Can We Observe the the Jewish Sabbath still as a Church or person?

[KJB1611reader]

Well, Paul did go on the sabbath to the synagogue to preach to Jews.

 

[atpollard]

Well, Paul did go on the sabbath to the synagogue to preach to Jews.

Paul went everywhere to preach to anyone that would listen any time he could get them to listen. Paul crashed the women gathered for Wash Day.

 

[Ben1445]

Well, Paul did go on the sabbath to the synagogue to preach to Jews.

That is because Paul wanted to see Israel saved.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

If they will be found in the synagogue studying, Paul is just going where he will find the people he is looking for. Who better to start with than the people who already know Scripture. The churches that were started on Paul’s missionary journeys weren’t brand new out of Gentile box churches. Many of the believers were followers of Scripture already When they were introduced to the truth of Jesus as the Christ, some people rejected and some believed. There were Gentiles saved but Paul went first to the synagogues wherever they were and afterwards to the Gentiles.

Acts 18
Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

It is also seen as his travels are recorded that as he went, he looked for the synagogues.

 

[JesusFan]

That is because Paul wanted to see Israel saved.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

If they will be found in the synagogue studying, Paul is just going where he will find the people he is looking for. Who better to start with than the people who already know Scripture. The churches that were started on Paul’s missionary journeys weren’t brand new out of Gentile box churches. Many of the believers were followers of Scripture already When they were introduced to the truth of Jesus as the Christ, some people rejected and some believed. There were Gentiles saved but Paul went first to the synagogues wherever they were and afterwards to the Gentiles.

Acts 18
Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

It is also seen as his travels are recorded that as he went, he looked for the synagogues.

And once he made a clear break with Judaism and took the gospel message to the Gentiles in His ministry, was assembling then on Sunday the "lords Day"

 

[Ben1445]

And once he made a clear break with Judaism and took the gospel message to the Gentiles in His ministry, was assembling then on Sunday the "lords Day"

He did both.
He never made a clear break with Judaism. He was arrested visiting Jerusalem paying vows, a practice out of the Jewish law.

 

[JesusFan]

He did both.
He never made a clear break with Judaism. He was arrested visiting Jerusalem paying vows, a practice out of the Jewish law.

Paul never saw Himself as being a Pharisee after meeting the risen Christ, as he now saw that Judaism that He practiced and observed was no longer relevant under this New Covenant

 

[atpollard]

Paul never saw Himself as being a Pharisee after meeting the risen Christ, as he now saw that Judaism that He practiced and observed was no longer relevant under this New Covenant

That is true, but Paul still wanted to reach all by any means and avoid being a stumbling block to anyone. I remember him having his companion (Timothy?) circumcised when visiting Jerusalem to avoid creating offense that might hamper the Gospel. His letter about "emasculation" makes it clear that Paul did not support circumcision as a general rule and Paul's fight with Peter shows that Paul did not fear the authority of Jerusalem or the other Apostles.

Paul must have cared about Jewish evangelism, too.

 

[JesusFan]

That is true, but Paul still wanted to reach all by any means and avoid being a stumbling block to anyone. I remember him having his companion (Timothy?) circumcised when visiting Jerusalem to avoid creating offense that might hamper the Gospel. His letter about "emasculation" makes it clear that Paul did not support circumcision as a general rule and Paul's fight with Peter shows that Paul did not fear the authority of Jerusalem or the other Apostles.

Paul must have cared about Jewish evangelism, too.

True, Paul was careful to try not to offend others, so while in Rome acted Roman, while in jerusalem jewish, but He did not see Judaism as He knew it as being an essential part of his life now after saved and commissioned by Jesus

 

[Ben1445]

Paul never saw Himself as being a Pharisee after meeting the risen Christ, as he now saw that Judaism that He practiced and observed was no longer relevant under this New Covenant

That is not true.

Acts 23:6
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

He said this after his missionary journeys as he was being arrested. This happened well after meeting the risen Christ.