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Posted by: JChappy11
God said, I am the LORD, I CHANGE NOT. Malachi 3:6. In contrast with this,
God says He will CHANGE PEOPLE: A NEW HEART also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments,
and do them. Ezekiel 36:26-27.
New Covenant did not go into effect until after Christ died, and nothing can be added or taken away after He ratified it on he cross
When did Sunday-keeping begin?" There was a moment of shocked silence, and then another, and
another. The boys looked at each other, and then down at their feet, and then
back at me. I gently prodded them for the answer, "Surely you can tell me the
answer to this question. You have known all the others, and have answered
correctly. When and why do you think people began keeping Sunday?"
Finally, one of them said, "We keep Sunday in honor of the resurrection of
Jesus." I said, "Then I must ask you my last question. How could Sundaykeeping
be a part of the New Covenant? You just stated that nothing could be added
after the death of Christ. He died on Friday and was resurrected
The fact is that Sundaykeeping, even if it had started on the day of the
resurrection, would have been three days too late to get into the New Covenant.
Both Bible and history prove that Sunday was never observed by the apostolic
church. It was added much, much later as a result of the gradual apostasy which
developed in the early centuries of the church and which culminated in the
pagan accommodation of Constantine in 330 A.D.
Millions of modern church members regard Sunday as a sacred day which
memorialises the resurrection of Christ. It is certainly true that Christ arose on
the first day of the week, but nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to keep
that day holy. Events such as the crucifixion and resurrection should mean much
to every Christian, but not one intimation is given in the Bible for observing
either Friday or Sunday. The only day ever commanded for weekly worship is the
seventh day of the week - the same Sabbath Jesus kept during creation week
and the one He will keep with His people throughout all eternity. Genesis 2:1-3;
Isaiah 66:22, 23.
Posted by: JeriRose12
5One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it.
(Romans 14:5)
7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight. (Acts 20:7)
The Promise of Rest
Be Sure to Enter the Promised Rest
1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them,[1] not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 3For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
"So I swore in My wrath,
"They shall not enter My rest,"'[2]
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";[3] 5and again in this place: "They shall not enter My rest."[4]
6Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, 7again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said:
"Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts."[5]
8For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
(Hebrews 4:1-8)
In other words, Christ is our rest; once we have entered that rest, we no longer are required to observe the Sabbath. God only designated a day because the promised rest (Jesus) had not come.
And are you also then saying that we should observe circumcision? The Bible makes it plain we don't have to:
18Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. (1 Corinthians 7:18)
No Return to the Law
11 Now when Peter[1] had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; 12for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you[2] compel Gentiles to live as Jews?[3] 15We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
17"But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! 18For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. 20I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain."
~JeriRose~
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