This study is to help people to not feel guilty as to the day they join with others to worship. Do not let anyone judge you… Col 2:18
In Muslim countries Christians gather and worship on Friday, does God not accept their worship?
One of the issues is with the use of the English word Sunday. Every one of the English words for the days of the week are associated with some god or other. Therefore in this study the name “The “Lord’s day” has been used, an alternative name could be “Resurrection day”.
The truth is that all days are the Lord’s day and all days are Holy to the Lord. Living one day holy and the other six days as you see good in your own eyes is an offence to God and the person who does this is in danger of being a hypocrite and cast into outer darkness. However, it is good for a church or a community of people to keep one day in seven as a day to gather together for worship and this day be set apart from work or activities that distract or pull people away from community worship of God our Father.
The Old Testament is very clear from the beginning that the seventh day, the Sabbath, was declared to be the day of rest from all work. When God made covenant with Israel at Sini, this day was made Law, the forth commandment. With the seventh day Sabbath came many laws for observance. To be a Jew you must be circumcised and keep the Sabbath, breaking it was the death penalty.
A question to ask then, is why did God not make the seventh day Sabbath, Resurrection Day? This would seem to us to be the right thing for God to do, but He did not, why?
We need to remember in all this that “one greater” greater than creation, greater than the temple, greater than the Law has entered into the world. Mat:12:41,42
The Redemption is the true great story of the bible.
“God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law,” Gal 4:5,6
Why did Jesus have to redeem those under the Law? The danger of keeping any “Day” as a law, be it the Sabbath or The Lord’s Day, carries two risks, the soul of the man sliding back under Law and the deadly sin of Pride in works. The book of Romans is a detailed setting out of Salvation by Faith and not works of the Law. The book of Galatians is written to a church sliding down under Law.
God did not raise His Son from the dead on the Sabbath. Why? Resurrection day was the fulfilment of God’s great story of redemption that the prophets and the Law spoke of. The Prophets declared a New beginning. Christ the first fruits, the New Adam, the New High Priest, the New Exodus, a New heart, the New Covenant and salvation by faith not under the Law. A New beginning ,a New day had dawned. Rom 10:4 Rev 21:5
God’s mark of ownership was no longer circumcision and observance of the Sabbath by Law, the new mark of God’s people was the gift of the Holy Spirit and a circumcised heart. Gal4:5 Eph 1:13
The Sabbath was given in the Law to remember the creation (Exodus 20) However later God does something very interesting He changes the reason for the Sabbath.
“Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.”Deut 5:15
Why would God make this change? What was it about the Exodus out of Egypt that God would give Israel a new reason to remember the Sabbath? The creation story in Genesis is wonderful, glorious but the redemption story is the greater, more wonderful and most glorious story of God, found in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The Exodus, the small Exodus out of Egypt was a picture of the Great Exodus that God would bring about in Jerusalem by the death and resurrection of His Son. This is the great Exodus of the New Covenant.
We must not try to lock God down into doing this or that, or take offence when he changes things, he is the God who does “a new thing” He is the Lord of the Sabbath.
Is Resurrection day a New Sabbath?
