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Why we are not supposed to keep the Sabbath

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On the Sabbath, we rest from our works. If we are in Christ, then we have entered the Sabbath…

Hebrews 4:9-11

The alternative would be to keep toiling to earn your salvation.
We rest from our works to keep the Sabbath day holy Exo20:8-11 why Jesus and the apostles were going to church Luke4:16 Acts18:4, reading the Bible Acts 13:44 Acts 15:21, praying Acts 16:13 and doing things to keep the Sabbath day holy, honoring God Isa58:13. We do not enter into the Sabbath, we keep the Sabbath day holy Exo20:8, its something man does Isa56:2 , we enter into Christ rests, through faith and obedience. Those who enter His rest also cease from their works Heb4:10 as God did, on the seventh day Heb4:4 Exo20:8-11

People have sadly misunderstood Paul and have taken any obedience to God's commandments to an extreme as bad and disobeying God is good. This is never what Paul taught or meant. While we can't save ourselves by keeping God's commandments, no one is saved not keeping them Mat7:23 1John2:4 Rev22:15 Heb10:26-30 they can only be kept through Jesus Christ John15:4-10, they are a result of salvation Rev 14:12 Rev22:14, not a means to it. Not keeping them one is in rebellion to God Rom8:7-8 and only God can define His commandments and how to keep them and the mouth of the Lord has spoken on this subject clearly, He even personally wrote it out for us.
 
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We rest from our works to keep the Sabbath day holy Exo20:8-11 why Jesus and the apostles were going to church Luke4:16 Acts18:4, reading the Bible Acts 13:44 Acts 15:21, praying Acts 16:13 and doing things to keep the Sabbath day holy, honoring God Isa58:13. We do not enter into the Sabbath, we keep the Sabbath, its something man does Isa56:2 , we enter into Christ rests, through faith and obedience. Those who enter His rest also cease from their works Heb4:10 as God did, on the seventh day Heb4:4 Exo20:8-11

If, by the seventh day, you mean the rest of your life, eternity in Christ, then yes.
 
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If, by the seventh day, you mean the rest of your life, eternity in Christ, then yes.
I am referring back to God's written and spoken Testimony of what is the Sabbath. :)

Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God

And this never changed Heb4:4 because no one is above God to change His written and spoken Testimony. Exo31:18
 
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I am referring back to God's written and spoken Testimony of what is the Sabbath. :)

Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God

And this never changed Heb4:4 because no one is above God to change His written and spoken Testimony. Exo31:18

Right but in Revelation only those who are beheaded for Christ’s sake rest from their works so which way you gonna have it?
 
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Right but in Revelation only those who are beheaded for Christ’s sake rest from their works so which way you gonna have it?
Can you quote the Scripture please because I can assure you keeping God's commandments is what God wants us to do Exo20:6 John14:15 and how we are reconciled back according to one of the last Scriptures in the Bible before Jesus returns Rev22:14

Has God's people been persecuted? Yes those who keep His commandments (His version) Rev12:17 and will happen again. But which side do you want to be on once He returns, those who died for Christ or lived for another spirit many without even realizing because whoever we obey is who we serve Rom6:16.
 
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Right but in Revelation only those who are beheaded for Christ’s sake rest from their works so which way you gonna have it?
Excuse me… only the beheaded? You have an erroneous interpretation
 
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Romans 8:14-17

Are you a slave or a child of God?

Can a man go back into his mother’s womb, and be born again? :doh:

By the way you read things, unless you’re literally beheaded, you’re not gonna enter the rest :doh:

Revelation 20:4, Revelation 14:11-13

Note that all who do not worship the beast are slain. Only they enter the rest. Those that worship it do not enter the rest. They still rely on their works.

Revelation 13:15
 
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We are not to keep Sabbath in its original stipulations, but we still are to meet as a body of believers and all the more as we see the Day approaching!

Galatians 4:9-11
Romans 14:5
Not one of these verses say not to keep the Sabbath commandment according to its original stipulation. In fact, neither of these verses mention the Sabbath at all.
Hebrews 10:24-25
Yes, continues the way Jesus said it would be


Isa 56:1Thus says the Lord:


Isa 56:6 “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
“Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him
.”


