I don’t reject the authority of scripture at all..
I just reject the premise that the church follows it ‘sola’, when with our very life and worship practices and teachings, it can be proven we really follow ‘sola popa’..
(I used to,too)
And it all started when He taught me His Kingdom calendar, written in His sky and in His Word... which points to His Son..
The world on the other hand, follows a calendar that points to the sun, named for a pope...big difference if we test both and prove all things..
And when His calendar showed His True Sabbath, it made the pope appointed muslim, jew and christian sabbath days, all counterfeit..
And it does the same for december 25 and easter and any other man made holy days..
If there is a church that observed His Sabbath on His calendar since January, they would have observed His Sabbath on lots of different gregorian days and not one ‘set’ day like the world says..
And it has only been ‘sunday’ for three weeks of gregorian 2014. You want to know why the church may have people demoralized or concerned about the ways of the world?
Because their entire work life and worship life is based on the counterfeit world and that counterfeit world’s counterfeit premises and only partially on His Word..
And we are told by scripture, who is the god of this world.. but we are also told that He has overcome the world.. and we also are called not to be conformed to the world and to ‘come out of her, my people’.
His Kingdom will come.. I want to be prepared for it. Rejecting the world and its system is a good step to take...
And He, too, will lead you out..
HalleluYah!
Sorry FRiend, been down that road. I’m seeing this altogether differently than when I was a young technical purist. I found in the end the direction of Paul not to judge people over calendars and diets and even sabbaths was just exactly right. It just distracts people from either preaching or hearing the Gospel of God’s grace. There’s a good reason it made Paul so angry in Galatians. He loved Jesus with all his heart, and refused to let the glory of Christ be obscured by the shadows of the now defunct Mosaic Covenant. It had served its purpose, but clinging to the old when the new has come in the person of Jesus brings nothing but hurt to the body of Christ.
When I was saved, I only knew one thing. I had awakened from my sinful stupor in the middle of a pig pen, and I didn’t know if God was still interested in me. Turns out he was. It’s a miracle. Lost people don’t need calendars or food lists. No, really, they don’t. It’s got nothing to do with how God reaches those whose lives are wasting away while they wait to enter hell. Not. One. Thing.
You know what I remember of the people who witnessed to me about the love of God? Their tears on my hands. Real tears, shed for me, by total strangers. I knew all the facts. I was better at the facts than most folks. But my heart was dead in sin, and now it is alive in Him, and by His grace I will never go back. It’s not His will for us to live lives reduced to lists. The plain old Gospel of God’s amazing love, that Jesus died to give life to hopeless sinners like me, is potent new wine. The old wineskins are too brittle to contain it. But the new wineskin is all about being there, where the people of God are, and the ministry of the word and the Spirit. Whatever prevents us from being in that holy circumstance is a device of the evil one, who mocks us with petty distractions, like calendars and diets, while conning us out of our heritage of love and rich blessing. I’m over all that. See you in church.
Peace,
SR
And it does the same for december 25 and easter and any other man made holy days..
If there is a church that observed His Sabbath on His calendar since January, they would have observed His Sabbath on lots of different gregorian days and not one ‘set’ day like the world says..
And it has only been ‘sunday’ for three weeks of gregorian 2014. You want to know why the church may have people demoralized or concerned about the ways of the world?
Because their entire work life and worship life is based on the counterfeit world and that counterfeit world’s counterfeit premises and only partially on His Word..
And we are told by scripture, who is the god of this world..
14 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.[c]
And the point of observing the *true* sabbath is what exactly?