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Why we are not supposed to keep the Sabbath

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Spiritual work when done in the Spirit is not neglecting our physical needs. We are nurtured and sustained by it. Moses in the mount twice and Jesus in the desert after His baptism attests to this.

I did not say neglect, I said without regard for, thus you are not with me.
The issue is trust: "take no thought". Living worry free is a spiritual rest, not physical.
The Sabbath is a physical rest. We who are living in and through the Spirit can now enter the day that God had sanctified and set apart and not defile it by our presence. @quevaraj is right when he shares that Israel as a whole had not been keeping the Sabbath, but his reasoning is wrong. It isn't that they were keeping the wrong time because of Joshua (Yah's Salvation) the son of Nun (posterity, increase). If that were the case as you probably know Jesus would have corrected them. He didn't. It was the fact that an unholy, unsanctified being cannot enter the Sabbath without defiling it. Hence why in verse four he starts with the word for. Which means as you know, what is about to be said is the reason for what was just said.

He said the works for the rest which he called the Gospel in verse 2. this Gospel rest which we who believe enter. The works for said rest have been finished since the foundation of the world. And what is even more interesting is the fact that the writer through the Spirit uses the word although. This implies that said rest in and through the Spirit, through Christ was always available. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

As proof in respect to the works for said rest being finished from the foundation of the world. He says, He Spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day. And God did rest from all His works. All His works according to context include the works for our rest in Christ.


Heb 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Heb 4:5 And in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.


Jesus succors, helps us that are tempted. So let's hear His voice now when we are tempted. And Harden not our hearts as in the day of temptation in the wilderness. For some who had heard did provoke and he was grieved due to their sin, so their carcasses fell in the wilderness because they heeded not to His voice, His rest due to their evil heart of unbelief hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. So fear lest any of us should come short of entering into His rest. For the GOSPEL, this rest, the Good News was preached to us as well as unto them. But it did not profit them due to them departing from the living God, not heeding His voice because of the deceitfulness of sin. But we which have believed do enter into the rest, the Gospel and thereby are succored when we are tempted because we heed His voice. This rest for which the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. Including the works for the rest which we have believed enter, which is the Gospel. "For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works." And that certain place that He spake was Mt Sinai.


And that brings us to verse 5 which is said in context to verse for. It says, "In this again".

In this again what?

He speaks.

He speaks what?

Of the Seventh Day if they shall enter into My Rest.

If we follow the context and grammar, what we have here is a speaking of the Seventh Day IF we shall enter into His Rest in Christ which is the Gospel.

Hence why it says in verses 9 and 10 that there remains a Sabbath keeping for the people of God. For he that has entered into his rest which is the Gospel ALSO cease from their own works AS God did from His.

There are two things being brought up in Hebrews 4. The rest which is the Gospel. And we who have entered into this rest ALSO cease from our own work AS, God did from His.

The word also means in addition and as means just like.

God did not enter into a spiritual rest on the Seventh Day. He is Spirit and He who is spirit ceased from His work on the Seventh day. So we who are now spirit in and through Christ Also cease from our own work AS, just like God did. Because He speaks of it agfain IF we have entered into His rest which is the Gospel.
Brother, the Gospel of Jesus does not fit the context of another “day”. A "day" Joshua was prevented from entering with manna by keeping the seventh day of the week near Jerusalem for 40 years by an “oath” that he later entered within Jerusalem without manna until the time of Jesus, without understanding God's true day of rest to give Israel the biblical Sabbath free of human tradition.

Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. (Hebrews 4:8 NLT)​

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge

But what about verses 6-8?

Verse 6 goes back to what verse two brought out. That some had not heeded His voice in respect to sin through Christ and His Spirit and have been hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. And therefore have not entered into His rest of the Spirit which is the Gospel. This brings us to verses 7 and 8 which is a call to repentance from this hardened state. He, through the Spirit says, again He limiteth a certain day, saying in David,.

