This isn't the Biblical definition of rest, but I will give some alternate Scriptures for consideration for those who might be interested in what it really is just arguments against what God asked us to keep if we love Him John14:15 Exo20:6 John15:10.
Christ fulfilled all of the law
Does this mean we can steal or start worshiping other gods. Not according to Jesus who said this Mat5:17 and than said
Mat5:19
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches
them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
and became the Lord of the sabbath.
He never became the Lord of the Sabbath He
is the Lord of the Sabbath the Creator of everything Exo20:11 The Lord of the Sabbath said the Sabbath was made
for man Jesus used Greek:
anthrōpos, meaning all humanity. Jesus never came to destroy the Sabbath, He is Lord of it and it comes with all the power He said it was for Sanctification Eze20:12 Gen2:3 and Blessings Isa56:2 Exo20:11 that we can't do this ourselves, Isa66:17
Our rest is now in Him, TODAY (Heb. 4:3)
This verse says nothing about not about keeping the Sabbath
Heb 4:3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ”
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
. We don’t have to keep one day.
This is the very next verse and it very much speaks of keeping one day, the same day God rested as we are made in His image to follow Him.
Heb 4:4 For
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”
Where was the "He has spoken" in a certain place of the seventh day in this way referring to?
Only the 4th commandment.
Exo 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
8 “
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates. 11 For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them,
and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
And this very passage says those who have entered His rest Also, means in addition, rested from their works as God did on the seventh day. So they are keeping the Sabbath because God of the Universe said the seventh day
is the Sabbath Exo20:10-11 My holy day, the holy day of the Lord Isa58:13
Heb 4:10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also (so those who enter His rest do something in addition- ALSO) ceased from his works as God did from His.
We can worship and rest any day.
We should worship God 365/24/7 and in doing so one would also be keeping the 4th commandment the way God said. Jesus relates worship to obedience to God's commandments Mat15:3-15 Mark7:7-13
Secondly, the Mosaic law including the 10 commandments
No where did God ever call the Ten Commandments the "Mosaic Law" The only name I see here that God identified for His commandments is His name
Exo 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [
a]bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before
Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness
of anything that
is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor [
b]serve them.
For I, the Lord your God,
am a jealous God, visiting[
c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate
Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
Me and keep
My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of
the Lord your God in vain, for
the Lord will not hold
him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates.
11 For
in six days
the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore
the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Deu 4:13 So
He declared to you
His covenant which
He commanded you to perform, the
Ten Commandments; and
He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Deu 5:22 "These words
the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and
He added no more. And
He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
Exo 31:18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of
the Testimony, tablets of stone
, written with the finger of God.
Exo 32:16 Now the tablets
were the work of God, and the writing
was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
Exo 34:28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water.
And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the
Ten Commandments.
was given to Israel 430 years after Abraham. There was no sabbath keeping before then. Abraham commandments and statutes mentioned in Gen. 26:5 could not have included the Mosaic law Including the 10 commandments BECAUSE it was given to Israel 430 years later. In addition, Abraham was not justified by his works of any law since he was justified by his faith (Rom. 4:13-14).
No where does it say the Ten Commandments was given 430 years later. God in the Ten Commandments said the Sabbath started at Creation
Exo 20:11 For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
There is a law that describes what sin is, the Ten Commandments 1John3:4 James2:11 Rom7:7 and a law that was ADDED because of sin for breaking the Ten Commandments. Obviously two different laws, sadly many get these confused.
Thirdly, the law was never given to the church. There is absolutely no mention in scripture where the law was given to the gentiles. We can’t be forced to follow laws that were never given. The new covenant for the church is the new convent of blood that Jesus speaks about in Luke 22:20. Notice that He ushers the new covenant to the church through communion.
The church is everyone grafted into God's covenant promise and according to God, His church keeps the commandments of God
Rev 14:12 Here is the
[a]patience of the saints; here[
b]
are those who
keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
The moral commandments of the Jewish law including the Ten Commandments were summarized in Jesus’s two commandments.
There is no such thing as the Jewish Ten Commandments. And the two greatest commandments are the Ten Commandments summarized we can see this plainly by the second greatest commandment on love to thy neighbor Rom13:9 so that leaves the other 4 commandments love to God, which never went undefined, God Himself literally wrote them out so we won't have any excuses come Judgement Day, what He expects from His people Ecc12:13-15 Mat5:19-30 James 2:11-12 Rev11:18-19 etc why Jesus quoted the greatest commandment to love God from the OT Deut6:5 right after the Ten Commandments was repeated 40 years after God gave them before they entered their promise land to keep and teach their children to keep which is the same for us to do before we enter into our Promise Land Rev22:14
“Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.””
