IS THE KEEPING OF THE SABBATH INCUMBENT UPON CHRISTIANS? ( NO ) FIRST OF ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT SUNDAY IS NOT THE SABBATH . SATURDAY IS THE SABBATH. SECOND THE OLD JEWISH SABBATH WAS A DAY OF REST AND NOT NECESSARILY OF WORSHIP AS IT REGARDED THE LORD . THE PEOPLE WERE SUPPOSED TO REST ON THIS DAY , AND EVEN THE ANIMALS WERE SUPPOSE TO REST ON THIS PARTICULAR DAY. THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT STATED: SIX DAYS YOU SHALL LABOR , AND DO ALL YOUR WORK: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD YOUR GOD: IN IT YOU SHOULD NOT DO ANY WORK , YOU , NOR YOUR SON , NOR YOUR DAUGHTER , YOUR MANSERVANT , NOR YOUR MAIDSERVANT , NOR YOUR CATTLE , NOR YOU STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN YOUR GATES: FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH , THE SEA , AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS , AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY: WHEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY , AND HALLOWED IT (EX. 20:8-11 ) THE SABBATH AND , IN FACT , EVERY SINGLE THING THAT PERTAINED TO THE LAW , AND IN EVERY CAPACITY , SPOKE OF CHRIST IN SOME MANNER WHETHER IN INTERCESSORY WORK , HIS ATONING WORK , OR HIS MEDITORIAL WORK . IN FACT , THE JEWISH SABBATH WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST TYPES OF ALL , IN THAT IT SYMBOLIZED THE : REST: THAT WOULD BE INCUMBENT IN CHRIST . THATS WHAT JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAID: COME UNTO ME , ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN , AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST ...TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU , AND LEARN OF ME , FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART , AND YOU SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS FOR MY YOKE IS EASY , MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. IN THE LAW OF MOSES , EVERYTHING WAS DOING DOING DOING . IN CHRIST IT IS BELIEVING , BELIEVING , BELIEVING , AND BECAUSE CHRIST HAS ALREADY DONE ALL THE WORK SO TO SPEAK. THAT IS WHAT THE SABBATH WAS SUPPOSE TO REPRESENT , THE REST THAT WOULD COME IN CHRIST. WHEN ONE ACCEPTS CHRIST NOW , IN EFFECT , ONE IS KEEPING THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, BECAUSE EVERYTHING NOW IS IN CHRIST. IN FACT CHRIST FULFILLED EVERY PARTICLE OF THE LAW , EVERY NUANCE OF THE LAW . NOTHING WAS LEFT UNFULFILLED . THIS MEANS THAT THE LAW , OR NO PART OF THE LAW IS NOW INCUMBENT UPON BELIEVERS , AND THAT INCLUDES SABBATH KEEPING. READ ( ROMANS 10:4 )
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:29:29 +0000