And that certain day is Today, RIGHTY NOW!, As it is said, Today, RIGHT NOW. if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts and heed to the Spirit through Christ. For if Joshua leading them into the promised land had given this Rest in Christ, then David would not afterward spoken of another day. And that Day is today, RIGHT Now if you will hear His voice as verse 7 brings out.


Heb 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

Heb 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Heb 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

And that brings us to verses 9 and 10. These verses are said in context to verses 4-5.

How do we know?

For one it is the first time the Greek word translated rest in Heb 4:9 is used. And as you probably know it means Keeping of a Sabbath, Sabbath keeping, Sabbath rest, observance.

This fact brings us back to verses 4 and 5 speaking of a seventh day which is the Sabbath, not 7 and 8 and it's call to repentance. In that verses 4 and 5 say that he speaks again of the seventh day IF we have entered into the rest which is the Gospel. For we that have entered into his rest which is the Gospel ALSO, in addition to that, also ceases from his own work AS. just like God did from His.


Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest (Sabbath keeping) to the people of God.
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.



Matthew 6:
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Text flooding.

Chose one verse you believe is saying that we (Christians) are told to keep the Mosaic Law Sabbath rest. Keep it simple and short.
The bible is a big book for a reason. Only going by the readers digest version one would miss a lot.

But Jesus saying the Sabbath was made for humans Mark 2:27 and everyone Is 56:6 is a good start. Never called the Mosaic Sabbath law in scripture, but God claimed it as His own- My holy day, the holy day of the Lord thy God Is 58:13 the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God Exo 20:10. not the Sabbath of the Jews. If you love Me, keep My commandments John 14:15, the Sabbath is one of God's commandments written by His own finger and He claimed them as part of "My commandments" Exo 20:6.
 
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The bible is a big book for a reason. Only going by the readers digest version one would miss a lot.

But Jesus saying the Sabbath was made for humans Mark 2:27 and everyone Is 56:6 is a good start. Never called the Mosaic Sabbath law in scripture, but God claimed it as His own- My holy day, the holy day of the Lord thy God Is 58:13 the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God Exo 20:10. not the Sabbath of the Jews. If you love Me, keep My commandments John 14:15, the Sabbath is one of God's commandments written by His own finger and He claimed them as part of "My commandments" Exo 20:6.
Again, chose one, not six. I do not want to end up with exhausting exchanges about dozen verses in every post.

Bible is a library of books, not a book. But I agree there is a reason - the reason is called "context". You picking up several verses and tailoring them together hides the original context of each verse and creates your own - an illusion that they are all about the thing you want them to be about.
 
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Text flooding.

Chose one verse you believe is saying that we (Christians) are told to keep the Mosaic Law Sabbath rest. Keep it simple and short.
We do not control the answers one gives when asked questions. As they do not ours. But our job when answering is to state facts or what we think that shows what is wrong with their answer.

You haven't even posted what you think is wrong with @SabbathBlessings or @JesusFollowerForever posts let alone any facts.

Text flooding?
Really?

What you fail to realize is your lack of input that shows their text flooding is not relevant.
 
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Text flooding.

Chose one verse you believe is saying that we (Christians) are told to keep the Mosaic Law Sabbath rest. Keep it simple and short.
Truth requires little text to expose and a lot of text to cover it up.
 
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Truth requires little text to expose and a lot of text to cover it up.
Its an art/skill to be able to express ones thoughts in a short and effective way. Many are not able or willing to. Its not always easy and it also makes the manipulation of facts difficult to hide.
 
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Yet you haven’t answered either
I've already made my claims in another thread. The purpose of text flooding is not to expose the truth but to hide the truth while exhausting the opposition.
 
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I've already made my claims in another thread. The purpose of text flooding is not to expose the truth but to hide the truth while exhausting the opposition.
Still nothing posted that proves anything about the posts here. And the purpose of text flooding for the people who do it, for the most part, is to show that the Bible is clear on the subject.
 
