These are very good questions Chris...
As I said in my Post I personally did not believe using the internet was Breaking the Sabbath nor do I have problems eating meat sacrificed to idols if you get my drift...
To your questions however...
RE>>Preachers spend themselves out mentally and physically on the Lords' day so are they guiltly of breaking the sabbath?<<
Matthew 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
No one who is observing the Sabbath Law aright would see the Feeding of God's Sheep and the Worship of God as breaking the sabbath...
The rest is not a ceasing from 'work' per se, nor a day to sleep all day, but a ceasing from menial work and the building of our own houses rather than God's.
Indeed if God Himself 'rested' as in sleeping all day the world He created would have ceased to be:
Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Also:
Colossians 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Also:
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Also:
John 5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
17 ô But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Jesus in one breath stated that God was His Father and that both He and the Father did 'work' on the Sabbath Day.
God instituted the Sabbath as a day of 'ceasing' from our own labour but not a day of ceasing from labouring to know HIM !!!
Indeed this is the day when the Saints are released from the cares of this world more fully and called to assemble themselves together and indeed to make WAR with the EVIL ONE in prayer and praise and Thanksgiving.
To be more than overcomers and to celebrate the 'works' of God in our lives through the Holy Spirit and the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.
Jesus plainly said:
Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
It is a benefit and gift that God has granted to His people that even Pharoah was severly punished for taking away from God's people!!!
Psalms 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Even the Lord's Day to remember the work of RE-Creation in Christ Jesus our Lord. The day of His Resurrection in Glory and Victory for His beloved.
This verse says in the Greek " there remains a sabbath keeping for the people of God":
Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
RE>>Is battling in a spiritual warfare only done six days a week? <<
Remember the Battle of Jericho???
How God commanded His elect to march around the walls for 6 days and then on the seventh gave them the VICTORY???
God destroyed Judah and the Temple in 599 BC for breaking the Sabbath and not letting the land rest for 490 years.
God caused them to go into captivity from 605BC until 535 BC according to number of Years they failed to let the land rest.
Look:
15 ô In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
God promises a Blessing to all who keep His Sabbath...even in the New Covenant:
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
God is talking about the New Covenant given to both Jews and Gentiles.
RE>>Does the enemy honor Christians who observe the sabbath and not war against them that day?<<
Satan fears those Christian who lay hold on both the Grace and the LAW of God to them He is powerless... having no accusations nor foothold as it is written:
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
And again:
Leviticus 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Again:
Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The gates of Hell cannot withstand us if we will but fight!
We must rise up in 'Righteousness' and 'Obedience' to Christ our KING !
Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
He sits upon His horse and His vesture is soaked in His own blood... let us not spurn His Holy Law any longer but arise and fight beside Him counting it an honor to be called to resist both sin and the devil!
Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
This is our Calling ! It is a HOLY CALLING !!!
It is an Honour we are unworthy of......
Let us repent and repent and then repent even more:
1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Psalms 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
We shall in this Love the Lord our God with all of our Heart
and He will grant to us even the eternal sabbath... |
