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                                         ABOUT THE SABBATH - VOTRE SABBAT

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QU'EST-CE QUE LE SABBAT?        Le Sabbat est un jour de repos et de prières consacré au Seigneur.

What is Sabbath? Sabbath is a consecrated Day to the Lord in prayers and in rest.

Let's see what God said about the Sabbath: 

Deuteronomy 5: 12 to 15:   "Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commended thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: But the 7th day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou , nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou...."

                                             

How many days do we have in a week?

Of course there are 7 days in a week.

God created: The 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the sixth,and the 7th day.  (Genesis Chapter 1).

 

    DID GOD GIVE A NAME TO EACH DAY DURING THE CREATION?

Huhmmmmm? Let's see in the Bible.....

We never find in the Bible names like: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

 

               WHERE THOSE NAMES CAME FROM THEN?

            DAY means in Latin DIES-DIEI = Jour en Français

Monday = Lundi  : Formerly meant Worship day of the Moon by the Pagans- Jour d'adoration de la Lune par les Païens

Tuesday = Mardi:  Worship day of Mars by the Pagans -            Jour d'adoration de la planête Mars par les Païens

Wednesday = Mercredi: Worship day of Mercury by the Pagans - Jour d'adoration de la planête Mercure par les Païens

Thursday = Jeudi: Worship day of Zeus or Jupiter by the Pagans - Jour d'adoration of Jupiter par les Païens

Friday = Vendredi: Worship day of Venus by the Pagans - Jour d'adoration de Vénus par les Païens

Saturday = Samedi: Worship day of Saturn by the Pagans - Jour d'adoration de Saturne par les Païens

Sunday = Dimanche: Worship day of the Sun by the Pagans - Jour d'adoration du dieu Soleil par les Païens.

We are not serving planets, we are serving and worshipping one LIVING GOD. (ELOHIM: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit): ONE GOD.

THEN: What Day did the Lord order for the SABBATH-DAY? 

According to Genesis chapter 2: 1-2:   "The heavens and the earth were finished and all the hosts of them.  And on the 7th day GOD ended his work which He had made, and He RESTED on the 7th day from all his work which he had made".

What was the name of that day which God rested then?

The days had no names at all when God created the whole world. There were no calendars, no months, no monday, no tuesday, no wednesday, no thursday, no friday, no saturday, no sunday. Be very careful.

We are fighting days and nights about these concepts, these symbols. We must notice that every day is not the same day in every country, did we know that?

When it is Monday in Los Angeles, it is already Tuesday in Australia, Israel.......etc...that's meant when we still are on the first day in our country, so it is already the second day in others according to the time-frame and the Greek and Roman Calendar. 

The Saturday Sabbath for these countries is still friday for America or elsewhere. What's going on?

We are living OUR own days in America, Australia, Africa, Asia...which are different, not having the same time-frame.

The Jews are still waiting for the Messiah to come, and we, Christians, are living under GRACE. For us Jesus the Messiah already came, He died for our sins, He was ressurected and He is sitting at the right hand of the Father. And, the Jews are still waiting for the Messiah to come.    

 Who are in the Light?  What's going on then? Whose to believe? Jews or Christians?                                                               

 Let us read together the Gospel according to St.John Chapter 1 : verses 10-14:  " He (Jesus) was in the world and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto his own (The Jews) and his own received Him not.  But as many have received Him, to them (to US) He gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name, which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth".                                                                                 

 The Truth comes from Jesus Christ our Lord and Master.          

JEWS Or CHRISTIANS?  OLD TESTAMENT OR THE NEW ALLIANCE? 

God told Abraham that He will establish a covenant with him (father of a multitude of nations). Then came Moses who received the laws from God on the mount of Sinai.

Jesus came after Moses to fullfil the laws and died to save mankind from sins.                                                             

 Are we still living under the LAW or under the GRACE?     

Will observance of Saturday-Sabbath or Sunday-Sabbath will save you and open the door of Heaven for you?           

People who don't know God sin every day, every moment against all the Laws of the Lord not only against the Sabbath Commandment. For us who already accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, who were baptized, sanctified, we are already justified before God which means : Romans 8:1: "Therefore there is NOW no condamnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, that are walking not after the flesh, but after the Spirit of God; for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made them free from the law of sin and death". The Blood of Jesus already covered and wipped out all your sins and transgressions. Only those who are still living in sin can sin and died spiritually, not you who have already received the Stamp of Salvation in your hearts. Therefore it is impossible for a true Christian to sin and die.   

"There is by no other Name on Earth and Heavens Man can be saved, only by the Name of Jesus Christ the Lord".

