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To: Kenji who wrote (2832)	12/11/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Berry Picker	Respond to of 4775

What a very backward and apostate time God has ordained for my eyes to see. When I was a child there was no doubt about keeping the Lord's Day. The only store you would find open was a drug store because Christians have always recognized that acts of mercy and necessity have always been permitted and indeed encouraged by God. Jesus did most of His miracles of healing on the Sabbath. Those who did not understand God's Law according to the principles that they were given were very quick to overlook the fact that the blind could see and the lame could walk. Why? They hated seeing Jesus in the limelight they coveted for themselves. They believed they were justified before God and could not see that they themselves fell short in so many ways. I am not saying that anyone ever kept the Sabbath perfectly except for Jesus. Jesus also said that if any man look upon a woman to lust he was guilty of adultery. Should we then do away with the law concerning adultery? Just because we cannot keep God's Law perfectly does not give license to do away with it. Jesus and his disciple were not "working" by picking corn and eating it any more than the Pharasee who also enjoyed huge banquets on the Sabbath considered lifting food to their mouths work. Look at this verse: Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. You can see from this verse that eating and having men over to your house to feast on the sabbath was not considered a sin but they were trying to catch Jesus breaking the Sabbath by healing! Look: 2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; Jesus challenges them about Healing on the Sabbath. Jesus is not teaching anything new. God did not make the Sabbath so that our animals would die of thirst not being watered or fed lest we work. The command to stop working and to not cause our servants and employees to work was and is LOVE. They deserve a day off to worship and gather as the Church as well as we. How will the Church meet now that men work 7 days a week. many of my friends can hardly find work because nearly ever business now breaks the Lord's Day! This was not so even only 50 years ago and less! I have shown a verse where the Pharasees were "watching" Jesus to see if He would break the Sabbath but none accused anyone simply because they were eating. In fact the feast was being put on by the Pharasees who were trying to catch Him. So them this situation is not a matter of the disciple eating but "working in the field" Which is harder - to prepare a feast or pick a little corn "rub it with you hands" and then eat it? Luke 6:1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands. 2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days? What they did was not "work" it was not " harvesting or milling grain" They picked a little corn and ate it. That was not a breach of the Sabbath. I know HOW Jesus handled the accusation. Jesus pointed out that David there hero ate what was mean for priest only and was not condemned because it was an emergency and an act of mercy. Jesus did not NEED to pick corn.. Jesus made bread but by a word and feed thousands by miracles. Jesus and His followers did not "have" to do something unlawful like David did. It was an expedient argument because a Pharasee would not dream of condemning David and what He did to make Israel the Great Nation it was under David's rule. You notice that the Pharasees did not accuse them of stealing the corn. It was not their field but everyone who studies God's law will see that they were allowed to pick and eat whatsoever you would but only not to "carry" it out of the field. Lev 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. It was against the Law to forbid the poor or a stranger ( one who was traveling ) to go hungry and refuse them what God had graciously provide in your field. God promised they would harvest a triple harvest in the sixth year and that they should let the fields rest in the seventh. No one accused them of stealing but only of Working or Harvesting. Yet they prepared feasts and were likely the one guilty of any excess of "work" concerning eating. Men area allowed to do acts that cannot be put off and in fact historically the Church has recognized acts of mercy as worship. I repeat..Jesus did not break God's Law ever at any point! You have said well in this: RE>>God set them to lead us to Christ, << ONE of the purposes of the law is indeed to make sin appear to us all the more sinful as Paul has said: Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. We are not justified by the deeds of the law but many will be condemned for overthrowing it. These verses are used by men to teach falsely that the Law has no place in the life of a true believer. While the Bible teaches that we are not "UNDER the LAW" neither did Jesus ever teach that we are above the Law. Paul states plainly that we are called to establish the Law of God. Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Which one of these Law did Jesus destroyed: 1. Thou shalt have no other gODS before me. - Unless you have grace and faith. 2. Thou shalt not make graven images - Unless you have grace and faith. 3. Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain - Unless you have grace and faith. 4. Remeber the Sabbath and keep it holy - Unless you have grace and faith. 5. Honor your mother and father - Unless you have grace and faith. 6. Thou shalt not murder - Unless you have grace and faith. 7. Thou shalt not commit sexual sin - Unless you have grace and faith. 8. Thou shalt not steal - Unless you have grace and faith. 9. Thou shalt not witness falsely against anyone - Unless you have grace and faith. 10. Thou shalt not covet - Unless you have grace and faith. Come on. Jesus saves men from sin. He does not legalize it! If men are tempted by hunger to work at jobs that break God's sabbath they will not be making it to church tomorrow to worship with you.... will you then go and add burden to that sin by using the services of Sabbath breaking businesses? Will Jesus bless that? Jesus Christ made this promise to me: 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: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Psalms 110:1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.