The Blood of Christ

The Blood of Christ gives us salvation for our sins, (Romans 3:25 “God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed before hand unpunished 26 he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.” Romans 5:9 “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!”) For, we have all sinned (Romans 3:23 “We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”).

But, why, you may ask. Why is blood used for atonement? Why does God value blood so highly? What happens when God sees blood?

Lets go to the story of Adam and Eve. Eve ate the fruit, gave it to Adam and they committed the first sin. They knew that they were naked, and then: Genesis chapter 3. Lets look at verse 21 in particular. “The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.” Well, I ask, where did our Lord God get the skins? He had to kill some animals. Therefore, we have the first animal sacrifice for our sins. God made that first sacrifice Himself for Adam and Eve (us). From then to Christ man had to make his own sacrifices as set down by God’s law. The spilt blood showed God that some sin had occurred and the sinner was trying to atone to God for the sin.

Let’s ‘fast-forward’ to the Passover in Exodus 12. First let’s look at verse 7; “Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.” … 15 “The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are:” So, What happens when God sees the blood? “and when I see the blood, I will pass over you…” We must reason that the blood satisfies God. “The Blood is first for God to see. We then have to accept God’s valuation of it. In doing so we shall find our salvation.” (“The Normal Christian Life”, Watchman Nee, American Edition 1977, p. 19, 20) It is a sign of our redemption.

“Fast-forward” to Leviticus 16: 14 “[Aaron] is to take some of the bull’s blood and with his finger sprinkle on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover. 15 He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. 16 In this way he will make atonement…” Why? “[continuation of the same verse] …because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been.” Once again blood was shed for their redemption. At that time the blood satisfied man’s sins.

Let’s really ‘fast-forward’ to Hebrews Chapter 9:11-28: The Blood of Christ
( I know that this was in some of the other replies, but the full text is necessary to keep context with my previous thoughts.)
11When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here,[a] he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not manmade, that is to say, not a part of this creation. 12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. 13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death,[b] so that we may serve the living God!
15For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance–now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
16In the case of a will,[c] it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, 17because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. 18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”[d] 21In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ did not enter a manmade sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. 25Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. "



Therefore, we must conclude that the Blood of Christ is the ultimate in saving grace. “I approach God through his merits alone, and never on the basis of my attainment; never, for example, on the ground that I have been extra kind or patient today, or that I have done something for the Lord this morning. I have to come by way of the Blood every time.” (IBID p 22,23)



I hope this might help… There is more but I can not do Mr. Nee justice. You need to read him to get a full understanding of this concept.

Your brother in Christ,
Russ


All verses NIV

Acts 2:41-47
(New International Version)
41Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
(Three thousand converts in one day! Peter’s speech must have made quite an impression on the crowd with his eye-witness accounts of Jesus, his miracles, the Crucifiation, His resurrection and finally His ascension into Heaven! I personally feel that the account that we have here in Acts 2, is but a ‘highlight reel’ of Peter’s sermon. According to v. 40 which states; “…with many other words…”, I think, he was able to talk for hours and hours without repeating any one particular deed that happened or reciting any one parable, that Jesus told, more than once. I do feel, however, that he repeated the events of the Crucifiation, and everything that happened afterwards, for effect, many times over! The longer Peter talked the more converts there were. The more converts there were, the harder he preached to reach the ones that remained. I feel that Peter preached until there were no un-believers left in his audience that day. That is not to say that some people didn’t get up and leave, but, I feel that the ones who remained were all saved.
No mention is made of how long the baptisms took, or even who performed them. I would have to think that the other apostles started baptizing the converts, with the newly-converted doing some more baptisms, and on down the line. To read it we think of it being done in a regular church service like we have today. But 3,000 to be baptized, that must have taken but a whole day onto itself. Oh, what a sight that must have been, Peter preaching, all of those people getting baptized all at the same time! The people who were just baptized, they grabbed the next in line themselves and baptizing them. WOW! )

The Fellowship of the Believers

I feel that there are seven main points here:

42They devoted (NIV and NASB; ‘continued steadfastly’ in the KJV) themselves to the apostles' teaching

{1} [doctrine] (The new converts believed what Peter, and the other apostles, taught them whole heartily and without doubt or reserve. The apostles told them how to act, what to do and how to do it. This was the beginning of our church doctrines that we’ve all followed as Christians to this day. )

and to the {2} fellowship (These converts didn’t all come just from Jerusalem; they came from all over the area. They didn’t go back hometowns, except to sell their property and return. They stayed in Jerusalem to learn the word of Jesus. They stayed together and got to know each other.)

