Post by Cletus on Aug 31, 2019 20:07:10 GMT -5
Well there are many things to think about concerning the 4th commandment.
Many like to deny that the 4th commandment was moral, yet it is in the list of God's moral laws, which the blood was put on the mercy seat, yet all 10 being in the ark, not one left aside.
The 4th commandment is indeed a moral law, yet it has ceremonial aspects to it as well, for it is also mentioned in the ceremonial laws.
The fact of working 6 days, and having one day to rest from our weekly labor, is a moral law.
But the certain things the priests did on the sabbath, those were ceremonial laws, which there are other ceremonial laws as well.
Even the 7th day itself was ceremonial, in that you would remember how God created the world in six days and rested on the 7th.
But having a day of rest itself is very moral.
Many will say that now it is to rest in Jesus, and yes that is totally true that we rest spiritually in the finished work of Christ.
But even under the Old Covenant, they had different types of rest, such as rest from their enemies through Joshua, yet even though they had this type of rest, it did not eliminate the need for a day of rest.
Well today, why does resting in Christ, automatically constitute, a day of rest being eliminated, when there is nowhere in the bible that shows that God changed how is 4th commandment functions, were is this elimination verse?
Even in Isaiah 65 I believe, it mentions us keeping a sabbath while holding on to the New covenant.
And then there is this scripture, which is a prophecy of what happens when we become born again, which it has Israel in mind, but nevertheless pointing to the New Covenant:
Jer 31:33
(33) But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
The moral law which was in Jeremiah's time was to be written in the hearts of Israel, when they would receive Christ, and this scripture is mentioned in the New Testament, and it shows in the New testament, a relation to the New Testament towards it.
i need a physical day of rest per week, but sadly i end up still doing stuff. so one day out of two months i take off and do absolutely nothing... and it is always everything i thought it would be.
I agree to the spiritual implication you have spoken of, it is my belief though The Word speaks to both physical and spiritual. we are not robots. and the older we get the more important rest is. our body needs to rest and i can not quote it all with medical terms but awesome and amazing things happen in our body when we rest. we are wonderfully made.