Is the fourth commandment done away with? (Moved)

[k4c]

Should Christians keep the seventh day Sabbath holy?

Are we being deceived by not remembering the Sabbath?

The Bible says that the New Covenant will have two aspects. One, God forgives us of our sins, which are the violations of the law, which include the forth commandment. 1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Two, God will write His law on our hearts.

We know from Scripture that keeping of the Ten Commandments saves no one, but rather, they point out our need for a Savior. It's God's grace that saves us.

This tells me that we don't keep the commandmends to get saved, but rather, once we are saved we will keep them because we love God and neighbor.

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Shall we break the law of God because we are now saved?

God tells us that the keeping of the law is motivated by love for God and love for neighbor.

Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?'' Jesus said to him, " `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' "This is the first and great commandment. "And the second is like it: `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.''

How we love God and neighbor is defined in the Ten Commandments.

The first four teach us what pleases God and the last six teaches us what will please others.

How does God write these two aspects of the law on our hearts.

Under the Old Covenant they were commanded to keep the commandments or die.

Under the New Covenant we are free from that fearful aspect of death for not keeping the law and are now under grace, in other words, God frees us from the law and its penalty so that we now are free to obey or not obey without fear. This will open us up to obey God from the heart.

Ephesians 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Look at it this way. Lets say a guy hires a maid, she comes to his house twice a week. The guy puts up a list of chores for her to do, which entail, laundry, dishes, cooking and cleaning. If she does not do these things she will risk the chance of being fired. As she begins to work for him, several months go by when they begin to fall in love and get married. The first thing she does when she comes home from her wedding is she removes the list of chores. Does this mean she will no longer do these things? No, it means she does not need the list to tell her what to do because she loves her husband.

God takes away the law so that we can keep the law because we love Him. If I saw that maid doing all the house work for free I would have to ask why she was doing it. Her response would be, because she Ioves him.

If someone asked me why I was keeping the Sabbath, since we are no longer under the law but under grace, I wound have to say, because I love Him.

The Ten Commandments have not been done away with, we just have a different relationship to them now. They go from being written on stone to being written on our heart through freedom and love.

Listen to how the Ten Commandments are referred to by Paul.

Ephesians 6:2 "Honor your father and mother,'' which is the first commandment with promise:
Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Listen to how Jesus refers back to them.

Luke 18:18-21 Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'' So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. "You know the commandments: `Do not commit adultery,' `Do not murder,' `Do not steal,' `Do not bear false witness,' `Honor your father and your mother.' '' And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth.''

Jesus was even concerned about the Sabbath forty years after His resurrection.

Matthew 24:16-20 "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. "Let him who is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house. "And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. "But woe to those who are pregnant and to those with nursing babies in those days! "And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.

Jesus even said He was Lord of the Sabbath and how the Sabbath was made for man.

These are not words that do away with the law or the Sabbath, but rather, confirm the Sabbath and the law.

What are your thoughts?

 

[k4c]

No takers, no words of wisdom from the Bible scholars of the day?

Most people in Churches today are being taught that the Ten Commandments have been nailed to the cross but when you ask them if stealing, lying, adultery, using the Lord's name in vain, having other Gods and so on are sinful for God's people today they will say they are but in the same breath they say they have been nailed to the cross.

Is the fourth commandment part of the Ten Commandments?

Can the fourth commandment be removed from stone to make only nine now?

When God says we break all the commandments when we break one, is He referring to only nine of them or ten of them?

What are your thoughts?

 

[k4c]

God's word tells us that the reason for the Ten Commandments was because of transgressions.

What is He saying?

He is saying that people were doing these sinful things before the law was given.

This tells me that the law points out sin.

For example, people were not regarding the seventh day as being blessed and set apart from the other six days prior to the given of the law. God pointed this fact out in the fourth commandment just like He pointed out the other sinful things in the other nine commandments.

Jesus kept the law perfectly, which made Him the acceptable sacrifice.

The faith of Jesus in keeping the commandments of God is our example.

John 15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

1 John 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

Revelation 14:12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Even after the death of Jesus we see His followers still keeping the Sabbath rest of the fourth commandment.

Luke 23:56 Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

Paul gathered every Sabbath with Jew and Gentile in the Corinthian church long after the resurrectin of Jesus.

Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

Paul met with Jews and Gentiles in the Corinthian church every Sabbath for a year and a half before he left for his next journey.

Acts 18:11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

The Gentiles even begged Paul to come back next Sabbath.

