jiggyfly
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First things first......we have strayed way away from the lesson of, "How to you observe your Sabbath"
I do have a few lessons on God's law's and also a few on the laws that Paul taught, which I will post in the future.
But for now, if we could, let's try to stay focused on God's sabbath and how HE said it is to be observed.
If you do not believe God has given us rules on how His sabbath is to be observed, then sobeit. That goes against the word of God, but that is your choice!
This lesson is to let those that may not know, that God indeed has rules that are to be obeyed concerning His sabbath. And they are the following;
1. We ARE to rest on the Sabbath. Lev.23:3 "...but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest..."
2. We are NOT to cook on the Sabbath. Ex.16:23,26 "...bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
3. We are NOT to do any manner of work (If it can be avoided,) on the Sabbath. Lev.23:3 "Six days shall work be done...ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4. We ARE to have an Holy Convocation on the Sabbath. Lev.23:3 "...but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation..."
5. We are NOT to buy or sell on Gods Sabbath, if it can be avoided. Neh.13:15-22 "In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals." "And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day."
6. We are NOT to engage in our own pleasures on God‘s Sabbath. Isa.58:13,14 "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:" "Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
So there you have it. Six simple Rules God gave us so that we would know how HE wants us to serve Him on HIS sabbath day.
Again....if you do not agree, sobeit. This lesson is not for you. This lesson is for those that, as God word says;
"And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;"
This lesson is for those that have chosen to separate themselves from those that choose not to keep God's laws, and for those that have knowledge and understanding. To encourage them to continue in God's laws.
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Is that how the priests that had temple duty kept the sabbath?