You need to prove the Sabbath was removed as a commandment of God, not the other way around- God wrote His laws in the hearts and minds in the NC instead of deleting them. Jer 31:33, Heb 8:10 God blessed the weekly Sabbath day that is a commandment and once God blesses something, man cannot reverse Num 23:20 so you will need a thus saith the Lord on that verse that says we no longer need to keep the holy day of the Lord thy God, which is the seventh day Sabbath thus saith and writeith the Lord. Since there is no such scripture stating we do not need to keep the Sabbath commandment and man is to live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God Mat 4:4 my faith is in His Word. Jesus said If you love Me, keep My commanemnts and is the one speaking at Mt Sinai which is Him repeating what He said previously Exo 20:6 right in the Ten, the burden is on you to prove otherwise. The Sabbath didn’t disappear in the NT kept by Jesus, His followers and diciples before and after the Cross and will be kept for His people for eternity thus saith the Lord Isa 66:22-23. Amen.
Yes, he wrote the Law of Christ in the hearts of his NC people, the Law of Liberty, the Perfect Law, the Law of Faith -- not the Law of Moses; for if he had written the Mosaic Law Covenant in the hearts of his NC people, that would have been all 613 commandments in that particular covenant. Since the NC replaces the Old (Heb 8:13). then it follows logically and biblically that there is also a change of law (Heb 7:12)
And the antitype to the sabbath day is even more blessed (Mat 21:19) than the sabbath was since the the substance of shadows or antitypes are always superior.
And Jesus' commandments AFTER the Cross do not involve any sabbath-keeping. The 4th commandment is nowhere repeated in the NT. (Please spare me of your eisegetical interpretation of Hebrews 4.)
Not only is the commandment not repeated, but in all the various lists of litany of sins in the NT that Christians are warned to avoid, sabbath-breaking is conspicuously absent. How odd is that since so much of the NT is targeted to Gentiles? The sabbath day is even conspicuously absent in the Jerusalem Council proclamation that was aimed at Gentiles!
Jesus kept the sabbath because he was born under Law. But after his work of atonement and resurrection, he appeared to his disciples on the first day of the week. Jesus was far more about Grace and Truth (Jn 1:17) than he was about Law, refusing even to own the Law for himself and even for his own disciples (Jn 10:34; 15:25), doubtlessly seeing that the end of the Jewish Age (Mosaic Law Covenant) was fast approaching, as quickly as the Times of the Gentiles was set to make its grand entrance unto the world stage (Lk 21:24).
Paul didn't "keep the sabbath"; rather on his missionary journeys he preached the gospel to fellow Jews on the sabbath because THEY kept the sabbath and, therefore, it was a wise, intelligent and time-saving strategy to evangelize to a convenient, ready-made audience of Jews and their Gentile proselytes in the various synagogues in Asia Minor. (Talking about killing two birds with one stone!) In fact, the narratives in Acts demonstrate Paul practicing what he often preached. i.e.
"making the most of every opportunity" for the sake of the Gospel (Gal 6:10; Eph 5:16; Col 4:5)
. There's not one text in the NT that says that Paul or any Christian for that matter worshiped God on the sabbath or "kept" the sabbath. Not one text! More eisegesis and wishful thinking on your part.
And living by "every word that proceeds out of God's mouth" includes listening carefully to what the OT and NT writers had to say about the advent of the New Covenant and the obsolescence of the Old, about how they always categorized the sabbath as religious (or ceremonial law), about all the temporary purposes of the Law and how the Law itself was a shadow of better things, and about their sentiments on the keeping of Jewish religious days (Rom 14:1-8; Gal 4:9-11; Col 2:16-17). In other words, we don't get to cherry-pick what words of God we want to listen to and live by!
In fact, since the Old Covenant is no longer in force, then neither can the SIGN to that covenant any longer be valid. As the Old Covenant goes, so goes it's sign. And DOUBLY so, since it was sign between God and ISRAEL (Ex 31:17-18) -- not between God and the entire world! And isn't this truth more than a little bit strange since sabbatarians steadfastly insist that God mandated the sabbath to our first parents immediately after creation? One would naturally and reasonably think, then, that the sabbath day would be a sign between God and all mankind!) (How come YOU are not listening carefully to the words of God in this passage and living by its words!?)
Finally, because you left the "Can Christians Work for Income...?", you're probably unaware that the Holy Spirit put an idea into my head that I followed through on: He told me to falsify sabbatarianism with a thoroughly biblical syllogism. So, I did just that in post 436 in that thread. You should read it sometime. Perhaps you'll do something no other sabbath-keeper has done, thus far: Falsify one of my three premises to the syllogism and you will make the syllogism fall like a house of cards in a mild breeze. The syllogism actually operates on the assumption that sabbath-keeping is still valid today. This the good news for folks like yourself. But the bad for you is that my major and two minor premises totally neutralize the sabbath commandment. Check it out when you get a chance. After all, you stated in your very first sentence that you want me to PROVE things, right? Well, I have. I have shown that NT truth conflicts with OT law, specifically the 4th commandment. So, get busy.
In summary, sabbatarianism in this New Covenant dispensation is intellectually bankrupt; but even far worse it's biblically impoverished!
