CadyandZoe
Well-Known Member
Psalm 51:17Isn't that what non Sabbath observers base their stand on... The silence of Commandment in the NT for Sabbath?
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.
King David began to understand the difference between ritual and spirituality. God doesn't care about your ritual. He cares about your inwardness. Christ Jesus our Lord also taught us this when he told the people that lusting after a woman is committing adultery with her in the heart. He also taught us this idea in his parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, where the Publican went home justified because he humbled himself and confessed his sins. Paul the apostle taught this same idea when he told us that we are being justified apart from the law. Faith, which is inwardness in action, is the true marker of those whom God is saving.
God gave man ritual, not for his sake but for the sake of man, who seems to crave ritual. Man loves to invent religion and through religion he attempts to control his environment including the masses. God hates religion.
Isaiah 1:11-15