How does one “keep” or “guard” or “remember,” the Sabbath (”... to keep it holy...”) cuz it has a death penalty tacked onto it for a violation, right?
No, because it is right.
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ab·ro·gate
verb
formal
past tense: abrogated; past participle: abrogated
1.
repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
"a proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike"
synonyms: repeal, revoke, rescind, repudiate, overturn, annul; disallow, cancel, invalidate, nullify, void, negate, dissolve, countermand, declare null and void, discontinue; reverse, retract, remove, withdraw, abolish, put an end to, do away with, get rid of, end, stop, quash, scrap; disaffirm
"the time has come to formally abrogate this outdated agreement"
antonyms: institute, introduce
2.
evade (a responsibility or duty).
"we believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders"
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
If there is a principle that one day in seven belongs to God, then it should be used to arrest us from our normal pursuits and allow us to devote more attention to God’s Word and work..
There is it, how the big message sails right on by. All that verse-quoting and 'explanation' , yet normal pursuits in regular life should be at one with devotion to God's word and work. All day every day. Devotion should course through the veins and mind and heart as the default manner of thinking and doing and existing. Thought ---> speech ---> action ---> living. It is how to elevate the physical world into the spiritual plane.
It's not even work if it is love. Much could be done and accomplished on the Sabbath alone by people who are not working. It ought to be the most productive day of the week actually, what with all the honor and reverence showered upon God.
The Messiah *is* the Law because he is the very embodiment of the Law. It is who he is, how he does things. He the one showing people by personal example of how it is done, superceding (not invalidating) the book. He *is* the Book, the word of God made manifest, acted out, lived. To deify him misses the point, but gross misunderstanding has been the established way since forever.
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