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-My friend, a Seventh Day Adventist believes that the seventh day of the week.(Saturday).should be a day of no work dedicated to God and kept holy and says that the Bible commands this for New Testament believers. I feel uncomfortable with this but am willing to follow what the Bible says. Is the Sabbath for New Testament believers in Emmanuel the Christ?

Some folks think that if they wear their best clothes on Sunday they're observing the Sabbath! 

The Sabbath was a rest day God created.(Genesis 2:1-3).in the which those back then were to take this time to remember God, to focus on the things of God a time for spiritual things. It was a day of rest to commemorate God by having the mind on God.

Some think that since the Bible says God doesn't change.(Malachi 3:6).that the Sabbath is still to be kept. In Old Testament times, penalty of death occurred for breaking the Sabbath:.Numbers 15:32-36..Does God change

A quote from some Sabbath adherents,.the Seventh.(Saturday).Day Adventists: 

"The beneficent Creator, after the six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a memorial of Creation. The fourth commandment of God's unchangeable law requires the observance of this seventh day Sabbath as the day of rest, worship and ministry in harmony with the teaching and practice of Emmanuel, the Lord of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of delightful communion with God and one another. It is a symbol of our redemption in Christ, a sign of our sanctification, a token of our allegiance and a foretaste of our eternal future in God's kingdom. The Sabbath is God's perpetual sign of His eternal covenant between Him and His people. Joyful observance of this holy time from evening to evening, sunset to sunset, is a celebration of God's creative and redemptive acts."
I too used to be a 'Saturday Sabbath keeper' although not of the Seventh Day Adventist group. I kept it and even lost out on some good jobs because of it, because I, as a babe in Christ, believed that we should keep it, because of what those teaching it believed:.Galatians 4:4,5,9,10. I should have.(had I known back then).followed what Paul said in Galatians 3:1-3; 4:9-12,19 and what Emmanuel said...

The sabbath typifies the rest we have in Christ:.Hebrews 4.8-11.

Perhaps I too was one of those who Paul says 'these are not yet fully formed in Christ' and now is the time appointed for them to move forward:.Galatians 4:2,3,19.

Some still laboring under legalism will have a struggle accepting all this.(Galatians 4:29).to break free from the yoke of bondage Paul talks about:.Galatians 5:1; 2Corinthians 3:7,17.

There is not one verse in the New Testament mentioning Sabbath keeping after Emmanuel kept it before His death, burial and resurrection, ushering in the new covenant

In fact Paul tells us in Colossians 2:16,17 that those within the body of Christ.(believers in whom resides the Spirit of Christ:.Colossians 1:24,27).should not allow influence by others regarding it, as the Sabbath and the Old Testament Holy Days were only a shadow of much greater things to come.(Christ).

So, again the quote by the Seventh Day Adventists, this with some comments:

"The beneficent Creator, after the six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a memorial of Creation. The fourth commandment of God's unchangeable law.(Here it's spoken of as a law unable to be changed. The law way back then was the Mosaic Law. Why did they not mention this? It's not mentioned that this fourth commandment was part of this Old Testament law required to keep back then, this Mosaic Law which was later completely and totally abolished and that long before any group would espouse it and/or parts of it as one of their tenets).requires.(So, it's said that there is a requirement to observe it and if not, is the death penalty for non observance applicable as was the case for Mosaic Law violation?.Exodus 31:14,15).the observance of this seventh day Sabbath as the day of rest.(Hebrews 4:8-11), worship and ministry in harmony with the teaching and practice of Emmanuel.(well, if you've read through it throughly, you've seen that this Sabbath keeping is like any of the other Old Testament Mosaic Laws which have all been abolished and are absolutely not in harmony with the teachng and practice of Emmanuel), the Lord of the Sabbath.(the lesson of the Lord of the Sabbath:.Matthew 12:3-8). The Sabbath is a day of delightful communion with God and one another.(but so is every other day if one knows how to pray and meditate). It is a symbol of our redemption in Christ, a sign of our sanctification, a token of our allegiance and a foretaste of our eternal future in God's kingdom.(They are saying here that the Sabbath day is a symbol of our redemption in Christ {1Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 1:7}, but far and away more important than a symbol, is the actuality:.Hebrews 10:16-20. Symbols of spirituality are not above the importance of a humble heart:.Isaiah 66:2. And non symbols of spirituality are those adhering to a non.relevant symbol. It's Christ and not the Sabbath day that is our redemption. Symbols, signs and tokens are things reminding us of what they represent. If Christ is in ones's heart, why then the lower in importance symbols, signs and tokens?). The Sabbath is God's perpetual sign of His eternal covenant between Him and His people.(A sign to who? Was it all not a thing of the heart to begin with?.Deuteronomy 5:29. They here say, it's between God and His people, but does God need a sign as to what He's doing? And do the people need some sign? Does such a sign pass on with them? Does what such a sign may connote, carry on in their minds, once they are gone? Here these Adventists are speaking of a perpetual sign of an eternal covenant. They must mean the new covenant, because the old one has been abolished. Important to come to know what the new covenant is. As to a sign, it was the mark of a Pharisee:.Matthew 16:1-4; Luke 11:29,30. So what did they use to come up with this 'perpetual sign'?). Joyful observance of this holy time from evening to evening, sunset to sunset, is a celebration of God's creative and redemptive acts..(Adventists use a time between sunset on Friday and the next sunset on Saturday the seventh day of the week to celebrate God's creative and redemptive acts. All well and good if they choose that day and others are fine with Sunday or some other day or each day:.Romans 14:4-6)"

