Charlie Kirl gave a 3000 year hack to make yourself happier and less anxious -
"I would argue that the more radical you are about the Sabbath the more you're going to get out of it"
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The Sabbath is a gift from God to man but I am telling you from a former Sabbath keeper, you cannot put anything in front of our salvation by Jesus Christ ALONE. Nothing we do or keep will make us more favorable to God EXCEPT the complete and total surrender to Jesus as our one and only focus. Nothing wrong with keeping the Sabbath but just keep it in the right context.
Many Christians put Sunday worship in the same context as the Sabbath keepers put the Sabbath. They are bot equally wrong. Every day belongs to the Lord. He made them all.
I still keep the Sabbath but not like it is a requirement for a Christian and I am committing a sin by not keeping it.
The Sabbath has it place---along with the Passover and other Feasts that God calls HIS FEASTS in the Bible. They are not the "Jews Feast"! These feast days God calls His along with the Sabbath explain the entire plan of what God is doing and will do in the future.
Be blessed and let's have a Boom week ahead!
As it is written, "Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath."
Amen.
Charlie's message has got nothing to do with religion, but something that can actually change your life. But I agree, it should not be observed as some kind of a religious tenet, or with expectation that it will make you move favourable to Jesus or God or anything else.
This post is a 7th Day Adventist's dream. LOL! Unfortunately they will take it out of context like most others are doing but for a different reason.
Was it not commanded of Adam and Eve to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Why? Because God said.
The difference between the Sabbath and the Sunday is in what authority you are deciding to follow. The Sabbath is the visible answer to choosing the authority of God. Why? Because God said.
By knowingly keeping a day that is not ordained in the law, then that very same law is being transgressed.
But the Sabbath is not to be kept as works in order to earn salvation as wages. If this was the case, then the Creator would be indebted to the creation and the meaning of the Sabbath, as the recognition of God as the Creator and Redeemer of all things, would be flipped on its head.
The Sabbath is kept as an outflow of love. The context absolutely does matter, and this is the the simplest, most straight-forward way to begin understanding the context.
I will have to disagree since you overlook what the Jerusalem Council said regarding the Law for Christian converts. The Jews were demanding the converts to Christianity to keep the Law---which was the Old Covenant--- the 10 Commandments were kept in the Ark of the COVENANT--and the council told Paul who objected to the Jews demanding the converts keep the Law that the new converts were to "Act 15:20Β But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.Β "-------
Read all of Acts 15.
This is Acts 15:20:
These are the Ten Commandments:
There is zero mention of the Ten Commandments in what you termed the "Jerusalem Council in regards for the Law for Christian converts".
This is the "old" covenant:
This is the "new" covenant:
The two are exactly the same.
Now what Acts 15 is referring to is the ceremonial law, also called the law of ordinances, or the handwriting of ordinances. Let us do a short Bible study to affirm this as true.
The ceremonial law, which was a shadow of things to come, were to remain on the side of the ark as a constant reminder of the condition of a fallen humanity. It served as a constant representation of the condition of man, and its instruction was meant to lead the minds to dwell on the Ten Commandments found within the Ark of the Covenant.
The Handwriting of Ordinances, being another name for the ceremonial law placed besides the ark, was fulfilled in its purpose serve as a witness and lead the minds towards Jesus Christ and the confirmation of a better law, being the Ten Commandments.
Now the word for "ordinances" is "dogmas" which can mean one of three things: civil law, ceremonial law, or ecclesiastical law. It does not reference ecclesiastical law as that system did not exist to be governed over.
And civil law is referenced here, which is in regards to civil obedience placed in stark contrast which is what to be rendered unto God, which is moral obedience (as an outflow of understanding and love) towards His commandments. Therefore, the dogma of ordinances, even in the language, must be referring to the ceremonial law. But let us go even further.
Something to understand is that the New Testament unlocks the Old Testament and the Old Testament locks the New Testament rigidly into place. One can not be without the other, and what Paul is referring to is found here in Ezekiel. All of the details of the ceremonial law were to lead man unto reconciliation with the Creator, while the Sabbath and the Ten Commandments, the better promise, are about the restoration of the relationship and the declaration of Jesus Christ.
The meat and drink offering are referring to the Feast of Weeks, a part of the ceremonial law as referenced in Acts 15. These have been "taken out of the way", as spoken of in Colossians 2:14.
The holyday is in reference to annual feasts and holy days as too described here in the ceremonial law and whose practiced is describe in Psalm 42:4.
The new moon is in reference to the New Moon Feast Days as again described here in the ceremonial law and chronicled again in the book of Chronicles. The sabbaths, plural, is referencing the ceremonial sabbaths which are distinct and different from the Seventh-Day Sabbath. But that is a whole study in an of itself. I will just briefly leave you with the words of Theophilus Brabourne:
And finally, the "sabbath days" of the ceremonial law of Colossians, of the handwriting of ordinances of Acts 15, is in reference to the Feast of Trumpets or the Day of Atonement, all parts of the ceremonial law as seen here in Leviticus.
The Sabbath, quite literally written into every single week, and the Ten Commandments, to be written into the flesh of the heart, can not marked up or changed as if they were writings on paper.
Paul, and all of the disciples and apostles, were full of love. You will find zero mention in the entirety of the New Testament of even the modicum of idea, of even an iota of suggestion, to be done away with the Ten Commandments.
And this is because the law is not to be followed as an obligation and as a necessity, but as an act of love. Once someone truly studies and understands the meaning of the moral law as written in the Ten Commandments, once the law becomes inscribed in the heart and the character of Jesus, as written in His law, becomes better understood, then the heart will not be able to restrain itself from acting in harmony His beautiful instruction. This obedience is not a wage to be earned, but a consequence of understanding the wage which was paid, in full, by Jesus.
I know all this but it makes no difference. The Ten Commandments WERE the Old Covenant. God said you do this and I will do that. The New Covenant is spiritual. Jesus said so in His Sermon on the Mount. The Law is spiritual and written in our hearts. The Sabbath of the Old Covenant was a day of rest for the people of God. The Sabbath of the New Covenant is spiritual and we have our rest in Christ to cease from "WORKS".
There is ZERO mention in Acts about the Ten Commandments because the Law of works was replaced by the New Covenant.The early church kept the Sabbath but they did NOT command that converts to Christ be weighed down by the law that neither their fathers or them could keep.
If you want to keep the Sabbath, more power to you but to say we could lose our salvation by not keeping is blasphemy!
Re: Jeremiah 31
if you go back two verses it is shown that verse 33 cannot be the Old Covenant. The covenant in verse 33 is distinct from the covenant just referenced in 31-32, which is the actual Old Covenant.
after what days? remember Jeremiah was prophesying in Babylon during the captivity, prior to the Second Temple era, and centuries before the Third Temple era, aka the era of Christ Jesus. (destroy this temple...)
Jesus paying the price for sin on the cross is what caused God "to forgive our iniquity and remember our sin no more", right?
Jeremiah foresaw the New Covenant, some 600-ish years in the future. But it would be a long haul up until it, with God even withholding all communication with backslidden Israel after Malachi was sent.
I always tell people, Gods love language is obedience π
Yes it is.