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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I am sorry to say, but it seems like you did not read more than perhaps one or two lines of the over 25,000 characters of Bible study written exclusively for you. If you did, then you would not say something like this as if it was new,
for that never was once insinuated in any of the three studies. In fact, even thinking to use works as a means to earn salvation, as if salvation could be earned as wages, was specifically rebuked. Dozens of verses of Scripture were all corroborated in order to show the purely Scriptural understanding of faith, works, obedience, and most importantly, love.
But your confusion, because perhaps you did read but do not quite understand the language that is used in the Bible, is in what law is being spoken of. Again, to reiterate, there is the Moral Law of the Ten Commandments, the civil law, and the ceremonial law. All of the theories that you conclude, and all of the grievances that you spoke of, are either found in the civil law, or in the ceremonial law. There is nothing grievous in the Moral Law:
Now a king is not without his government, and a government is not without its laws. Again, if you lump in the civil and ceremonial laws with the Moral Law, which is what you are doing and what the Pharisees also did, then you are denying the law of the government of God. By throwing out the Moral Law with the civil law and the ceremonial law, you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and in this specific case, that means that you are verily throwing out Jesus. Knowingly or not, you are rejecting His position as King of kings, as Lord of lords, as Messiah, as Christ, and are doing just as what the large majority of the Pharisees did.
If you truly seek a heart wisdom, a heart knowledge, and a heart understanding of what is written in the Word of God, then go back and prayerfully read through those three studies. Go back and discover the love of God as written in His Moral Law.
Because keeping the Moral Law is the testament, even the covenant, of love.
Ya know, this is getting OLD this going back and forth so lets be clear, YOU KEEP WHATEVER YOU THINK IS GOOD FOR YOU and I will keep doing what I READ in the New Testament written by Paul the Apostle that was taught directly by the risen Savior Jesus. OKAY!
Paul:
Jesus:
Okay, lets just say I am convinced! How do you keep the Sabbath?
What a wonderful question! As is written in the Moral Law, as Jesus had done, and as His disciples with Paul had continued to do!
While six days are for work,
which has become part of rendering unto Caesar what is due unto Caesar (taxes and civil obedience and such), the seventh day is for rest, or in other words rendering unto God what is asked of by God (love and moral obedience).
Resting and keeping the Sabbath is a recognition of Jesus as the Creator and the Redeemer of all things. To rest is to rest from any works that seek to earn wages, whether physical in the form of money or spiritual in the form of salvation. So what does this type of rest entail? Does it mean that you trap yourself in between four walls and read the paint of the ceiling all day? Absolutely not!
Do you want to drive down to the beach? Go for it! But rather than make it a day to swim and tan and please yourself, walk alongside the beach and marvel at the ebbing and flowing of the waves. Witness the waters washing away the impurities of the sea, and think about how the blood of the Lamb washes away the impurities of the soul. See how the sands have been set as the boundaries of the waters, just as God has promised (Jeremiah 5:22), and discover the love of God in His creation.
Do you want to go out and have a picnic in the park with your friends? Go for it! The Sabbath is a day to smile, to be joyful and glad, to laugh and delight in learning more and more of the relationship which God wants to have with you.
But just as a picnic is prepared the day before, prepare the food on the day of preparation, the Friday, in order to have the focus of the day be on the relationship between you, your friends, and God. Share testimonies with each other in how you have witnessed the love of God in your life and throughout your week.
Do you see or know someone who has gotten into terrible trouble on the Sabbath day? Perhaps they are abandoned on the side of the road with no one to help them for miles. Go and help them! But do so with a smile on your face and the love of God in your heart because that someone may be heart-sick. In those moments when you are helping him when no one else would, share with him the love of Jesus who verily loves him even if no one else did.
If someone is sick and in desperate need for care, bring them health! Care for them as Jesus had done on the Sabbath for the man possessed (Mark 1:21-26), for the mother-in-law of Simon (Mark 1:29-33), for the man with the withered hand (Mark 3:1-5), for the woman with 18 years of illness (Luke 13:10-17), for the man with the severe and often fatal condition of dropsy (Luke 14:1-6), for the man 38 years alone and suffering because of the traditions of the Pharisees (John 5:2-9), and for the man born blind (John 9). The Sabbath is all about restoring health and relationship.
Some could have a spiritual sickness caused by mixing the ceremonies and traditions of the Pharisees with the Moral Law of God, so bring them, just as Jesus had done on the Sabbath day, and just as Paul had done on the Sabbath day after learning of the example of Jesus, the truth which is found in Jesus (John 14:6) as written in His Word (Matthew 4:4). If you are the one who is spiritually sick, then go and listen to the preaching of the Word for the healing of the sick (Matthew 9:35).
Come together in relationship with your brothers and sisters in Christ, exhort one another and uplift one another in the name of Jesus Christ. Go together and listen to the Word being preached on the Sabbath day. Take advantage of the rest which God has provided in His Sabbath in order to hear His Word and learn of the relationship that He wants to have with you. Grow in faith and hope, but most importantly grow in love.
The entirety of the Ten Commandments, the Moral Law which is the fulfillment of the ceremonial law and has absolutely nothing to do with the laws of tradition, is given as a joy and a delight for the healing of the sick and the sanctification of the soul. There are no set rules or regulations as tradition may dictate, but there is the command to rest from the works that seek to earn wages, and begin to develop the very character of God whose transcript He has written in His Moral Law.
The Sabbath day is the day, the "yom" in the original language which represents a literal evening-morning 24 hour day, that God has specifically ordained and given as a gift in order to grow in a loving relationship with Him. It is the sign which He has given as a recognition of His morality being the only moral authority in your life. The day does matter, because God said. And the way to keep it is also as God said, as a day of joy and delight in the love and for the glory of God.
And if you are struggling with harsh and exacting rules that people have taught as being Biblical and a part of the Moral Law that was written directly by God, then know that none of those grievous rules are in harmony with the Bible. Go back to the Bible and study what Jesus and the disciples did together, as a family, on the Sabbath day! The Moral Law, especially the Sabbath, will never be grievous or burdensome.
For the Sabbath is the signature of God that represents the character of God, not as a stern task-master as represented by scribes and Pharisees, but as a character which prefers others over self, and which prefers Jesus and His love, as shown through obedience to His Ten Commandments, above all.
Because obedience to the Moral Law is not a work of salvation, it is a work of a loving faith that finds its completion in rest.