"For sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace."
for ye are not under the law, but under grace."
Those men and others just like them are entirely correct in presenting this verse. I agree, but I hasten to add that the law is not why we should observe the seventh day of the week as our sabbath. The Law of Moses is not the reason we should do it. Paul wrote:
"Wherefore then serves the law? It was added because of
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise
was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand
of a mediator." (Galatians 3:19)
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise
was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand
of a mediator." (Galatians 3:19)
The Law was added? Added to what? The law was added to what God had already required of His creation. Adherence to a commandment was added, but the keeping of the sabbath day as a day of rest came long before the Law of Moses. That's why the Israelites were already keeping the seventh day before their encounter with God at Mount Sinai. God's people had been given the sabbath day as a day of rest since the creation of the world. Really? Uh, huh.
We all know the story of creation, and we all know that God rested on the seventh day. Is that my justification for the seventh day being the sabbath day of rest? Wouldn't that be enough reason to do so? It would be, but there is more.
God didn't rest simply to give us an example we might chose to follow. He did something more, and that point typically gets passed over lightly in most sermons. Genesis 2:2 says that God rested on the seventh day from all of his creative work, but Genesis 2:3 says what else God did.
"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that
in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
God blessed the seventh day. Okay.
God sanctified the seventh day. What does this mean?
I was hoping you would ask.
The usage of this word is pretty descriptive of what the word means Biblically. How the word is used elsewhere in the Bible is as follows:
On the day after he created man, God sanctified the seventh day of our week . HE dedicated the seventh day of the week as a day of rest. HE consecrated the seventh day of the week from the beginning of man's days on Earth. HE made the seventh day special, set apart from all of the other six days.
Nor is it as some like to say, As long as we take one day of rest, it doesn't matter which one. I suspect that God would challenge that thinking. HE set it up to be the seventh day, and he did so 2,300 years before the Law of Moses and the Ten Commandments were ever given.
Tell me you're not under the Law. Fine.
Would you like to observe the same day God observed? Great.
But, God set-up the seventh day to be the Sabbath for man. God did that. It WASN'T just a part of the Law of Moses. It was incorporated into the Law of Moses, but God established the seventh day as THE day of rest for mankind in a code of His Law that predates the Law of Moses; in a code of His Law that is totally independent of the Law of Moses.
I am convinced that Satan will and has used the concept that we are not under the Law of Moses as a springboard, a launching-pad if you will, to bring souls to the idea that we are not under any of God's law at all. [I shouldn't say 'will use' since that indicates a future occurrence. The systematic removal of God's laws from the laws of the USA has been underway for decades.]
People often say to me; 'The day doesn't matter, and they attempt to quote or paraphrase Colossians 2:16 by way of supporting that thinking.' They seem to be saying; "I'll decide which day I want to sanctify as MY sabbath.
Yeshua said that He IS Lord of the Sabbath, not us. God made the sabbath for man, but it is still very much His sabbath.
There is blessing for mankind in the seventh day sabbath.
Don't continue to let tradition get in the way of that.
[A dear brother sent this to me just today.]
in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
God blessed the seventh day. Okay.
God sanctified the seventh day. What does this mean?
I was hoping you would ask.
The usage of this word is pretty descriptive of what the word means Biblically. How the word is used elsewhere in the Bible is as follows:
sanctify 108, hallow 25, dedicate 10, holy 7, prepare 7,
consecrate 5, appointed 1, bid 1, purified 1, misc 7
consecrate 5, appointed 1, bid 1, purified 1, misc 7
On the day after he created man, God sanctified the seventh day of our week . HE dedicated the seventh day of the week as a day of rest. HE consecrated the seventh day of the week from the beginning of man's days on Earth. HE made the seventh day special, set apart from all of the other six days.
Nor is it as some like to say, As long as we take one day of rest, it doesn't matter which one. I suspect that God would challenge that thinking. HE set it up to be the seventh day, and he did so 2,300 years before the Law of Moses and the Ten Commandments were ever given.
Tell me you're not under the Law. Fine.
Would you like to observe the same day God observed? Great.
But, God set-up the seventh day to be the Sabbath for man. God did that. It WASN'T just a part of the Law of Moses. It was incorporated into the Law of Moses, but God established the seventh day as THE day of rest for mankind in a code of His Law that predates the Law of Moses; in a code of His Law that is totally independent of the Law of Moses.
I am convinced that Satan will and has used the concept that we are not under the Law of Moses as a springboard, a launching-pad if you will, to bring souls to the idea that we are not under any of God's law at all. [I shouldn't say 'will use' since that indicates a future occurrence. The systematic removal of God's laws from the laws of the USA has been underway for decades.]
People often say to me; 'The day doesn't matter, and they attempt to quote or paraphrase Colossians 2:16 by way of supporting that thinking.' They seem to be saying; "I'll decide which day I want to sanctify as MY sabbath.
Yeshua said that He IS Lord of the Sabbath, not us. God made the sabbath for man, but it is still very much His sabbath.
There is blessing for mankind in the seventh day sabbath.
Don't continue to let tradition get in the way of that.
[A dear brother sent this to me just today.]
Good Sabbath everyone.... I love this site!
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