Posted by
raygun on Friday, February 27, 2009 4:55:29 AM
The weekly Sabbath begins AT SUNDOWN on Friday night and lasts until SUNDOWN Saturday eve. One observes it in six simple ways: 1) do no servile (money-making) work, 2) do not buy or sell anything, 3) do no travel (that is, outside your city limits), 4) do not lift any heavy load(s), 5) do not engage in any personal pleasures (such as movies, games, entertainment TV, etc.) and 6) meet with other christians in some way or place (it's referred to as a Holy Convocation). These are not man-made criteria. Each of them is spelled out in the books Exodus through Deuteronomy from the mouth of God. To observe them is NOT to go back under the Law as Paul writes in Galatians. There he was referring to the man-made pagan laws of that region of Asia Minor. Those people were NOT Jews nor lost House Israelites, and so, their laws were NOT derived from The Bible. When men add law to God's Law, we do not have to obey it. But we DO HAVE to obey Law that God speaks Himself if it is FOUNDATIONAL LAW. The 10 Commandments are part of FOUNDATIONAL LAW and the sabbaths are #4 of them. You will find that God will specially bless you in some way if you begin to keep the sabbaths. It may be a job if you are unemployed, or some new insight of knowledge, or something else specific to your situation. Try it. Put Him to the test in a similar way that we do for the tithe at the end of Malachi. He promises there to open the stores of Heaven and I have seen BOTH the tithe and the Sabbath obediences to work for me!
--Ray Curtis, Friday February 27, 2009
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