Did Christ honor the Sabbath?

Question

Christ not only honored the Sabbath throughout his life upon the earth, but he provided that its sacred claims should be remembered and honored after his death and resurrection. When warning his disciples of the destruction of Jerusalem, which did not take place until forty years after his ascension, he said, "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day; for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time." In accordance with his instruction, the followers of Christ were enabled to depart from the besieged city, and escape to the mountains, not taking their flight either in the winter, nor upon the Sabbath day. After the death of Christ the disciples "rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." After the ascension of Christ, Paul, the great apostle to the Gentiles, preached to both Jews and Gentiles "on the Sabbath day."

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Answer 1

You are a Sabbath keeping Christian! maybe an Adventist? I too keep the Sabbath and of course Jesus kept the Sabbath. I don't know why people don't WANT to it in an awesome day of rest. Also God Blessed the 7th day and sanctified and whatever God Blesses is blessed forever.

Jesus did not need to preach to people to keep the Sabbath as it was not broken by believers during his time. But God knew that at some time in history it would be forgotten . As he started the 4th commandment with the word REMEMBER

Answer 2

Why would Christ relate they should pray they not flee in winter? Because it would add to the difficulty.

Why not flee on the sabbath? Because it was the sabbath? They still would have fled, but there would have been the added problem of fleeing a city where the gates to the city were closed on that day.

And Paul let it be known that he felt obligated to preach to the Jews first, and he did this by going to synagogues on the sabbath, where Jews and devout Gentiles were to be found. Any other day, and he would have been speaking to himself.

Yours is among the worst scholarship out there. You insist on trying to prove something through assumption instead of evidence.

Acts 20 shows Paul preaching to CHRISTIANS on the first day of the week. Your citation is where Paul preached to Jews and Gentiles who were not Christian.

If Acts 20 stated Paul preached to Christians on the sabbath, you would be screaming, "see! see!" but seeing as it is the first day of the week he addressed the church, you ignore the example.

You need to read Acts 15 and understand it for what it says. Gentiles were not required to keep the law; any of it. They didn't have to become Jews first in order to become Gentiles second.

The implication of your belief results in believing and teaching a false gospel... not a smart thing to do.

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Answer 3

The Sabbath and other laws were given ONLY to Israel. Since the Jews rejected their Messiah, salvation is now offered to Gentiles. The Church Age runs from Pentecost to the Rapture (so we're still in it) and after the Rapture the focus will shift back to the Jews, during the Tribulation. It's also known as Daniel's 70th week and Jacob's Trouble.

So right now we're not required to keep any of the laws for salvation.

Look up dispensationalism. We're in the dispensation of grace (Romans 6).

Answer 4

"While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was discovered gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly. But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him. Then the Lord said to Moses, "This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp." So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had commanded Moses." Numbers 15:32-36 NAB

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Answer 5

You asked and answered your own question.
What is your question to us?
Jesus was the only person in all of time that kept the law, so he had to have kept the sabbath. He never preached for us to keep the sabbath, and the church afterwards left off from keeping it.

Answer 6

*** gt chap. 29 Doing Good Works on the Sabbath ***

Chapter 29

Doing Good Works on the Sabbath

IT IS the spring of 31 C.E. A few months have passed since Jesus spoke to the woman at the well in Samaria while en route from Judea to Galilee.

Now, after teaching extensively throughout Galilee, Jesus again leaves for Judea, where he preaches in the synagogues. Compared with the attention the Bible gives to his Galilean ministry, it tells little of Jesus’ activity in Judea during this visit and during the months he spent here following the previous Passover. Evidently his ministry did not receive as favorable a response in Judea as it did in Galilee.

Soon Jesus is on his way to Judea’s principal city, Jerusalem, for the Passover of 31 C.E. Here, near the city’s Sheep Gate, is the pool called Bethzatha, where many sick, blind, and lame come. They believe that people can be healed by getting into the waters of the pool when these are agitated.

It is the Sabbath, and Jesus sees a man at the pool who has been sick for 38 years. Being aware of the long duration of the man’s sickness, Jesus asks: “Do you want to become sound in health?”

He answers Jesus: “Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; but while I am coming another steps down ahead of me.”

Jesus says to him: “Get up, pick up your cot and walk.” With that the man immediately becomes sound in body, picks up his cot, and begins to walk!

But when the Jews see the man, they say: “It is Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry the cot.”

The man answers them: “The very one that made me sound in health said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk.’”

“Who is the man that told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?” they ask. Jesus had turned aside because of the crowd, and the one who was healed did not know Jesus’ name. Later, however, Jesus and the man meet in the temple, and the man learns who it is that healed him.

So the healed man finds the Jews to tell them that it is Jesus who has made him sound in health. On learning this, the Jews go to Jesus. For what reason? To learn by what means he is able to do these wonderful things? No. But to find fault with him because he is doing these good things on the Sabbath. And they even begin persecuting him! Luke 4:44; John 5:1-16.

Answer 7

Jesus obeyed the Sabbath in every way, in fact Jesus was the living breathing embodiment of Torah and walked it out perfectly- what Jesus put an end to was the doctrines and "laws" of man that began to take the place of and overshadow the laws of God in men's hearts. Unfortunately, even today many call those that follow God's laws legalists while they rebel and hold men under the oppression of their own sets of laws and standards that oppose God's perfect instruction

Answer 8

No. He went out of his way repeatedly to demonstrate that the Sabbath was made for man, not the other way around.

Answer 9

Yes. He lead a perfect and sinless life.

Answer 10

yes