, to the {3} breaking of bread (Here with this ‘breaking of bread’ I believe that they communed with the Lord’s Supper. “In remembrance of me” Luke 22:19)

and to {4} prayer (They prayed together. As our prayers are stronger if we pray together, theirs were also. The Rev. R.A. Torrey, D.D., Dean of the Bible Institute of Las Angeles, California, wrote: “The most important human factor in effective evangelism is PRAYER, Every great awakening in the history of the Church from the time of the Apostles until today has been the result of prayer. There have been great awakenings without much preaching, and there have been great awakenings with absolutely no organization, but there has never been a true awakening without much prayer.”).

43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. {5}[witnessing] (While we don’t know what the apostles did here, nothing specific is told of, I would think that they healed the crippled, sick, blind and deaf. By seeing these miracles first hand, they (the new converts) themselves could go out and be able to spread the word much more effectively, as it would strengthen their faith in Jesus. They would have something to witness to, just as Peter and the rest of the apostles witnessed to them.)

44All the believers were together {6} [united] (They did not go into hiding but stuck together. Remember they [the followers of Jesus] were hated by the Jewish religious leader of the time. (Saul was one of them.) If the Jewish religious leaders would have been able to attack this group, they might have effectively killed Christianity right then and there. I feel that God gave his divine protection to them as they gained both the physical and spiritual strength that would be needed in the long road ahead of them.)

and had everything in common. (It is possible that all of the Greeks kept together, all of the Romans kept together, all of the converted Jews kept together, etc. But they did have one thing in common, their belief in Jesus as their Saviour and Lord.)

45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need {7} [generous] (They sold their possessions and put them into a central treasury, and out of that treasury they dispensed what was necessary, when it was necessary and to whom it was necessary. This gave a sense of unity, and did away with selfishness; this removed the immediate need for material things and enabled them to concentrate on their individual spiritual health. Each member was then cared for by the church. They did not sell all of their homes however, because they still needed the larger of their homes (at least the homes in Jerusalem) to assemble in. If they had sold all of their homes they would not have been able to ’break bread in their homes’ (see v.46). But, they sold their farms and all of their other personal material holdings (jewelry, furniture, etc.) [See 5:1-11 for what happened when some held back.] They sold all to give to the budding ministry so that it [the ministry] might be able to support the staggering numbers of converts.).

46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. (Don’t you know that this really disturbed the Jewish leaders? Here they are inside the temple, and these rebels are outside, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.)

They broke bread in their homes and ate together (They ate together. There is a saying; ‘The family that eats together stays together.’ That saying is so true. These new converts were now a part of a much larger family. They were now a member of Jesus’ family. In developing strong family ties they had all of their meals together.)

with glad and sincere hearts {8} [joyful] (Once you find Jesus, aren’t you just overpowered by His presence? Everything you do becomes, instead of a chore, enjoyable. You can actually be happy doing the most mundane chores. As Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection put it; ”Happy in the continual presence of God.”),

47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. (All the converts that is, the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees continued to be unhappy as they plodded along in their old ways. Accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and once you do, you can then learn how to praise God for each and every thing that you do, just as Brother Lawrence did. Then you will be happy. If you’re happy the ones around you will be happy. It’s contagious!)

And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. (“The Lord added…” does anyone else add? According to the Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon: {Sermon: “Additions to the Church”} Spurgeon’s Sermons Vol. 10 p. 48-67} “Yes the devil adds to our church to create discord among members…. Who but the devil added Ananias and Sapphira (5:1-11) [among others] to the church? …When men add to the church it weakens and defiles the church. …But, when the Lord adds to the church it quite a different matter.”

