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In this issue of Ascend, the theme is "Entering the Rest". Here is the content of this issue.
Ride on the Heights
Sabbath keepers often allege, “There is great blessing in keeping the Sabbath.” It is true… after all, it is the very first thing in creation which God blessed.
I Am Next
Receiving the Sabbath Blessing. When we began to submit our lives entirely to the Lord and obey His directives for us—even those in the Old Testament—we found life! In His ways, there was an abundant, happy and Christ-centered life to be found.
Lord of the Sabbath!
The Son of Man is “Lord of the Sabbath.” So says Jesus. “The Sabbath is a shadow of things to come and the substance of Christ.” So says Paul. In fact, they are both saying the same thing: the Sabbath is about Christ. As followers of Jesus begin to enter into His Sabbath, we encounter Him in fresh, new and delightful ways.
The Sabbath
We Debate—You Decide! Contrary to popular belief, the biblical Sabbath does not consist of hundreds of hard to understand and complex rules that make it difficult and burdensome. Honoring the Sabbath day does not mean making ‘X’s on a rigid checklist of rules. Keeping the seventh-day Sabbath is really about spending 24 hours with God.
The Sabbath Breaker
“Jesus was a Sabbath-breaker!” That’s what His enemies among the Pharisees said. They said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.”1 His enemies wanted to prove that He was a Sabbath-breaker because, according to the Torah (Law), breaking the Sabbath was sin. If they could prove that He was a sinner, they could prove that He was not the Christ.
Why Do We Go to Church on Sunday?
Have you ever wondered why Christians worship God on Sunday? It has usually never occurred to us to ask such a question. Most of my spiritual life has been running on auto-pilot. Everyone I knew who believed that Jesus is Lord and Savior went to church on Sunday. So what’s the problem?