Matthew 22:40 NASB2020
Yes, the entire Bible hangs on love to God, love to man. And God told us how we do that in His written and spoken Testimony Exp31:18
Most sabbath keepers attempt to separate the 613 mitzvot which included the 10 commandments but that is not biblical.
Only if one chooses not to let God define His own commandments, which He did and after God wrote and spoke Ten Commandments, not 9, or 613 but Ten He added no more. This argument is with the plain Scriptures.
Deu 4:13 So
He declared to you
His covenant which
He commanded you to perform, the
Ten Commandments; and
He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Exo 34:28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water.
And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the
Ten Commandments.
Deu 5:22 "These words
the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and
He added no more. And
He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
The law of Moses, which Moses wrote that was placed besides the ark that contained all of the curses and blessing for keeping God's holy law, was a different covenant a different set of laws Deut31:24-26
Scriptures says ALL of it not just some of it was fulfilled(completed) by Jesus sacrifice on the cross.
No Scripture say this. Not one.
“For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.””
Galatians 5:14 NASB2020
Yes, and how we do that does not get deleted or go undefined.
With Jesus we still sin (1 John 1:8-9) but we don’t live in sin.
This does not say people have to continue sinning or that one can't overcome. An easy search (or prayerfully study would be better) shows in Revelations that God has a people who overcomes, so yes, we can overcome sin - its clearly stated Rev14:12 Rev22:14 Jesus came to save us from our sins Mat1:21 Pro28:13 not in our sins Heb10:26-30 we need a complete transformation in Christ abiding in Him and through His we can overcome John 15:4-10
However there are also a people who choose not to give us their sins and that doesn't sound like the direction we should head in Pro28:13 Heb10:26-30 Rev22:15 Rom6:16
In the old covenant people were convicted by the letter of the law but now that faith has come (Gal. 3:23) we are convicted by the Spirit. There was no indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Old Covenant. This is one of the great things that makes the gospel of good news so great.
A lot out of context here, but the same author says faith does not void the law Rom 3:31, it establishes it, just as Jesus indicated Luke6:46-49
“But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment: regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me; and regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer are going to see Me; and regarding judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.”
John 16:7-11 NASB2020
The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin
1 John3:4 James2:11, righteousness
Psa119:172 Isa56:1-2 and judgement
James 2:11-12 Rev11:18-19 Ecc12:13-14 Mat5:19-30 Rev11:18-19 Rev22:14-15 which are all connected to God's Ten Commandments. Faith has never voided the law, it establishes it
Rom3:31 Why Jesus said:
Luke 6:46-49 and the Holy Spirit is given through our love and wiliness to keep His commandments
John14:15-18 and resides with those who obey
Acts5:32
The only people that remain under the law is unbelieving Israel, as they rejected the Messiah, and those who choose to remain under the law.
It a misunderstanding what under the law means. It doesn't mean not keeping the law (sin1John3:4) and being free to break God's commandments.
Rom 6:15 What then?
Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?
Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey,
whether of sin leading to death,
or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Sabbath keeping is no longer necessary because the law is no longer necessary. As Paul explains in Col. 2:16 no one should judge anyone whose decides to keep the sabbath or decides not to keep it. The problems comes when those that want to keep it accuse those that do not as living in sin because they consider the sabbath as a moral law and necessary for salvation although they will deny that. The effect is the same, if I dont keep the sabbath then I am sinning and if I don’t repent then I cant be saved. It is works salvation. There is no biblical model to keep the sabbath that does not involve being under the law.
This is probably why we have this serious warning about Paul's writing. 2Peter 3:16 as if Paul can countermand God.
Where in scripture is there a post crucifixion verse that requires the Christian to keep the 4th commandment? Hint: there isn’t one.
There are at least 55 Scriptures on the Sabbath in the NT of it being kept, it still being a commandment, Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath, not the destroyer of the Sabbath , Jesus in His own words said His faithful would be keeping at His Second Coming Mat24:20 and for eternity Isa66:22-23. The apostles faithfully kept every Sabbath just as Jesus predicted Isa56:6-7 for Jews and Gentiles. The argument that the Sabbath is not in the New Covenant when God's commandments went from tablets of stone (only the Ten) to tablets of the heart 2Cor3:3 Heb8:10 kept by Jesus and His apostles faithfully is not an example of the Sabbath not being there. Just like in the OT, people want to love and obey God on their terms, not God's.
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