Subject: Do you disobey this commandment? |
Bible Note: the sabbath days are detailed in the Law. Do a study on sabbath and you will see how there were mentions of sabbath rests of so many years etc. You may be misunderstanding the scripture. It says Jesus is NOT the shadow. The sabbath is the shadow Jesus is the BODY that cast the shadow. The shadow is not the REAL thing the Body that cast the shadow is the REAL thing. Jesus is the reality of the other shadows in the law including meat offerings, and feast days as well. These all point to what Jesus did for us and does for us in the Real spiritual realm and that is what you want to obtain. The reality of the temple in heaven is what you want to dwell in not one made with stones in Israel somewhere. The reality of the Heavenly sabbath is the one you want to enter into so that you might rest for eternity not the one that is only a symbol of the Heavenly one. You want to seek after and obtain the actual Presence of Christ and see Him face to face, and not just be satisfied with your knowledge of Him in this life only. We seek a better country, we seek a better city, we seek a better temple, we seek a better sabbath. A rest that lasts forever. We partake of the Lords supper. The bread and the wine is but a shadow of the real. The Real is invisible. The shadow is visible We partake of baptism, the water has no healing properties, the water is a symbol of the invisible reality. If you want to observe the seventh day as a symbol of your faith in resting from your own works and finding righteousness by faith in Christ death and resurrection then do so. God will only accept it if it is in faith however. But if you condemn your brother for thinking in more real terms of resting in Christ then you are not in faith and your sabbath keeping is not accepted. Offering gifts of religious service to the Lord whether it is sabbath keeping or feast keeping is between you and God. Only remember the saying "Hear O Israel" and do not apply what laws God commanded the Israelites to observe to all gentiles which were never commanded to keep such ordinances. There is more said about circumcision being an everlasting command than there is sabbath and yet no one contends for it becuase of the clear teaching in Acts when the apostles met to discuss this issue about the gentiles that were coming to the Lord needing to be circumcized, and all the OT verses were being used to declare it as an everlasting commandment, and the Holy Spirit said that the gentiles did not need to be concerned with circumcision. Now if you are Jew, there may be a good reason for questioning whether you should be circumcised but all controversy has ended on whether a gentile must be circumcised. So it is with sabbath keeping. You do it as a law, a commandment, then do it with faith, another gentile that never has kept sabbath in his life gets saved throught faith in Christ, has no such commandment in the New Testament, and unless you would join company with the Judaizers that Christ condemened then I suggest you leave the gentile converts alone and preach Jesus and Him crucified. God Bless you in your study of His word. |