Acts 13:42 And when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

Why not the next day, which would have been Sunday?

What are your thoughts?

 

[k4c]

Come on, still no takers?

If these things can't be refuted than maybe that's telling us we need to repent and start remembering to keep the Sabbath holy as God commands.

Anyone who takes a little time to read their Bibles will soon begin to see that God desires and longs for a people who will keep His commandments because they love Him.

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

Anyone who says they know God yet they don't keep His commandments doesn't really know Him.

1 John 2:3-4 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him,'' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

What are your thoughts?

 

[PROPHECYKID]

Come on, still no takers?

If these things can't be refuted than maybe that's telling us we need to repent and start remembering to keep the Sabbath holy as God commands.

Anyone who takes a little time to read their Bibles will soon begin to see that God desires and longs for a people who will keep His commandments because they love Him.

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

Anyone who says they know God yet they don't keep His commandments doesn't really know Him.

1 John 2:3-4 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him,'' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

What are your thoughts?

There is a thread on this topic in general theology. The name is "Chariots of Fire". I invite you to come and make your contributions there. It seems to be boring here.

 

[billwald]

First, anyone who thinks that we have have a perfect historical calendar record for 6000 years is kidding himself.

 

[k4c]

First, anyone who thinks that we have have a perfect historical calendar record for 6000 years is kidding himself.

Hi Billwald,

It's not about a calender, it's about honoring the seventh day as God commands. Do we personally know which day is the seventh day? Yes we do. Even Webster's Dictionary says. Saturday: The seventh day.

Keeping the seventh day holy is not scientific magic that needs to be cucullated mathematically. It's just about keeping the seventh day holy. Now we know the first day is defiantly not the seventh day.

If you know that Saturday is the seventh day and you keep it holy to please God, God will be blessed by your faith.

 

[billwald]

So 7th Day Adventists are also correct

 

[billwald]

Omitted then I agree.

 

[k4c]

So 7th Day Adventists are also correct

Though some SDA members have missed some of the liberties that Jesus gave us in Sabbath keeping, the SDA have the right day.

 

[Dispy]

Should Christians keep the seventh day Sabbath holy?

Are we being deceived by not remembering the Sabbath?

The Bible says that the New Covenant will have two aspects. One, God forgives us of our sins, which are the violations of the law, which include the forth commandment. 1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Two, God will write His law on our hearts.

We know from Scripture that keeping of the Ten Commandments saves no one, but rather, they point out our need for a Savior. It's God's grace that saves us.

This tells me that we don't keep the commandmends to get saved, but rather, once we are saved we will keep them because we love God and neighbor.

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Shall we break the law of God because we are now saved?

God tells us that the keeping of the law is motivated by love for God and love for neighbor.

Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?'' Jesus said to him, " `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' "This is the first and great commandment. "And the second is like it: `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.''

How we love God and neighbor is defined in the Ten Commandments.

The first four teach us what pleases God and the last six teaches us what will please others.

How does God write these two aspects of the law on our hearts.

Under the Old Covenant they were commanded to keep the commandments or die.

Under the New Covenant we are free from that fearful aspect of death for not keeping the law and are now under grace, in other words, God frees us from the law and its penalty so that we now are free to obey or not obey without fear. This will open us up to obey God from the heart.

Ephesians 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Look at it this way. Lets say a guy hires a maid, she comes to his house twice a week. The guy puts up a list of chores for her to do, which entail, laundry, dishes, cooking and cleaning. If she does not do these things she will risk the chance of being fired. As she begins to work for him, several months go by when they begin to fall in love and get married. The first thing she does when she comes home from her wedding is she removes the list of chores. Does this mean she will no longer do these things? No, it means she does not need the list to tell her what to do because she loves her husband.

God takes away the law so that we can keep the law because we love Him. If I saw that maid doing all the house work for free I would have to ask why she was doing it. Her response would be, because she Ioves him.

If someone asked me why I was keeping the Sabbath, since we are no longer under the law but under grace, I wound have to say, because I love Him.

The Ten Commandments have not been done away with, we just have a different relationship to them now. They go from being written on stone to being written on our heart through freedom and love.

Listen to how the Ten Commandments are referred to by Paul.

Ephesians 6:2 "Honor your father and mother,'' which is the first commandment with promise:
Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Listen to how Jesus refers back to them.

Luke 18:18-21 Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'' So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. "You know the commandments: `Do not commit adultery,' `Do not murder,' `Do not steal,' `Do not bear false witness,' `Honor your father and your mother.' '' And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth.''