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Its an art/skill to be able to express ones thoughts in a short and effective way. Many are not able or willing to. Its not always easy and it also makes the manipulation of facts difficult to hide.
Not the case here. Something’s take a. Lengthy explanation some don’t. The issue here is to many very seldom answer an explanation within the context of the passages given.
 
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But what about verses 6-8?
Brother, those who with Joshua first heard about God's day of "rest" with manna before David did not have access to the Gospel of Jesus. They did have access to the "good news" (mistranslated by the KJV as the Gospel of Jesus) of the Sabbath "day" of rest, when they were prevented from entering the Sabbath by "oath" with manna for 40 years because of their disobedience. Punished by making them keep the seventh day of the week near Jerusalem, which is half a day too late to enter the Sabbath in Jerusalem.

So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.” Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. (Hebrews 4:6-8 NLT)​
Verse 6 goes back to what verse two brought out. That some had not heeded His voice in respect to sin through Christ and His Spirit and have been hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Those with Joshua who first heard this "good news" (mistranslated by the KJV as the Gospel of Jesus) of the Sabbath "day" of rest did not have access to the Gospel of Jesus. The Gospel of Jesus came way after David for us to be compared to those who ate manna about anything other than the Sabbath. The KJV made the message seem to be about the present after Jesus when it is a message of a past mistake by Joshua in understanding the Sabbath.

Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. (Hebrews 4:8 NLT)​

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
 
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Everyone of your paragraphs provide an invitation to all nations or individuals. Israel was to welcome Gentiles into their ranks. The fact is that God has never demanded that Gentiles observe the laws He set forth for Israel. Besides all mankind is now subject to the New and better Covenant.

Jesus was born under the old covenant Law, and His mission was not to proselytize Gentiles. One of Jesus' missions was to fulfil the law, Torah, and the prophesies that foretold of His coming. He brought to an end the prophesies concerning His coming, so the word fulfil has to mean "bring to an end". His mission also was to bring the Law to an end. Matt 5:17

Jesus gave man the mission to spread the Gospel to all the World. Does the Gospel include the rituals of the old covenant? If it does, we certainly should see remnants of the ritual Sabbath law. What we do see are letters to the Corinthians, Ephesians, Galatians and Romans with sentences like Gal 3:19 Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come.

2Cor3:7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 11 And if what was transitory (temporary) came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!

Eph214 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, :

Rom3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

So, you see my friend in Christ we have an excellent case for not having to observe the rituals of an expired covenant. Jesus invites us to come to Him for our rest. It is an invitation not a command. The greatest thing Jeus ever commanded is for us to love others as He loves us. 1JN3 tells us that we belong to the truth if we believe and love others as Jesus taugh

Jesus did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17-18). The moral principles of the Law, such as loving God and loving others, are eternal and unchanging, reflecting God’s holy character. Jesus affirmed that these commandments remain central, summarizing them in Matthew 22:37-40. While the ceremonial aspects of the Old Covenant (like sacrifices) were fulfilled in Christ, the moral law continues to apply to believers today. Jesus deepened the understanding of the Law, focusing on the heart behind the actions (Matthew 5:21-22). The moral law is not obsolete but is now lived out by the power of the Holy Spirit, who enables believers to fulfill God’s righteous standards. In Christ, we find the ultimate fulfillment of the Law, as we live in love and holiness. All scriptures point to this.

Also the covenant is not expired but renewed in a better way, first to the Jews see Jeremiah 31:31-34. But later, remember Jesus sent his disciples to preach the gospel ( everything he told them and did ) to all the world, to those who love God and do His will. I hope you will understand this one day and decide to open your heart.

