THE LORD MY SABBATH
Monday, February 8, 2016
“For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his works, as God did from his” Heb 4:4 (Read entire chapter)
What is the significance of the Sabbath day in the New Testament? Again is it a day, days, a year, years, or every day. In the Old Testament God ordained that the Israelites work for six days and rested on the seventh day after the order of God’s creation in which he rested on the seventh day
The Israelites had a Sabbath day, a Sabbath year and a year of jubilee. But we see Jesus come to earth and say “I am the Lord of the Sabbath” Math 12:8, Math 28:1, Mark 2:28, Luke 6:5 In essence the Sabbath day was an adumbration of what he would bring, rest.
Now Hebrews 4 took a lot of verses to explain that there needs not be any adumbration anymore, that if we believe in Jesus we have entered into his rest, hence, the Sabbath day in the New Testament is not Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, etc, it is every day in the New Testament.
Jesus labored on the cross, from research he spent 6hours on the cross, (From the third hour to the ninth hour Mark15:25,34, 35) signifying a new creation after the similitude of the Creation of the Old Testament, this is the root of the New Creation of a New Man.
Now because God has labored, if we believe we have come into his rest, and everyday becomes our Sabbath. Hence in this Sabbath dispensation we must cease from vain works. On a typical Sabbath day there are no works aside the work of eating and helps.
We have all abundance in Christ, we are not praying for any more abundance because we have all things already, all we do is deploy them from our treasuries (our spirit) into the soul and physical realm. The prayers, fastings, study… are all to deploy the blessing, prepare it and help others. We deploy by a spiritual technology called faith (conviction+prayer+obedience)
SELAH: We have everything in Christ, our labor is of faith to deploy
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Shalom!
