Will Sunday worship keep Christians from Eternal Life?
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Will Sunday worship keep Christians from Eternal Life? -
June 24th, 2012, 10:14 AM
Since the scriptures are clear that no other day was made as the day of worship except the seventh day as we saw in the previous thread, and the Commandments show this with unblinking clarity to Christians. If they are fully aware that Sunday worship is not ordained by God or anywhere in the Bible or given by Christ or the apostles, and with full knowledge continue to transgress what is shown to them from scripture, will God wink at it, lets look at scripture......
Acts 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
It shows that God allows for mankinds ignorance, but we have Christians who are aware of the history of Sunday worship. Sunday was the established day of festival, a pagan day to the gods in the pagan world. Later, when these pagans professed Christianity, they gradually brought the practice of the pagan festivals on Sunday with them into the church, and the bishops looked the other way as long as they had 'converts' to show they were more influential or had more numbers than other bishops.
Now from scripture we see the people of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, including Jesus Christ Himself (e.g. Luke 4:16), observed the Sabbath. No where in the Bible, including after Christ's resurrection, will you find people observing the first day of the week, Sunday, as a replacement for the Sabbath.
So if Christians, knowing that Sunday is not the Sabbath, and knowing the Commandments show what is transgression or iniquity/sin, and clearly show what day is the Sabbath, continue to transgress what God commands, what will happen to them when Christ comes...
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June 24th, 2012, 10:52 AM
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Sounds like a lot of Seventh Day Adventist crappola...If so, you are aware SDA is a cult correct?
Especially making the choice of "worship/fellowship day" a salvific issue.
Vaya con Dios.
Dieu est l'amour.
Allah bidabbir.
“In many ways the evidence of our faith is found in our ability to control our tongue (or our keyboard)."
-Adam Hamilton, Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White
Matthew 19:17
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Matthew 19:17
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Do you?
"Strong people are harder to kill and more useful in general" -Mark Rippetoe
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Joh 4:23 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
We are under the new covenant, which is even weightier. God now calls us to worship Him everyday, all day, in and through all things. You are becoming blind to put so much emphasis on an informal day Christians choose to congregate, and so what if it's based on the Lords day of resurrection instead of on the Hebrew's Saturday sabbath. These were shadows of things to come, we are not under Law any longer. Take a day of rest in the week, the sabbath was made for man, not vice versa. When this is all done we'll enter the true sabbath and God's rest forevermore.
Peace.
Romans 14:5 (ESV)
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Colossians 2:16-17 (ESV)
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Galatians 4:9-11 (ESV)
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
We are under the new covenant, which is even weightier. God now calls us to worship Him everyday, all day, in and through all things. You are becoming blind to put so much emphasis on an informal day Christians choose to congregate, and so what if it's based on the Lords day of resurrection instead of on the Hebrew's Saturday sabbath. These were shadows of things to come, we are not under Law any longer. Take a day of rest in the week, the sabbath was made for man, not vice versa. When this is all done we'll enter the true sabbath and God's rest forevermore.
Peace.
Romans 14:5 (ESV)
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Colossians 2:16-17 (ESV)
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Galatians 4:9-11 (ESV)
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
I feel that most people saying look at the 'new covenant' or 'its all grace' seem to turn to a selective method of Bible study, disregarding the Old Testament and turning to what they say is "the clarity of the New Testament". Then go on to state beliefs which are twisted or at odds with the Bible’s view on it. So firstly I have to ask why would anyone want to throw out the Old Testament, it still is Gods Word?
Paul himself writes: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
We will let the Bible speak for itself:
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Jeremiah 31:31-33.
The New Testament repeats this new covenant in Hebrews 8, verses 8-10. In both of these passages, the writing of God’s law in the human heart is the means whereby the new covenant is established. See also Deuteronomy 30:14; Psalms 119:11; Romans 10:6-8; 2 Corinthians 3:2-3.
Paul declares pointedly, in Romans 2:13: “for not the hearers of the law are just before God; but the doers of the law shall be justified.”
Is Paul then contradicting himself in the next chapter, where he writes that “a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law?” Romans 3:28; see also Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Timothy 1:8-9. Not at all. Rather, the apostle is talking about two different kinds of works. The second chapter of Romans¾often ignored by evangelicals in their study of this epistle explains in depth the difference between those who make their boast of the law while disobeying its percepts (see Romans 2:1-5, 17-23), and those who obey because of “the work of the law written in their hearts” (see verse 15). Here we see two different kinds of “works of the law” the one kind, which cannot justify (see verses 17-23), and the other which is the condition of being justified (see verses 13-15).
