My Question (2)

Are you talking about keeping the law for salvation? Or as a requirement to walk with God?

Michael Vichiola said:

So... If Christians are supposed to keep all the commandments(Romans 6:1-2), and one of them is that we 're to keep the sabbath holy. Was the sabbath moved to Sunday? Am i missing something? Why aren't Christians actually doing it?

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There are Christians who still keep the Sabbath, and that on the first day of the week.

The sabbath in the NT is expressed in Matthew 11:27-30

27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Michael Vichiola said:

So... If Christians are supposed to keep all the commandments(Romans 6:1-2), and one of them is that we 're to keep the sabbath holy. Was the sabbath moved to Sunday? Am i missing something? Why aren't Christians actually doing it?

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Nine of the ten commandments are repeated in the NT. The one that is not repeated is Sabbath keeping. Paul said in Col. 2:16-17 that we do not have to be bothered by any judgments from religious men concerning sabbaths.

What's strange is the natural tendency to assume that keeping the Sabbath holy is fulfilled by scrambling about the house Sunday mornings, getting the kids ready for "church", etc., etc. Where's the rest in that, and how is that holy? Sitting in a pew or chair as an audience member in a "church service" is a keeping of the Sabbath? The Jews would say that we here in the West violate the Sabbath every Sunday. I was even chastised for daring to man the radio station as an on-air personality on Saturdays (some people's Sabbath).

So, keeping that day of rest holy seems to be more a matter of actually making that day a day of rest by staying home with family (if you have one), enjoying time together in quiet meditation and/or speaking about the things of the Lord, and just resting the body and abiding in the Lord's presence (since where two or three are gathered in His name, He is in their midst). Why expend energy making all the preparations to engage the dangers of driving among people looking at their cell phones rather than paying attention to their driving, and then working as an usher to seat people and collect the false giving, then all the other duties they do?

It seems that questions about the Sabbath, as it allegedly applies to us today, elicit all manner of responses, most of which are anything but it being a day of rest as did the Lord on that day.

Jr

topher694 said:

The sabbath in the NT is expressed in Matthew 11:27-30

27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

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I like your answer because in the NT, Jesus puts Himself in the place of the sabbath, claiming to be Lord over it. (Matthew 12:8).

If the Sabbath was "made for man" in order to commemorate the seventh day in which God rested from His work, the idea of keeping the sabbath as an obligation, or an act of working toward our salvation, is contradictory in the first place. God doesn't want us to "work" in our rest, rest is the time when we cease from our work, our strife, and any attempt to merit or earn favor with God. Instead, we rest in the completed work of Christ, whereby salvation is achieved and offered as a gift that we only need to receive. We keep the sabbath by resting in Christ, who is the Lord of the sabbath. In this case, the sabbath is not on Saturday or Sunday, or any other individual day, rather, the sabbath is enjoyed everyday.