I'm still waiting for someone to show me where it's written that followers of Jesus are to worship YHVH on the sabbath, and keep the sabbath.
I really like the fact that you are making your case from scripture. Scripture (God's Word) is where we find that His Sabbath commandment is included in His TEN commandments and that His Sabbath was "made for mankind" Mark 2:27 (as opposed to "made for just the Jews") when both mankind and the Sabbath were made according to Ex 20:11 and Gen 2:1-3.
A Bible detail so obvious that Bible scholarship on both sides of this topic agree that all TEN continue and are included in the Law of God written on the heart under the New Covenant.
We showed you that in Heb 4 "There REMAINS therefore a Sabbath for the people of God"
We showed you that in Acts 18:4 where "Every Sabbath" Paul and those who accepted his teaching were meeting and preaching the Gospel ... this includes both gentiles and Jews in that case.
We showed you that in Is 66:23 where for all eternity after the cross - the saints of all ages in the New Earth meet for worship "from Sabbath to Sabbath".
As I stated before, according to Romans 14 speaking of the Bible approved annual holy days.,
Rom 14:5
One man observes one day above another while another man observes them all... He who observes the day observes it for the Lord.
The word "Alike" is inserted as the Bible translators all admit by placing it in italics.
Not one single reference in Rom 14 to the word "Sabbath".
To me, every day is alike.
You have free will - you can believe anything you wish. I prefer the Bible.
I further see in Colossians 2:16-23
Col 2:16-23 WEB 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day, 17
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
The "shadow" sabbaths of Lev 23 - the annual holy days with their animal sacrifices were shadows (predictions) of the sacrifice of Christ. By contrast Gen 2:1-3 and Ex 20:11 point to the Sabbath BEFORE any animal sacrifices and Is 66:23 points to the Sabbath for all eternity in the New Earth - with no animal sacrifices.
18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and
worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things w
hich he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Col 2 is not condemning scripture -- it is condemning "making stuff up"as we see in vs 18
Col 2: 4 I say this so that
no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments....8 See to it that there is
no one who takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception in accordance with
human tradition, in accordance with the elementary principles of the world, rather than in accordance with Christ.
...
20 If you have died with Christ to
the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees,
such as, 21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” 22 (which all
refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the
commandments and teachings of man? 23 These are matters which do
have the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and severe treatment of the body,
but are of no value against fleshly indulgence
The condemnation there is against "traditions of men" ... "Commandments and Teachings of men" just as we see in Mark 7:6-13 -- and not a condemnation of God's Word.
I see in Colossians 3:1-4, we're risen with Christ. We've died, and our lives are hid with God,
and 1 John 2: makes it very clear
3 By this we know that we have come to
know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but whoever follows His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 6 the one who says that he remains in Him ought, himself also,
walk just as He walked.
1 John 5:3 "
This IS the LOVE of God - that we KEEP His Commandments"
Rev 14:12 "the
saints KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus"
Where
"the first commandment with a promise" in that still-valid-unit of TEN is "honor your father and mother" as Paul points out in Eph 6:2
We further read in Romans 7 that we are dead to the law that is the moral law of God that defines what sin is - having died the death that the moral law of God demands of the sinner through Christ. Such that now we are under the NEW Covenant Jer 31:31-34 Heb 8:6-12 having the LAW of God written on the heart and mind - instead of being abolished. In fact we "Establish the Law" Rom 3:31 that without Christ "condemns the whole world" Rom 3:19-20
Rom 7:
Or do you not know, brothers
and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the Law), that the
Law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive; but if her
husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is alive she gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she gives herself to another man.
4 Therefore, my brothers
and sisters,
you also were put to death in regard to the Law through the body of Christ
"The wages of SIN is death" we needed to be put to death according to the Law.
", so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the
sinful passions, which were
brought to light by the Law,
were at work in the parts of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
Rom 6:
What shall we say then?
Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 Far from it!
How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. ...
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all
time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 So you too,
consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore
sin is not to reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and
do not go on presenting the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body’s parts
as instruments of righteousness for God.
1 John 3:4 "
sin IS transgression of the LAW"
