Is the Sabbath now just resting in Jesus?
The way we rest in Jesus is by keeping the Sabbath as God commanded. There are many ways to manipulate the words of the Holy Bible to justify the things we would rather not acknowledge such as the Sabbath or all Ten Commandments, but the issue is simple. The Sabbath is a SIGN that we are God’s children and that He makes us Holy and so defines it is God we love and worship. Can we now take the Lord’s name in vain, worship idols or take another person’s life? The answer is an obvious “No.” And why not? Because the Bible does not say these laws have changed and that would not be loving God with all your heart or your neighbour as yourself. Is there even one verse that says, “the seventh day is no longer the Sabbath of the Lord and we no longer need to rest or worship God on this day that is no longer blessed and Holy?” There is no such verse. Matthew 5:18 says, “the law will not change till heaven and earth pass” Has heaven and earth passed? No. So neither have the clear words of God changed.
Not only have the unambiguous words of God not changed but the following verse says the Sabbath is a perpetual covenant (never ending) and a sign between God and the children of Israel forever. Exodus 31:16-17, “Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” So we see that the Sabbath is eternal as are all Ten Commandments and this passage is further verified beyond doubt by the fact that we also find Isaiah 66:22-23 says, “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.” Most will respond, “but we are not Jews or Children of Israel,” but Galatians 3:28-29 tells us otherwise, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” And Romans 2:28-29 says, “For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” For those who would continue to debate this need to ask themselves if they belong to God and are under His New Covenant. Because Hebrews 8:10 says, “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:” If we are not spiritual children of Israel then we are also not under God’s New Covenant neither are we one of His Children. Note also that the only change to God’s law is where it is now written.