Here Paul again reflects the teachings of the Old Testament, which declares that the confessing and forsaking of sin must precede God’s forgiveness. See Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7.
In a similar tone, Jesus declared that if we are not willing to forgive People for offenses against us, God will not forgive our trespasses against Him. See Matthew 6:14-15
Paul is clear that sanctification and the Spirit’s inward work are part of the means of our salvation: “God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.” 2 Thessalonians 2:13. See also Philippians 2:12-13; Titus 3:5.
The Bible nowhere confines the believer’s salvation to the work of justification or forgiveness exclusively, nor does Scripture ever exalt one aspect of Christ’s work as having greater saving value than another. Nor does Scripture ever teach that God’s forgiveness covers any more than the believer’s past sins. We have already noted two verses which state that the confessing and forsaking of sin are prerequisites for God’s forgiveness. See Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7.
The New Testament declares: “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” 1 John 2:1. Notice that forgiveness is available if we sin, not when. The Bible knows nothing of any “advance” forgiveness for sins we might commit in the future, nor is there any Bible support for the idea of continuous forgiveness on account of inevitable shortcomings. Rather, forgiveness (justification) is provided if we sin (see 1 John 2:1), the reception of which is conditional on forsaking sin (see Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7). Nowhere does Scripture teach that Christians are continuously covered by Jesus’ righteousness while falling into sin which they supposedly cannot avoid.
The problem with advocates of the "grace movement" is that when they see phrases in the Bible like “by grace are ye saved” (Ephesians 2:8) and the “gift of righteousness” (Romans 5:17), they think this means salvation by justification only. However, the Bible teaches no such doctrine. Being saved by grace through faith includes sanctified obedience (see Philippians 2:12-13; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 5:9), and this sanctification will indeed be perfect before the coming of Christ:
“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23; see also 2 Peter 3:10-14; 1 John 3:2-3.
The advocates of the "grace movement" condemn Ellen White for teaching that “the second coming of Christ is tarrying until the character of Christ [which was sinless] is perfectly reproduced in His people.”16 Yet the above Bible verses make it clear that Ellen White borrowed this teaching straight from Scripture.
The advocates of the "grace movement" further criticize Ellen White for teaching that “the fulfillment of God’s promises to us are conditional upon our perfect obedience.”17 But the following Bible passage makes plain where she got this idea:
“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1.
They denounce Ellen White’s teaching that “as Christ was perfect in His life, His followers are to be perfect in their lives.”18 But again, the following verses demonstrate the Biblical source of her views:
“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:3-4.
“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.” 1 Peter 2:21-22.
“And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.” Revelation 14:5; see also Zephaniah 3:13."
Many people fail to see that God's Law forms or is the basis of both old and new covenants. The Ten Commandments were put in place for the benefit of mankind, and to show us how to love God and how to love people, an eternal law of love. Jesus clarified the eternal nature of the law when He said Matthew 5:18 “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
In the book of Matthew Jesus summed up the Ten Commandments Matthew 22:37-40 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
When Jesus quoted these two commandments He was not giving a ‘new’ law to replace the Ten Commandments of God, He was in fact quoting an Old Testament scripture on the importance of keeping the Ten Commandments. Deuteronomy 6:5-8 “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: … And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
Jesus continually reinforced the sentiment that the Ten Commandments were a law of love. The first four commandments show us how to love God, and the last six show us how to love people. This is why He said, “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Loving God and loving people is what the Ten Commandments are all about.
Another verse that reveals more about the nature of the Ten Commandments is John 15:10 “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.”
Paul also showed how the law should be viewed as being about love. He wrote Romans 13:8 “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
Not only do the Ten Commandments express the love of God, they also reveal to us many of the attributes of the character of God. When Christ came he gave testimony to the connection to loving him and the Law when he said, John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
Then you have 1 John 2:4 “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” Jesus spoke about those who called Him ‘Lord’ but did not do the will of the Father. He described many who would seek entrance to the kingdom claiming to be workers of miracles in His name, but He would sadly have to say, Matthew 7:21-23 “I never knew you: depart from me.” This is very serious because Jesus is saying that not everyone who professes to be a Christian will enter the Kingdom of heaven. God’s grace does not, and cannot cover continual deliberate disobedience, because this shows that there was no genuine repentance of our sinful act, because had there been, we would not have kept on deliberately disobeying God.
