Did the LORD change Sabbath?

[Dkh587]

So it is great to observe weekly sabbath but it's not a sin not to observe it... even though I feel somewhat indebted to see it as an important thing to do or observe.... I know guys who make it sound like "it's a call of damnation" and I'm caught between breaking a commandment and freedom to chose how I would like to honor my Sabbath day!!!

If you want to honor the Sabbath, wouldnt you want to keep the Sabbath as the Father commanded? That is, by setting it apart as a day of rest.

After all, the commandment to keep the Sabbath was written in stone. It's the 4th commandment

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath

If the Father tells us to do something, which would be a commandment, wouldn't we be breaking the commandment by not doing what he says?

Case in point: the Sabbath is a commandment, so by not keeping the Sabbath, we are breaking the commandment to keep it

Shabbat Shalam, by the way

 

[Dave Watchman]

Hey ~ Imho no covenant changes the Sabbath, as it's a Creation thing. Have no problem honoring and praising Christ on the Sabbath, or on Sunday. Either way.

Sir ~ Respectfully, I have to disagree. Christ testifies that the Sabbath was made for man. As opposed to being made for Israel, specifically.

Good job Gracia. Your simple common sense and logical approach refutes the learned internet theologian in just two sentences. It's like when Amatorreginae said:

There's no doubt that the Sabbath is a special day. Genesis tells us that God hallowed the seventh day, marking it out as distinct and different from the other days, and this before the institution of the Torah, the Law.

Before the Torah and before the Mosaic Law, the Lord made the Seventh day holy.

The very first Sabbath was the Seventh day of creation.

Gen 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Gen 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.​

Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day, before the Sabbath day, and so were there to enjoy the very first Sabbath day of rest that God created for them. While some say that the Sabbath was just a Jewish thing that was done away with at the cross, actually not a single Jew could be found until the covenant made with Abraham which was thousands of years later. The Sabbath predates the Jews. Since the Sabbath day was established at creation as a memorial of that event, would that then make Adam and Eve Mosaic style Jews? I don't think so. The Sabbath predates the Jews because: "the Sabbath was made for man".

So the Seventh day Sabbath was created for Adam and Eve, and all mankind, not just for the Jews. Adam lived 930 years and undoubtedly was a Sabbath keeper his whole life.
Did Abraham, who was born 1000 years after Adam, and 300 years after the flood, also keep the Seventh day Sabbath?:

Gen 26:5
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.​

Since Abraham kept God's commandments, God's statutes and God's laws he must also have faithfully kept the Seventh day Sabbath of the Lord.

I know that this note sounds like a Seventh day propaganda pamphlet to some people but I'm not from any church. I live in the country where there's no Seventh day assembly near my location and have never been into one. And I won't embark on a long excursion any great distance away from my gates on this day so I will put my feet up, rest and thank the Lord for His Glorious Sabbath day.

Have a peaceful rest of the Sabbath.

“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath​

and from doing as you please on my holy day,

if you call the Sabbath a delight​

and the Lord’s holy day honorable,

and if you honor it by not going your own way​

and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

then you will find your joy in the Lord,​

and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land

and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”​

The mouth of the Lord has spoken.​

 

[DamianWarS]

Hey, Sir ~

Should, no. Is free to if they desire to for the sake of Christ, yes. Seems like the tenor is, if you observe the Sabbath day to honor Christ, good. If you observe not the day to honor Christ, good. There's liberty as long as no New Covenant commandmants are being broken, and as long as no one man's convictions or preferences are presented as binding on all. If Christians feel lead to rest on the seventh day, no one should call them Judaizers. Neither should they call those who feel lead to carry on as usual on the seventh day pagans.

But to in some way give thanks to God and to His Son, for whom all things were created, on the Sabbath feels right to me. Even just a special prayer of thanks and acknowledgement. To give glory to the God who hallowed the seventh day, and to His Messiah and our Lord.

Giving thanks to God is a good thing but wouldn't it be better to give thanks everyday? This logic of honoring the sabbath by a single prayer evades me. James 2:10 tells us "For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it." so if you are suggesting that we should honor the sabbath with at least a prayer both misses the point of the law and the gospel. If you do it for the glory of God then continue with a clean conscious but this idea of a single prayer being the bare minimal is counter-gospel.

 

[ripple the car]

Hey Sir ~

Of course I thank God every day. But I thank Him specifically for the Seventh day on that day, and for Messiah who is our Sabbath rest.

Giving thanks to God is a good thing but wouldn't it be better to give thanks everyday? This logic of honoring the sabbath by a single prayer evades me. James 2:10 tells us "For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it." so if you are suggesting that we should honor the sabbath with at least a prayer both misses the point of the law and the gospel. If you do it for the glory of God then continue with a clean conscious but this idea of a single prayer being the bare minimal is counter-gospel.

 

[DamianWarS]

Hey Sir ~

Of course I thank God every day. But I thank Him specifically for the Seventh day on that day, and for Messiah who is our Sabbath rest.

Again why not do that everyday? Your line of reasoning demands the question is this required?

 

[ripple the car]

Not required, Sir, just something I choose to do. Scripture does not forbid me from observing a day for Christ, so long as I don't try to lord my conviction over others.

Again why not do that everyday? Your line of reasoning demands the question is this required?