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The Sabbath is the 'Lords Day', not Sunday.

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I believe its our test, just like the Israelites were tested, just like Adam and Eve were tested, which is why I feel its so important to obey God the way He asks.


Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’


Hebrews 4:11 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
 
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We agree. But not to put too fine a point on it, we learn from our tests. I think you and I are actually saying the same thing.
 
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We agree. But not to put too fine a point on it, we learn from our tests. I think you and I are actually saying the same thing.
We learn from the mistakes of others in scriptures and by their successes. Not everyone does though. Many think their teachings don't apply to them and recently I learned many believe the teachings of Jesus doesn't apply to them.
 
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Also don't forget Christ said if he wanted to enter into the 'life' as in eternal life...
 
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When Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well, He told her that the day would come when people would not worship in a particular place but they would worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth. When He spoke to Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb He told her not to touch Him as she tried to embrace Him. He said this because He was no longer to be worshiped in the flesh, because now as the risen Lord, He is to worshiped, as God, in Spirit and in truth. It also has been said that after His resurrection and ascension, we relate to Him in the Spirit and not after the flesh, because the flesh profits nothing. And so, because Christ dwells in our hearts by faith, we will not see Him in the flesh until He comes again.

What this means to us is that we no longer are bound to worship Him in any particular place, on any particular day, or at any particular time. These are worship in the flesh and not in the Spirit, and therefore that kind of worship profits nothing. Furthermore, Jesus Himself has become our Sabbath, and therefore overrules all previous instructions about the Sabbath, Therefore we keep the Sabbath by having Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith, and therefore worship Him in Spirit and in truth.

What this means is that those who are trying to worship Christ by keeping either Saturday or Sunday as their "Sabbath" are approaching Him in the flesh and not in the Spirit, and therefore their worship is meaningless and without profit as far as God is concerned.
 
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If it were not for "do not forsake the gathering together of yourselves", I'd never attend church. But I don't really see it as a time to worship, per se, but as a time to gather with fellow believers as one under our savior and a time to get into "iron sharpening iron" mode. I'd be happy if all we had was sunday school. It's the only part of "church" that really matters to me. And part of the reason is that it enhances my relationship with my fellow man while gathers together with Jesus as our main focus. A friend of mine told me he would choose a new church when he moved to a new town, based on the quality of their potluck. I thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. And no, it wasn't about the food. It was about the quality of conversation.
 
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Jesus told Mary why she was not to worship Him.

John 20: 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

Your statement is in direct conflict with scripture.
 
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If I was to receive good ministry, Youtube is an excellent resource. This means that receiving good ministry is just one aspect of attending church. If that is one's only reason then they end up being leeches, sucking the life out of those who are working hard to contribute to the life of the church. I have found over the years that being bonded into a group of supportive Christians is essential to being supported and encouraged in the faith. Also, a good fellowship is the place where there are opportunities to serve the Lord with the gifts He has given.

When I moved to Christchurch (NZ) I joined a small church that had around 15 people to a morning service. When I asked the Lord why He put me here, He said, "It is not what you get out of a church, but what you put into it, and these people need someone like you." Within weeks, I found that I became the church treasurer and the property convener, because of my administrative skills. Then they needed someone to be part of the preaching and worship leading team, and because of my MDiv, and experience in leading services, I am on the roster to take a service once every six weeks. Because much of the ministry of the others is on the liberal side, and I have a Reformed Puritan theology, I don't get much out of the ministry that comes over the pulpit. But when I lead a service I teach the Bible and give them the true Gospel of Christ, telling them what Jesus did for them on the Cross and that He was raised from the dead to give them eternal life. I also do the church bulletin and am able to fill it with witty sayings, photos, and jokes to show that our church does have a sense of humour. I have Tuesdays and Thursdays as my church days (I am retired), have lunch with the Op Shop ladies, and involve myself in other community activities.

So for me, going to church is not just sitting in a pew for an hour on Sunday mornings. I am bonded into a supportive fellowship of fellow elderly people who have one foot in the grave just like me at 76 years old, and enjoy every time I have with them. Because of their advanced age, I work to ensure that they know the way to heaven through faith in Christ and His finished work on the Cross. If they end up in heaven with the Lord because of my influence, then I will be more than that satisfied.