The reason I refer to the new covenant, because I am under the new covenant, since it is new and not the old, some things have changed. No one is foregoing the old testament, last time I checked it's still connected to my bible, I have not cut it out. I still study and read it every week. We could have kept this discussion going a little better if you had addressed at least one of the passages I posted, and explained that they mean something different then what they clearly say. Instead you have typed more then what was needed for a response and barely any of it pertained specifically to what I had posted. Some of your statements, I would not agree with. It would take too long to respond to everything you have laid out. I'd appreciate if you'd first give me your interpretations of the scriptures I posted. Thanks
I highly recommend checking out these set of articles on the Law of Moses. It's a lot of reading, but I do believe it will help you like it has helped me.
We are under the new covenant, which is even weightier. God now calls us to worship Him everyday, all day, in and through all things. You are becoming blind to put so much emphasis on an informal day Christians choose to congregate, and so what if it's based on the Lords day of resurrection instead of on the Hebrew's Saturday sabbath. These were shadows of things to come, we are not under Law any longer. Take a day of rest in the week, the sabbath was made for man, not vice versa. When this is all done we'll enter the true sabbath and God's rest forevermore.
Peace.
Romans 14:5 (ESV)
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Colossians 2:16-17 (ESV)
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Galatians 4:9-11 (ESV)
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Good post. Jesus is our Sabbath Rest.
Heb. 4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb. 4:10
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
I feel that most people saying look at the 'new covenant' or 'its all grace' seem to turn to a selective method of Bible study, disregarding the Old Testament and turning to what they say is "the clarity of the New Testament". Then go on to state beliefs which are twisted or at odds with the Bible’s view on it. So firstly I have to ask why would anyone want to throw out the Old Testament, it still is Gods Word?
Paul himself writes: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
We will let the Bible speak for itself:
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Jeremiah 31:31-33.
The New Testament repeats this new covenant in Hebrews 8, verses 8-10. In both of these passages, the writing of God’s law in the human heart is the means whereby the new covenant is established. See also Deuteronomy 30:14; Psalms 119:11; Romans 10:6-8; 2 Corinthians 3:2-3.
Paul declares pointedly, in Romans 2:13: “for not the hearers of the law are just before God; but the doers of the law shall be justified.”
Is Paul then contradicting himself in the next chapter, where he writes that “a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law?” Romans 3:28; see also Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; 2 Timothy 1:8-9. Not at all. Rather, the apostle is talking about two different kinds of works. The second chapter of Romans¾often ignored by evangelicals in their study of this epistle explains in depth the difference between those who make their boast of the law while disobeying its percepts (see Romans 2:1-5, 17-23), and those who obey because of “the work of the law written in their hearts” (see verse 15). Here we see two different kinds of “works of the law” the one kind, which cannot justify (see verses 17-23), and the other which is the condition of being justified (see verses 13-15).
Here Paul again reflects the teachings of the Old Testament, which declares that the confessing and forsaking of sin must precede God’s forgiveness. See Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7.
In a similar tone, Jesus declared that if we are not willing to forgive People for offenses against us, God will not forgive our trespasses against Him. See Matthew 6:14-15
Paul is clear that sanctification and the Spirit’s inward work are part of the means of our salvation: “God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.” 2 Thessalonians 2:13. See also Philippians 2:12-13; Titus 3:5.
The Bible nowhere confines the believer’s salvation to the work of justification or forgiveness exclusively, nor does Scripture ever exalt one aspect of Christ’s work as having greater saving value than another. Nor does Scripture ever teach that God’s forgiveness covers any more than the believer’s past sins. We have already noted two verses which state that the confessing and forsaking of sin are prerequisites for God’s forgiveness. See Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7.
The New Testament declares: “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” 1 John 2:1. Notice that forgiveness is available if we sin, not when. The Bible knows nothing of any “advance” forgiveness for sins we might commit in the future, nor is there any Bible support for the idea of continuous forgiveness on account of inevitable shortcomings. Rather, forgiveness (justification) is provided if we sin (see 1 John 2:1), the reception of which is conditional on forsaking sin (see Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7). Nowhere does Scripture teach that Christians are continuously covered by Jesus’ righteousness while falling into sin which they supposedly cannot avoid.
The problem with advocates of the "grace movement" is that when they see phrases in the Bible like “by grace are ye saved” (Ephesians 2:8) and the “gift of righteousness” (Romans 5:17), they think this means salvation by justification only. However, the Bible teaches no such doctrine. Being saved by grace through faith includes sanctified obedience (see Philippians 2:12-13; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 5:9), and this sanctification will indeed be perfect before the coming of Christ:
“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23; see also 2 Peter 3:10-14; 1 John 3:2-3.
