“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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