Jesus was even concerned about the Sabbath forty years after His resurrection.

Matthew 24:16-20 "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. "Let him who is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house. "And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. "But woe to those who are pregnant and to those with nursing babies in those days! "And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.

Jesus even said He was Lord of the Sabbath and how the Sabbath was made for man.

These are not words that do away with the law or the Sabbath, but rather, confirm the Sabbath and the law.

What are your thoughts?

The Law (10 Commandments) was given to Moses, for intructions in righteousness. They were never given to the Gentiles. Therefore, the Gentiles were never under the Law.

In the OT, and Gospels, for one that was a Gentile and wanted to serve the true God of Israel, that one had to become a Jew and place themselves under the Laws of Moses.

With the giving of temporary slumbering eyes to the children of Isreal, the Laws became temporarily suspended also. God raised up Saul/Paul to usher in this present "dispensation of Grace." Therefore, we are not under the Laws of Moses. "Therefdore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law" (Rom. 3:28). "For he is our peace, wh hath made both one (Jews and Gentiles), and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolishe in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordnances; for to make to himself of twain (set aside Jews and Gentiles) one new man, so making peace" (Eph. 2 14, 15).

"Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the Law" Rom. 3:28).

"But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements (Laws of Moses), whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years" (Gal. 4:9, 10).

 

[k4c]

The Law (10 Commandments) was given to Moses, for intructions in righteousness. They were never given to the Gentiles. Therefore, the Gentiles were never under the Law.

In the OT, and Gospels, for one that was a Gentile and wanted to serve the true God of Israel, that one had to become a Jew and place themselves under the Laws of Moses.

With the giving of temporary slumbering eyes to the children of Isreal, the Laws became temporarily suspended also. God raised up Saul/Paul to usher in this present "dispensation of Grace." Therefore, we are not under the Laws of Moses. "Therefdore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law" (Rom. 3:28). "For he is our peace, wh hath made both one (Jews and Gentiles), and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolishe in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordnances; for to make to himself of twain (set aside Jews and Gentiles) one new man, so making peace" (Eph. 2 14, 15).

"Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the Law" Rom. 3:28).

"But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements (Laws of Moses), whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years" (Gal. 4:9, 10).

There are many things in the Old Testament that were called laws such as, the law of circumcisim, the sacrifical law and all the laws surrounding the feast days, which were all shadows that were fulfilled in Christ. But the Ten Commandments, including the fourth commandment is never called a shadow.

I agree that we no longer keep the law to be righteous becuase we are saved by grace in which Christ is our rightousness. But what does God say about His grace and our responsibiity to the Ten Commandments?

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

I also agree that the law was given to the Jews but it was given to them because God chose them to reveal His will to all mankind. Even salvation itself is of the Jews so if we use your logic in that the law was given to the Jews and not the Gentiles then we must also say the same for salvation. In this we will all be in trouble.

The New Covenant consists of God forgiving us of all our sins and then He writes His law on our heart. The New Covenant is for Jew and Gentile.

I don't believe there is a Bible believing Christian that believes we are free to commit adultery, lie, steal, have other God's, worship statues or use the Lord's name in vain and so on. To say we are no longer under the law one must truly understand what that means.

 

[Dispy]

The Law (10 Commandments) was given to Moses, for intructions in righteousness. They were never given to the Gentiles. Therefore, the Gentiles were never under the Law.

In the OT, and Gospels, for one that was a Gentile and wanted to serve the true God of Israel, that one had to become a Jew and place themselves under the Laws of Moses.

With the giving of temporary slumbering eyes to the children of Isreal, the Laws became temporarily suspended also. God raised up Saul/Paul to usher in this present "dispensation of Grace." Therefore, we are not under the Laws of Moses. "Therefdore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law" (Rom. 3:28). "For he is our peace, wh hath made both one (Jews and Gentiles), and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolishe in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordnances; for to make to himself of twain (set aside Jews and Gentiles) one new man, so making peace" (Eph. 2 14, 15).

"Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the Law" Rom. 3:28).

"But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements (Laws of Moses), whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years" (Gal. 4:9, 10).

There are many things in the Old Testament that were called laws such as, the law of circumcisim, the sacrifical law and all the laws surrounding the feast days, which were all shadows that were fulfilled in Christ. But the Ten Commandments, including the fourth commandment is never called a shadow.

