I'm wanting to observe the Sabbath. However, I do not know how to observe it. I want to just relax at home but I realize I'm not comfortable doing that (I always have to have something to do or I feel like a sluggard). I have been convicted that I need to drive to town and hold up a sign that has a teaching of Jesus on it, but I'm not sure if this is allowed. My conscience won't let me just relax and read my bible and says I need to get out there and work for the Lord, but for months now my conscience has also been convicting me that I need to observe the Sabbath. Are these conflicting? I wouldn't be surprised because my conscience has convicted me of contradicting ideas before many times.
Acts 17:11 "they studied the scriptures daily to SEE IF those things spoken to them by the Apostle Paul - were so" We call that "sola scriptura" testing of doctrine.
You and I both know that the Exodus 20:7 command "
do not take God's name in vain" is not quoted in the NT at all - and not quoted in Genesis to Exodus until Exodus 20:7... yet it still applies to all mankind.
This is irrefutable.
1 Cor 7:19 "
what matters is keeping the Commandments of God"
Revelation 14:12 "
the saints KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus"
Isaiah 66:23 "
From Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL mankind come before Me to worship"
It is a day of Worship -- for "all mankind" as we see in the text above- and as no one who opposes God's Bible Sabbath would bother to quote for you.
Leviticus 23:
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is
The Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall
do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
Rest and holy convocation. No secular work
Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away
thy foot from The Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call The Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
It is the "Day of the Lord" it is not a day for mundane secular discussion or work.
And we are not to allow man-made-tradition to trample down the Commandments of God.
Mark 7
6 He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with
their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
7 And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching
as doctrines the commandments of men.’
8 For laying aside
the commandment of God, you hold
the tradition of men —the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.”
9 He said to them, “
All too well you reject
the commandment of God, that you may
keep your tradition. 10 For
Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 11
But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me
is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift
to God), 12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, 13
making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
Under the NEW Covenant the Commandments of God - the LAW of God - are "Written on the heart and mind" Jeremiah 31:31-33.
And of course both Jeremiah and his readers knew that the TEN Commandments were included in the LAW of God.
so also do the majority of even pro-Sunday scholars admit to this key Bible detail.