How is resting in Christ the same as resting on the Sabbath? ?

Question

Sabbath is a day to honor God, like some honor God in vain on Sunday due to they follow the traditions of man and not our heavenly Father. For he knows what is best for us.

Answer 1

After I go to church and come home and have some lunch I lie down and take a nap. that is resting on the sabbath day.

I rest in jesus by how I trust Him. I  have been praying for my husband for over 35 years for him to be saved. But I rest in Him because HE told me that my husband would be saved. So I still pray for him but I rest in His promises. there are a lot of promises in the bible. I rest in those. I rest assured that HE has my best interest at heart.

See the difference?

Answer 2

Which laws are the ones you consider fulfilled by the atonement of Jesus Christ?

Answer 3

We rest in Christ from our works spiritually.

You are playing with a mere shadow, as Colossians describes the physical sabbath.  You aren't giving any attention to the substance, which is Jesus.

Answer 4

Christ became our Sabbath.Friend,if you don't have Christ,you have no rest!

Answer 5

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the embodiment and the fulfillment of all the Old Testament types and figures.  He is the Real rest from all our strife to " do good" in ourselves.  We take Him as our real rest and rest in all that He has obtained and attained through His precious Blood shed for us.

1 John 1:17

"For the law was given through Moses, Grace and reality came through Jesus Christ"

The Sabbath, as one of the bigger matters of the " Law" was a shadow, a type of the real deal.  Christ's coming was the fulfillment of this type and as such, we should see and embrace Christ as this rest for us.  After God had created all of creation in the beginning, after the creation of man in particular, God rested.  God's rest was after the creation of man, man's rest is in Christ as the Image of the invisible God, the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

Today we do not want to be those who care for days' and moons and sabbaths.. we want Christ.

Col 2:16

" Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of new moon or of the Sabbath"

Paul in his greeting to the saints in Corinth said that he did not want to known anything else among them but Christ, and this One crucified.

If we hold to anything, even high things like the Sabbath to try to please God or improve ourselves based on what we can do, then we nullify what Christ came to do and actually miss the whole point of His coming.  

He did not come to nullify the Law, the Law in itself is good and is a picture of the kind of person God is, rather He came as its fulfillment.  

In this universe there are four laws.

The Law of God which is outside of man

The Law of Good in man's mind

The Law of sin and of death in man's flesh

And the Law of the Spirit of Life in man's regenerated spirit.

Yet because of the law of sin and death which operates in our flesh, man,no matter how hard he tries, is never able to overcome that law. The law of good in man's mind agrees and even stands with God's law, but man is powerless to fulfill these requirements because of the weakness of his flesh. So even a high law such as the Sabbath, man is not able to carry out.

This is the reason the Lord came to us. He came as the Lord of the Sabbath ( Matt 12:8).  As this Lord He was able to change the regulations concerning the Sabbath. The Sabbath did not control the Lord, rather He did as He pleased on the day of the Sabbath, from healing people to His disciples breaking the ears of grain to eat ( vs 1).  This is what it means for Christ to be LORD of the Sabbath.

He came in as the Law of the Spirit of Life to free us from the law of sin and of death.( Rom 8:1-2)  

Through Christ we can rest from all our efforts. We can trust in His life that is in our spirit to fulfill all that God desires.   This is the real victory over sin and death.  This is also the real way to please God. The source of all that we do has to stem from this Lord who indwells us ( 2 Tim 4:22)

The new day has dawned.

Matt 28:1

" Now late on the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary the Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave"

Notice the way the bible describes this verse.

" Late on the Sabbath"

" Began to dawn"

" Toward the First day of the week"

These are very significant.

The day of the Lord's resurrection marked the beginning of newness for us who believed into Him.  It was the new start with a new age, the age of grace and of the kingdom...

No longer are we under the dispensation of the Old Covenant, but we are new in Christ. He resurrected on the first day of the Week, came to be with  the brothers on the first day of the week, in the evening ( John 20 :19). During that visit, Thomas was not there then, then the Lord returned a week later,8 days later on the next " first day " of the week and saw Thomas ( Vs 26). This was the new pattern.

Acts 20:7

" And on the first day of the week, when we gathered together to break bread. Paul conversed with them since he was to go forth on the next day and he extended his message until midnight"

This is the " Lord's Day" ( should not be confused with " the Day of the Lord, since this day is still yet to come hallelujah!)



Rev 1:10

" I was in spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet"

John, when he was writing the book of revelation concerning God's purpose and plan... said that that he was in spirit on the Lord's day, even though he was exiled on the isle of Patmos, he knew that this is the day that the saints met together to break bread, drink the wine to declare their oneness and all the Lord's rich attainments. This is the day they declared His death. The early believers met on the First day of the week and John was in spirit on the Lord's day.

May we continue to look away from all things, unto Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith.  We look away from the high and low things, if it means that it comes in to replace Christ. We declare as Paul did, that we do not want to know anything else among us but Christ, and this One crucifie

Answer 6

Because Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8), those who honor Him as their Lord 'rest' in Him. This is done by resting from their own works in the sense of striving to make their works 'work' towards their salvation. All the work of salvation was done by Christ on Calvary. 'It is finished' He cried - completed. Christians rest by faith on that work of Christ. It brings peace, restores the soul, and revives the weary. This does not do away with the need to literally rest from our work one day in seven, of course. By so doing, we can concentrate on the things of God more than usual, but there is actually a sense in which every day of the week can be lived in the spirit of the Sabbath.