Sabbath observance is one of the Ten Commandments given to Moses on the Mount of Sinai by God to be followed by the Jewish people, what about all the other 9 Commandments left? Were they lesser important than the Sabbath?                                             

The unconverted person sins everyday and is in disobedience against all 10 Commandments of God. "The Law is the Law". "Dura Lex sed Lex". It is said that: "All of us have sinned (formerly) and come short of the Glory of God". The Law has been given from MOSES to JESUS CHRIST, but  Grace, Salvation have freed us from the law of sin thru the death and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Sacrifice was made and the price has been paid in blood. 

Jesus Christ is the Fullfiler of the law.

 We are no more under the Mosaic Law but under the Grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without SALVATION we are all dead. No Sinner can enter into the kingdom of God unless he repents and receives SALVATION. "God is a Spirit, they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth", not by man-made-religions;  no religions can save you, your faith in Christ only can save you. "What can make you white as snow, nothing but the Blood of Jesus Christ".

Read Matthew 12: 1 to 12 on the Sabbath...   And see after that Jesus said to the hypocrits:"I did not come to abolish the Law but to accomplish it".

TO ABOLISH means TO TERMINATE, TO FINISH, TO END

ABOLIR = ABROGER, ANNULER, FINIR

ACCOMPLISH: TO FULLFIL, TO REALIZE, TO ACHIEVE

ACCOMPLIR: REALISER, ACHEVER, COMPLETER

What it is on your mind today?

Most of the Christians worship on Sunday the first day of the week according to the Greek and Roman Calendar: They choose it by respect of the commemoration and celebration of the RESSURECTION of Christ from the dead on the third day. Meaning from this time and on they are living under the GRACE..                        Read (Mark 16:1-7).

(Ephesians 2:12-17): "That at time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the Covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:  But now in Christ Jesus, you, who sometimes were far away, are made nigh by the Blood of Christ. For He is our Peace, who have made both one and had broken down the middle wall of partition between us. HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY (Death), EVEN THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES; FOR TO MAKE HIMSELF OF TWAIN ONE NEW MAN, SO MAKING PEACE. AND THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE UNTO GOD ONE BODY BY THE CROSS, HAVING SLAIN THE ENMITY THEREBY;  AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHICH WERE AFAR OFF AND TO THEM THAT WERE NIGH".                            

Please understand what Jesus meant by these sayings. Some people are going to cry about knowing the truth.                                                                   

In the Western civilization we have 6 days of work  beginning on Monday mostly and ending on Saturday generally with some minor differences that the Boss may ask you to begin to work on saturdays or sundays. Since God did not give any names to the days, then: What is what?  When is your 7th day arrived? What is your 7th day? What day do you begin to work? What day are you resting from your work, we mean your 7th day? What is your Sabbath-Day then? What day were you born from the womb of your mother? Everyone was born on a different day. When begins then your Sabbath Day?

 

 When do you begin to work?  What is the last day of your work ?   The day of your work differs from mine, or a monday or a saturday or a friday etc...Only the Blood of Jesus Christ the Lord has been shed in attonment for our sins. Not a Sabbath Day will save us  from the wrath of God in the last day, only the Blood of Jesus Christ can. Your Sabbath Day is the Day of Worshipping your God after six days of work and you rest on the seventh day by respect of God's Commandment. Not man-made-named day.

Some people are talking about Protestants or Catholics changing the Saturday-Sabbath-Day for Sunday. (We better ask ourselves who gave the names to the days and their meaning, or how many calendars were established since the foundation of the world) changing the dates, the months names and days? You would be amazed to know. Don't be ignorant. Did God tell us that Saturday is our Sabbath or Sunday is our Sabbath Day. I Challenge you then to find it in the BIBLE which is the Written and Inspired Word of God. Don't be fooled. Let us save ourselves than playing Sabbathers and let us rather love our brothers, our neighbors for the glory of God. 

There is only one Sabbath Day, which is the 7th Day after you finish your work and you consecrate it to the Lord. No human conventions or no deeds made according to the flesh can reverse God's Commandments. They are Holy and Eternal. We are human flesh but God is a Spirit. The Days of the Lord are far greater than our days. Do not puff-up ourselves...          Read: Exode 20:20

Let the Jewish People live their Jewish Sabbath then, and let the Christians live their Christian Sabbath. On the Day of Judgment before the White Throne of God, it will be cries and gnasting of teeth. Can Sabbath save you on that day or will you choose to be under the Blood of Jesus Christ? You have the clear choice.  

Read: Hebrews chapter 10: verses 1 to 39            Matthew 12: 1 to 8               Luke 14: 1 to 6

     

LOVE THE LORD WITH YOUR OWN HEARTS AND IN EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND ACCEPT THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR and YOU SHALL BE SAVED.

Psalm 118 tells us that: "IT IS BETTER FOR YOU TO PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD THAN TO PUT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN MEN".  GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

Dr. Jean-Renaud Guillaume, JD, D.TH

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