Should We Keep the Sabbath? - Bible Teaching #5
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Before we begin, as always grab your Bible, read the Scriptures as you read the article and pray for discernment. May the Holy Spirit be with you and guide you into the Truth!
For this article we will be appealing to a Thomas Nelson NKJV reference Bible and The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Red Letter Edition.
In this article, I used a rebuke that I was led to write toward a youtube channel named Hebrew Roots as the outline for this article. Just making minor changes where necessary.
Biblically speaking, no we do not need to keep the appointed holidays, even though they were commanded. Neither are we required to be circumcised, even though it was commanded. In Matthew 5:17-18 we see that Jesus came to fulfill the law, not destroy it, correct. Not one jot or tittle will pass away till all is fulfilled, correct. The part that we miss is He said that He came to fulfill. So His life on earth fulfilled the law and the prophets, thus now tittles and jots are passing away from the law. We can also find that in Luke 24:44-47, He fulfilled all that was written in the law and the prophets as He said He would in Matthew 5:17-18. Now we have more evidence in Hebrews 7:12-19. Notice it says that with a new priesthood, there is of necessity a change in the law. Continuing to Hebrews 8:7-13 talking about the New Covenant making the old one obsolete and ready to vanish away. Now we can understand why Paul preached that we did not have to hold the holidays and other various things included in the law in, Romans 14, Galatians 4:10-11, 1 Corinthians 7:19, Colossians 3:16-17, Galatians 5:6, etc... just to name a few. As you read in Galatians 5:6 the only thing that matters is faith working through love. Love, the Greek word Agape, Strong's concordance number G26. It is action of selflessness, not necessarily even tied to a feeling, it is action. Study on that word, and pistis, the Greek word that we got faith from, Strong's concordance number G4102. If the Scripture is right (as we both know it is) then all that matters is "faith working through love" - Galatians 5:6. If you want even more evidence of that in the Old Testament read Isaiah 1:12-20. Even though they kept the feasts, the sacrifices, prayed and many other things commaded in the law, God still saw them as unrighteous. But those are required and part of righteousness? Keep reading.
Remember according to Romans 14, you can keep those restrictions if you want, but you are by no means required. It is not Biblically sound to push those unnecessary commands on others.
There was literally a whole book in the Bible rebuking the Galatian Church for requiring this of people. As it says in Galatians 4:10-11, "You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain." The focus of the whole book was toward people teaching unnecessary Old Covenant commandments!
Please, if I am wrong, show me why all the Scripture listed above is incorrectly used. Prove each one, do not just give me verses that says something else, or reply with ungodly and worldly feelings. Please explain why those Scriptures are wrong. I've got a couple more for you to consider as well, Jeremiah 31:31-32. There is a New Covenant not according to the Old which Israel broke. Remember according to, 2 Corinthians 3:7-14, the Old Covenant was the Covenant that was "...engraved on stones...", "For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious." What was engraved on stones? the 10 commandments were! The Sabbath is 1 of the 10 commandments! Thus God made a change in His Law. Also we have the priests violating the Sabbath every Sabbath yet being held guiltless in, Matthew 12:5. We even have Jesus Himself saying that Him and the Father have been working every Sabbath since the beginning in, John 5:16-18. You may say, but He was Jesus, well in 1 John 2:6 we see "He who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk just as He walked." Please consider those when viewing the importance of the Sabbath. 1 more, the priests were commanded to offer certain sacrifices on the Sabbath according to the Law, in Numbers 28:9-10, so where is your perpetually serving Levitical Priesthood (Exodus 29:9) and your sacrifices they are commanded continually to offer every Sabbath (Numbers 28:9-10)?
Answer to that is; us believers are now the priesthood, 1 Peter 2:9. Now we are to minister to the Lord. Now we work for the Lord, even on Sabbaths, like the Levitical Priesthood, Matthew 12:5. Now we offer the sacrifices, we are living sacrifices, Romans 12:1. Like Jesus, we too work for the Lord every day, even on the Sabbath, John 15:16-18.
If you can not provide proof against all the Scripture, (not just 1 or 2 of them), then you may need to accept that what I am saying is true, that what I am saying may be from God, and that you need to repent of teaching the doctrine that you teach.
Another fun note, there is no one recorded holding the Sabbath in the Old Testament before the Ten Commandments were given in Exodus 20. No record on anyone from the time of Adam until Moses. Just God resting one day, the seventh day after creation. Are they going to Hell because of such? Jesus is taking us to a time before the Law in the New Covenant, since the New Covenant was actually planned before the Old Covenant. You can find that in Galatians 3:17. Like divorce or self defense, the Law permitted and even commanded it but "...from the beginning it was not so..." - Matthew 19:8
May the Spirit of Truth, guide you into all Truth, through the beautifully True, Word of God.
God bless and Godspeed.
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts and am willing to discuss any of these topics and more, in great detail. If you would like.
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