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I do my best to keep the Sabbath (which, for me, is on Sunday). The way I look at it, God has asked us to make one day distinctly His, to set aside our more mundane secular activities and to participate in those things that will make this one day a week different from all the rest. That is not to say that we should not be living lives dedicated to Him throughout the rest of the week, but the commandment to keep one day holy was given and never rescinded. I figure there's a good reason for that.
I don't know all the rules for Sabbath keeping, but it is very hard for those who do. you can only walk so much, and do so much. Not me. I like to rest every night when I sleep.
Its to hard to do absolutely nothing all day long, after church. I know many that keep the Sabbath and after they get home form Church they will go to sleep until the Sun goes down....I only live once, I can sleep when Im dead.
You don't like sleep? I thought it was right up there with food and sex among the pleasures most humans enjoy. I can't sleep on any schedule - it is probably going to shorten my life.
You don't like sleep? I thought it was right up there with food and sex among the pleasures most humans enjoy. I can't sleep on any schedule - it is probably going to shorten my life.
Sleeping from 4pm-9pm on a Saturday until the sun goes down is lame. I kinda feel they are missing the whole point of the Sabbath when you literally wait until the sun goes down in order to have any fun.
I am curious to know if Christians keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath can be any day of the week, but you must not work on the Sabbath.
CHAPTER XV.--THE FALSE AND THE TRUE SABBATH.
Further, also, it is written concerning the Sabbath in the Decalogue which [the Lord] spoke, face to face, to Moses on Mount Sinai, "And sanctify ye the Sabbath of the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart." And He says in another place, "If my sons keep the Sabbath, then will I cause my mercy to rest upon them." The Sabbath is mentioned at the beginning of the creation [thus]: "And God made in six days the works of His hands, and made an end on the seventh day, and rested on it, and sanctified it." Attend, my children, to the meaning of this expression, "He finished in six days." This implieth that the Lord will finish all things in six thousand years, for a day is with Him a thousand years. And He Himself testifieth, saying, "Behold, to-day will be as a thousand years." Therefore, my children, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, all things will be finished. "And He rested on the seventh day." This meaneth: when His Son, coming [again], shall destroy the time of the wicked man, and judge the ungodly, and change the-sun, and the moon, and the stars, then shall He truly rest on the seventh day. Moreover, He says, "Thou shalt sanctify it with pure hands and a pure heart." If, therefore, any one can now sanctify the day which God hath sanctified, except he is pure in heart in all things, we are deceived. Behold, therefore: certainly then one properly resting sanctifies it, when we ourselves, having received the promise, wickedness no longer existing, and all things having been made new by the Lord, shall be able to work righteousness. Then we shall be able to sanctify it, having been first sanctified ourselves. Further, He says to them, "Your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure." Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead. And when He had manifested Himself, He ascended into the heavens.
Further, also, it is written concerning the Sabbath in the Decalogue which [the Lord] spoke, face to face, to Moses on Mount Sinai, "And sanctify ye the Sabbath of the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart." And He says in another place, "If my sons keep the Sabbath, then will I cause my mercy to rest upon them." The Sabbath is mentioned at the beginning of the creation [thus]: "And God made in six days the works of His hands, and made an end on the seventh day, and rested on it, and sanctified it." Attend, my children, to the meaning of this expression, "He finished in six days." This implieth that the Lord will finish all things in six thousand years, for a day is with Him a thousand years. And He Himself testifieth, saying, "Behold, to-day will be as a thousand years." Therefore, my children, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, all things will be finished. "And He rested on the seventh day." This meaneth: when His Son, coming [again], shall destroy the time of the wicked man, and judge the ungodly, and change the-sun, and the moon, and the stars, then shall He truly rest on the seventh day. Moreover, He says, "Thou shalt sanctify it with pure hands and a pure heart." If, therefore, any one can now sanctify the day which God hath sanctified, except he is pure in heart in all things, we are deceived. Behold, therefore: certainly then one properly resting sanctifies it, when we ourselves, having received the promise, wickedness no longer existing, and all things having been made new by the Lord, shall be able to work righteousness. Then we shall be able to sanctify it, having been first sanctified ourselves. Further, He says to them, "Your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure." Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead. And when He had manifested Himself, He ascended into the heavens.
I like the Epistle of Barnabas as well, but when I show that, many people say its not in our current bibles, even-though it was in the original bible but taken out, or the common you are going to listen to Barnabas over Jesus.
I like the Epistle of Barnabas as well, but when I show that, many people say its not in our current bibles, even-though it was in the original bible but taken out, or the common you are going to listen to Barnabas over Jesus.
Yes, I finally found someone else on this forum that realizes that. It was in the original manuscripts as obviously accepted in the early Christian era.
I am curious to know if Christians keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath can be any day of the week, but you must not work on the Sabbath.
I keep the Sabbath.
Its important.
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Well, said. I agree. Christ is our Sabbath Rest.