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Still nothing posted that proves anything about the posts here. And the purpose of text flooding for the people who do it, for the most part, is to show that the Bible is clear on the subject.
Text flooding is used because if someone ask you to give one verse to clearly state your point, that verse will be too weak to back up your point and can be quickly and easily countered. But if you give 50 weak verses with explanations, a person has to spend all day responding to each weak verse and explanation, then you’ll reply with another 50 weak verses and explanations until you exhaust your opponent. It’s a strategy to give the appearance of winning an argument not a strategy to reveal truth.
 
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Premises:
1. The Sabbath was a part of the Mosaic Law and of the Mosaic Law only.
2. The Law was only for Jews, since Moses till Christ.
3. Even the book of Genesis was a theological part of the Mosaic Law and is not literal (namely in its creation account).

If these premises are all true, we are not supposed to keep the Sabbath.
Seeing that we are up to page 26 I'll be repeating what others have said, I assume.

The only ones not required to keep the Sabbath are those with the mark of the beast, those who worship other Gods.

"The law was only for Jews, since Moses till Christ." According to what authority?

As a rule, I do not tale the Bible literally, but the Ten Commandments are very literal (although abstract), the rest of the Law is softer, requiring understanding.
 
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Text flooding is used because if someone ask you to give one verse to clearly state your point, that verse will be too weak to back up your point and can be quickly and easily countered. But if you give 50 weak verses with explanations, a person has to spend all day responding to each weak verse and explanation, then you’ll reply with another 50 weak verses and explanations until you exhaust your opponent. It’s a strategy to give the appearance of winning an argument not a strategy to reveal truth.
All you are doing is posting an excuse not to address anything.

If you had an argument that wasn't weak you would post it. You don't so you don't.
 
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Brother, those who with Joshua first heard about God's day of "rest" with manna before David did not have access to the Gospel of Jesus. They did have access to the "good news" (mistranslated by the KJV as the Gospel of Jesus) of the Sabbath "day" of rest, when they were prevented from entering the Sabbath by "oath" with manna for 40 years because of their disobedience. Punished by making them keep the seventh day of the week near Jerusalem, which is half a day too late to enter the Sabbath in Jerusalem.


You are not addressing the text or posting anything from them. All you are doing is talking over what is written with your dogma.
So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.” Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. (Hebrews 4:6-8 NLT)​

Those with Joshua who first heard this "good news" (mistranslated by the KJV as the Gospel of Jesus) of the Sabbath "day" of rest did not have access to the Gospel of Jesus. The Gospel of Jesus came way after David for us to be compared to those who ate manna about anything other than the Sabbath. The KJV made the message seem to be about the present after Jesus when it is a message of a past mistake by Joshua in understanding the Sabbath.

Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. (Hebrews 4:8 NLT)​

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
You are not addressing the post and the facts it show in respect to the contextual flow and your errors. You are just talking over it without addressing what is posted to you. What is really bad now is @JesusFollowerForever thinks your post is informative. And that is really an issue considering you haven't derived your dogma from the text cited.

The gospel rest we have in Christ is being cleansed and forgiven of sin. And living though and of His Spirit. This Spirit led life, the rest that Heb 3 and 4 bring out is what the New Covenant speaks. And this indeed was preach and was available to them in Moses' time, for God commanded Moses to make another covenant with the children of Israel. Beside the covenant made with them in Sinia of Horeb. This is seen in Deut 29:1.


Deut 29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deut 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.



And then He said, For the Lord will circumcise your heart and the heart of thy seed. For this commandment I command you this day, To hearken unto the voice of the Lord and keep His commandments AND Statutes contained in the Book of the Law and turn unto the Lord. This is not far from thee nor hidden. But the word is in thy heart and in thy mouth that ye do it. That is the word of faith in which we preach.




Deut 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deut 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
Deut 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deut 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Deut 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.


Rom 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above
Rom 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
 
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Its an art/skill to be able to express ones thoughts in a short and effective way. Many are not able or willing to. Its not always easy and it also makes the manipulation of facts difficult to hide.
Ok, this one should be easy.

Who was the Sabbath made for according to Jesus?

Following your logic, please provide one verse to answer this simple question.
 
