The Sabbaths therefore,
is a perpetual sign between God and His people. The Lord further instructed the
prophet Ezekiel saying; “Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign
between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies
them.” He also warned His people saying; “Do not walk in the statutes of your
fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols. I
am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them; hallow
My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that
I am the LORD your God” (Ezekiel 20 :12, 18-20).
And with reference to
the New Testament Jesus Christ said, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the Sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27-28).
Now in the book of
Hebrews the apostle Paul stated clearly that; "Since a promise remains of
entering His rest, let us fear lest any of us seem to have come short of it. For
indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which
they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard
it.
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. For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way;
" And God rested on the seventh from all His works." and again in
this place; "they shall not enter My rest." Since therefore it
remains that some must enter it and those to whom it was first preached did not
enter because of disobedience.
Again, He designated a
certain day saying in David; "Today" after such a long time, as it
has been said; "Today, if you will hear His voice, do noy harden your
hearts." For if Joshua had given them rest, then he would not afterward
have spoken of another day. There remain therefore a rest for the people of
God. For he who enters His (God's)rest has himself also ceased from his works
as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest
anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience" (Hebrews 4:1-11).
At this point I simply
beg to ask a question, what in this statement that states; " For he who
enters His (God's) rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from
His. And also; “For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said;” that
a spirit led believer is unable to comprehend?
And so the other
important question is, how did God rest from His works? According to the
scriptures it is stated; "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host
of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had
done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it (set it apart), because in
it He rested from all His work which God had created and made" (Genesis 2:2-3),
So, tell me, if spirit
led believers cannot agree on this simple passage of scriptures how can we be
of one mind and be perfectly joined together and all speaking the same thing?
In order for all believers to be perfectly joined together, be of the same mind
and speaking the same thing there must be a rule or a code of conduct which we
all are to adhere to and follow.
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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