Did God make the Resurrection day the new Sabbath day? Is this day the New Sabbath of the New Covenant with its own new laws and regulations? No The Sabbath in the new covenant is a Sabbath we enter into, a Sabbath of life, not written in stone. Through Christ, who is the Lord of the Sabbath, we enter into “God’s rest” this is the heart of Sabbath. We enter into God’s rest when we no longer try to be justified by the Law of works but by faith receive God’s gift of salvation by the finished work of His Son Jesus on the cross. What was shown out in the Old Testament in physical;Moses chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery. circumcision, Sabbath, crossing the red sea, Mt Sini, Jerusalem, were all shadows of what was to come. Luke 24:27
In the New Testament we have the New Covenant, we have the true circumcision of the heart by the Spirit and the Holy Spirit as God’s mark of ownership. True rest, this is Rest in the Lord of the Sabbath. The Exodus out of slavery under Satan out of darkness is through Messiah’s body. We have the One New Man in Christ Eph 2:15. The New Heavens, the New Earth, the New Mt Zion, the New Jerusalem and the New song. Behold I make all things New. Heb 12; 18…24, Rev 21:5
Acts of righteousness over flow from a heart of Love
The sinful woman in Luke and her act of devotion, to wash Jesus feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair, flowed from her heart of love for the one who had saved her. What she did, was not out of keeping the Law, it was out of Love and Jesus declares to her “your sins are forgiven” and then “your faith has saved you go in peace” This is the heart the Father seeks, this is true worship, acts of loving kindness to God our saviour not out of law. Caring for the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked for one of the least of these, not out of law, but out of a heart that is full of love to the God that has saved them, this is the worship the Father seeks. This woman was forgiven, saved by her faith and now walked in peace, not so Simon the religious man who like a good Pharisee kept the Sabbath to the letter of the Law but loved little. Jesus makes this statement that must not be forgotten “ Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the teachers of the law or the pharisees you will not enter the Kingdom of God” Mat:5:20
This is a warning to any who would try to bring Law of works into God’s New Covenant of Grace.
A serious question
A very serious question came up in the early years of the Church. Some men who were Jews came to Antioch and started to teach the Gentile Christians that they must obey the law. “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” Acts 15:1
The Apostles Paul and Barnabas had a sharp argument with these men. Why? The answer is clear, if you get circumcised (The mark of God’s people in the Old Testament) you are then required to keep all the laws of Moses and the Sabbath as a law is one of them Gal:5:3. This was a big issue and for this to be settled the first council was held in Jerusalem. To be saved does a person have to be circumcised and obey the law of Moses was the question. Peter at the council meeting makes this statement “And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.” Acts 15:8,9
So the mark of God’s people in the `Old Covenant was circumcision, keeping the sabbath and the Law but in the New Covenant it is the Holy Spirit who cleanses our hearts by faith.
The answer out of Jerusalem was No. But this is interesting, they did ask that the gentile Christians keep these following laws of Moses.
“It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements: You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.” Acts 15: 28,29
The Elders in Jerusalem write Nothing beyond, Sabbath keeping, as under the Law of Moses, is not in the list.
Messiah and the Law
But to look more closely on this issue of the Sabbath in the Old Covenant and what it is a picture or shadow of and what it is pointing to in the New Covenant, we need to look at the words of Jesus.
For us to understand The Law and the Sabbath we have to ask, how do we understand these words of Jesus in Matthew 5 : 17…20?
Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them.
Jesus fulfilled the Law, He was, The Lamb of God who died for the sin of the world.
Jesus fulfilled the Law, He lived a sinless life, He kept the Law perfectly to the very heart. He healed the man with the withered arm on the seventh day sabbath, in the synagogue, in front of them all and he looked around in anger and sadness because they had got it so wrong. (Mark 3) Jesus healed the woman bent over for eighteen years in the synagogue on the seventh day sabbath, the synagogue ruler announced “there are six days to work come on those days to be healed not on the sabbath” Luke 10
Jesus fulfilled perfectly the heart of the Law (the spirit of the Law) while the ruler was only seeing the letter of the Law, as it is written “The letter kills but the Spirit gives life 2 Co 3:6
Again Jesus says in Mat 5;19 So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Walking in and living the heart of the Law as Jesus did, is to fulfil the Law, this is fulfilling the Law not breaking the commandment. As we follow Jesus, as we walk in and live by Jesus teachings, as a person is led by the Spirit, we fulfil the heart of the Law. When you keep the heart of it you are not breaking it.
Jesus then adds these words Mat 5:20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
So anyone who is thinking to gaining favour with God by keeping the Sabbath to letter of the Law is in error. Peter speaks this out clear in Acts 15:10 when he says “…why are you trying to test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the believers that neither we or our father could carry”
Follow me
During Jesus days on earth He repeated the words “follow me” and “obey my teaching”
He said this many times for a reason.
Jn 14:15“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
When you love God with all your heart, you will keep the commands of Jesus.. you will, then, by the nature of that love, love your neighbour and this is to fulfil the law.
Paul says in Rom 13:10 “Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Gal 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Change in the priesthood
There is an interesting and important verse in Hebrews
Heb 7:12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.
Jesus, the Son of God is our High Priest of the New Covenant so when did he change the Law?
We read in Mat 5:21“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’
Mat 5:22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
We read again in Mat 5:27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
Mat 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Jesus changed the Law by taking us to its heart.. A man may say, like the rich young man “I have kept the Law” because he did not murder and he did not commit adultery. However this man is guilty and a sinner because he has, like all men held anger against his brother and like all men he has looked at a woman with lust. He has kept the letter of the law but he has not lived the heart of the Law. When Jesus calls the young man to follow Him, he walks away, he is sad, but he walks away.
As with all the Law, we as followers of Christ are to walk in the Spirit and this fulfils the Law. Rom 8
Not only do we not murder (the Law) but we hold no anger to our brother (the heart of the Law in Christ), not only do we Not commit adultery (the Law) but we do not look with lust towards a woman (the heart of the Law in Christ)
The greatest commandment
When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment he did not quote one of the ten commandments.
Mat 22:37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Mat 22:38 This is the great and first commandment.Mat 22:39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Mat 22:40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
When we, as followers of Jesus, when we walk by the Spirit in these two commandments we are walking in the Heart of the Law.
To Love the Lord your God with all your heart… fulfils commandment 1. Thou shall have no other god before me. 2. Thou shall make no graven image and 3. Thou shall not miss use the Name of the Lord. By the very nature of the love for God in your heart you will keep the heart of these Laws.
To love your neighbour as your self, fulfils commandment 5 to 10. So what about commandment 4, the Sabbath?
How did Jesus fulfil the Sabbath. And what is at the heart of the Sabbath? Jesus teaches in Mat 12:8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
The shadow of a door
So the Sabbath of the Old Testament is pointing to Himself, the Messiah. The Seventh Day Sabbath was a picture and a shadow of a door, a very wonderful shadow of a door, pointing to “The Lord of the Sabbath” This door could not be opened under the Law, but Messiah will open that door through His death on the cross. This door was also pictured in the ark, all those who entered were saved, the door of the Ark took all who entered to a mountain to a New Earth. This was a shadow pointing to Messiah. It is also a warning that one day God will close the door as he did when the foolish girls, the girls who do not see the oil as important and it runs out. They come to the door and it is closed and the Lord says “I never knew you”
Jesus said “I am the door” All who believe in Jesus enter this Door (Jn 10:9) A door always takes you somewhere. Where does Jesus take you?
My Rest
Now the seventh day sabbath was for rest, rest for the body, a stopping of work, but this law is only a shadow or a picture, the eternal truth is that Jesus Messiah is the way to the Father and the door into His Rest.
Many years later after the seventh days sabbath was given as law, God speaking by the prophet David says. Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.” Psa 95:11
Who was God talking about in this Psalm? The people of Israel, on their journey to the promised land, they were keeping the seventh day sabbath as required by the law but God said they will not enter My Rest.
The writer of the book of Hebrews in the Spirit tells us about God’s rest. “There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.” Heb 4:9,10
So the heart of the Sabbath is to enter “My Rest” what is this Rest that is in God? It is the Rest that comes from the Truth that Jesus is my saviour, I cannot save myself by works of the law. It is Rest from the curse of the Law. What curse? The curse of endless work of trying to keep the letter of the Law. Gal 3:10,13
It is the Truth that we who are in Christ the Messiah are saved by Faith. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness Rom 4:5
Jesus fulfilled the Law perfectly and became the author of my salvation. I enter God’s Rest when I receive the gift of God’s salvation. He is the Lord of the Sabbath.
God’s way is right
As a community how do we honour God and how do we keep the heart of the Law. First we need to agree together that Gods way is right (luke 7:29,30 NIV)
Then decide how we Honour God in our community and specifically how do we set apart a day to gather to worship. Also, how do we protect this community, from the influence of the world? The spirit of this world that would rob the Lord of all the earth from the worship of His people.
When Gods children are “led by the Spirit” they will, by nature fulfil the Law. (Gal 5:18) However there are some who live in this community or are patients or guardians, who have not surrendered in heart, or come to a place where they desire above all, to honour God. They do not fear God, nor do they believe that God blesses a person or a people that live in line with the truth of the word of God. This living daily, to please God and is part of “Love the Lord your God with all your heart”.We also believe that God rewards those people or peoples that diligently seek him. (Heb 11:6)
Therefore as the Elders in this community we put in place “house rules” so that God is honoured.
We need to note there is a difference between we, who live in a community that has the Lord’s name in it, and a christian who lives in a worldly city or community. The christian in a worldly city does what he can to keep his worship time free but he has no say to close the shop or market etc. In the Spirit of grace God accepts as honour what the man in the worldly city does and the more the man in the christian community does, as the same. God rewards both of them the same because they both seek to honour God as they can.
For all of us who have chosen to live in this community that carries God’s name, these are the principles in God we have set in place (the house rules) which we believe is how best we can honour God. For example we have a house rule not to allow the selling or consumption of alcohol or betel nut in this community. Consumption of alcohol, betel nut or drug is not forbidden in God’s word but we choose not to allow its sale or consumption by team members of GCS. Why? Because the consumption of these is damaging to people’s health and destroys families and communities.
It is clear that the seventh day sabbath is part of the law and any form of keeping the Law for righteousness is an offence to the Cross and to the Grace of God. As it is stated in Gal 5:4. “You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.”
We need to be clear everyday is holy to the Lord “ This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it”
The pharisees were very strict about the Sabbath and the Law, but would not enter the Kingdom of God. We the followers of Jesus, are to walk in the Spirit every day from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. The truth is, we can set aside Resurrection day or Friday (as they do in Muslim countries) or Sabbath because God rested on the seventh day or on Tuesday because it is doubled blessed for us as a community to worship. It is worship in Spirit and Truth that the Father seeks. And this worship can be offered to our God every day.
Why First Sabbath?
So why do we at Kapuna set aside this day that in the english language is called Sunday? Called “First Sabbath” by the Jews that is, the first day after the seventh day sabbath?
This is the day the church of the book of Acts chose, for it is the resurrection day. This is also the day God poured out His Holy Spirit, the day of the birth of the church. This day is also called “The Lord’s Day” (Mat 28:1, Mark 16:2, Luke 24:1, John 20:1, Acts 2, Rev 1:10)
First Fruits and the Ark
This day, Resurrection day, was on the “Festival of First Fruits” God, from the time He took His people out of Egypt and out of slavery named this day to Israel to be remembered and celebrated. When Jesus defeated death and walked out of the grave the first fruit offering was being made. Jesus was the first fruits from the ground of the New Heavens and the New Earth.
How did God mark resurrection day? What did God do? He marked this day from the dawn of time when He brought the ark of Noah to rest on the new world. The old world was gone, destroyed, the new had come. Which day did the Ark came to rest on the mountain? The 17th day of Nissan, this day was also marked as the Festival of First Fruits. God had promised a New Heavens and a New earth from the mouth of His prophets so when did God do this? In three days and three nights. Jesus was the first born, the New Adam of the New Creation. Jesus was the First Fruits of the New Creation just as Adam was the first man in the old creation. Because of sin God destroyed the old sinful world of Noah. In the same way God defeated Satan the god of this world by the cross. God then again created the new world, the Mountain of the Lord, the New Jerusalem, for His new family who are saved by His Son in His Ark. (Eph 3:22) Again the 17th day of Nissan was the day God marked as the day the great salvation would happen. His was not the saving of a family of eight but millions upon millions who believe in their heart and confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord are saved. What a great salvation we have. (Heb )
Exodus and the Great Exodus
Why “The Lord’s Day” to gather for worship? This day God the Father raised His Son from the grave and Jesus was seated at the right hand of the Father after completing His work. His work of the cross and His work of redemption for all creation. Col 1:20, Col 2:14. Ps 110
What is this work of the cross? It is the power to save us from the hand of Satan, Moses saved God’s people out from under the hand of Pharaoh and Israel walked out of Egypt. This Exodus out of Egypt was only the picture or shadow of the Great Exodus. What is the Great Exodus? Jesus by the cross defeated Satan and all who hear His call “follow me” He leads out of the Kingdom of Darkness into God’s Kingdom, the Kingdom of light, this is the great Exodus that has continued for two thousand years. Where do we read about this great Exodus of the New Covenant?