Then tell me, Where is circumcision seen as a shadow of things to come and fulfilled? It was given as a sing and seal between God and children of Israel. There are 613 Laws, that Moses wrote down, that were to be kept by Israel. You can see all of them at: http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm.

What about Sabbath Day travel? A Sabbath Day journey was 4854 FEET. How many SDA observe that Law.

Not too far from me is a large new SDA Church, in a very new area of town. the parking lot is usually full of cars on Saturday, as could be expected. How many of those do you suppose break the 7th Day travel Law? Or do they have a special dispensation to violate that Law?

I agree that we no longer keep the law to be righteous becuase we are saved by grace in which Christ is our rightousness. But what does God say about His grace and our responsibiity to the Ten Commandments?

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Not being under the Law does not give us a license to sin. God gave His instructions in righteousness for the children of Isreal through the Laws of Moses. They had to do the deed/works of the Law by FAITH.

God gave His instructions in righteousness for members of the Church, the Body of Christ, through the Apostle Paul. What I find interesting in Paul Epistles is that for our instructions in righteous he includes all the precepts of the 10 Commandments, with the exception of the 4th, which is the keeping of the Sabbath Day. Wonder WHY?

I also agree that the law was given to the Jews but it was given to them because God chose them to reveal His will to all mankind. Even salvation itself is of the Jews so if we use your logic in that the law was given to the Jews and not the Gentiles then we must also say the same for salvation. In this we will all be in trouble.

The Law was given to the Jews, and they were to receive God's blessings if they would obey His voice and keep His covenants (Laws) (Exod. 19:5). Had Israel obeyed God, then Israel would have been bless, and they would have been the light to the Gentiles, because they too would want those blessings. See Isaiah 42:6, 49:6, 60:3.

The New Covenant consists of God forgiving us of all our sins and then He writes His law on our heart. The New Covenant is for Jew and Gentile.

The Church, the Body of Christ is not included in the New Covenant. That Covenant is with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah (Jer. 31:31-34, Heb. 8:7-10.

I don't believe there is a Bible believing Christian that believes we are free to commit adultery, lie, steal, have other God's, worship statues or use the Lord's name in vain and so on. To say we are no longer under the law one must truly understand what that means.

I do agree with you 100% on that.

 

[k4c]

Then tell me, Where is circumcision seen as a shadow of things to come and fulfilled? It was given as a sing and seal between God and children of Israel. There are 613 Laws, that Moses wrote down, that were to be kept by Israel. You can see all of them at: http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm.

What about Sabbath Day travel? A Sabbath Day journey was 4854 FEET. How many SDA observe that Law.

Not too far from me is a large new SDA Church, in a very new area of town. the parking lot is usually full of cars on Saturday, as could be expected. How many of those do you suppose break the 7th Day travel Law? Or do they have a special dispensation to violate that Law?



Not being under the Law does not give us a license to sin. God gave His instructions in righteousness for the children of Isreal through the Laws of Moses. They had to do the deed/works of the Law by FAITH.

God gave His instructions in righteousness for members of the Church, the Body of Christ, through the Apostle Paul. What I find interesting in Paul Epistles is that for our instructions in righteous he includes all the precepts of the 10 Commandments, with the exception of the 4th, which is the keeping of the Sabbath Day. Wonder WHY?



The Law was given to the Jews, and they were to receive God's blessings if they would obey His voice and keep His covenants (Laws) (Exod. 19:5). Had Israel obeyed God, then Israel would have been bless, and they would have been the light to the Gentiles, because they too would want those blessings. See Isaiah 42:6, 49:6, 60:3.



The Church, the Body of Christ is not included in the New Covenant. That Covenant is with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah (Jer. 31:31-34, Heb. 8:7-10.



I do agree with you 100% on that.

The fourth commandments says, "Six days you shall do all your work but on the seventh day you shall call holy and do no work. In other words, take this day and set it aside for the whole family of God to gather in loving obedience to the creator of heaven and earth. There is nothing in this commandment that says anything about driving or walking to far on the Sabbath. Jesus cleared up any confusion we would have when He said.

Luke 6:9 Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?''

Is it evil to drive to church or visit a nursing home or a prison on the Sabbath?

Is it evil to feed your animals, care for your family or fix a flat tire on the Sabbath?

No it's not. Why?

Because Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabath. In other words, there will be things that will need to be done even though it's the Sabbath so don't let legalistic, religious man put you under condemnation. Jesus' yoke is easy and His burden is light.

