Keep the Sabbath, Saturday or Sunday & Rest in Christ

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There are a few major points that Messianics/Hebrew Roots advocates claim show that Christians are "lawless" and serve a "lawless Messiah". One of them is in reference to keeping the Sabbath, not only one of the ten commandments initially given to Moses, but also mentioned in other passages in the OT. Some also claim Jesus kept the Sabbath so we should too.

What many miss is the difference in before Christ was crucified and rose from the dead---and after. In the NT only nine of the ten commandments are mentioned--and the missing commandment is the 4th-the Keeping of the sabbath day.

1st commandment in Mat 22:37, 1Cor. 8:5-6
2nd commandment in 1John. 5:21, also Col 3:5 and Eph 5:5
3rd commandment in Col 3:8
5th commandment in Eph 6:1-3
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th commandments in Rom 13:8-10, Mat 19:18, Gal 5:14, 1Cor 6:9-10, and Gal 5:19-21

Only the sabbath rest is mentioned in the NT, which is Christ, and not the keeping of the sabbath law.

Some suggest that Sunday is also a sinful or disobedient time if that is used as a set apart time for worshipping God, instead of Saturday.

1. Sunday is the beginning of the week--a renewal from the past weeks work and such, and reminder of renewal in Christ--and Saturday--traditonally the Sabbath, was at the end of the weeks work, a time for rest--most people have Saturday and Sunday "off"...
2. Jesus rose from the grave early Sunday morning which fulfilled The promise of being risen and so on...
3. Jesus promised to give all those who believe in Him, rest...spiritual, physical and emotional

Mat 11:28-30
(28) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
(29) Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
(30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Hebrews speaks of God's rest---given in Christ

Heb 3:1-7
(1) Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
(2) Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
(3) For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
(4) For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
(5) And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
(6) But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
(7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Heb 3:8-19
(8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
(9) When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
(10) Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
(11) So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
(12) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
(13) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
(14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
(15) While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
(16) For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
(17) But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
(18) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
(19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

For those who have entered Christ's rest by beleiving Him and repenting from sin, we are to rest in Him day in and day out---because to step away from His rest is to return to doing things in the flesh--which can never please God. For those who say this is lacking, because we seek rest in Him daily rather than simply one day a week--I must ask...do you rest in Christ...or not? :anyone: