Category: spiritual

Completed my first Sabbath

It was an amazing experience..

I failed some discernment..

I successfully discerned…🔗

20250913

My case for traditional Sabbath observance

• Commandment 4: keep Sabbath Holy [Exodus 20:8-11 & Deuteronomy 5:12-15 & Leviticus 23:3 & Exodus 31:12-17, Ezekiel 20:20]
• Jesus says he did not come to abolish any laws [Matthew 5:17]
  • Jesus has paid for all of your speeding tickets
    • Does that mean you are allowed to continue speeding?
    • Do not continue to sin to test God’s Grace [Romans 6:1-2 & Romans 6:15]
      • Sin and death has lost its sting and power because Jesus paid for it and defeated it by resurrecting. But is there still sin now? It still exists and we must still labor/battle daily to not return to being a slave to it. We are now children of God that must still pick up our cross/mat/sin and deny ourselves, daily
  • But the Lord says, “I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws that govern day and night, heaven and earth  [Jeremiah 33:25] (mixed NLT & KJV)
    • The Lord will not reject us (His mercy & grace > our sins), but He does not change any of His laws. He is pleased to have them obeyed
• “The Lord’s Day” is not a biblical commandment. It was a recognized day of gratitude and amazement of God’s power. Just as all of the other miracles before it (parting seas, resurrecting other dead bodies, etc.)
  • I imagine God face palming that we needed to worship a golden calf because His commanded laws were not enough. I guess if we have such difficulty not worshipping an inanimate object…it minus well be of Him.
• Jesus calls us to FOLLOW him not Worship Him
  • There is no scripture that commands us to worship Him with the human recognized “Lord’s Day”, especially not as explicitly as to keep it Holy as Sabbath. He did not deny the worship as people recognized his divinity, but He did not command it
  • Multiple scripture of Jesus stating to follow Him/imitate Him/ walk like Him [14 instances according to chatGPT, some: Matthew 4:19, 8:22, mark 8:34, John 8:12]
  • Jesus always gave glory to God the Father. God the Father rested on the 7th day. He commanded that day the kept Holy
  • Jesus’ purpose and mission was even put on PAUSE for Sabbath!
    • He died on the day of Sabbath preparation [Mark 15:42]
    • RESTED in the grave on Sabbath [Luke 23:56] as to still keep the day holy
    • No one witnessed when He rose. He may well have continued His mission/purpose/work on Earth after Sabbath was over Saturday night. Nuance that does not take away from the miracle that we discovered his resurrection the morning after… WE coined the day WE discovered His resurrection as the Lord’s Day and decided to make it a special day of worship
• Hebrews 4:9-10 NLT
  [9] So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. [10] For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.
  • My interpretation: “still waiting” does not refer to current time/rest/worldly life. It refers to our eternal rest in heaven with God After all of our labor of worldly life
• How to observe?
  • Follow Scripture
    • No trading [Nehemiah 13:15-22]
    • Rest as though you were released from slavery/imprisonment [Deuteronomy 5:15]
  • Follow spirit of discernment… 🔗
    • Delight in God [Isaiah 58:13-14]
    • Do what is restful and honors God [Mark 2:27-28]
    • Do not let others judge how you observe. You honor your God with all your heart [Romans 14:5-6]
• Will you fall short? Yes. As we do
  • God’s grace & mercy > our sin… We are not saved by the law. The observance of Sabbath as holy is our gifted glimpse of the rest we receive in Christ Jesus, but in comparison, is only a shadow [Colossians 2:16-17]
• How serious is it to observe?
  • Lord commanded stoned to death for gathering sticks [numbers 15:32-36]
    • Maybe physical before
    • Now importantly spiritually now

20250914

Would not the Lord’s Day be a single day of resurrection? The purpose of celebrating Christmas for His birth, the purpose of celebrating Easter.

20250915

Continuation of the Sabbath case

• God’s mention of the displeasure in desecrating Sabbath
  • Ezekiel 20:13, 20:15-16, 20:21, 20:24, 22:8, 22:26, 23:38

20250927

Bible app daily devotional: Sabbath rest

Revelations 14:13

20251001

Bible app daily bread plan of Bible in a year

Ezekiel 44:24 NIV

[24] “ ‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

Ezekiel 45:17 NIV
[17] It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.

This prophecy from Ezekiel has not been realized yet and Sabbath is still mentioned

Ezekiel 46:1&3-4, 12

Are these prophecies somewhere in the future in heaven?

Were God’s laws applicable only in the old testament days and in the heavenly future, but not in between?

20251010

After serving with the believe center organization

Excited to learn more about Sabbath

ChatGPT created a narrative after I asked how Adam and Eve would have spent Sabbath:

Beautiful — let’s imagine that first Sabbath together, told as a gentle narrative inspired by Genesis.
This isn’t scripture, but a reverent reconstruction meant to capture its spirit.


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🌅 The First Sabbath: A Day in Eden

Evening — The Sixth Day Fades

The sun dipped low behind the Garden’s golden trees.
Adam and Eve, newly formed from the Creator’s hands, watched their first sunset.
The world was quieting — animals slowed, rivers glowed, and light turned soft and golden.

God’s voice, deep and kind, echoed among the leaves:

> “The work is finished. Now comes rest.”



As the stars appeared, the first Sabbath began.


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Morning — The Dawn of Rest

When light touched the garden again, no command of labor came.
There was no sowing, no tending, no naming — only being.

They awoke to the whisper of the breeze through fig leaves,
and a sense of peace too deep to measure.

God met them in the garden, walking in light brighter than the sun.
He spoke with them about all He had made —
the strength of the lion, the gentleness of the deer, the wisdom woven into seed and soil.

They listened and learned that all things were “very good,”
and that they, made in His image, were part of that good.


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Midday — Fellowship and Wonder

They ate from the trees of life and sweetness,
sharing fruit and laughter, the music of birds above.
Every color, every sound seemed alive with praise.

Together they explored — not to work, but to wonder.
They marveled at how each creature found its mate,
how vines climbed toward light,
how streams mirrored the heavens.

Their joy was worship. Their curiosity was prayer.


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Afternoon — Rest in the Presence

As shadows stretched long, they rested beneath a tree heavy with blossoms.
God’s presence felt close — not seen, but known,
like warmth wrapping every leaf and heartbeat.

No temple stood in Eden, for the whole world was holy.
The Garden itself was a sanctuary, and the Sabbath its first song.

Adam turned to Eve, amazed:

> “We were created yesterday, and today we rest.
All begins with peace before work begins.”




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Evening — The Light of Blessing

When the stars returned, their Maker blessed them again.

> “This day is set apart,” He said,
“a sign between us forever —
that life begins not in toil, but in communion.”



They fell asleep to the rhythm of the garden —
crickets singing, rivers glimmering, hearts full.

And the world, still untouched by sorrow, rested in harmony with its Creator.


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Would you like me to continue this as a short poetic story — like “The First Sabbath in Eden” — that reads more like a sacred tale you could share or print?