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NASB | Exodus 20:8 ¶ "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 20:8 ¶ "Remember the Sabbath (seventh) day to keep it holy (set apart, dedicated to God). |
Subject: Must Christians keep the Sabbath today? |
Bible Note: Do you believe in the fall of angels and human beings for breaking God's commandments? How about the Second Coming of Jesus and the Judgment? Do you believe in those, as well? But when will the living be judged if we are alive when Jesus comes? Paul spoke of the resurrection that leads to life in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17: 1) The dead in Christ shall rise first 2) We who are alive and remain shall be caught up in the air 3) We shall ever be with the Lord Would not the living be judged some time before Jesus returns? If this is true, then Jesus has a problem. 1. As our High Priest He is our sin bearer, and He loves us 2. Christ is in judgment in His saints. That means His integrity is at stake with what He does with us 3. That’s why He delays His coming. Let’s imagine that Satan is talking with his angels. He says: 1. We lost in heaven 2. We lost at Calvary 3. But we can win at the judgment of the living just before Christ’s return. His angels ask: “What can we do to win?” Satan says: 1. Bring pressure to bear on all Christians 2. Keep them breaking the commandments 3. Then if in His judgment of the living Christ: a. shall designate one person for translation who is not in repentance and obedience, b. He must take all of us back to heaven, too! I’ve come to observe this: 1. Christ will not come to raise the dead and bind Satan until the judgment of the living is completed. 2. Satan’s “life insurance” depends on Christ’s inability to have a commandment-keeping church at the judgment of the living. What about the judgment of the dead? Let’s imagine that the books of heaven are opened and that Satan is standing there as the name of Martin Luther comes up. Satan says: “I claim Martin Luther, the Reformer. He was anti-Semitic He brought persecution upon the Jews He did it a second time just before He died.” Christ responds, “But I plan to give Luther a white robe. I am the potter, and Luther was the clay.I was making progress in his life when he died. I was just not finished with him yet, but he was responding to my leading in his life.” Satan asks: “Do you mean that if Luther had not died, but had lived until the judgment of the living, he would have repented of his treatment of the Jews, and would love them?” Christ would answer: “Yes! Otherwise I would have to take his name out of the Lamb’s Book of Life or take you, Satan, and your angels back into heaven.” I’ve discovered that in the judgment of the dead, Christ can plead progress, but in the judgment of the living, He has a problem: 1. Christ’s goal must be reached: a church keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus 2. The church must be brought into translation preparation 3. When His church responds. Christ will come! Texts: Genesis 2:1-3; 1 Chronicles 17:27; Exodus 20:1-17; Exodus 31:18; 32:16; Deuteronomy 10:1-4; 12:32; Isaiah 8:20; Psalm 19:7; Romans 7:12,22; 3:31; Psalm 111:7,8; 89:34; 119:152; Matthew 5:17-19; Matthew 7:21-23; John 14:15,21,23; 1 John 2:3-6; James 2:10-12; Revelation 12:17; 14:12; 22:14; 14:6,7; Isaiah 66:22,23; Luke 23:54-56; Acts 13:14,42,44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4,11. |