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Bible Truth about Seal of God
It is certainly appropriate for Christians to set aside the seventh day of the week to worship God. Various Christian groups throughout the Christian era have seen this as an important part of their worship of God. Today, there are over 500 Christian groups and denominations that worship on the Seventh-day Sabbath. Most of these get along very peacefully with their Sunday-keeping brethren. While they are concerned about their Sunday-keeping brethren's lack of attention to the Fourth Commandment, they do not make it into a salvational issue.
However, there is one sect of Sabbath-keepers, the Seventh-day Adventists, that takes an extreme position on the Sabbath. They make it a requirement for salvation. How so? They teach that in order to receive the "seal of God" one must keep the seventh day Sabbath. They teach that churches who do not keep Sabbath are part of "Babylon" or "Apostate Protestantism." This divisive teaching separates believers, familes, and friends. It turns the Sabbath-Sunday debate into a battleground between the "loyal" Sabbath-keepers and the "disloyal" Sunday-keepers. For Adventists, it can lead to an "I'm better than thou" attitude of spiritual pride.
SDAs view the Sabbath as a test of their loyalty to their Creator, and a separating wall between true believers and false believers. In effect, they are passing judgment upon other Christians based upon their observance of a day. This is the exact practice which Paul forbid!
"appropriate"? - did not HE command it?
Sunday-keeping "brethren"?
“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” (2 John 1:10-11)
they are concerned about their Sunday-keeping "brethren's" "lack of attention" to the Fourth Commandment? are they being disobedient???
do not make it into a salvational issue? um, didn't Jesus warn about "ye that work iniquity"????
wages of sin is death, sin is the transgression of the law, Lk 23:56
“Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.”
(Isaiah 56:3)
“Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;”
(Isaiah 56:6)
“Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.”
(Exodus 23:12)
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
(Isaiah 8:20)
“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:”
(2 John 1:10)
“For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
(2 John 1:11)
“Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.”
(1 Timothy 5:20)
“I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.”
(1 John 2:21)
“Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.”
(1 Corinthians 7:19)
“In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:”
(2 Thessalonians 1:8)
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”
(1 Peter 4:17)
“And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
(Matthew 7:23)
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”
(John 14:21)
“And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.”
(1 Peter 2:8)
“They profess that they know God; but in works they deny HIM, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”
(Titus 1:16)
“IF! ye love me, KEEP my commandments.” (John 14:15)
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” (John 7:24)
“And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.”
(Deuteronomy 1:16)
“Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
(Proverbs 31:9)
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”
(1 Peter 4:17)
Lest we forget how God feels about disobedience and faithLESSness...
“And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.”
(Ezekiel 8:16)
“Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.”
(Ezekiel 8:17)
“Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.”
(Ezekiel 8:18)
Do not these verses scream salvation is at stake?
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, HE hath also rejected thee from being king.”
(1 Samuel 15:23)
“Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.”
(Isaiah 65:12)
“I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.”
(Isaiah 66:4)
“Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:”
(Ezekiel 13:22)
“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.”
(Isaiah 58:1)
“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”
(Acts 5:29)
“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.”
(Hebrews 2:1)
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
(Revelation 21:8)
“I tell you, Nay! but, EXCEPT ye REPENT!, ye shall ALL likewise perish.”
(Luke 13:3)
“I tell you, Nay! but, EXCEPT ye REPENT!, ye shall ALL likewise perish.”
(Luke 13:5)
“But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:”
(2 Thessalonians 2:13)
"they are passing judgment upon other Christians based upon their observance of a day. This is the exact practice which Paul forbid!"
But the Bible says...
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
(John 7:24)
“But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;”
(Romans 2:5)
“Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:”
(2 Thessalonians 1:5)
“But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.”
(Jeremiah 7:28)
“Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.”
(Habakkuk 1:4)
“Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:”
(Colossians 1:28)
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
(Romans 12:1)
We best be not deceived by anyone!
“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
(Ephesians 5:6)
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
(2 Thessalonians 2:3)
“Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.”
(1 John 3:7)
“Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;”
(Deuteronomy 11:16)
“And He said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.”
(Luke 21:8)
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”
(1 Corinthians 6:9)
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
(1 Corinthians 15:33)
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
(Galatians 6:7)