You know I always had a problem packing up my little guys and rushing to church every Sunday morning to worship it always felt wrong to me. But I went along with it, until I actually started to use the mind God gave me and the eyes he gave me also, to actually read what the scripture says about the Sabbath day.
Keeping the Sabbath is the 4th Commandment that we find in Exodus 20 starting at verse 8 and ending at verse 11.
EXODUS 20:8-11
"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Nowhere in that passage does it say we are to worship on the Sabbath at brick and mortar buildings or anywhere at all for that matter. It says to rest as God did. For six days you shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.
So whether you hold Sunday as the Sabbath or Saturday or any other day if you are going to church which is a labor unto itself, are you really keeping the Sabbath as commanded in the fourth commandment?
Now lets look further at the denominational divergence of the Sabbath. Those that choose Saturday argue that Sunday worshipers have it all wrong they reason that "Sun-day" comes from the pagan worship of the Sun God. The Sunday worshipers argue that Saturday derives from the Latin for "Saturn's day" a pagan day of worship of the planet Saturn. Who's right? Who cares?
If my salvation depended on what day I choose to worship or what denominational mess I belonged to, I would give up on religion completely and go the way of the Flying Spaghetti Monster folks and make it out to be a big joke. Thank goodness it is no joke for in Ephesians we find;
EPHESIANS 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
By grace we are saved not by denomination thank the Lord almighty that our salvation is not dependent on what church we attend or what denomination we belong to.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
So what does Disciple really mean?
When you accept Christ as your Lord and Saviour you have become a disciple of Christ, a Christian if you will. And being a Christian, is to want to become Christ like. So what was Christ like?
Becoming like Jesus Christ is having an intimate knowledge of who He is and that knowledge exists in your bible. In order to understand Christ we need to start with our bibles and learn from the master. Through study, prayer, practice and application of our knowledge of Christ.
But, but, but I need help with this. I assure you that no matter what help you get nobody can read your bible for you, nobody can have the relationship with God for you, nobody can apply what you learn except yourself. Think of it this way we are ultimately only responsible for ourselves. there is no short cut here reading and learning and hanging out with God in prayer is the only way to becoming a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
Imagine if you will if every professing Christian did this, would there still be the denominational mess of 33,000 plus Christian denominations making the way muddier and muddier for those searching for the living God? Perhaps it could be as Paul stated in Ephesians if only;
EPHESIANS 4:14-16
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Each part does it's work and it is all done in Love with Jesus as the head and the rest of us as parts designed for what? Questions are part of the journey of true discipleship and when you have the answers then you can be assured of your task and go at it with a fervor that doesn't exist when one is unsure.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
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click here ---> BIBLE QUIZ <--- click here
All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
Becoming like Jesus Christ is having an intimate knowledge of who He is and that knowledge exists in your bible. In order to understand Christ we need to start with our bibles and learn from the master. Through study, prayer, practice and application of our knowledge of Christ.
But, but, but I need help with this. I assure you that no matter what help you get nobody can read your bible for you, nobody can have the relationship with God for you, nobody can apply what you learn except yourself. Think of it this way we are ultimately only responsible for ourselves. there is no short cut here reading and learning and hanging out with God in prayer is the only way to becoming a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
Imagine if you will if every professing Christian did this, would there still be the denominational mess of 33,000 plus Christian denominations making the way muddier and muddier for those searching for the living God? Perhaps it could be as Paul stated in Ephesians if only;
EPHESIANS 4:14-16
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Each part does it's work and it is all done in Love with Jesus as the head and the rest of us as parts designed for what? Questions are part of the journey of true discipleship and when you have the answers then you can be assured of your task and go at it with a fervor that doesn't exist when one is unsure.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Try a Bible Quiz and test your knowledge
click here ---> BIBLE QUIZ <--- click here
All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
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