Jay T said:
Try studying Isaiah 58:13,14.....Exodus 20:8-11....and combine all that, with what Jesus Christ did, on the sabbath.
He went to religious meetings on the sabbath.....He helped the sick, and poor people, on the sabbath...ect.
The Bible is still the guild book for Christians, whether they believe it or not.
First, Jesus didn't "help" the sick, He healed them. All who came to Him were healed (Matthew 8:16). Are all who are sick being healed today? No. Yet, we insist on continuing the same ol'thing, week after week, when we should be seeking a new revelation of the Sabbath.
And just what did He do for the poor other than giving them hope in Him (Matthew 11:5)? Didn't He tell us that we would always have the poor, but to focus our attention on Him (Matthew 26:11)?
You haven't explained how we rest. Remember, the Sabbath is a day of rest (Exodus 31:15).
SputnikBoy said:
That doesn't mean that this is the end of the line for the law. It means that Christ is the fulfillment of the law in the sense that He brought it to completion by obeying perfectly its demands. Everyone who believes will, as a consequence, fulfill what the law demands.
I agree with most of the rest of this except the last sentence. I believe that we rest in the fact that Jesus has fulfilled the law on our behalf. Do we need to offer ourselves physically as a sacrifice? Isn't that what Jesus did? Sure He did, but He did it so that we can be free from that. Likewise, we are free from the physical law of keeping the Sabbath, yet bound to the spiritual law of resting in His finished work.
The Old Testament is very clear on the Sabbath. And Hebrews states equally as clear that the Old Testament law is a physical representation of spiritual reality. Specifically, Hebrews 8:5 and 10:1. Yet you choose to remain under the Old Testament law of self works, or dead works, instead of resting in His work.
SputnikBoy said:
Being righteous means just that - living in accordance to the will of God. Does God's Law bother you, kwag? If so, why?
Wrong! We are made righteous through Christ. It's not something we do, but what He has done (Galations 2:21). Once again, resting in the finished work of Jesus (notice a theme here?).
It's not God's Law that bothers me, but those who, like the pharisees of old, try to use the law to put heavy burdens of "you must obey..." on God's people. Are you bothered by the freedom that I have in Christ ? If so, why? (1 Timothy 1:9)
SputnikBoy said:
We "Saturday vs. Sunday" guys have answered that question on other threads a number of times previously in great detail. Why on earth would you think that it's a question we can't answer?
Because you say you have, yet you offer no evidence. Give me a link to these many threads of wisdom.
SputnikBoy said:
One keeps the Sabbath according to their own inner dictates.
Wrong again. That's soul power. We keep the Sabbath according to what the Holy Spirit teaches us. Your "own inner dictates" is anti-Holy Spirit. This is why you cannot see the difference of the physical rest and the spiritual rest. You've rejected the Holy Spirit's input of the truth and depend on your own intellect. How many are brought to Jesus as a result of your "own inner dictates"? Are they comming in masses as they did with Jesus? Judge by the fruit, or as Dr. Phil would say, "How's that workin' for ya?".
I'd like to say that I see the same results as Jesus did, but I've only seen a glimps. I've been witness to many miracles, but I know that I still need some greater understanding in how to rest in Jesus. However, before I understood the difference between physical rest and spiritual rest, I saw no profit in the Sabbath that I thought I was keeping. So unless you can tell me of great miracles of healing, etc. each and every "seventh day", I suggest that you examine the fruit of what you say.