The
Sabbath is a part of creation just like the pairing of a man and woman
together; Just like placing the sun, moon, and stars in the heavens;
Just like the course of the seasons. The Sabbath and YHWH's ordained
design is very much a part of what we are to repent over; Turn back
to.
While loving your neighbor with good deeds and helping the poor and widow are definitely the weightier matters, Y'shua/Jesus made it clear we should still not neglect the whole of His instructions.
Following YHWH's design clearly expresses our love for Him. When we choose and try to justify doing things the way man deems best is nothing but denying Y'shua/Jesus. He is the Word made flesh. When you deny the Word and choose your own way you are denying Him. When you say "that's not what it means to me" or "He knows my heart" along with rejecting what He has clearly instructed, you are denying Him. You are merely doing your own thing. You need to repent. It's really that simple. Love Father YHWH with all of your heart. Not just with what is convenient and praise worthy by man. Man thinks it's awesome that you would do good for a neighbor. But it makes for a narrower walk in this life when you step back onto the plan and design Father YHWH ordained for all mankind.
From "The Berean"
Exodus 20:8-11
(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.
In verse 8, God says "Remember the Sabbath day." Then He tells us that we are to work six days, and the seventh day we are not to work. Verse 11 gives the reason why.
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 [not a seventh day.] Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
This verse firmly establishes the Sabbath as law, a command to be kept. Yet, it is very clear that this law has its roots in Genesis 2:1-3, for there, God set the example in what He did. He rested, and He blessed the seventh day.
God could have rested at any time. Or, we might say, He needed no rest at all. But He rested. God does not grow weary or become tired. He could have ended the creative cycle at the end of the sixth day, but He did not. Creation did not cease at the end of the sixth day. This is a very important concept. The seventh day is also a creation of God. He kept right on creating, only this time He created by not working, by ceasing.
What did He do? He created a period of rest and of holy time. He created a specific period of time: the seventh day. What He created was just as real as the things created on the other six days. Thus, on the Sabbath, creating continued, but it took on a different form in that it was not outwardly visible. The Sabbath symbolizes to man that God is still creating.
— John W. Ritenbaugh
While loving your neighbor with good deeds and helping the poor and widow are definitely the weightier matters, Y'shua/Jesus made it clear we should still not neglect the whole of His instructions.
Following YHWH's design clearly expresses our love for Him. When we choose and try to justify doing things the way man deems best is nothing but denying Y'shua/Jesus. He is the Word made flesh. When you deny the Word and choose your own way you are denying Him. When you say "that's not what it means to me" or "He knows my heart" along with rejecting what He has clearly instructed, you are denying Him. You are merely doing your own thing. You need to repent. It's really that simple. Love Father YHWH with all of your heart. Not just with what is convenient and praise worthy by man. Man thinks it's awesome that you would do good for a neighbor. But it makes for a narrower walk in this life when you step back onto the plan and design Father YHWH ordained for all mankind.
From "The Berean"
Exodus 20:8-11
(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.
In verse 8, God says "Remember the Sabbath day." Then He tells us that we are to work six days, and the seventh day we are not to work. Verse 11 gives the reason why.
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 [not a seventh day.] Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
This verse firmly establishes the Sabbath as law, a command to be kept. Yet, it is very clear that this law has its roots in Genesis 2:1-3, for there, God set the example in what He did. He rested, and He blessed the seventh day.
God could have rested at any time. Or, we might say, He needed no rest at all. But He rested. God does not grow weary or become tired. He could have ended the creative cycle at the end of the sixth day, but He did not. Creation did not cease at the end of the sixth day. This is a very important concept. The seventh day is also a creation of God. He kept right on creating, only this time He created by not working, by ceasing.
What did He do? He created a period of rest and of holy time. He created a specific period of time: the seventh day. What He created was just as real as the things created on the other six days. Thus, on the Sabbath, creating continued, but it took on a different form in that it was not outwardly visible. The Sabbath symbolizes to man that God is still creating.
— John W. Ritenbaugh
