AS BEREANS DID

Jesus Intentionally Worked on the Sabbath

John 9:4  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

It was the Sabbath. He said He had to work the works God the Father sent Him to do while it was day; even on the Sabbath day.

He proceeded to fashion clay, which He applied to a blind man’s eyes, resulting in the one born blind to see. Jesus not only performed a miracle work on the Sabbath, He purposely worked with clay to do this; an intentional work of his hands, on the Sabbath.

Compare and contrast this to what God said about the works of the hands of those Hebrews.

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD. — Jeremiah 32:30

Jesus worked on the Sabbath, at the direction of the Father in Heaven who Jesus said also worked on the Sabbath. Both the Son and the Father worked on the Sabbath.

By working on the Sabbath; fashioning clay on the Sabbath, He performed a work of His hands on the Sabbath. Jesus did this intentionally, leaving no doubt He did indeed work on the Sabbath that stated, plainly, no one was to do any work associated with labor on the Sabbath. Shaping and forming clay with one’s hands on the Sabbath was undeniably working on the Sabbath.

Because Sabbatarianism is fixated on the flawed translation / interpretation of 1John 3:4, the only recourse they have to defend their flawed theology over sin and the Sabbath is to insist Jesus didn’t really work on the Sabbath, while accusing anyone who dares cite what Scripture actually says of accusing Jesus of sinning on the Sabbath. They refuse to admit the obvious. Jesus; God Incarnate, worked on the Sabbath, intentionally so, and did not sin. Sin is not the automatic result of transgressing the law, even if that law is the Sabbath commandment.

Jesus’ declaration that good works are lawful; not a sin on the Sabbath, falls on deaf Sabbatarian ears, where the Sabbath law is viewed as a “moral” law where there is never an excuse to transgress it, especially doing so intentionally.

As pointed out so many times before, and ignored by Sabbatarians due to their ‘conditioning’ – good works are indeed lawful on the Sabbath: Good works He contrasted to evil works. Those are the two classifications of works of interest to God, where good works are produced by those who God deems good, and evil works are produced by those God deems as evil. For God said He judges righteous judgment, according to the heart; not the law. It is mankind who judges unrighteous judgment, according to appearance, abusing the law in order to do so, where “any work” done on the Sabbath transgresses the commandment, resulting in sin, and where Sabbatarians exempt their works on what they believe to be the Sabbath as not resulting in sin; a hypocritical position.

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Acts 17:11

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