Sabbath Keepers

Obviously keeping the Sabbath according to the old law would have to be kept like the Hasidic/Orthodox Jews do today, as any other way would be an abomination.

But we will see that they will claim that they can have things both ways, that they are merely worshipping on Saturday Christians while avoiding the other 600 or so commands required for those who live by the old law.

 

IF the Sda want to be really honest on keeping the Sabbath as God meant it to be kept under the Old Covenant, would think few if any of them really keep it as God demanded.
And demanding the Sabbath must be kept is adding another law to the Gospel of Jesus, so would be another Gospel as per Paul.

 

Exodus 20:8-11 - rest.
Lev 23:2-3 - Holy Convocation (Praise and worship)
Is 66:23 - holy convocation (Praise and worship) - for all eternity after the cross - in New Earth

Bible study and evangelism -- not secular activity
Isaiah 58:13-14
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
14 Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;


Mark 2:27 - "Sabbath was made for mankind" - specifically setting scope for Sabbath.
Isaiah 56:6-8 Gentiles specifically singled out for Sabbath keeping
Acts 18:4 "EVERY Sabbath" both Jews and gentiles gather for Gospel preaching and worship in the Synagogue
Acts 15 - the Crisis for the NT solved in part because "Moses is preached every Sabbath in the Synagogues"

 

And under the New Covenant "I will write MY LAW on their heart and mind" -- LAW known to Jeremiah that included God's TEN commandments.

As all of these Christian scholars and groups also admit.

The Baptist Confession of Faith,
the Westminster Confession of Faith ,
D.L. Moody,
R.C Sproul,
Matthew Henry,
Thomas Watson
Eastern Orthodox Catechism
The Catholic Catechism.

 

Those who refer to God's Commandments in derogatory terms have not read 1 John 5:2-3.

Those who imagine "slavishly choosing not to take God's name in vain" simply because they enjoy deriding the keeping of God's commandments have not read Revelation 14:12.

More Bible... less creative writing and pulpit-pounding-instead-of-scripture

 

Keep the sabbath. You then become a debtor to the whole law.

And when you fail and receive the curse, Come to Jesus and He will give you rest.

 

One could imagine that you say this to anyone arguing for not taking God's name in vain or any other of God's commandments.


But as with all of God's commandments - when you fail and receive the curse, Come to Jesus and He will give you rest.

 

We have the Spirit to guide us We don't need an external law as you seem to claim.

Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

 

Until you read the actual Bible.

2 Tim 3
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Peter 1:21
21 holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

John 17:17 "sanctify them in Thy Truth - Thy WORD is Truth"

James 2
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Choose the Bible

(BTW you do not appear to understand how Paul defines his own phrase "under the Law" ... )

 

1 Timothy 1:7-10 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.
But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,
realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers – in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

 

And by the way...

The Ten commandments was the basis in which God entered into His covenant with the Israelites...As the whole law expounds on the Ten. Christ said we have entered into a new covenant through His blood. If you want to keep the Sabbath and insist others do as well, you're a part of an annulled covenant. Flee from your false teachings and find rest in the Lord of the Sabbath, Christ Jesus the King!

 

How come you don't keep all the other 600 or so commands that are needed to be done to satisfy God? Just keeping the Saturday Sabbath is not going to do it for you. As someone here said before, one finds rest in Jesus, not a particular day.

Oh, and by the way you need to keep Kosher also. (Hint - buying your meat at the Piggly Wiggly or Publix does not mean you are keeping kosher).

 

By all means keep the law and as Jesus has said - every jot and tittle.

But be careful and diligent...

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Once you fail the law curses and kills.

2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

Hebrews 4:9
9 So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;
10 for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Matthew 11
28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Not Moses.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Amen.

 

I don't believe a full and definitive answer can be forthcoming as a descriptive answer according to the HaTorah (The law) would be condemning.

e.g. No fire is allowed on the sabbath

Leviticus 35
2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

This means one can not cook, turn on a light (tiny flame) drive a car (internal combustion).

In addition sabbatarians do not kill those who work on the sabbath.

Here is another one.
One can not privately own images, they are forbidden.

Yet I would say sabbatarians have wallets and purses full of images - their money with images of dead people, animals, etc...

You cannot wear clothes of mixed fabric.
You cannot plant more than one crop in your garden.
You can only walk (not ride a horse, drive, etc on the sabbath and only about .6 of a mile.
and etc, etc, etc...

You can expect a verbal tap dance of deception in an attempt to claim they keep God's law (HaTorah) while actually breaking it in many ways..

I can go through the 600 plus mitzvouth with any sabbatarian and see which they keep and don't keep.

 

Acts is a transition book, recording the change for the early Church from being all Jewish, and observing temple worship, gathering on Sabbath day, to the time of the New Covenant firmly established, with both Jews/Gentiles then observing Sunday worship, as day of the Lord!

 

NONE of them agree that Saturday as Sabbath would be now upon us in the Church, but that we still are obligated to obswerve a Day unto the Lord, in their case, Sunday!

 

The commands of God are what Jesus and His Apostles wrote to us to observe, not the entire Mosaic Law, and would NOT either save or keep us saved!