Understanding the Sabbath
Today’s Focus: The Sabbath Day
Scripture: Galatians 4:9,10; Colossians 2:16-19; Romans 10:17;
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
As we have said in past messages, in the Law the Lord made the children of Israel keep the Sabbath day, which is the seventh day of the week. The penalty for not observing the Sabbath and keeping its decrees within it, was death. Now before the Law we know that in the seventh day God rested (Sabbath) from all of his work and in that day He sanctified it and blessed it. So this Sabbath day is very important to God and it was very important to physical Israel to keep it. As we have also stated before the Sabbath day is Saturday and people in the church have made it Sunday but let’s go ahead and clear up that the Sabbath Day IS NOT Saturday, nor Sunday in THIS DAY.
Galatians 4:9,10: But now, after that ye have known God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Colossians 2:16-19: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or OF THE SABBATH DAYS: WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME: BUT THE BODY IS OF CHRIST.
Understand this, the Gentiles did not receive the Law of Moses, so the keeping of a Sabbath day in the sense of our chronological time. Monday through Sunday IS NOT what God desired for the church. Remember the children of physical Israel and their leaders were in constant contention with the church because the church was declaring, and they are, that they are the chosen generation of God. So the keeping of a day is not what the Sabbath day is about. Remember back in Ezekiel 46:1 it speaks that six days shall there be work but the gate facing the east to the inner court would open on the Sabbath day in the day of the new moon. We already say that this represents the ushering of the New Season. What is the New Season?
The Day of the Lord
So, to enter into the New Season all you have to do is believe by hearing the Word of God.
Romans 10:17: So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
So when you hear the Word of God, you must live by certain conditions and in living in these conditions you enter rest. Hence with all of that said this is what we have:
The New Season which is the Day of the Lord is the Sabbath Day!
Now you know we are going to prove this but if you study and seek God then Matthew 11:28-30 becomes eternally clear to you and then you will understand that this rest is available to you TODAY, not just on Saturday and Sunday.
In the next message we will start to dissect this and understand the Sabbath day as the Day of Rest.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
