gadar perets
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I totally agree. Health and life take precedence over the law as Yeshua taught. However, my question concerned forbidden work. When we work on the 7th day for selfish reasons or even for good reasons that are not expedient, it is sin. It is a sin for me to mow my neighbors lawn on the 7th day if it can be done on some other day. It is wrong for me to kindle a fire after the 7th day has begun if it could have been kindled before the 7th day started. Yet, none of these things are sin if done on the other six work days of the week. Sunday and every other day except the 7th day are normal work days on which work that is forbidden on the 7th day is acceptable to do.How about cooking and feeding homeless people, or saving a life as a doctor or a fireman? These are not sins even if they are performed on the Sabbath. Cooking extravagant meals and indulging the desires of our belly is a sin any day of the week. Kindling a fire to physically warm oneself on a cold day is not a sin. Kindling the fire of greed, lust, anger or any such thing is a sin, yes. With secular employment sometimes people don't have a choice, so for them it is not a sin to work on a Sabbath. If you are self-employed and motivated by greed, you work on the day of the Lord, I would call that a sin.
In everything we should search the motive and the circumstances, otherwise we would be no different than the Jews who found fault with Christ for healing a man on the Sabbath.
You mentioned the "day of the Lord". Which day did you mean? Sabbath or Sunday?