He then adds an antidote of his own: (I paraphrased this for you here.) “One evening I was headed home and passed a pub. Out of this pub stumbled a man who recognized me. He said unto me in a slurred, vile form of speech, “Good evenin’ Sir.” And he added With a hiccup, “You’re the preacher who saved me.”

To whince I replied: “You must be one of mine, as I know the Lord did not convert you, for if He had, you would not be drunk!”

“Therefore you must be a true-born believer, one who puts his full faith in Jesus, not in the bottle.” Says the Rev. Spurgeon.

“A true church is a living thing” Rev C.H. Spurgeon.

Thanks for reading, as these are my original thoughts except were notated.
Your brother in Christ,

Russ

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In Faith, dear brother, in Faith! We must believe in him by Faith.

In John 20:24-29 we read about Thomas. Now Thomas doubted, his faith was weak. Thomas had to be shown, and once he was shown he was able to believe once again. His Faith was restored.

We don’t have that luxury. We can’t touch Jesus in the body. We can’t talk to him in the person. We must have the undeniable Faith that He is who He says He is and nothing less.

The word faith is mentioned in the Bible 247 times, but, faith is only mentioned two times in the OT. That leaves 245 times in the NT, and more than 10 percent of that is alone is in the Book of Romans… 32 times. The entire 11th chapter in the book of Hebrews is about faith.

Now, we must be like the Centurion, (Matthew 8: 5-13) who’s Faith was strong enough that his son was healed from many miles away. That is what He was teaching us with that passage. He does not have to be present in body to be able to help us. Our Faith in Him is what we need to be saved, nothing else. (Mat 8:10 When Jesus heard [it (the Centurion’s faith)], he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.)

We must also be like the woman who had Faith that Jesus could heal her. She had Faith that if she just tugged at Jesus garment as he passed then she would be healed. (Mat 9:20-22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.) That by her Faith she was healed. Yes, she had to believe first, but she was healed by her Faith in him. Simply believing is not enough!

Lets look at Peter. Peter believed that with Jesus’ help that he could walk on water… He had faith that he could do so…
Mat 14:28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. 29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. 31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth [his] hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Peter’s tiny moment of doubt was enough to cause him to sink. Faith in Jesus must contain absolutely no doubts. Our Faith must be complete and un-equaled for complete salvation.

True faith might start out as small as a mustard seed, but it will grow. As it grows it [faith] gains strength, and eventually it overwhelms everything else we do. Mat 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this [which is done] to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

Jesus loves your Faith in God, for Jesus said Luk 5:20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

The apostles begged for Jesus to increase their faith Luk 17:5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

And Jesus asked of the people in Luk 18:8 …. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Tell me dear readers, do you have enough Faith to save yourself?

Those who have faith such as can do many great things such as was written about Stephen in Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.


Now you might ask what is the difference between belief and faith? Lets explore this for a moment.

First lets look at this analogy. Wisdom is to knowledge is the same as Faith is to believe. To have knowledge is good. We know things, such as mathematics, language, physics, computers and on and on and on. To have the Wisdom to put that knowledge to use is the gift of God.

We might all believe the words that are written in the Holy Bible, but to have the Faith to believe that every word in the Bible is True, that’s what is important. To have the Faith to believe that everything that is told about in the Bible, that it actually happened, and not question any of it, nothing.

We must have the Faith to believe that Jesus is indeed the Saviour of the human race. Faith: That’s the most important thing. Faith is what is going to save your soul, not just a belief… Faith! For it is written in Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

I would like you to read the entire chapter of Hebrews 11. I can’t post the entire chapter here, I have Faith that you indeed will read it.

Back to where I started, back to the story of doubting Thomas. Jesus did what he did after the resurrection because He is God. He doesn't need a ‘working’ body, because He is God. He can manulapate His old human body even though his heart is pierced. He does not need it, as Jesus is the God Man. And, God can do anything. We can’t doubt anything, but have Faith and believe in Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. Put your trust in God and have everlasting life.

