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Yes, that was true under the Old Covenant, but under the New Covenant that law does not apply.
But the commandment is so that your servant may rest as well as you. God within you does not guarantee that your servant will get a day of rest.
Set us free, you say, but who will look after the interests of your servant? Who is going to ensure that the servants gat a day of rest, no more Sunday shopping and no more demanding that other people work so you can enjoy the fruit of their labour on your day off.
Do you shop on Sunday? Is the checkout person, the assistant, and driver of your uber, cab, bus resting while you play?
Good by, Tim. Come back when you have something better to contribute.
Wrong again, Tim. He did not come to "add to it". He came to fulfill it. What happens to a contract when all the requirements of both parties are completely fulfilled? It becomes void, because it no longer has any power; there is nothing for it to cause anyone to do. Jesus completely fulfilled the OT, and in doing so He made it void. Then He established a New Covenant, not a renewal of the Old, in His own blood. As Heb 8:13 says, when God talked about a New Covenant in Jeremiah 31, He made the OC obsolete, and what He had made obsolete was ready to disappear.
I have no servant. I myself am a servant of the Most High God. Jesus is my rest (Heb 4:10), and He will insure that all those that are His receive the rest into which He Himself entered. But the rest into which He entered is not the seventh day sabbath of the Old Covenant, because Heb 4:8 says that if the seventh day were the rest into which we long to enter, he would not have spoken of another day after that.
Hold your horses! The thread is about the ten commandments not about the sabbath commandment alone. Besides that, everybody has servants, they are the people who provide the infrastructure and services that you depend upon. And the commandment to rest is there to make sure that everybody gets rest, servants too, not just their masters.
Yes, Tim, He brought the Kingdom with Him. But that does not negate the fact that He fulfilled the Old Covenant and removed it, replacing it with the New Covenant which is completely different than the Old.
Sure it is. And that is why, in my very first post, I said that all of the "ten commandments" are irrelevant to us today. The "ten commandments" as a group are part of the Old Covenant, and so are no longer binding on us today. But nine of the ten have been restated in the New Covenant as commands that the New Testament Christ follower must keep.
I see what you are getting at, but someone who owns a business, or who works for the government, who performs tasks for which I then pay them is not a "servant" except possibly in the loosest and most broad terms. A servant is, "a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant."
