Subject: Do you disobey this commandment? |
Bible Note: I will make one final point on keeping sabbath and then leave it to your own conscience. Define your idea of what the scripture teaches is lawfully keeping the sabbath. Not the many traditions of the Jewish scribes and lawyers that did not get their details from scripture, we know Jesus had plenty to say about them. But what does the scripture teach about lawfully keeping the sabbath. I will not attempt to convince a servant of God that he should or should not keep a law he wants to keep. But if you would keep it then by all means keep it according to the pattern shown in the book. If you depart from that pattern then you expose yourself as not one who is endeavoring to please God as all honest religous exercise would be, but you are demonstrating that you have some other agenda altogether foreign to sound doctrine. For no man can say I want to obey His commandments and then go about changing the details of the commandment given. This reveals a heart not of servitude but of an arrogant and self willed heart, willing to presumptiously change the law to fit his convienience. Ex 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. First of all you would have to form an Eccliastic government over your parishoners so that you might enforce the law open the law breakers. For to keep the sabbath yourself and yet not obey this part of the commandment is to keep part and break part. Ex 35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. Then you must also start no fires in your fireplaces or even cook on the stove that day. Would it be lawful to use the microwave? I think not. I could go on but I think the point is made. Keep the sabbath day but keep it holy. If you do work on that day you have broken it. If you think that attending a church is keeping it you make a mistake. If you drive to church you have broken it. |