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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: The Lord's Day--Does It Matter? |
Bible Note: Hi, kalos! Many times Christians behave as the Masters of the Law, the Pharisees and Sadducees, in respect to the Sabbath and other issues of Faith. Jesus’ reply to ostentatious sanctimony (theirs or ours) devastates any feigned adherence to God’s commandments: Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! ‘Why do you want to kill me?’ The crowd replied, ‘You are mad! Who wants to kill you?’ Jesus answered, ‘One work I did, and you are all amazed at it. Moses ordered you to practise circumcision--not that it began with him, it goes back to the patriarchs--and you circumcise on the Sabbath. Now if someone can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me for making someone completely healthy on a Sabbath? Do not keep judging according to appearances; let your judgement be according to what is right.’ (John 7:19-24) Yet this argument is not new; it was made by Yahweh hundreds of years prior to the incarnation of the Word: They seek for me day after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that has acted uprightly and not forsaken the law of its God. …Look, you seek your own pleasure on your fast days and you exploit all your workmen; look, the only purpose of your fasting is to quarrel and squabble and strike viciously with your fist. …Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes? Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if you see someone lacking clothes, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own kin? …If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fist and malicious words, if you deprive yourself for the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, your light will rise in the darkness, and your darkest hour will be like noon. …If you refrain from breaking the Sabbath, from taking your own pleasure on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath ‘Delightful’, and the day sacred to Yahweh ‘Honourable’, if you honour it by abstaining from travel, from seeking your own pleasure and from too much talk, then you will find true happiness in Yahweh… (Isaiah 58:2-14) Today’s argument is no different! We seek to get closer to God not by faithful obedience but by sanctimonious adherence to the letter of the Law, while simultaneously breaking any command of our choosing! We seek to be pious, at least more pious than the next person, but our zealousness is not to abide in Christ’s love but to bask in our own egos--rendering worship as we see fit!. God Bless! Angel |