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: flte f tfLSA STAR, January 22, 1921. 4 ii fc k J G til. - ,. t ,: 1 HI i I A r. K .- T. ;; ?a t , Richard J. Hill's Weekly Articles REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY Mntth. 12:1-13 "The Son of Man is Lord Even on The Sabbath Day.' Those who have little of the truth nre sometimes great Stickers for formalities. This was true of the Jews at the fist a 'vent of our Lord. Feast das, Fast days, Sabbaths and giving of the tenth, were verycare lully attended to by them but the weightiest matters of the law, re specting justice and love to- God and lhun were sadly neglected. This is our Lord's testimony. So toda there are people who give strict attention to Church attendance and to various religious formalities who wholly over-look the real spirit and intention of the Scriptu ral Commands. Their attention to the formality seem to satisfy them from making loo thorough reforma tion of life and seeking to bring all it's affairs into harmony with Di vine law, love of God and our fel lows. The Jews of our lord's day laid great stress upon Sabbath keeping, which fact, according to some peo ple of our day, should have seemed ample evidence of their Holiness, full harmony with the entire law, but such was not the estimation of our Lord. They even undertook to chide our Lord and His Disciples respecting their neglect of the Sab bath, although they generally ad mitted Uiat Christ and His Apostles' characters were blameless. On one of these occasions in which reproof wss administered by the Pharisees, our Lord took up the subject and explained it, showing that they had wholly misapprehended the Divine intention respecting the Sabbath. It was not intended to be a burden but a blessing; the Sabbath was not given for God's sake, but for man's sake. He the Lord Jesus, called them to witness that His Disciples were doing no harm, that lhe were merely satisfying their hun ger lawfully. He then proved the correctness of His position from authorities, they would be willing to accept. They, recognized that David as a Holy man approved of God, and He pointed out to them how that David under stress of hunger, had eaten bread that other wise would have been unlawful to cat. Then He laid down the gen eral principle that altho labor was prohibited under the law, it was lor the purpose of bringing to man lest, comtort, refreshment and blessing, and not to bring hunger, inconveniences and distress upon citJier man or beast. He cited them to the fact that certain work was done on the Sabbath Day by the Priest, and for the assistance of others, as well as for their own necco'jitics, could be no violation of the fourth commandment. After declaring himself fully qualified to decide the Sabbath question, He tells them that, watching out for letter of the law they neglected its spirit, and should learn that the Lord desires mercy, sympathy, pity and love, more than He desires sacrifice and that any deed of mer cy, sympathy, pity and love done on the Sabbath day are more pleas ing in God's sight, than were those sacrifices which were performed on the Sabbath as well as other days, in the typical Temple, .with this proper view before their minds they would ot have condemned His Disciples whom He, the Mas ter or Hie banuatli liu not condemn. The blindness of the Pharisees respecting the proper interpreta tion of the law of the Sabbath, is shown by the fact that even after our Lord had given them this c.xpla nation, they evidently still sup posed that while it would be right for a Priest in the Temple to labor in the offering of a sacrifice it would be contrary to the same law for sonic one to heal 'lie sick and relieve the distressed. Onr Lord, however, soon discovered to them the error if not the hypocrisy of their own hearts. He well knew that in their love of gain they would help a sheep or an ass out of a pit on the Sabbath Day be cause it represented value, and it's remaining in the pit over Sabbath might mean its death, and hence a financial loss. Thus He showed them that they well knew how to interpret the law correctly, liberal ly, when it touched their purse" but that they were lacking n mercy, sympathy and love where financial loss or gain was not involved. Our Lord, as a Jew, was bound under the Jewish covenant so lon as He lived as a human being; because He did not in any sense of the word make an end of the law covenant until His death there He became the end of the Law for righteous ness (justification) to every one that believeth. When the Scrip ture informs us that Christ by His death made an end of the law it means that there was nothing fur ther to be gained by the keeping of the law, and that what there was to be gained by keepink of that law was captured by our Lord Je sus Christ when at death He said upon the Cross, "it is finished." The offer to any Jew who would keep the law perfectly was eternal life, but all the Jews failed except Christ, hence there was no further need of holding out the offer since the prize has been won. AH who desire to