So we should not try to live by the Spirit every day of the week? We try really, really hard not to sin on one day of the week and we get to slack off the other days of the week??
Whoever said that you should not try to live by the Spirit? Ever since the beginning of Aedam, holy men and women have lived by the Spirit of YAHWEH. Holy men like Noach, Aebraham, Sharah (Sarah), Ya'aqob (Jacob), Ribqah (Rebecca), King Dawude (David), King Shalamah (Solomon), Aeliyahu (Elijah), etc. Every holy men and women in the Bible have been living by the Holy Spirit of YAHWEH, thousands of years before Christianity ever became a religion. Keeping the seventh-day Shabbath holy does not means that you are allow to sin on the other six days. Yahshuo (Jesus) knew this and he and disciples kept it during and after his death and resurrection. In fact, Yishrael and the joining Gentiles kept the seventh-day shabbath as holy while living a holy life in the Holy Spirit, two hundred years later after 70 C.E. And all of these holy people rested and kept the seventh-day holy without "slacking off" on other days of the week. I and others follow in the footsteps of these ancient holy people to this very day with this same understanding.
Yes, the Sabbath was a day of REST, not worship. There were 3 feast Sabbaths a year where all men were required to present themselves to the temple, but other Sabbaths a person was to rest.
The Seventh-Day Shabbath was, and is, and will be a day of rest for all of the sons of Aedam and creation; because YAHWEH, the Almighty God commanded this day to be holy at Mount Sinai. And only He has never cancel this commandment to keep this day holy. You are confusing the commandment to be holy from the commandment to keep a day holy. God gave us instructions on how to be holy in his Ten Commandments and the rest of the Thurah (Torah). Also, YAHWEH gave us commandments on how to keep a day holy apart from other days.
For example: These are step-by-step instructions on how a everyday holy man can keep the seventh-day of the week as a Holy Shabbath (Sabbath):
1. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." ---- Exodus 20:8
God want all of mankind to REMEMBER the seventh-day of the week (aka Saturday) apart from the other six days. This has nothing to do with breaking the other nine of the ten commandments. In other words, the nation of Yishrael knew that they CANNOT murder, steal, or commit adultery on ANY day of the week; but they still had to REMEMBER the seventh-day as a HOLY DAY (aka HOLI-Day).
2. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of YAHWEH thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates: -- Exodus 20:9-10
Stop doing your regular business of work on the seventh-day of the week; especially for making a profit. This Shabbath is established by YAHWEH; not you or anyone on this earth. YAHWEH said that you don't can work six days of the week; however, you MUST not do any work on the seventh-day of the week (Saturday, Sabado, Al-Sabt). Again, you are still being holy everday of the week; however, on the seventh-day, you are being a holy man or woman that is not WORKING. The same goes for your employees and animals. Animals do not think about walking in the Holy Spirit; and yet we are commanded to not WORK them on the seventh-day of the week. In other words, this particular holiness is not focus on the man and animals but on the day itself.
3. For [in] six days YAHWEH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore YAHWEH blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
For thousands of years the ancient holy people in the Bible reminded the rest of the world every seventh-day of the week that: YAHWEH created the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all their inhabitants in SIX LITERAL DAYS. And our ancient forefathers did that while at the same living in the Holy Spirit and being obedient to the rest of the 613 commandments everyday of the week for the rest of their lives; like many do to this very Shabbath today. Again, you cannot do that with other days of the week; it simply would not fit the pattern of creation not matter how Sunday-keeping Christians and Friday-keeping Muslims try to rationale their rebellous weekly pre-planned sins.
Now Christ is our Sabbath, we rest in Him. Not one day of the week, but every day, at all times.
You obviously do not understand the teachings about Christ being our Sabbath. You are taking this teaching out of context and applying it towards the weekly Sabbath; in which neither God nor Christ ever taught. I assume that the "rest" in which you are referring to is found in Timothy's Letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 3 & 4).
Hb 3:11 "So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my
rest.)" ---- Hebrews 3:11
The "rest" referred to in the above was the Promised Land prophesied by YAHWEH to one generation of the Sons of Yishrael during their 40 years of wandering in the Middle Eastern wilderness. However, another generation entered into that "
rest" (i.e. the Promised Land) and yet they still kept the weekly seventh-day shabbath by resting on that day; as they were commanded by the Almighty God himself. Therefore, clearly, there are two different "rests" we are talking about here.
And why was that generation of Yishrael was unable to enter into that particular "
rest"? The answer immediately followed Hebrews 3:11:
"Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." ---- Hebrews 3:12
In other words, they not only disobeyed the weekly seventh-day shabbath; but they also broke all of the other commandments of Yahweh because they did not TRUST (i.e. have faith) and BELIEVE in YAHWEH as their God.
[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."
[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."
[5] "And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my
rest."
[6] "Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:"
[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."
[8] For if [Yahshwo] had given them
rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
[9] There remaineth therefore a
rest to the people of God.
[10] "For he that is entered into his
rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his."
[11] "Let us labour therefore to enter into that
rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."
[12] "For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." ---- Hebrews 4:3-12
The rest that Yahshwo (aka Jesus) spoke of is the rest from justifying your salvation by obedience to God's law (Thurah). This is a different rest from the rest of your daily works on the weekly seventh-day shabbath. Otherwise:
1. Yahshwo would have announced it publicly that only one of the ten commandments is abolished and is not longer good but evil; however, he didn't say that.
2. The early followers of Yahshwo would not have rested on the seventh-day shabbath after Yahshwo's death on a cross.
3. Shaul (Paul) would not have kept the seventh-day shabbath.
4. The gentile believers would not have kept the seventh-day shabbath to listen to Shaul's teaching in a Jewish synagogue.
You see, they kept both rests:
1. They rested from their weekly works on the seventh-day shabbath by keeping that particular day holy.
2. They rested from their own attempts to justify their salvation apart from Yahshwo (Jesus Christ) by instead accepting Yahshwo as their Savior and Messiah.
This is legalist doo doo. What if I want to keep EVERY day as holy as I can, and worship God every day in spirit and in truth EVERY day and not just one per week?
The legalist manure that you smell is burning on a pile of man-made (legalist) laws like Sundays, Fridays, and other days replacing or down-playing God's holy days: The weekly seventh-day shabbath. Again, you can keep any day holy as you prefer; but your choice does neither trump, negate, nor do away with God's holy laws. You are confusing yourself being holy with keeping a day holy. For you to be holy you must obey God's holy laws; for a day to be holy you must follow God's way on how to keep a day holy (i.e. stop working and rest in the case of the seventh-day shabbath). It is not about you but it is about the DAY.
I'm an "Everyday Adventist."
Like I said before, other people were holy
everyday; and yet they still kept one day holier than the other based on God's laws not man's laws. I too am a holy man everyday; but that does not mean that everyday is holy. Yishrael did not question this at Mount Sinai; because they were holy everyday; however, not everyone of their days were holy except for those days spoken from God himself. Now why can't we follow him instead of the Devil's ways?
