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1 | Do you rest on the Sabbath? | Col 2:16 | Makarios | 7741 | ||
"True worship means focusing on the Lord rather than ourselves. The Israelites were commanded to devote one day out of seven to focus on God (Ex. 20:8-11). To do that, they were told to cease from their normal labors, just as God ceased, or paused, from His work or creation on the seventh day (Gen. 2:1-3). Christians are not bound to keep the Sabbath, but they are commanded to worship the Lord together (Heb. 10:19-25), and traditionally this has occurred on the first day of the week (1 Cor. 16:2)." Nelson's "What Does the Bible Say About?" pg. 353 -Nolan |
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2 | Do you rest on the Sabbath? | Col 2:16 | christiankl | 12539 | ||
Hi Nolan, When you mention true worship. Exodus 20:8-11 does give us a specific day of the week to worship "the seventh-day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God". 1 Corinthians 16:2 which reads "On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made." does not mention anything about worship, rather a form of money management for Christians. I don't believe that the observance of Sabbath is binding in any way, rather a form of recognition to our God the Creator. I guess my main point is 7th-day Sabbath - is it Sunday or Saturday? |
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3 | Do you rest on the Sabbath? | Col 2:16 | Makarios | 12594 | ||
Dear christiankl, here is some information on the Sabbath that you might find interesting.. "Are the Sabbath laws binding on Christians today? We believe the Old Testament regulations governing Sabbath observances are ceremonial, not moral, aspects of the law. As such, they are no longer in force, but have passed away along with the sacrificial system, the Levitical priesthood, and all other aspects of Moses' law that prefigured Christ. Here are the reasons we hold this view. In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul explicitly refers to the Sabbath as a shadow of Christ, which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come. It is quite clear in those verses that the weekly Sabbath is in view. The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days of the Jewish calendar (cf. 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 31:3; Ezekiel 45:17; Hosea 2:11). If Paul were referring to special ceremonial dates of rest in that passage, why would he have used the word "Sabbath?" He had already mentioned the ceremonial dates when he spoke of festivals and new moons. The Sabbath was the sign to Israel of the Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 31:16-17; Ezekiel 20:12; Nehemiah 9:14). Since we are now under the New Covenant (Hebrews 8), we are no longer required to observe the sign of the Mosaic Covenant. The New Testament never commands Christians to observe the Sabbath. In our only glimpse of an early church worship service in the New Testament, the church met on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7). Nowhere in the Old Testament are the Gentile nations commanded to observe the Sabbath or condemned for failing to do so. That is certainly strange if Sabbath observance were meant to be an eternal moral principle. There is no evidence in the Bible of anyone keeping the Sabbath before the time of Moses, nor are there any commands in the Bible to keep the Sabbath before the giving of the law at Mt. Sinai. When the Apostles met at the Jerusalem council (Acts 15), they did not impose Sabbath keeping on the Gentile believers. The apostle Paul warned the Gentiles about many different sins in his epistles, but breaking the Sabbath was never one of them. In Galatians 4:10-11, Paul rebukes the Galatians for thinking God expected them to observe special days (including the Sabbath). In Romans 14:5, Paul forbids those who observe the Sabbath (these were no doubt Jewish believers) to condemn those who do not (Gentile believers). The early church fathers, from Ignatius to Augustine, taught that the Old Testament Sabbath had been abolished and that the first day of the week (Sunday) was the day when Christians should meet for worship (contrary to the claim of many seventh-day sabbatarians who claim that Sunday worship was not instituted until the fourth century). Sunday has not replaced Saturday as the Sabbath. Rather the Lord's Day is a time when believers gather to commemorate His resurrection, which occurred on the first day of the week. Every day to the believer is one of Sabbath rest, since we have ceased from our spiritual labor and are resting in the salvation of the Lord (Hebrews 4:9-11). So while we still follow the pattern of designating one day of the week a day for the Lord's people to gather in worship, we do not refer to this as "the Sabbath." John Calvin took a similar position. He wrote, There were three reasons for giving this [fourth] commandment: First, with the seventh day of rest the Lord wished to give to the people of Israel an image of spiritual rest, whereby believers must cease from their own works in order to let the Lord work in them. Secondly, he wished that there be an established day in which believers might assemble in order to hear his Law and worship him. Thirdly, he willed that one day of rest be granted to servants and to those who live under the power of others so that they might have a relaxation from their labor. The latter, however, is rather an inferred than a principal reason. As to the first reason, there is no doubt that it ceased in Christ; because he is the truth by the presence of which all images vanish. He is the reality at whose advent all shadows are abandoned. Hence St. Paul (Col. 2:17) affirms that the sabbath has been a shadow of a reality yet to be. And he declares else-where its truth when in the letter to the Romans, ch. 6:8, he teaches us that we are buried with Christ in order that by his death we may die to the corruption of our flesh. And this is not done in one day, but during all the course of our life, until altogether dead in our own selves, we may be filled with the life of God. Hence, superstitious observance of days must remain far from Christians." Part 1 of 2 From the Archives at "Grace to you" at http://www.gty.org |
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4 | Do you rest on the Sabbath? | Col 2:16 | christiankl | 12622 | ||
Hey Nolan, Thanks for your Biblical and detailed response. I did read the points that you brought up in some other notes about Sabbath and I already took the liberty to respond it starts off with "the 10 commandments in exodus...". I believe I addressed the Colossians 2:16-17 text. The sacrificial offerings as part of the Sabbath feasts described in Leviticus 23:37-38 are what "shadowed" the body of Christ. The 7th-day Sabbath is something different; in heaven it will be practiced (Isaiah 66:22-23) not just for Jews (Isaiah 56:6-7, Acts 18:4, Acts 13:42). Keeping the Sabbath was part of Jesus' and and his apostles' custom (Luke 4:16, Acts 17:2) Please read that note if you haven't already. It's nice to communicate about Biblical truths, this is a great website. |
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