Is the Sabbath just an Old Testament shadow—something Christ fulfilled and left behind? Many Christians believe so, often pointing to Colossians 2:17 or Hebrews 4 to argue that Jesus replaced the weekly Sabbath with a spiritual kind of rest. But Scripture tells a fuller story. The Sabbath wasn’t first given at Sinai—it was blessed and sanctified at creation (Genesis 2:2–3). Long before there was sin,…
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Did Jesus Abolish the Seventh-day Sabbath? cbcg.org
Ryan Welsh
2 months ago in Weekly Sabbath
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus affirmed that God’s commandments remain in force under the New Covenant “Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of [from] heaven; but whoever shall practice and teach them, this one shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven”(Matt. 5:19). Yet today, the Fourth…