Post by Les Brewer on Mar 11, 2012 12:51:39 GMT
Good morning to all on this blessed day of the first day of the week.I remember the verse in John 20:1 telling the story of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.This event forever set Sunday apart from every other day of the week.It commemorates forever the greatest miracle known to mankind, and still after two thousand years,gives hope in a hopeless world to those who will believe.
Many today,who still believe that the day of worship must be Saturday,have gone into error,trying to keep the Old Testement Sabbath Day as the day christians should worship the Lord.They say that God never changed it.I must disagree with their theology and understanding of what the Sabbath Day was given to us for.
First of all,the word "Sabbath" means rest and not Saturday.The day of the week that we rest on can be accomplished on any day of the week,not just on Saturday.This day was given as a type of the Lord Jesus Christ and the rest we receive from our works and sin,in trying to please God.
Jesus said,"come unto me all you who labor and are heavey laden,take my yoke upon you and learn of me,for I am meek and lowly in heart,and you will find rest (sabbath) for your souls.For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."(Matt.11:29-30).I know of people who try to keep the Sabbath Day and I know of people who try to keep Sunday as the day they should go to worship the Lord.No sooner than the services are over they go back to living the same old way they've always lived,with no change of heart.They totally miss the whole point of worship on any day.
According to the Bible,all the rituals,ceremonies,laws and feast days have been nailed to the cross when Jesus was nailed to the cross,as a symbol of the abolishment of the things that seperates from God.Galatians 3;10 says that,those who try to keep the law must keep it perfectly,at all times in thought,word and deed.They can not break it at any time,for any reason whatsoever.If you break one law you are guilty of breaking all the law.There has only been one who has kept the law perfectly.It's not me or you.
When Christ rose from the dead on Sunday morning,it was to first show that because He was an innocent sacrifice,death had no claim to Him.Sin brings death (seperation from God) and since He committed no sin,He could not stay in the grave.But it was also to completely seperate the law of works from the law of faith.The cults are famous for changing the meaning of Scripture in regaurds to the meaning of death.In the Scripture,"death" never means annihilation it means seperation.For example:God told Adam and Eve that if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would die.They did eat of it,but did not die physically at that time,but die they did,on that day.They died spiritually,they became seperated from God because of sin.Adam lived to be 930 yrs.old.
Jesus met a disciple who said to Him,"Lord I will follow you anywhere,but first let me go and bury my father." and Jesus' reply was "let the dead bury the dead,but you come and follow me".What do you suppose He was talking about?Easy answer,let the spiritually dead bury the phyisically dead.
Our salvation is not in a day or a ritual or a ceremony or a feast day,our salvation is in the One that all these things represented.Jesus fulfilled all these things.He is the fulfillment of all the Old Testement types and shadows.Any preacher or teacher who veiws Christ as less than God,and veiws man as more than human is a false teacher.In the church of these last days,you will find more and more the deification of man and the tearing down of who Christ truly is.Because of the lie that Satan told Adam and Eve,"you shall be as gods",man has always wanted to be God.Many celebreties and infamous people have thought they were God.They are not gods.Mormonism even teaches that "as man now is,God once was,and as God is now,man will become"
Our day of worship for true christians should be every day of the week,not just on Saturday or Sunday.If a person only lives for God one day a week, he does not know the God of the Bible.Christ will forever change your life.
May the Lord bless you and keep you,may the Lord lift up His countenance upon you,may He make His light to shine upon you and give you peace,Amen......JW
Many today,who still believe that the day of worship must be Saturday,have gone into error,trying to keep the Old Testement Sabbath Day as the day christians should worship the Lord.They say that God never changed it.I must disagree with their theology and understanding of what the Sabbath Day was given to us for.
First of all,the word "Sabbath" means rest and not Saturday.The day of the week that we rest on can be accomplished on any day of the week,not just on Saturday.This day was given as a type of the Lord Jesus Christ and the rest we receive from our works and sin,in trying to please God.
Jesus said,"come unto me all you who labor and are heavey laden,take my yoke upon you and learn of me,for I am meek and lowly in heart,and you will find rest (sabbath) for your souls.For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."(Matt.11:29-30).I know of people who try to keep the Sabbath Day and I know of people who try to keep Sunday as the day they should go to worship the Lord.No sooner than the services are over they go back to living the same old way they've always lived,with no change of heart.They totally miss the whole point of worship on any day.
According to the Bible,all the rituals,ceremonies,laws and feast days have been nailed to the cross when Jesus was nailed to the cross,as a symbol of the abolishment of the things that seperates from God.Galatians 3;10 says that,those who try to keep the law must keep it perfectly,at all times in thought,word and deed.They can not break it at any time,for any reason whatsoever.If you break one law you are guilty of breaking all the law.There has only been one who has kept the law perfectly.It's not me or you.
When Christ rose from the dead on Sunday morning,it was to first show that because He was an innocent sacrifice,death had no claim to Him.Sin brings death (seperation from God) and since He committed no sin,He could not stay in the grave.But it was also to completely seperate the law of works from the law of faith.The cults are famous for changing the meaning of Scripture in regaurds to the meaning of death.In the Scripture,"death" never means annihilation it means seperation.For example:God told Adam and Eve that if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would die.They did eat of it,but did not die physically at that time,but die they did,on that day.They died spiritually,they became seperated from God because of sin.Adam lived to be 930 yrs.old.
Jesus met a disciple who said to Him,"Lord I will follow you anywhere,but first let me go and bury my father." and Jesus' reply was "let the dead bury the dead,but you come and follow me".What do you suppose He was talking about?Easy answer,let the spiritually dead bury the phyisically dead.
Our salvation is not in a day or a ritual or a ceremony or a feast day,our salvation is in the One that all these things represented.Jesus fulfilled all these things.He is the fulfillment of all the Old Testement types and shadows.Any preacher or teacher who veiws Christ as less than God,and veiws man as more than human is a false teacher.In the church of these last days,you will find more and more the deification of man and the tearing down of who Christ truly is.Because of the lie that Satan told Adam and Eve,"you shall be as gods",man has always wanted to be God.Many celebreties and infamous people have thought they were God.They are not gods.Mormonism even teaches that "as man now is,God once was,and as God is now,man will become"
Our day of worship for true christians should be every day of the week,not just on Saturday or Sunday.If a person only lives for God one day a week, he does not know the God of the Bible.Christ will forever change your life.
May the Lord bless you and keep you,may the Lord lift up His countenance upon you,may He make His light to shine upon you and give you peace,Amen......JW