Luk 9:31 who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
The word departure is Exodus. Who was speaking with Jesus about this Exodus? Moses, the man who was the shadow of Messiah who led the first Exodus. Where was this new Great Exodus going to start from? Jerusalem. What was the power of God to lead His people out of slavery to sin? The cross. What did God do to make a way for His people to escape out of the hand of Pharaoh? The parting of the Red sea. What was the sign that God had opened a way for everyone who is following Jesus to Exodus out of Satan’s kingdom? The curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom so we can come to the Father and to the new Jerusalem, because the way has been opened by Jesus our saviour through His body. Heb 10:19,20
What was the last punishment on Egypt?
The god’s of Egypt were punished. (Exo 12”12) What did Christ do by His death on the cross? He punished the god of this world. Heb 2:14 …that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Passover and the change of Calendar and a New Beginning
Now something very interesting happens, when God announces to Moses the Passover He announces also a new calendar, a new start to the year. Why would God do that? What does the passover point to? Messiah, who is, the passover lamb? the blood on the door? This is the blood that stops the destroyer from entering the house. The blood of the lamb marks God’s people. God put a mark on the murderer of his brother Able, the word mark in the Hebrew has and X in it, when you lift up the X you have a cross. This was the promise that the day would come when God would save the sinner by the cross.
Where was the New Passover fulfilled? In Jerusalem. Who was there? Jesus, the disciples and the women. Who was the lamb of God to take away the sin of the world? Jesus said “this is my body, this is my blood of the New Covenant. What was about to happen? A second Exodus, this time out of Satans kingdom of darkness led by Jesus our Messiah. With this Passover or as the church calls it “The Lord’s table” also comes a change of calendar a new beginning. The shadow or picture was with Moses the reality was in Christ. Heb 10:1 Amos 3:7
The New Covenant Exodus day was Resurrection day. God announced this day as the new beginning. The Old Covenant has come to a close, the new has come. The old Age is over the new has come in messiah. We are not a people who come to Mt Sini we are a people who come to the new mountain “Mt Zion” and to the New Jerusalem. This is why the early church kept this day as “The Lord’s day the day the church gathered together to worship.
Priests in the temple
Jesus spoke about the priests in the temple, how on the Sabbath they desecrate the day but are not guilty, why would this be? If it is law is it not a law for all? Some of the answer is in the book of Exodus when Moses declares the call of God, Israel is to be a Nation of Priests. However Aron and his sons are then appointed priests. This prophecy finds fulfilment in the New Covenant Peter declares that we the church are the chosen people a royal priesthood, a holy nation 1Pe 2:9 Rev 1:6
We as royal priests carry out the work of God by the Spirit and our work, flowing out of the love for our saviour is accepted by God as a sacrifice, an offering of praise every day and are not guilty. Jesus healed an ungrateful man on the Sabbath and told him to carry his mat. Why would He do that? He met a man blind from birth and made mud and healed him. It says Jesus healed when the Spirit was present. If you are doing God’s work by the power of the Spirit then you are not guilty. You are worshiping in Spirit and Truth.
When you gather together
Paul in writing to the church at Corinth (what he says he has already written to the Galatians) gives this instruction “when you gather together” on “First Sabbath” that is the first day after the Sabbath, collect the offering. This statement makes it clear that the churches of the book of Acts kept “the Lord’s Day” as their day of gathering to worship. (1Cor 16:2)
This day of worship was not introduced by the Roman Emperor Constantine, this was the day when the Church gathered from the time of the Book of Acts, the Emperor only made it offical three hundred years later.