share any of the benefits of this prize which was captured by our Lord Jesus must of necessi ty go to the one who has it and re ceive from him; and all who coanc to Christ are not under the Law but under Grace or favor which ii higher than the Jaw. e are therefore to understand that from our Lord's discourses hereinabove mentioend to the Jews was t the L.ffcct that while neg ating the weightier matters and the real interest of the law cove nant they had fallen into certain habits of thoughts and certain cus toms which were provisions of the law and wholly inconsistent with the laws real sentiment. Pharisee ism had become formism in many respects. It is claimed that ac cording to their definition of Sab bath breaking the Disciples had threshed lhe wheat when they rubbed it in their hands. So also it is claimed, and so argued with apparent seriousness that if any one walked upon the grass with nailed shoes, upon the Sabbath Day that would be a violation of the law, because it would produce a kind of threshing, since one might ."iple out some of the seeds. With equal seriousness according lp Jewish history, it was claimed, that to catch a flea upon one's per son would be a kind of hunting and thus a voilation of the Sabbath. It is even said to have been debated whether or not a fresh egg should be beaten on the Sabbath or first day of the week since it implied work on the part of a hen on the ly it was not opt.onal with Ihcm how they should keep it, but wus obligatory upon the terms explicit ly stated. To violate it, the Fourth Commandment of the Decalogue, was to violate one point of the Taw and to violate one point of the law was to violate the entire law; be cause the offer of eternal life to the Jew was based upon his abso lute obedience to this law, not his obedience to a majority of it's pre cepts, but his obedience to all its precepts without a solitary excep tion. In other words, thev had to keep the law perfectly before thoy should gain the prize of eternal life. We have heretofore seen however, and as our Lord and the Apostle expressly declared, no Is raclitc did keep or could keep in voilately the items of their law, and consequently, according to their covenant, not ono of them was ever justified to eteral life. The Scrptiurcs do not teach and no thinking peson can be made to believe that God has made the ques tion of Life-Everlasting or Death Eternal dependent upon the keep ing of certain days. The Scrip tures specifically warns all who would be followers of Jesus Christ to let the world judge them by the fruits of the Spirit and not to per mit themselves to be judged by the keeping of certain days. (Gal. 5:22 23). "Cut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, Godliness, faith, meek ness and temperance. Aguinst such there is no law." Col. 2:10-17 reads thus: "Let no man therefore 1- ' ' ' WHftiPlPlBlF .!w--i1$ MBfe im -: - -m ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSflBSSSSMIiSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSk i v v ' V RICHARD J. HILL. seventh day; and we can safely say that quite probably if clocks had been invented at that time they would all have been stopped over the Sabbath. Our Lord shows by His criticism that this was merely hypocrisy and self-delusion on the part or the Pharisees, who found it easier to make a show of righteous ness in such trifling things than to consider and seek to obey the weighty matters of the law. Justice and mercy. Our Lord showed them that God as He had foretold had more pleasure in mercy than in sacrifice and that if they had His spirit in respect to the matter, they wouiu not uc nypocntic con demning their fellow creatures who were really doing no wrong, This was a prelude to what fol lowed and prepared the way. For comma to the Svnacouuc the same day, our Lord found a poor, crip- pie who needed nelp and while the Pharisees were looking on waiting for a chance to condemn Him for violating the Sabbath according to their false assertions respecting it, He took the opportunity to ad minister a rebuke before perform ing a cure, realizing no doubt that the effect upon His hearers would thereby be more favorable. He knew what to teach them; He knew' their tender spots of selfish ness; and that howeyer much they might delude themselves and oth ers in theorizing rcspesting observ ance of the Sabbath when it would come down to a matter of loss or gain they would be well able to rid themselves of their superstition and act accordingly, hence He put the question whether or not they would deliver a sheep or an ass on the Sabbath ray if it should fall into a pit. He and they -well knew what they would do, what was the custom and hence, without waiting for an answer, but taking it for granted, He proceeded to show that the poor cripple before Him was much better than the sheep or ass, and that He had been trapped into sin, and sickness by the Ad versary, and that if it were right to deliver the sheep or the ass, much more would it be right on the Sab bath day to help a fellow creature in distress. Evey human obligation