Yes Kenny the Levites were a tribe of Priests ministering to the people and doing God's Work. The same story is also told in
Matthew 12:1-12 where Jesus says that because they are doing Gods' work and doing good on the Sabbath they are held blameless before God and that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.
So true! The person who pulled a sheep out of a hole on a Sabbath does good. As does the medical profession, the fire department, the police department and so many others.
The point Jesus made was that a day of rest was necessary. Worshipping God and recognizing Him should be a daily affair.
As posted earlier to someone else. There is no such thing as a Jewish Sabbath. There was no Moses, no Jews, no Hebrews, no Israel when Jesus says God made the Sabbath for all mankind (
Genesis 2:1-3 compare
Mark 2:27).
I understand you position. How many Sabbath's did Abraham observe? Did Adam observe a Sabbath? I don't think so. There is a place where you are continually observing God's Sabbath -- in Christ Jesus.
Actually
Hebrews 4 says that the Sabbath is left behind for the people of God to enter into by faith. His rest, My rest, Gods rest is defined in the context of
Hebrews 4:1-5 as the seventh day Sabbath created from the foundation of the world. The scriptures in
Hebrews 3 and
Hebrews 4 no where talks about a greater Sabbath.
Hebrews 4:9 in the Aramaic is translated "therefore it remains for the people of God to keep the Sabbath". We keep the Sabbath by resting on the "seventh day" of the week as God rested from His works of creation.
Certainly, as the Apostle Paul said, if you do it as unto the Lord you should do it and if you don't you are in sin for what is not of faith is sin.
The rest is a rest of faith - a continual rest in God.
John Gill expressed it beautifully when he said "this intends the spiritual rest believers have in Christ under the Gospel dispensation, which they now enter into, and of which the apostle had been treating; and as for the word "remaineth", this does not denote the futurity of it, but the apostle's inference or consequence from what he had said; and the sense is, it remains therefore, and is a certain fact, a clear consequence from what has been observed,
that there is another rest distinct from God's rest on the seventh day, and from the rest in the land of Canaan; which were both typical ones of the present rest the saints now enjoy: so the Jews call the world to come the times of the Messiah, (lwdgh tbv) , "the great sabbath"
F12.
If you think about it, on God's 8th day... did He go back to work? No. His rest remained. His point wasn't a 7th day rest but rather an greater rest, a rest in Him in all things and through all things.
Scripture shows that "the Lords day" is a reference to the Sabbath day (
Matthew 12:8 see also rest of the OP). There is no scripture in the entire bible that teaches that "the Lords day" is a reference to Sunday. This is a man-made teaching and tradition that is unsupported by the scriptures.
I'm not quite sure.
This topic is a heaven and hell issue. Sin is the transgression of the law (see
1 John 3:4;
Romans 3:20;
Romans 7:7 and according to James if we break any one of them we stand guilty before God of sin (see
James 2:10-11). Gods' 4th commandment of the 10 commandments give us a knowledge of what sin is when broken. There is not a single scripture in all of Gods' Word that says Gods' 4th commandment of the 10 commandments have been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a holy day of rest. This is a man-made teaching and tradition that has led many away from God and His Word to break the commandments of God against the very warnings of Jesus in
Matthew 15:3-9. According to
Hebrews 10:26-31 if we continue in known unrepentant sin after we have been given a knowledge of the truth of Gods' Word we will not enter into Gods' kingdom.
No. I wouldn't agree with that. For every commandment that is made, and the commandments are holy and good, the end result is that it only creates more offenders. But, thanks be to God, Jesus bore our sins and carried our sicknesses. Though I be red as crimson, he makes me white as wool.
I believe the rest we find in faith is a rest that puts us back into a Garden of Eden where every day is a day of rest.
Of course love in important Kenny. According to the scriptures God is love. God tells us the truth through His Word because he loves us. God does not lie to us when he tells us that if we do not repent of our sins we will all likewise perish in our sins. God tells us that sin is the transgression of the law. Gods' 4th commandment is one of Gods' 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken and it is Jesus that says to us if you love me keep my commandments. Love therefore does not disobey what Gods' Word says. Love believes and obeys what Gods' Word says. Gods 4th commandment says to remember the Sabbath day (not Sunday) to keep it holy in six says you shall do all your labor and work but the SEVENTH DAY is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.... (
Exodus 20:8-11).
But I am no longer under the law - the law of sin and death. I am under the law of the Spirit of Life where grace is my husband.
Not that you can't observe the 7th day, if you do it as unto the Lord. If you do it in faith, it is good. If it is your law then to not do it will be sin because you would not be in faith (Rom 17)
For me, I am already in the Garden where every day is a day of rest.
According to the scriptures, Gods' people met every day of the week breaking bread in Acts 2:46-47. This of course does not make everyday a holy day now does it? If you look at Acts 20:7 you will read the reason why the early Church was meeting together with Paul. They were meeting together because Paul was leaving them. They were having a going away meal together. Read the chapter context here....
- Acts 20:6-13 6, And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. 7, And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.. 8, And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 9, And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. 10, And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11, When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. 12, And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.13, And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
According to the scriptures, Gods' people met every day of the week breaking bread in Acts 2:46-47. This of course does not make everyday a holy day now does it? If you look at Acts 20:7 you will read the reason why the early Church was meeting together with Paul. They were meeting together because Paul was leaving them. They were having a going away meal together. Read the chapter context here....
- Acts 20:6-13 6, And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. 7, And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.. 8, And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 9, And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. 10, And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11, When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. 12, And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.13, And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
So as shown in the scripture contexts the disciples were meeting together on the first day of the week to fare well Paul why was leaving them the next day.
Hope this helps
But I
would say every day is a holy day.
Every day, for me, is God's day.
Acts 20:6-13 6, And
we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. 7,
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them,
ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Don't get me wrong... I support your faith in keeping the Sabbath holy and unto the Lord. My Sabbath is just 7 days a week.
