Sabbath
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The Sabbath in the Law looked forward to the true Sabbath. It never fully realized the rest God had in mind for His people. The Book of Hebrews gives us better understanding for the true Sabbath.
“Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: ‘Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.’ For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.” (Hebrews 4:6-11 Berean Study Bible)
We can fulfill the Sabbath since, as God rested from His own work, we cease from our own work. In the New Covenant, everything begins with God leading: “faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by God’s rhema (utterance).” “” God is real and leads us, and, when we listen to Him and submit to Him, His faith comes. His faith gives us access into His grace, which, in turn, does His works of righteousness through us. That fulfills the Sabbath.
We cease from our own works and fulfill the Sabbath, and we have true righteousness rather than self-righteousness only as He fulfills the Sabbath by doing His works through us. Therefore, whatever isn’t of faith is sin. And God’s purpose in this Christ-generated righteousness is to form Christ more fully within us as we die to the fleshly nature. The light of Christ and His righteousness purifies us from the darkness of the fleshly nature. In other words, God’s purpose is holiness. So we can’t self-generate holiness, but the Holy Spirit alone transfigures us. He doesn’t make us holy against our wills, but we willingly submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit in every thought, word, and deed. Those words that flow out from our mouths from the Holy Spirit are the proclamations that save those who believe. This has nothing to do with human skill or intellect. It’s a moving of the Holy Spirit through those who humble themselves before Him.
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