If a biblical text is plainly stated, yet you do not believe what it says due to the ramifications of what it means, your mind will redefine the passage in such a way as to make it conform to what you believe, and you will never be consciously aware of what you did.
Good works are lawful, on the Sabbath, where good works are contrasted to evil works.
A plainly stated truth, by Truth Incarnate, that Adventists do not believe. They redefine good and evil works, so that evil becomes good in some circumstances and good becomes evil.
If Sabbatarians actually believed Jesus; TRUTH Incarnate, they would be forced to abandon the Sabbath commandment, for ALL the works of a Christian; works now “wrought in God” to the glory of God, can never be construed as evil by God, who judges according to the heart; a new heart He gives the actual believer.
As God judges, all the works of those with the good heart He provides are seen as good works and never as evil, sinful works.
Those with the unregenerate hearts, labeled by God as “deceitful and desperately wicked” hearts; hearts of stone and evil hearts of unbelief, all works are deemed evil in His sight.
And despite all the biblical evidence to support all this, Sabbatarians will still reject all of it, for the Sabbath is more important to them than truth and God, and His Word.
What does this mean? That the Sabbath is held in higher esteem than God's revealed truths found in Scripture. The Sabbath is another god, not only “besides” God but greater than God, where they view Jesus as being subject to the Sabbath so that they unashamedly proclaim that had God Incarnate actually “worked” on the Sabbath He; God Incarnate, would have sinned.
When it came to the Sabbath, Jesus openly declared that what He did on the Sabbath was work and that even the Father in Heaven works on the Sabbath.
This rejection of what both the Father and the Son do on the Sabbath, doing only good works, is all you need to know when it comes to true Christians and false ones, who will deny God and what He plainly declared, recorded in the Scriptures.
They will not repent and believe the Gospel; salvation found solely in Christ Jesus. They follow another god where they believe they will be saved by doing what the Sabbath says to do; rest from their evil works, where not doing evil is seen as doing good, despite their evil hearts of unbelief where unbelief; faithlessness is lawlessness in regards to the New Covenant law of faith and the Spirit. They are without Spiritual law. They embrace the letter of the law that kills. They embrace the physically oriented commandment with physical rites and rituals, such as the Sabbath that was a physical rest from physical labor that was temporary, and where their evil works eventually lead to death; not life.
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It is important that you understand; Everything on this blog is based on the current understanding of each author. Never take anyone's word for it, always prove it for yourself, it is your responsibility. You cannot ride someone else's coattail into the Kingdom. ; )
Acts 17:11
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