Bearfruit

You make the Sabbath sound like dry bones… :D
Let’s put some meat and sinew and flavor to the Sabbath truth, which makes a lot of sense to me:

I believe that Christ kept all the Commandments of God, because the Bible says that He did no sin (Heb. 4:15), though He came in the likeness of our sinful flesh, the God/man, our human-Divine Mediator. He set the example for us in our humanity as to how we are to live, reflecting His character, which is the character of the Father. We can only reflect, we cannot be the source as He is.

Therefore, I believe that Christ did keep the Sabbath fully as humanity must keep it. He had the Spirit of the Law, and if you have the Spirit of the Law, you will also have the works of the Law. Many people have the works and no spirit, and we cannot be saved by the works of the Law. We must be born again, following the Spirit and not the carnal flesh. Christ did the works of the Law, but that was because He was full of the Holy Spirit, and He loved the Law. Psalm 40:8.

Therefore, Christ fulfilled His own and the Father’s Ten Commandment Law, as well as the biblical statutes and judgments which explain the Law, living it fully and joyfully, showing that sinful humanity when connected to divinity by Faith in Christ their Saviour, can keep the Law of God, though He was perfect, and we can only strive towards perfection. He also fulfilled the ceremonial system, not that we are to keep it, no, but that He might show us its purpose and meaning foreshadowing His work of saving us from sin. He is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, John 1:29, who was slain from the foundation of the world (via sacrficial system, and now memorialized in Communion), Revelation 13:8. He was sacrficed once for us, bringing an end to the sacrificial system, for that was only a shadow of the reality, Jesus Christ. Col. 2:14-17. The yearly feast days, holy yearly feast sabbaths (not seventh-day Sabbaths) and sacrifices and offerings were no longer necessary, for they all pointed forward to Christ.

The weekly Sabbath is a memorial of our Creator, and identifies Him and His position: the Lord God who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is. Exo. 20:8-11. The weekly Sabbath is also a memorial of His creative power to make us new Creatures in Him. He was the Redeemer who brought us out of Egypt, out of slavery to sin. So it memorializes that He is the one who is sanctifying us, making us holy and victorious over sin. ‘We cannot overcome sin without Him. The Sabbath is His sign to His true people who have the Law written in their hearts, that He is the Lord who is sanctifying them. See Exodus 31:12-17 and Ezekiel 20:12, 20, etc. The Sabbath therefore is the sign of the New Covenant. Hebrews 8:8-12. It surpasses Sunday which is a man-made holiday established by the papacy, not being commanded by God in the Bible. The Lord’s Day of the Bible is only found to be the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week. Unfortunately one has to go to the traditions of the so-called early Church Fathers (who are not inspired of God) to find reason to make Sunday the Lord’s Day.

I praise the Lord for His truth and creative power to work in us through the Holy Spirit.

I hope these biblical truths will catch like wildfire, to God’s glory.

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