Hey, welcome to the Mod Squad! So happy you took this position and I am enjoying your posts.
About the Sabbath, how does a gentile Christian keep a Sabbath? Just within their homes on Saturdays? Prepare all food the day before, praise, worship rest and scripture reading throughout your Saturday but...no gathering of the brethren? As, the only denomination I know of who meet on Saturdays are SDA's. Gather throughout the week (I would LOVE that)
What does a Sabbath day actually look like in your life, if I may ask brother?
Thank you!
In Christ,
Nancy
thank you sister for the kind words.
About the Sabbath, I found the answer in Isaiah a while ago it explain the foundation of the sabbath;
Isaiah 58:13–14
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
The Sabbath isn’t meant to be a burden or a rule to fear, but a holy time set apart for God, a day to stop our own business and pleasures, to rest in Him, speak of Him, and take joy in His presence. When we keep it this way, God promises both peace and blessing. I prepare a bit in advance as not to have common chores at the house I do not follow strictly the times of the sabbath by watching my watch for example. If someone calls and needs help I wil go out and do so, but mostly I thank God, read the bible, keep quiet and reflect on his words, normally it is then that I get ideas for new threads for this forum. As for food I keep it simple most times I have prepared meals to last for the sabbath day.
I do not follow like the pharisees who added all sorts of rules;
You could not carry any object heavier than a dried fig outside your house.
You could not walk more than about 2,000 cubits (roughly two-thirds of a mile) from your home — this became known as a
Sabbath day’s journey.
You could not tie or untie a knot, sew more than one stitch, or write more than one letter.
If a lamp went out, you couldn’t relight it, even for light in the house.
You couldn’t heal someone unless their life was in immediate danger — applying ointment or setting a bone was seen as “work.”
You couldn’t drag a chair across the floor if it might make a small furrow in the dirt (that was seen as plowing).
You couldn’t look into a mirror, in case you might pull out a gray hair — that would be considered grooming or labor.
You couldn’t pick up a stone or a stick, because that might lead to building or throwing, both considered work.
If a chicken laid an egg on the Sabbath, it couldn’t be eaten, because the hen’s “work” of laying was counted against the law.........
They did not understand the core of the law is LOVE.
As for gatherings I have no one in my entourage who shares by beliefs, Most are catholic and do not follow the faith anymore, it all went bad with the bad behaviour and abuse at many level of the church in the province of Quebec. When we could have bibles translated in french and not in Latin that few understood, people who read the bible woke up and rejected the catholic faith, the churches are empty here nowadays.
all that remains are the empty churches some are really beautiful.
Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal.