The advocates of the "grace movement" condemn Ellen White for teaching that “the second coming of Christ is tarrying until the character of Christ [which was sinless] is perfectly reproduced in His people.”16 Yet the above Bible verses make it clear that Ellen White borrowed this teaching straight from Scripture.
The advocates of the "grace movement" further criticize Ellen White for teaching that “the fulfillment of God’s promises to us are conditional upon our perfect obedience.”17 But the following Bible passage makes plain where she got this idea:
“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1.
They denounce Ellen White’s teaching that “as Christ was perfect in His life, His followers are to be perfect in their lives.”18 But again, the following verses demonstrate the Biblical source of her views:
“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:3-4.
“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.” 1 Peter 2:21-22.
“And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.” Revelation 14:5; see also Zephaniah 3:13."
Many people fail to see that God's Law forms or is the basis of both old and new covenants. The Ten Commandments were put in place for the benefit of mankind, and to show us how to love God and how to love people, an eternal law of love. Jesus clarified the eternal nature of the law when He said Matthew 5:18 “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
In the book of Matthew Jesus summed up the Ten Commandments Matthew 22:37-40 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
When Jesus quoted these two commandments He was not giving a ‘new’ law to replace the Ten Commandments of God, He was in fact quoting an Old Testament scripture on the importance of keeping the Ten Commandments. Deuteronomy 6:5-8 “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: … And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
Jesus continually reinforced the sentiment that the Ten Commandments were a law of love. The first four commandments show us how to love God, and the last six show us how to love people. This is why He said, “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Loving God and loving people is what the Ten Commandments are all about.
Another verse that reveals more about the nature of the Ten Commandments is John 15:10 “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.”
Paul also showed how the law should be viewed as being about love. He wrote Romans 13:8 “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
Not only do the Ten Commandments express the love of God, they also reveal to us many of the attributes of the character of God. When Christ came he gave testimony to the connection to loving him and the Law when he said, John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
Then you have 1 John 2:4 “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” Jesus spoke about those who called Him ‘Lord’ but did not do the will of the Father. He described many who would seek entrance to the kingdom claiming to be workers of miracles in His name, but He would sadly have to say, Matthew 7:21-23 “I never knew you: depart from me.” This is very serious because Jesus is saying that not everyone who professes to be a Christian will enter the Kingdom of heaven. God’s grace does not, and cannot cover continual deliberate disobedience, because this shows that there was no genuine repentance of our sinful act, because had there been, we would not have kept on deliberately disobeying God.
The Commandments are written in our heart...they can never be kept by works of righteousness, for all men sin and COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. Try as we might, we still reside in these bodies of flesh. We are no longer under the PENALTY of the Law, although we still delight in it, and walk in obedience as best we can. Those who believe and trust in the RIGHTEOUS ONE...the only righteous one, by the way, are no longer under the condemnation that sin brings.
The fourth commandment was to be kept holy in REMEMBRANCE of God's provision. It was to be a day of rest. Joshua spoke of ANOTHER DAY, which was the day of salvation, and is why Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. Now, we rest from our own works, and every day remember that Jesus is Lord. He is our Sabbath Rest. We keep the Sabbath because we abide in the Lord of the Sabbath.
The Commandments are written in our heart...they can never be kept by works of righteousness, for all men sin and COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. Try as we might, we still reside in these bodies of flesh. We are no longer under the PENALTY of the Law, although we still delight in it, and walk in obedience as best we can. Those who believe and trust in the RIGHTEOUS ONE...the only righteous one, by the way, are no longer under the condemnation that sin brings.
The fourth commandment was to be kept holy in REMEMBRANCE of God's provision. It was to be a day of rest. Joshua spoke of ANOTHER DAY, which was the day of salvation, and is why Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. Now, we rest from our own works, and every day remember that Jesus is Lord. He is our Sabbath Rest. We keep the Sabbath because we abide in the Lord of the Sabbath.
Jesus is not a "day" nor is He ever symbolically/metaphorically linked to being a “day” in the Bible; He's linked to being "the vine", "the lamb", "the door", "the rock" and many other things but never, not once, a "day". We must stick to the Bible and the Bible only.
To "rest in Jesus" actually has three meanings; 1) to rest on the Sabbath day (Heb 4:4&9) or 2) to be one of the righteous dead (1 Thess. 4:14) for you are literally resting in Jesus' love and protection. Matthew 11:28 - Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Jesus can absolutely give us 3) spiritual rest, but we cannot "cease from all work" seven days a week. To do so is not holy, it's a cover or another way to avoid what Christ asks of those that love him.
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