, so by his Word, in a positive moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven for a sabbath to be kept holy unto him, which from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week, and from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week, which is called the Lord's day: and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath, the observation of the last day of the week being abolished. (Exodus 20:8; 1 Corinthians 16:1, 2; Acts 20:7; Revelation 1:10)" Paragraph 8 goes on to say, "The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs aforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all day, from their own works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and recreations, but are also taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy. (Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15-22; Matthew 12:1-13)" My family and I carefully prepare for each sabbath day, making certain that our focus is on the things of the Lord the entire day. As believers -- priests and kings -- every day is a day of worship. I humbly submit, sir or madam, that if you believe that a particular day of the week makes your worship more acceptable to the Lord, you have turned to "weak and beggarly elements" (i.e., bondage of legalism) rather than the liberty of the completed work of Christ. Nevertheless, you are free -- and even encouraged -- to follow the dictates of your own conscience. However, do not presume on other believers how they ought to conduct themselves in these respects (Romans 14:4). Colossians 2:16-17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: (17) Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. |
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