The Sabbath

[Tammy Roesch]

1 minute ago, walla299 said:

. . . and it looks like the "fight" is still going on. 

I recently left a church that got to legalistic about the "Sabbath." That's all I'm going to say on that.

For the rest: If you want to keep Sabbath and feel like that's what the Lord wants you to do - great! By all means do so. It's also fine if you are not lead to do so. The choice is left to the individual.

 

You are right...God has given us all the FREE CHOICE whether or not we want to obey Him.

He does say, "IF ye love Me, KEEP My Commandments."  That is why I keep the Sabbath....because I love Him.

[johnthebaptist]

28 minutes ago, Tammy Roesch said:

Nothing....that has been done....but you can ask scientists or whoever....and everyone will tell you that no days were ever lost.  Just as God has protected the Bible during the Dark Ages, He has protected the Sabbath.  There has ALWAYS been Sabbath keepers....they have always been in the minority....but that shouldn't surprise us...the TRUTH is rarely in the MAJORITY.

So you believe that only Saturday can be the sabbath?

[johnthebaptist]

5 minutes ago, walla299 said:

. . . and it looks like the "fight" is still going on. 

I recently left a church that got to legalistic about the "Sabbath." That's all I'm going to say on that.

For the rest: If you want to keep Sabbath and feel like that's what the Lord wants you to do - great! By all means do so. It's also fine if you are not lead to do so. The choice is left to the individual.

 

I don't think anyone has thrown any punches yet.

[Tammy Roesch]

1 minute ago, johnthebaptist said:

So you believe that only Saturday can be the sabbath?

Yes, the Bible calls the other 6 days "WORKING DAYS".  There is only ONE SABBATH and God Himself designated it to be the 7th Day.

[walla299]

12 minutes ago, Tammy Roesch said:

You are right...God has given us all the FREE CHOICE whether or not we want to obey Him.

He does say, "IF ye love Me, KEEP My Commandments."  That is why I keep the Sabbath....because I love Him.

Interesting . . . I've spent most of my working life on shifts that included working weekends (including <gasp> Sunday), holidays, and all kinds of strange hours. Sometimes things like that can't be avoided in real life.  I love the Lord too, but He's sovereign and He's never given me grief about having to work some days rather than be in church. Such is life in this fallen world.

Please don't insinuate that anyone loves the Lord more or less because they have the privilege of being able to go to church on a given day. The church I left basically slammed the door on anyone who didn't have a Monday-Friday, 8am-5-pm job. Life is too short for that. Remember Colossians 2:16-17.

[Waggles]

54 minutes ago, Tammy Roesch said:

I LOVE the Sabbath! I've been keeping it all my life and I'm 60 years old.  I SO LOOK FORWARD after a busy week, to that 24 hour period where I don't do any work or any business.  It's not a burden! Far from it!  It's like getting the spiritual battery recharged for the next week.  

I also love the Sabbath - a day to put aside the demands of the world and to worship God as Father and Saviour. And this I do on Sundays.

The early Christians of the first church had already left Saturdays to the Jews and were meeting on the first day of the week. 

God also wrote scripture through Paul -

Colosians 2:16  Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 
17  These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 

Stick with scripture.

[Waggles]

2 hours ago, johnthebaptist said:

I'm not talking about Moses. I'm talking about sin.

Your muddling the waters. I thought we were blogging about the sabbath - which day of the week?

[Tammy Roesch]

1 minute ago, walla299 said:

Interesting . . . I've spent most of my working life on shifts that included working weekends (including <gasp> Sunday), holidays, and all kinds of strange hours. Sometimes things like that can't be avoided in real life.  I love the Lord too, but He's sovereign and He's never given me grief about having to work some days rather than be in church. Such is life in this fallen world.

Please don't insinuate that anyone loves the Lord more or less because they have the privilege of being able to go to church on a given day. The church I left basically slammed the door on anyone who didn't have a Monday-Friday, 8am-5-pm job. Life is too short for that.

I understand Walla, that it's not always easy to get the Sabbath off. I am a big believer in being in business for yourself, then YOU get to call the shots :). But, I do not believe that God is going to tell us to do something that is impossible for us to do.  Whatever He asks us to do, He will make away.  Sometimes He might be testing us, and see if we are really willing to give up whatever it might be that is stopping us from obeying Him. 

Kind of like when Daniel and the 3 Worthy's were in Babylon and commanded to bow down to the idol.  That was something they had been raised not to do, and they knew it would be disobeying God....so they stood firm....and were rewarded with being put into the fiery furnace....and God blessed them and they witnessed for Him.  Whatever God asks us to do, we just need to determine to do it, and ask God for strength and courage to do it...and DO IT.

[johnthebaptist]

2 minutes ago, Waggles said:

Your muddling the waters. I thought we were blogging about the sabbath - which day of the week?

I'm trying to make the point that if you sin, you get yourself into trouble. The Ten Commandments help define sin. You seem to condemn the Law of Moses, which brings us the Ten Commandments.

[Tammy Roesch]

5 minutes ago, Waggles said:

I also love the Sabbath - a day to put aside the demands of the world and to worship God as Father and Saviour. And this I do on Sundays.

The early Christians of the first church had already left Saturdays to the Jews and were meeting on the first day of the week. 

God also wrote scripture through Paul -

Colosians 2:16  Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 
17  These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 

Stick with scripture.

Waggles, I am sticking with Scripture :).  Colosians 2:16 has NOTHING to do with the SABBATH and everything to do with the CEREMONIAL HOLY DAYS...look in the 10 Commandments... you won't find anything there about FOOD and DRINK...but if you look up about the Ceremonial Days, there is lots about FOOD & DRINK there.  So you want to be careful not to confuse the two :).