There are those groups who claim to keep the Sabbath as the Bible commands, and yet they make excuses where they don’t want to do it, as in Exodus —
| 35:3 | Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations vpon the Sabbath day. |
This gives the impression that they do not want to trust Jesus to have fulfilled the Sabbath for them. Believing in Jesus is having identity with Him in His desire to do the will of the Father. It means delighting it taking up our cross, no matter how difficult. It means not just submission to the will of God, but delighting in it, and making our will in unity with it. God grant us that we can do so, because only He can bring us into unity with Him.
Psalms 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
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Hebrews 3:18 (1611 KJB) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that beleeued not?
3:19 So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeleefe.
4:1 Let vs therefore feare, lest a promise being left vs, of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to come short of it.
4:2 For vnto vs was the Gospel preached, as well as vnto the: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
4:3 For we which haue beleeued do enter into rest, as hee said, As I haue sworne in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4:4 For he spake in a certaine place of the seuenth day on this wise: And God did rest the seuenth day from all his works.
4:5 And in this place againe: If they shall enter into my rest.
4:6 Seeing therfore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entred not in because of vnbeleefe:
4:7 Againe, hee limiteth a certaine day, saying in Dauid, To day, after so long a time; as it is saide, To day if ye will heare his voyce, harden not your hearts.
4:8 For if Iesus had giuen them rest, then would he not afterward haue spoken of another day.
4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
4:10 For he that is entred into his rest, hee also hath ceased from his owne works, as God did from his.
4:11 Let vs labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of vnbeleefe.
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