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Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Sabbath keeping in the new covenant

 Grace is all about living by the Spirit. The biblicists’ law of living out life by the letter of scripture is weakened by the flesh, limited by human limitations, and can even be dangerous or deadly when we wrongly understand the letters on the page, so we need the stronger life-giving law of the Spirit. Note that Holy Spirit-filled living can include sabbath keeping. The two are not mutually exclusive. Jesus is real and his reality extends beyond merely human ideas. He is the lord of the sabbath who guides via the Holy Spirit. So if you have the Holy Sprit, you have Jesus guiding and he might choose to guide you to voluntarily keep the sabbath. It is up to him. The truth that is in Jesus is the truth the living Jesus teaches us when seen today: faith that moves mountains; neighbourly love. Taught by the Father too. They are one in their ways, their truth, and their life-giving teachings. Their commandments focus on such things and they give hope of eternal life.