Allow me to expose a little hypocrisy here. No one keeps the Sabbath according to Isaiah 58:13
Isa 58:13 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:
In other words, you can’t sit around and talk about the good times. You cannot talk about fishing or hunting or sports or organic gardening or making bread. You can’t talk about your new building project or what the kids have been doing that week and how funny it was. You couldn't get together with the family and friends and laugh and have a good time on the Sabbath.
You couldn't “speak your own words”. The Sabbath was the time to speak only the words of God. So picture this, everyone is staying at home, no one is going in or out, no one is carrying a load, no one cooking anything. Everyone in a state of total relaxation, just praying, singing and speaking the words of God for the 24 hours. That is the way they kept the Sabbath.
And if they violated this in anyway, the penalty was death.
Now, today's "Sabbath Keepers" will tell you that there is no penalty anymore for breaking the law. But, have you ever heard of a law without a penalty. The very nature of a law implies a penalty. Then, they will tell you that God has relaxed the requirements of keeping the Sabbath and you don't really have to keep it as strict as God says to keep it in Isaiah 58.
Do you see where this is all going? Fleshly, Carnal Religion is nothing but situational ethics and just like the Pharisees, waters down the requirements of God to suit themselves. They water it down enough so that God's law is not odious to the flesh while making themselves look religious to the naive. You will find that they water other things in the Bible that their flesh does not like.
Here is what God says about fleshly religion: Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. (Luke 16:15)
So, don't tell me you keep the Sabbath, because you don't. Going to a Church building on Saturday or Sunday or Tuesday is not keeping the Sabbath according to the Bible.
The real question and the heart of the matter is do you keep your relationship with the Lord (the true Sabbath rest) everyday? Do you know what that is? Are you abiding in the Lord, listening to Him, yielding to Him and following Him everyday? You see, abiding in the Lord is not once a week and those that try to keep the law will justify to themselves that they are keeping it perfectly. That is self-deception.
Please don't try to convince any of us that you keep the Sabbath. We know you can't and don't.
The Lord does not ignore the worship and devotion of His Body because they are meeting on Friday or Tuesday or Thursday.
Gal 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. (no longer under the law. The law was our schoolmaster).
Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Jesus fulfilled the letter of the law and even went beyond it. Those who follow Jesus and walk in love have fulfilled the law.
Rom_13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Rom_13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Gal_5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Rom_8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
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