It's all so very simple. Set the seventh day aside in honor of God's word by not doing your normal business that you do the other six days. Bingo, you just pleased God...

 

[heymikey80]

The Apostle stated that all other Sabbaths had abandoned the "Today" Sabbath in Hebrews 4.

The Sabbath is real. The Sabbath is daily. The seventh-day sabbath was a shallow dip into the real rest God wants us to enter every day.

 

[dvd_holc]

The Apostle stated that all other Sabbaths had abandoned the "Today" Sabbath in Hebrews 4.

The Sabbath is real. The Sabbath is daily. The seventh-day sabbath was a shallow dip into the real rest God wants us to enter every day.

Don't reference Hebrews 4...it is obvious that you don't know what you are talking about.

 

[heymikey80]

Don't reference Hebrews 4...it is obvious that you don't know what you are talking about.

Then I expect you reject from my paraphrase of the Apostle that he doesn't know what he's talking about?

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

"As I swore in my wrath,'They shall not enter my rest,'"​

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works." And again in this passage he said,

"They shall not enter my rest."​

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

"Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts."​

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there is left for the people of God a Sabbath rest, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. Heb 4:1-11

​

It's actually ironic how many times people simply attack this passage without actually addressing it, or addressing it on implausible assumptions like, "He's just being spiritual."

 

[dvd_holc]

Now, I know that the Apostle knows what he is talking about but from what you said...it is clear you have no idea what Hebrews 4 is about.

 

[heymikey80]

As you've said nothing substantial but merely attacked the person speaking -- the assertion stands.

 

[ThomasDa]

The short answer is yes we must, that is.



God’s Holy Sabbath is just as binding as “You shall not kill” or “You shall not commit adultery.”

In Gen. 2:2-3 God creates the Sabbath. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified, it (set it apart for a Holy purpose) because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Then in Ex. 20:11 referring to the creation of the Sabbath God says, 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. (made it holy)

In Ex. 16 Here God reintroduces the Sabbath to Israel after they had been in captivity in Egypt and had lost knowledge of the true God and His Sabbath. Beginning in verse 4 God puts the people of Israel to a test to see if they will obey His Law. 4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. In verse 5 God says He will give them twice as much manna on the sixth day of each week so they will have food on the Sabbath because He would not rain manna on the Sabbath. In verse 27 some of them rebelled and then in verse 28 God asks, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? Did you know God kept on raining manna six days a week and not on the Sabbath for forty years. God repeated this miracle week after week for forty years to show just how serious He is about His Sabbath. Let’s not forget that all these things were written for our admonition.
(1Cor. 10:11)

Here, several weeks before God gives Moses the Ten Commandments God says that Israel was already refusing to keep His commandments, specifically the Sabbath.

God’s Law has always been and always will be until all is completed. (Mat.5:18) God reveals His Law because it is good for us and our descendents forever. Deut. 5:29 Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
In Mal. 3:6 God says I change not. Heb 13:8 says that Jesus is same yesterday, today and forever.

God calls The Sabbath, My Sabbath many times. Some examples can be found in Ex. 31:13, Lev 19:3, 30 Lev. 26:2. Jesus claimed the Sabbath was His when He said that He is Lord of the Sabbath. Mk. 2:28. In verse 27 Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for mankind.
I know that most people don’t understand that God’s Law is a blessing not a curse. 1Jo. 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. The blessing of God’s Law stands second only to Christ’s sacrifice for us.

Since Jesus said in Mat. 22:37 “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
And since God says in Jer.17:9 “ The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
And since we know that God is love. 1Jo. 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
I think it’s rather obvious that we should follow Jesus’ example in all we do including keeping His Sabbath. Especially since His first four commandments are the very basics of how to love God.
Disobedience to God does not show love toward Him.

Jesus left us an example that we should follow in His footsteps. Now we know that Jesus kept the Sabbath. It was His custom: His way of life. Lk. 4:14-16 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 15 And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written.....

Paul followed in Jesus’ footsteps Act.17:1-2 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures. Note Act. 13:42-44 42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue,[j] the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. 43 Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. Notice Paul did not say “don’t worry about that Sabbath thing, come in tomorrow on the first day of the week and I’ll hold services then.”
Again in Act. 18:4 . 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

Some will quote “the church fathers” as if they were apostles of Christ. They were not! They were leaders of the fallen woman at Rome. I choose to believe and obey God rather men.