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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You are full of your own self righteousness just like the scripture you just quoted. You cannot keep the Sabbath "holy" no better than the Israelites could or you would tell me what you do. You won't because you know I will point out how you break the Sabbath EVERY WEEK. I was a Sabbath keeper for years, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Bible study Friday night---church on Saturday and nothing else until sundown. I felt like I was doing what God wanted unlike most other people. What I learned is Sabbath keepers put the Sabbath above the name of Jesus as importance. Sabbath keepers are full of self righteousness just like the Pharisees. There is nothing wrong with keeping the Sabbath as a day of rest but it is never to be in place of Christ.
Rom 14:5Β One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.Β Rom 14:6Β He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.Β
Happy Sabbath!
Reading your comment again, I wanted to tell you that I do not know you, and that I do not know what pain you have been through, but it seems that you were once taught horrible lies that seek to represent God as some stern task-master who is looking for the slightest excuse to bludgeon you over the head with, or that the Sabbath was to be worshiped as if it were God. And much of this came from the mouth of professed Sabbath-keepers. This is such a terrible, soul-destroying, heart-crushing system of a lie, but you had done everything in your heart to persevere in the midst of tragedy. You must have gone through so much spiritual pain that I can not even begin to imagine. I am sorry for not paying more attention to what you were really trying to express.
Just like you said, the Sabbath is about leading the heart to Jesus, and is never to be put above its Author. Anyone saying otherwise is neither reasonable, nor sensible, nor Biblical. But! If those terrible influences in your life have convinced you that the day, whether Saturday or Sunday or Wednesday, does not matter, then please, do not read any other comment in this whole conversation, but please just read the study at the end of this paragraph. It was written specifically to dispel with those lies, and replace them with the liberating and freeing love of Jesus. The study, just as you asked for, focuses on giving Biblical examples of what to do on the Sabbath. Of course keeping the Sabbath as an obligation or a job will never earn salvation, but by realizing what it really means for salvation to by faith alone, then the laws that God Himself wrote with His finger in stone will want to be kept, according to His standard, as a free-will offering of faith. And these laws are not the suffocating and grievous and worshiped laws that you grew up being taught.
What can you do on the Sabbath, what does it mean to rest?
To rest is to rest from any work that seeks to earn wages, whether the wages be physical in the form of money, or spiritual in the form of salvation. But 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? Or perhaps look to punish yourself as if trying to earn favour with God? Absolutely not! The Sabbath is about relationship! Would you spend a day of relationship staring at a wall or trying to avoid punishments? God forbid!
Do you want to drive down to the beach? Do you want to feel the sand in between your toes, listen to the sound of the sea and the birds, breathe in the fresh salt of the air? Go for it! Make it a joy and a delight to rest in the completed works of God, just as is written in the Bible. But rather than make it a day to swim and tan and please yourself, for relationship should not be self-centered, 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 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. Take the family and have an especially delicious Sabbath meal in a park with fresh air, clear sounds, beautiful sights, and the freedom of heaven above your head.
But just as you would do for a picnic, try and prepare the food on the day before in order to have the focus of the day be on the relationship between you, your family, 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. Grow your relationship with each other and with God.
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! And 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 and self-righteousness 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 deep spiritual pain caused by the mixing of tradition 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 in the example of Jesus, the truth which is found in Jesus as written in His Word (John 14:6, Matthew 4:4). If you need a spiritual recharge, 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. Sermons should not be dry and stale and self-serving! They should be filled with the energy of love and the meekness of a lowly soul. The whole city should be energized with the love of the Word. 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.
How can a people put the day above its Lord? Preposterous! The entirety of the Ten Commandments, which has absolutely nothing to do with the laws of tradition, is given as a joy and a delight for the building of relationship, for the healing of the sick, and for 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 developing the very character of God whose character-transcript He has written, in stone and with His own finger, 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. In short, the seventh-day Sabbath represents the moral authority of God.
Thinking that the day does not matter, or teaching that the day does not matter, can very well end up just as soul-destroying as teaching that there are stringent and suffocating laws of what to do and what not to do on the Sabbath. Just as the day is not to be put above its Lord, so too is the day not to be separated from its Lord. These are very important thing to understand.
In the Garden of Eden, the apple seemed good for food, and it seemed like okay to eat as all the other trees were okay to eat from, but God said to not eat of that one tree. Each day of the week seems good for worship, and Saturday seems good for work, but God said to rest on the Sabbath day. The day absolutely does matter, but not in the way that man says, in the way that God says. Do not let man rob you, or anyone else, from the love of His Word.
And if you are struggling with harsh and exacting rules that people have taught as being Biblical, or with a terrible system that seeks to worship the creation over the Creator, then know that none of those things are in harmony with the Bible. Bring people 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. They will always be freeing and uplifting.
For the Sabbath is the signature of God that represents the character of God, not as a stern task-master represented by scribes and Pharisees, but as a character which prefers others above self, and which prefers Jesus and His love, as shown through a willing and delightful obedience to His Ten Commandments, above all. The Sabbath is not a declaration of wanting to be saved, it is a declaration of being saved while in the process of being sanctified into the loving image of God.
Because obedience to the Moral Law is not a work of salvation, it is a work of faith that finds its completion in rest, and then its continuation in love.
You are talking to the air. I refuse to read any more of you posts. Have a happy Sabbath.
You are speaking to nothing but air. None of what you said was ever insinuated. Throw your pride in the dust and go back and read each and every one of the studies penned specifically for your eyes. Learn of the truth which has been hidden from your heart.
Knowledge, which is to rightly understand the Moral Law as a delight (Psalm 40:8; 112:1), is what the nation of Israel lacked. By the way, Romans 14:5-6 is referencing neither the Sabbath nor the Moral Law, it is referencing the ceremonial and civil laws. If you had read the many studies given just for your benefit, then you would understand these things and find great joy, delight, and love.
Until then, be very careful in thinking to teach people of things that are not based wholly on Scripture. Eisegesis, reading your own thoughts into the Scripture, is what you have been doing. Seek to understand the Scripture through studies of exegesis, through studies that seek to extract everything from the Text as it is written (Matthew 4:4), for this is how Jesus explicitly taught us to study.