That is what church means to me. What does it mean to you?
 
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The point I am making is that we don't worship a physical Jesus. The Scripture is quite clear that we don't worship Jesus in the flesh, but He dwells in our hearts by faith. Mary was totally devoted to Jesus before His crucifixion and resurrection. She most probably would have embraced Him, walked arm in arm with Him, and held His hand many times. This was not romantic, but out of gratitude that He rescued her from a life dominated by evil, having cast seven demons out of her. So, in the garden, she went to do the same thing that she had always done, moved to embrace Him. But now, Jesus was different, and so her relationship with Him was totally changed from being in the flesh to being in the Spirit. Therefore it was no longer appropriate for her to have physical contact with Him.

She would have experienced the full revelation of how worship was going to be when in the upper room, she was one of the group on whom the Holy Spirit fell on the day of Pentecost. Then she knew what it was to worship Christ in Spirit and in truth.

The lesson for us is that we do not relate to Christ in the flesh, but through the indwelling Holy Spirit. This is why I don't believe the reports of physical visitations of Jesus, or people going to heaven and meeting Jesus and coming back to report it. We won't see the physical Jesus until He comes again, and in the meantime, He dwells in our hearts by faith, and we worship Him in the Spirit.

This is why the Scripture says that we worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Jesus Christ, and have no confidence in the flesh. It also says that the flesh profits nothing, and that those in the flesh cannot please God.
 
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I disagree completely. But am not going to discuss it further as the gulf between our positions is so vast that we share no common ground.
 
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We're on the same page.

In my case, my main involvement is playing in the worship band and making "comments" in Sunday school. I taught it a couple of times but my class was more for young people than my "50+" crowd. And my subject matter made them nervous. My beliefs about the LXX being the "true" OT and my adherence to CI rather than ECT. I'm in the bible belt now, and all that that implies. But interestingly, after my open heart surgery I've had a change of heart (no pun intended) about teaching. That is, rather than get into the weeds about the nuts and bolts of the OT, which few people even want to hear, I'm going for a deep dive into the four gospels and how they relate - and sometimes don't. That comes from my belief that the bible is not "the" word of God, but rather, "contains" the word of god.
 
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It is said that Jesus used the LXX when He quoted from the Old Testament. That shows that He viewed it as authentic. It is also interesting that the LXX uses the Greek word for "virgin" in the Isaiah quote about Immanuel being born of a virgin, rather than the Hebrew word which could mean "young woman" as well as virgin. Post modern liberals, who den the virgin birth use the Hebrew word to say that Mary was not a virgin when Jesus was born. But Mary herself told Luke when he interviewed her about the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, that she was a virgin, and that she told the angel: "How can I bring forth a child when I have never known a man?" meaning that she had never 'done the deed".

I just thought I would add those interesting facts to show that the LXX made some things clearer than the Hebrew version. Actually "LXX" is Roman for "70" and this shows that 70 Classical Greek scholars translated the original Hebrew into Greek to enable a wider readership among those who had adopted Koine Greek through the influence of Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world at the time.
 
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Yep. There are also a lot of books that are in the LXX that are not in our Masoretic text based OT in our modern English translations.
 
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I just dont see where Christ changes the day He made for man at Creation...

John 4:23-25 King James Version
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
 
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Jesus is our Sabbath, making the Jewish Saturday Sabbath observance obsolete.
 
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Scripture reference please.
I've already quoted the relevant Scripture from the book of Hebrews. If you are not prepared to abide with what the Bible says, then there is no further discussion on the subject.
 
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Yep. There are also a lot of books that are in the LXX that are not in our Masoretic text based OT in our modern English translations.
What's that got to do with the LXX referring to mother of the Messiah being a virgin rather than just a young woman as some interpret the Hebrew?
 
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What's that got to do with the LXX referring to mother of the Messiah being a virgin rather than just a young woman as some interpret the Hebrew?
So I'm supposed to have read all your posts?
 
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So I'm supposed to have read all your posts?
If you want to know about how Jesus has become our Sabbath rest, why not actually read the Book of Hebrews in the Bible? Not some selected verses, but the whole book. Let the Holy Spirit instruct you through the written Word.
 
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