Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
How are things going James?
Things are going much better than I deserve. I await each and every sabbath day with anticipation and joy.
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How are things going James?
Things are going much better than I deserve. I await each and every sabbath day with anticipation and joy.
Things are going much better than I deserve. I await each and every sabbath day with anticipation and joy.
Glad to hear it brother. What has changed since you changed your position? What practical impact has it made?
May God be praised! There is a special delight in the Lord which follows upon calling the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable. May He cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it!
Mainly the knowledge of the doctrine. I always had a great repect for the day even before I embraced the confessional position. It has altered my wife and daughter a good bit. They voluntarily stopped all shopping or TV and gladly embraced it as well. We spend our afternoons listening to preaching, reading something spiritual, or visiting the sick. It has made a wonderful difference in my home.
I was just getting ready to post a question about the Sabbath and if we were bound to it today.
The verse or discourse if you will, that comes to my mind when I think of the Sabbath is when Paul when discussing various aspects of the law including ceremonies, fesitvals and holy days.
Colossians 2:16, " Therefore, let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food an drink, or a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath."
Romans 14:1-10
"1As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. 2One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 3Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. 4Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master£ that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11for it is written,
£“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall confess£ to God.”
12So then each of us will give an account of himself to God."
I posted it all to try to keep it in context. I am not trying to be contentious, I am simply telling you my hang-up with it. If I am wrong simply let me know, and why.
Thanks
Matthew 5:17-19
17 ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
BTW brethren, I want to reiterate that I am not going to be argumentative about this and intend to allow the same grace that was given to me about this. A man must be fully convinced of this in his heart by way of the holy scripture. All I know is that I've made such a mess in years past of my christian life and theology that I want to endeavor to follow God's Word in every area of my life as God by His wonderful grace will reveal to me. I want to honor Christ with every fiber of my being. I want to forget the things which are behind and press forward toward the prize of the high calling. I desire all my brethren and sister's prayers and fellowship.
BTW brethren, I want to reiterate that I am not going to be argumentative about this and intend to allow the same grace that was given to me about this. A man must be fully convinced of this in his heart by way of the holy scripture. All I know is that I've made such a mess in years past of my christian life and theology that I want to endeavor to follow God's Word in every area of my life as God by His wonderful grace will reveal to me. I want to honor Christ with every fiber of my being. I want to forget the things which are behind and press forward toward the prize of the high calling. I desire all my brethren and sister's prayers and fellowship.
thanks for the testimony brother. How does Pink's work compare to Bunyan's work on the subject, if you read both of course? I am curious. I have read most of Bunyan's, but not Pink yet.
No problems. I've got some Firefox plugins that let me save whole webpages pretty well, so give me a PM any time.Vaughn,
I see that I missed your offer the first time around and now my brain is ticking as well.
You can sometimes see in a thread that duncan001 and I both are stuck for gaining access to certain materials referred to or linked to. Some of it is hit and miss - sometimes I can get to blogspot sites and sometimes I can't. I can almost never get to wordpress sites - they are almost always blocked. If there's something I really want to see, I try to find proxies - but they are almost always blocked within a few hours of use and stop working. Anonymouse was ok for a while and then it too died.
I may be PMing you or emailing you if I find anything that I'm really after.
Thanks!