God's Sabbath has always been a "holy convocation" Lev23:3 gathering of His people (congregation)

Which the words of Jesus always coming true and why we see with the examples of the apostles continuing the Sabbath convocation with all nations (people) every Sabbath decades and decades after the cross just as Jesus predicted Mat24:20 Mat21:13 Isa56:6-7 following in the example of Jesus Luke4:16

Act 15:21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

Acts 13:42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Acts 13:44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.

Acts 18:4 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.


Why the Sabbath continues for eternity, just as God said because He changes not,


Isa 66:22For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh
shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
 
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Romans 8:14-17

Are you a slave or a child of God?

Can a man go back into his mother’s womb, and be born again? :doh:

By the way you read things, unless you’re literally beheaded, you’re not gonna enter the rest :doh:

Revelation 20:4, Revelation 14:11-13

Note that all who do not worship the beast are slain. Only they enter the rest. Those that worship it do not enter the rest. They still rely on their works.

Revelation 13:15
That's not what these Scriptures say. A beast is a government Dan7:23 or Kingdom, not works. This beast changed God's times and laws Dan7:25 (the Sabbath) worship has to do with our obedience- Jesus defined false worship as obeying the commandments/traditions of man over obeying the commandments of God Mark7:7-13 Mat15:3-14 this is what the final battle is about worship. Are we faithful to God or follow popular traditions of man that goes against one of God's commandments.
 
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That's not what these Scriptures say. A beast is a government Dan7:23 or Kingdom, not works. This beast changed God's times and laws Dan7:25 (the Sabbath) worship has to do with our obedience- Jesus defined false worship as obeying the commandments/traditions of man over obeying the commandments of God Mark7:7-13 Mat15:3-14 this is what the final battle is about worship. Are we faithful to God or follow popular traditions of man that goes against one of God's commandments.

Can a man enter into his mother’s womb, and be born again? :doh: :doh: :doh:

Jesus H. Christ.
 
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True, never said they weren't.

So why do you keep swallowing them?

You really think our salvation is dependent upon fleshly observance of a week day, and not the birth and being guided by the Spirit, entering God’s eternal rest?

:doh:
 
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So why do you keep swallowing them?

You really think our salvation is dependent upon fleshly observance of a week day, and not the birth and being guided by the Spirit, entering God’s eternal rest?

:doh:
The Spirit is not going to guide us away from obedience to God or His commandments John14:15-18 1John3:24, that the spirit we are warned about Isa8:20

Who ever said anything about flesh observance. God asked us to keep the Sabbath day holy, He placed this in the same unit as only worshipping Him, is doing that fleshly observance too.

Obeying God is bad disobeying God is good, sad has this has been flipped. Disobeying God is depending on our own fleshy observance not doing what God asks though faith and love. John14:15 Exo20:6 Rom3:31

I think we are way to far apart in our understanding of the word of God so I am going to move on. Be well
 
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Not one of these verses say not to keep the Sabbath commandment according to its original stipulation. In fact, neither of these verses mention the Sabbath at all.

Yes, continues the way Jesus said it would be


Isa 56:1Thus says the Lord:


Isa 56:6 “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
“Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him
.”


God's Sabbath has always been a "holy convocation" Lev23:3 gathering of His people (congregation)

Which the words of Jesus always coming true and why we see with the examples of the apostles continuing the Sabbath convocation with all nations (people) every Sabbath decades and decades after the cross just as Jesus predicted Mat24:20 Mat21:13 Isa56:6-7 following in the example of Jesus Luke4:16

Act 15:21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

Acts 13:42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Acts 13:44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.

Acts 18:4 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.


Why the Sabbath continues for eternity, just as God said because He changes not,


Isa 66:22For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh
shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
You are not reading Galatians 4:9-11 with discernment. It clearly states not to go back to the Law to be saved… in fact that’s the major point Galatians makes… in an effort to correct their great sin of trying to be saved through observance of O.T. Law! That’s why special days are mentioned… it’s part of the Law!
 
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The Spirit is not going to guide us away from obedience to God or His commandments John14:15-18 1John3:24, that the spirit we are warned about Isa8:20

Who ever said anything about flesh observance. God asked us to keep the Sabbath day holy, He placed this in the same unit as only worshipping Him, is doing that fleshly observance too.

Obeying God is bad disobeying God is good, sad has this has been flipped. Disobeying God is depending on our own fleshy observance not doing what God asks though faith and love. John14:15 Exo20:6 Rom3:31

I think we are way to far apart in our understanding of the word of God so I am going to move on. Be well

We are sanctified by his blood ‍ :doh:
 
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