The Lord's Shabbat Shalom

[Mr. M]

A simple question concerning the Sabbath under the New Covenant. Can you truly claim to be at rest simply by not working one day a week? Jesus taught words that are spirit and truth. Are you at rest, if you are unable to keep his words? The New Covenant Sabbath is of the heart.

Matthew 6:

25 Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

31-34 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat? or ‘What shall we drink? or What shall we wear? For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Shabbat Shalom

A Sabbath Day of Worry is a Day of Self-Deception.

Only a day free of worry is a day of peace, that passes understanding. 

Have you truly entered into His Rest?

Philippians 4:

6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,

let your requests be made known to God; 

7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,

will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

No Day of Rest Without the Weightier Matters

Isaiah 56:1 Thus says the Lord:

Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.

To keep Sabbath undefiled; keep justice and do righteousness.

3 Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who has joined himself to the Lord
Speak, saying,
The Lord has utterly separated me from His people;
Nor let the eunuch say,
Here I am, a dry tree.
4 For thus says the Lord:
To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,
5 Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off. [Christian]

6 Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.
8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him.

Edited March 28, 2023 by Mr. M
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[Mr. M]

6 hours ago, Mr. M said:

For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.

12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ 

14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. 

15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! they were indignant 16 and said to Him, Do You hear what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes. Have you never read,

Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have perfected praise.