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Text flooding is used because if someone ask you to give one verse to clearly state your point, that verse will be too weak to back up your point and can be quickly and easily countered. But if you give 50 weak verses with explanations, a person has to spend all day responding to each weak verse and explanation, then you’ll reply with another 50 weak verses and explanations until you exhaust your opponent. It’s a strategy to give the appearance of winning an argument not a strategy to not a strategy to reveal truth.
Some folks have had years of experience with it and have it down to a fine science. Personally I don't see much point in having same argument over a view a half dozen people here hold to hundreds of times. But that's me. Other's milage may vary.
 
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Some folks have had years of experience with it and have it down to a fine science. Personally I don't see much point in having same argument over a view a half dozen people here hold to hundreds of times. But that's me. Other's milage may vary.
Yet Here you are in the midst of said discussion. Participating in a red herring and not addressing anything relevant according to the thread.
 
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Ok, this one should be easy.

Who was the Sabbath made for according to Jesus?

Following your logic, please provide one verse to answer this simple question.
In Mark 2:27 Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” This statement was in response to the accusation that His disciples were breaking the law regarding resting on the Sabbath when they walked by some fields and plucked heads of grain (see Mark 2:23–28; also Matthew 12:1–8; Luke 6:1–5).

When the Pharisees accused Jesus’ disciples, Jesus referred them to an example from the Old Testament. David was once in need of food and was given consecrated bread that was, technically, only lawful for the priests to eat (1 Samuel 21:1–6). The holy bread had served a practical need of God’s anointed (David) and his followers, just as, in Jesus’ day, the grain served a practical need for God’s anointed (Jesus) and His followers.

David and his men had not acted sinfully in eating the showbread, and neither were Jesus’ disciples acting sinfully in picking heads of grain on the Sabbath. Jesus concludes, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27–28). His response to the accusing Pharisees contains two important teachings.

First, the Sabbath was intended to help people, not burden them. In contrast with the grueling daily work as slaves in Egypt, the Israelites were commanded to take a full day of rest each week under the Mosaic Law. Pharisaical law had morphed the Sabbath into a burden, adding restrictions beyond what God’s law said. The act of picking a head of grain and munching on it as one walked along a field should not be considered “harvesting,” as the Pharisees tried to categorize it. The disciples had not broken God’s law; they had only violated the Pharisees’ strict interpretation of the law. Jesus reminded the Pharisees of the original intent of the Sabbath rest.

Jesus gives a similar reminder in Mark 3:1–6 (also Matthew 12:9–14; Luke 6:6–11) when He heals a man on the Sabbath. The Pharisees were looking to accuse Jesus and closely watched His response to a man with a shriveled hand. “Jesus asked them, ‘Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?’ But they remained silent” (Mark 3:4). The Sabbath was not intended to burden people but to ease their burden. For someone to forbid acts of mercy and goodness on God’s day of rest is contrary to all that is right. Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, did what was right and healed the man, and that’s when the Pharisees began to plot with the Herodians to kill Jesus.

Second, Jesus is Lord even of the Sabbath. What does this mean? Another way to express the idea is to say Jesus is in charge of the Sabbath. He is God in human form, and He created the Sabbath day. As the One who wrote the law, Jesus certainly has oversight over how the law is to be enforced. The Pharisees had lifted their own rules to the level of God’s, placing onerous burdens on people, and they ended up rebuking the Lawgiver Himself.

Jesus is also the Lord of the Sabbath in that the Sabbath pointed to the rest Jesus provides. Jesus became our rest when He did all the work necessary for our salvation (Hebrews 4). He fulfilled the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 5:17). “Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes” (Romans 10:4). We rest, spiritually, in Him; He has secured our eternal blessing.

As believers, set free in Christ, we are not judged by whether or not we keep the Sabbath day (Colossians 2:16). Instead, we follow the Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus Christ. We find our rest in Him, and seven days a week are filled with worship of Him.

 
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