is based upon some Divine law. Looking to the Jewish Sabbath, we find that it was the seventh day of the week and was made obligatory through a Divine command, being one of the Ten Commandment given to Isinel at Mouut Cinai, consequent- judge ou in meat or in drink, or in respect or a Holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day, which oi e a shadow of things to come: hut the body is of Crist." The Scripture last quoted means to inform Us that the laws and cere monies ot the Jewish nue incliul. Ing the Sabbath were but shadows pointing to the real thing and the real thing since Christ's Raptlsm at Jordan is the Christ. It is tue that the law covenant relating to the keeping of the seventh day and all oiner ieaiures or mat law was binding upon the Jews with whom it was made and it is still binding upon an jews wiio do not believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God; but he law covenant was never binding upon the Gentiles (all per sons not descendant from Abra ham) for the reason that they were never a party of it. The Lord had no dealings with Uie Gen tiles and (made no covenants or contracts with them prior to the Gospel Age that is before Christ's Baptism at Jordan. (Amos 3:2) The Lord speaking to the Jews said, "You only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." AH Jews who ac cept Christ as the Son of God and consecrate themselves to follow Him are not under the law covc nanc but under Grace and the only law binding upon them is the law of love. In order to more fully under stand this subject we should know for what purpose was the law cove nant given. The Scriptures in form us that the law was given to the Jews to serve them as a teach er or instructor in the rudimenta ry principles of Godliness and to help all the humble minded to be ready to pass from the house of servants into the house of Sons when Christ came. (Gal. 3:24-25); but all who failed to do their best under the law covenant was not permitted to pass out of the house of Servants into the house of Sons and therefore they remain under the law covenant. In other wods, to simplify the matter let us suppose that we arc preparing persons for school teacher i; their schooling would begin with the rudi ments of first grade principles and they would remain in that grade un til they gavo satisfaction before they would be permitted to enter higher grades. They would re main under the laws or rules of passing until they complied there with. So it is with the Jews; all must remain under the law of cove nant until they accept Christ which act is tlio passing mark. The phi losophy of the matter is this, since no imperfect man was able to keep the law in letter and spirit the love "f G?d J,0, 3:16) arranged that Christ who was perfect should come in flesh, perfect, and without sin and keep the law; showing that a perfect person can keep the law and at the same time arrnnge to help imperfect man to keep the law; but before any of imperfect hu manity can receive this help and be counted perfect under the law they must come to Christ and agree to do His will and not their own. Un der such conditions Christ's merits will be applied to their weakness and they will be considered perfect and as fulfilling the whole law as long as they remain in that condi tion of untarnished love and desire to do the will of God to the extent of their ability at any cost. All persons so coming to Christ arc said to bo under a covenant of Grace or favor and not under the law covenant. Christ's death would amount to nothing if any one could be justified by keeping the law. In the first place Christ would not have died if Uiere was any one who was able to keep the law perfectly. (Gal. 2:21). While! the law covenant only represented the A. C. C. principles of the Divine law, yet sinful man has never been able to keep it per fectly. Jesus Christ was Uie only one that ever kept that law perfect ly and therefore as we have above stated, He captured the prize Eter nal life that was offered to any Jew who could keen it. Now after gain ing the prize of Life Everlasting He has arranged that the Jews may pass from under the curse of the law by having faith in Him and fol lowing in His Toot steps. 1 lp v who come out from under I covenant by accepting Clu I 1 more bj faith than is u i them under the law stead of keeping on d en as Sabbath unto 'lr T r keep everj day f;r th tcred into tlic'.r rest. I!eh The Gentile-: ( ,n v c -descendants of Ur-1' n ' cr been under '.' and therefore h c ever to do with Hi . Sabbath except to know Is I pi al signifcancc as fore--had ' - "it anti-typical rest o' t ' which is not a rest of bod b r. a rest of faith in the merits of the Ransom Sacrifice. RICHARD J HP ' (To Be Continued.) Bwamfh B. Hampton fr Eltinge F. Warner f -jj sSf;.r j ZANE GREYS raw power in piccurv Efc: t31si fcw S 1 n ,RllB T'ji nm mmm T Hye Hunter jPKlwiKSfi Y s IM PROGRAM AT THE DIXIE THEATRE DESERT GOLD FAITH ENDURING MONDAY, JANIURY 21th TUESDAY, JANUARY LAST SHOT WEDNESDAY, JAN. 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