Personally I feel one should not just take or embrace the rule without the punishment thereoff. The punishment of not observing the sabbath, one would be stoned to death.This was one of the laws of which Jesus Christ came to give liberty to those under bondage. I think: You should love your neighbor as you love yourself encompasses everything. Remember the good Samaritan story. And your neighbor is not only your muvakidzani but anyone in need be it your father, brother or even a stranger.
You can not deny yourself doing good things in the name of the sabbath, you cant say I will not heal somebody whilst you got the ability, but only becoz its a sabbath day, becoz the sickness itself does not observe sabbath. Personally I feel we are not Jews but Christians after Christ Jesus. That is why for us who received Jesus not by right (Israelites) but by grace some other things like circumcision of the flesh was outlawed by circumcision of the heart becoz of the blood of Jesus Christ. Those who were given the law failed to observe it and thats the reason why Jesus had to come from hevan initially for the Isralites but later to us (Gentiles- non Isralites) by grace kuzosunungura vakanga vakasungwa nemutemo. This reminds me of mukadzi akawana Jesu akagara patsime. The woman needs water from the well ( which can be equated to the old system or way of doing things) while Jesus wants to give her real water (which can be equated to the new system) Having said that, what I am trying to say is, to me every day is a sabbath, becoz to me sabbath means doing what is pleasing to Jehovah in the Might name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It would be interesting to note what others have to say on this subject. Its a great honor to be part of this group. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Today in Exodu we read about the Laws and ordinances given to Moses. I want > to take a bit of time to talk about the 10 commandments. > The last 5 are pretty simple and straight forward, thou shalt not kill, > steal, commit adultery, bear false witness and covet wat is thy neighbours. > Here we are just taught wat we shall not do, period. > The first 5 however are very interesting to me. > It says honor thy father and mother for it to be well with you. Wow, even > if ur father denied you, our mother beat you up or wat ever, if u want it to > be well with you, honor them. > The first 3 commandments instruct us to have no other God, not to worship > or bow down to anything else but to honor our jealous God. > > It is commandment number 4 that messes me up and that i want us to discuss. > It says we shld remember the Sabbath and keep it holy, we shall rest and not > do any form of work. > Which day is the sabbath? > How do we define work or wat work shall we rest from on the sabbath? > > Some doctrines say if u break one, you have broken all the commandments and > u need to repent, is it just breaking 1 or its about u breaking it > conciously and knowingly? > Others say we are now living under grace and there is therefore no > condemnation. Does that mean the commandments no longer apply? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tribewithavibe" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tribewithavibe%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tribewithavibe?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tribewithavibe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tribewithavibe?hl=en.