So as the early Church did, we, as a christian community do also, that is, to keep a day to gather for worship. To keep a day as free as possible from distractions, work, travel, media or idols that pull people away from worship of the living God. We keep a day, not in the letter of the law but as we do in the breaking of bread “do this in remembrance of me” to remember the great salvation that Christ accomplished for us in the cross and by His Resurrection. There is heavy pressure from the world and from the worldly minded to take worship from the Lord of all the Earth.
Only by firm strength of each one of us will our community stand as a God place, where God is honoured above all, and we know, where He is honoured, there His presence is.
Note again that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Therefore we hold to the heart of the Sabbath in the form of the “the Lords day” not in the letter of the law
In the New Covenant we hold all days holy to the Lord (Acts 2:46) and we must never fall in the trap of making one day holy and the other six days to do as we wish in our own eyes. The purpose of keeping one day as a worship day is that it resets or refocuses our hearts and minds towards the Lord and so we prepare ourselves for the next six days of work. In the old covenant it was six days work and then one day rest. In the new covenant it is first day Rest remembering what Christ did for us, receiving our blue print in God for the next six days of work. Just as a builder carefully studies the plan or blue print and sets out the building profile before the work starts.
The Lord’s day is rest but it is more than rest of the body, it is Rest in our spirit, in the knowledge that I am saved by grace not by work. ( Heb:4) In the same way as we take the communion in remembrance of what Jesus did for us, so each week we rest and we remember, we are saved by grace, by God’s gift and not by our work. This is the Good News.
In Practice
So what does this look like in practice for Kapuna community?
What house rules are in place to see that we minimise distractions that pull people away from worship.
1.We close shop and market and workshop, and do not allow the selling of market goods in the kitchens.
2.We close work as we can … hospital and urgent work we do in the joy of the Lord as priests ministering to the Lord, to fix power or fix water may come under urgent or off load boat if needed we do this in a heart of service. Transport for an urgent reason. Arrange accommodation for an unexpected visitor and by this some entertained angel’s unawares.
3. We do not program transport leaving on the morning on the Lords Day unless it is an emergence, a rescue or unavoidable..
4. We do not program in s competitive games on this day, this covers all celebrations, Independence or school tournaments By doing this we make a clear statement “We Honour God above all”
Fun games with family, or friends in the afternoon is all good
Let us walk in the Joy of the Lord and those who are led by the Spirit are the Sons of God.
Other scriptures and five questions
Rom 10:4
Rom 7:6
Q1. To enter into God’s rest, what has to be left behind?
Religion of works, religious activity
The mind that says “I will rise my self up to the heavens” (Isaiah 14:13)
(Isaiah 50: 10,11) Is a mind that is believing a lie of the Devil.
Q2. Can you ascend (go up) the mountain of the Law yourself?
Many men try but – the Law is Holy, You are a sinner, you stand guilty before the law, you are a law breaker.
God told Moses “tell the people not to try to come up the mountain” Moses said to God “ I told them already… God said “ Go down and tell them again”
Any person or animal that does try to come up the mountain must be killed by arrow.. No one is to touch them. Exodus 19.
If you look to religion of works to save you, you must go up the mountain of the Law trusting your own righteousness. Do you want to claim your own righteousness and step up on to the mountain of the Law.
Q3 -When we enter God’s Rest – what does God’s Rest look like?
Hebrews 12:22 -24
Q4. How do we walk on the mountain of the Lord
Gal4;4 – 7, Gal 5:18,25, Psalm 24
Q5. On the day you face the door of death, will you have .. Airu? saying to yourself, I am a good person, the religious works I have done will be heavier than my sins. This is where you stand if you have followed the path of religion which is the way of works. You trust in your religious works to save you. Religion of works is to say ˜I will stand myself on Judgement day, I need no saviour, God has no Son, I need no Advocate on high. Job 16:19