The Old Testament writings by the prophet.Isaiah talked of sacrifices like many religious people unnecessarily make today:.Isaiah 1:11-17 "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, says the Lord.(obviously these practices were strictly for selfish reasons of the participants, even though probably for a sop, they liked to make them appear spiritual by bringing God into it, that is, in their minds only)? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts and I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats. When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations.(something offered); incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with.(or, 'I can't stand all that stuff); it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble unto me. I am weary to bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you. Yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.(in other words you're lacking qualities of spirituality, you're lacking attributes of love, which are the attributes of a higher consciousness than the selfish, greedy, angry and warring and evil deeds low consciousness mind you are wrapped up in). Wash yourself, make youself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
    The sacrifices for today are...

The rest for Christians.(what's really a Christian?).is one that is in Him, Him who fulfilled all the righteousness of all spiritual laws.(Matthew 3:15; 5:17).and is a rest into which we today enter by belief, by faith in Emmanuel the Christ.(Hebrews 4:3), meaning we believe in what He did and came to reveal.

In this we cease from our own works.(doing things which God no longer requires, things as in the Old Testament).to be righteous and has nothing to do with any lack of physical effort on any particular day:.Hebrews 4:9,10. Once in His rest, one is 'not working' if he or she may work on the seventh day of the week:.Matthew 11:30.

Hebrews 4:3,5,6 shows how important this form of rest is. Those who keep the Sabbath today, do it believing this makes a point of obedience thus 'pleasing' God.

In these works of their own righteousness.(as they are no longer required by God since Christ has risen and ushered in the new covenant to do with the heart).they.(by actions).prefer physical Sabbath keeping to the rest in Emmanuel the Christ, thus denying Him:.Titus 1:16.

Paul refers to these works.(Colossians 1:20,21).as works of painful persuasions as it was effort to prepare beforehand so as to be sure not to do any work on the Sabbath Day felt should still be celebrated. What's important is to be happy about Christ in you

The whole Sabbath Day thing today comes about as a result of not understanding that we too are 'Lord of the Sabbath'.(Mark 2:28; Luke 6:1-5), because we are now equal with the Great Infinite Intelligence and are as important to God as Christ.

Nothing.but God's Son Emmanuel the Christ and His righteousness in you by faith is pleasing to God, for all things come from this:.Matthew 3:17; Hebrews 11:6; Matthew 17:5; 2Peter 1:17.

Those strong in.their.own works, are really unbelievers and unable to enter the rest in Christ:.Hebrews 3:18,19

Paul in Hebrews 4:2 and in context, emphasizes that the gospel doesn't profit one by Sabbath keeping, only by belief

In Philippians 3:6-10 Paul calls the righteousness one gains from law including the so-called ten commandments, dung. To know Christ, one has to have the righteousness of faith, not the law:.Philippians 3:9,10

Emmanuel's custom was to keep the Sabbath.(Luke 4:16).as the old covenant was still in effect and He was to fulfil all righteousness as shown above. He was born under the law. Christ created the Sabbath:.John 1:3; Hebrews 1:10; Mark 2:23,28

Isaiah 56th chapter talks of things that then pleased God.(verse 4).including Sabbath keeping as part of serving Him and taking hold of the old covenant:.verse 6. There were blessings then for keeping the Sabbath part of the old covenant properly:.Isaiah 58:13,14. But a drastically different story in these times of the new covenant:.Galatians 4:21-26.

The Roman armies so devasted the Old Testament religion at the time, that it could never recover, thankfully! Yet today some religious groups are into resurrecting parts of it. Like duh! Who's teaching you?.John 6:45.

If you wish to have a day set aside for spiritual concerns, that's up to you:.Romans 14:5-10,13,14. It is not a requirement to be in the Creator's favor.


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"People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion.
There is a great difference."
....Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007 Opera Singer
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