Those who follow the lord Jesus and are in him do not have to keep any ordinance other than to be baptized [total immersion] and to keep the lord's supper until he returns. That's it for all who in the lord Jesus. No wearing of certain clothing, no keeping of any day or days, nothing. Salvation is a freely given gift of God and it is all of Him and nothing of us at all. To keep the Sabbath [7th day] is of an by itself not wrong to do as a believer, but to do so as a requirement for salvation is to practice what Paul calls down a curse upon those who mix law and grace.
Galatians 3:13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it has been written, ‘Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,’
To go back to keeping the "law" including Sabbath keeping in order to be saved is to insult to Jesus and questions what Jesus has done for us by being hanged on a tree!
Galatians 3:10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it has been written, ‘Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law — to do them,’
Indeed, the law was brought into being to act as a schoolmaster until the coming of the Messiah Jesus. Now that he has come and died for us in order that we might be reconciled to his God and our God
his Father and our Father, something the law could not do!
Again, if I am in Israel and go to a Messianic Christian church and observe the Sabbath there is no problem in doing so, because I don't do it to gain salvation or reconciliation with my God since Jesus has done it all for me according to God's undeserving Grace for me.
All Jesus asks of me is to follow his creed:
Mark 12:29-31: Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, you shall love your neighbour as yourself.
This is the spirit of the law that we can keep as enabled by the power of the spirit of the lord Jesus.
Notice that Jesus adds some words to the original command:
Deut 6:4-5 Hear, O Israel: YHVH our God is one LORD: And you shall love YHVH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might - strength.
In Mark 12:29-30 - Jesus adds the word mind... interesting.
Jesus is my Sabbath rest!
Mt 11:28 ‘Come unto me, all you labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
Indeed, I have found my rest in the lord Jesus, who will bring me into his soon coming kingdom when he come to Jerusalem to sit on the throne of David and rule over Israel as King and over the nations as King of kings and Lord of lords during the thousand year rule where we will kings and priests ruling with him.
Re 1:6 and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.
Re 5:10 and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.’
May that day soon come!
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