“Keeping Sabbath can’t save you, you know?!” so say the Breakers…

Ah but keeping sabbath just might keep me…

And saved from what, by the way?

“Sabbath doesn’t save” you say…well, explain in what way?

Save from sin nature? Save from hellfire? Save from stubbing my toe?

Pray tell, save how?

Cause as a former Breaker myself, and familiar with waiting around holding my promised salvation to cash in on judgement day, I know from experience that though you phrase your salvation in the past tense, the purchase has been made but the acquisition hasn’t actually happened just yet.

And it can’t really be a salvation from sin nature since you’re still just as much a sinner as ever…now you just get to feel bad about it while not knowing (or admitting) what most sins actually are (while feeling guilty for many things not even forbidden in Scripture.)

I’ve been where you are. Have you been where I am?

Can you speak with experience on the salvation Sabbath has available?

As a Breaker, I too was saying I was already saved while really waiting to be saved from sin, death, and eternal damnation in the end of days.

Now as a Sabbath Keeper, I can say from experience that I’ve already received on the regular a salvation provided in the Sabbath every single week over and over.

Sabbath keeping may not save my soul for all eternity and it may not save me from my sins but those were never promises offered for its observance.

The misguided belief that Sabbath Keeping used to earn eternal salvation but now it comes through the Master of the Sabbath is just so silly and written no where in Scripture.

One might aswell say that screwdrivers aren’t hammers or that cars can’t drive when the wheels are off the ground. In other news books aren’t supposed to be read from back to front or upside down. And you’re supposed to live inside your house not on top of the roof.

No part of Scripture ever offered or promised eternal life for Sabbath Keeping, making the retort “Sabbath Can’t Save You!” among the stupidest things to reply to a Sabbatarian.

The Master of the Sabbath has never been separate from His Sabbath. And He has never altered its function nor the awesome promises He actually has offered in it, for all who trust Him enough to be their Savior in all things, not only eternal things. Yes, Yeshua is the only Savior…yet He does so much of His saving through His possessions such as Sabbath Keeping.

Sabbath Saves.

Obviously nobody keeping it thinks it saves from eternal perdition. That should go without saying as it never has been a biblical belief. Not before Messiah died on Calvary. Not after. Never. The notion exists strictly within the minds of those who are without looking in - those holding tightly to their eternal salvation while ignoring the salvation currently available which the Eternal One offers here and now.

How then does Sabbath save, if not from hellfire and sin nature.

Most certainly Sabbath saves the soul from heartache and depression, fatigue and anxiety. Sabbath saves us from greed and pride and vanity. It saves from stress and worry, fatalism, and nihilism.

Sabbath saves peace. Sabbath saves sanity. Sabbath saves tranquility.

Sabbath saves…it just doesn’t save like church sees salvation.

And moreover Sabbath has the potential to save even more. Those are only the aspects of personal salvation, but there’s an added corporate salvation available aswell.

Sabbath saves from sickness. Yes, sickness. So often ones who are overworked have overtaxed their entire bodies and therefore weaken their immune system leaving them susceptible. Obviously that is not the only factor but it is not unrelated. Additionally a human body over burdened by exhaustion can become sick anyway which Sabbath can not alleviate, but can prevent. And the sickness of one affects everyone.

Furthermore, Sabbath has the potential to save marriages and families not to mention wider communities, as it is a time for spending time with our loved ones in the collective worship of YHWH, our Creator.

Sabbath has the potential to save from accidents in the workplace and on the roads since we will not be there while we are keeping it holy.

And in the long run, Sabbath has the potential to save us money as we will not be putting that extra wear and tear on our vehicles driving about, we will not be using that much extra fuel to get from place to place, we will not be spending money at the stores and the restaurants, and we will not be attending concerts or sporting events.

All in all, Sabbath Saves from so much. It saves our health. It saves our sanity. And it saves our identity.

You may say you don’t need the Sabbath, but come day one back to work. You will exclaim how exhausted you are. Do you think maybe Sabbath keeping would save you from that?

All week long you will be longing for the “weekend” but you will not find the rest that you are longing for and will be right back to work exhausted all over again. Do you think maybe Sabbath keeping would save you from that?

When you are walking through life in all your interactions, anxious, and afraid, stressed and depressed, infusing all your encounters and relationships with those emotions, do you think maybe Sabbath keeping would save you from that?

Sabbath cannot save us from physical danger. It cannot save us from bad investments. It cannot save us from foolish choices or treacherous friends.

Sabbath cannot save us from eternal damnation either, and it was never intended to. But Sabbath can offer us the opportunity to face all of our situations with refreshment, alertness, clarity, determination, will, and purpose… Free from the extra burdens the Breakers have to bear.

And Sabbath may not grant us eternal life, but it will grant us a glimpse into that life eternal.

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What is humility? Knowing who you are and not pretending you're someone else. Taking up just enough space. Doing what's right, whether it draws attention or not. Putting the needs of those in your care above your own.

Humility is knowing and following your identity and role in God's plan. Humility brings peace.

YHWH has never broken His Covenant with our ancestors and therefore never broken His Covenent with us, though we find ourselves afar off and lost among the nations of the world.

We broke the Covenant. Our ancestors did aswell. But YHWH never did. And for oursake He sent His Word to live and die as one of us to mend the Covenant we had rent and make it new again.

It’s easy to believe YHWH was only making this promise to Jews if we accept the new definitions of Jews as all of Israel and ignore all the rest of our ancestors’ position, rights, and tribal authority. If we accept the world’s redefining of who is Israel, we will easily exclude ourselves here.

But what happens when we simply study the subject without making it say differently than the ink on the page? We find we are the ones descended of those exiled of all tribes of Israel (or grafted in after) and therefore Israel ourselves.

We find the promise was offered to all Israel including Jews but not limited to their few tribes.

YHWH promises to remember the Covenant. Will you remember it too?

He promised it in His Name. Though many wicked ministers have tried to change His Name or to hide it behind all manner of alternatives from the pagan nations we live in, yet His Holy Name remains the same - the same as ever It was and will be…His Name is the same which seals the Covenant eternal.

Therefore return to YHWH Today. Call upon His Holy Name in honor and reverence. Claim His Promise and your place in it. Claim your place in Israel. He has made room in Israel for you if you are willing to return.

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Have you ever said something like, “I believe it with all of my heart.” And you probably meant what you said to the best of your understanding. Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” The context of this is someone who trusts in man is cursed while the one who trusts the Creator is blessed. In the next verse our Creator says He will search the heart and the innermost thoughts to reward mankind with what he’s deeds deserve.

Thought for Today: Shabbat May 31

Yeshua, we read; “having risen long before daylight… went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed” (Mark 1:35). If the Son of YHVH Elohiym needed time alone with His Father, how much more do we? It is not easy to shut out this cruel world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in YHVH’s Word and Prayer. But it is essential if we want to grow in our relationship with YHVH and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Do not delay! Spend time alone with Him today and every day.