Your brother in Christ,
Russ

The Sabbath, my views. Part I

Question: What is the Sabbath?

Answer: First and foremost: The Sabbath is not just a law, it’s a Commandment! One of the Ten Issued from God to Moses on Mount Sinai (Ex 19-23) and written in stone by His own hand!

As has been stated many times before, God made the world in 6 days, and He rested on the seventh day! God did not name the days of the week, He just simply stated that man should work for 6 days and rest on the seventh day, a day that He called the “Sabbath”.

I’m not a Catholic, but they did influence much if not all of early Christianity. After all Catholics are Christians! Very good reading at: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14335a.htm

Now here’s where it gets interesting.

http://www.indepthinfo.com/weekdays/index.shtml in particular:
http://www.indepthinfo.com/weekdays/sunday.shtml
“”The actual word "Sunday" is derived from the German word "Sonntag" (and they likely got it from the Scandanavians). These folk too placed a great deal of importance on the sun. Some tribes of these Germanic peoples invaded England in the 500's or so. They were known as the Angles and the Saxons. The old English work was "sunnandaeg" and it changed over time to become our current, "Sunday".””

And from http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14335a.htm


“”…During the first and second century the week of seven days was introduced into Rome from Egypt, and the Roman names of the planets were given to each successive day. The Teutonic nations seem to have adopted the week as a division of time from the Romans, but they changed the Roman names into those of corresponding Teutonic deities. Hence the dies Solis became Sunday (German, Sonntag). Sunday was the first day of the week according to the Jewish method of reckoning, but for Christians it (Sunday) began to take the place of the Jewish Sabbath in Apostolic times as the day set apart for the public and solemn worship of God.
…
St. Justin is the first Christian writer to call the day Sunday (I Apol., lxvii) in the celebrated passage in which he describes the worship offered by the early Christians on that day to God. The fact that they ment together and offered public worship on Sunday necessitated a certain rest from work on that day. However, Tertullian (202) is the first writer who expressly mentions the Sunday rest: "We, however (just as tradition has taught us), on the day of the Lord's Resurrection ought to guard not only against kneeling, but every posture and office of solicitude, deferring even our businesses lest we give any place to the devil" ("De orat.", xxiii; cf. "Ad nation.", I, xiii; "Apolog.", xvi). …””

http://www.indepthinfo.com/weekdays/saturday.shtml

“”Saturday is the only day of the week that retained its Roman origins in the wake of the English invasions of the Angles and Saxons. This may have been because there was no Norse God to roughly correspond to the Roman God of Time and the Harvest, Saturn. The Anglo-Saxons simply adapted the Roman, "dies saturni", making it saterdaeg.””


The following is quoted from: http://webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html
“”What Is the First Day of the Week?
The Bible clearly makes the Sabbath the last day of the week, but does not share how that corresponds to our 7 day week. Yet through extra-biblical sources it is possible to determine that the Sabbath at the time of Christ corresponds to our current 'Saturday.' Therefore it is common Jewish and Christian practice to regard Sunday as the first day of the week (as is also evident from the Portuguese names for the week days). However, the fact that, for example, Russian uses the name "second" for Tuesday, indicates that some nations regard Monday as the first day.
In international standard ISO-8601 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has decreed that Monday shall be the first day of the week.””
Again, an organization of men, not God.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002065.html and also a larger chart at http://www.12x30.net/origin.html


The Names of the Days of the Week
See also Greek and Roman Mythology and Norse Mythology
NOTE: The seven-day week originated in ancient Mesopotamia and became part of the Roman calendar in A.D. 321. The names of the days are based on the seven celestial bodies (the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn), believed at that time to revolve around Earth and influence its events. Most of Western Europe adopted the Roman nomenclature. The Germanic languages substituted Germanic equivalents for the names of four of the Roman gods: Tiw, the god of war, replaced Mars; Woden, the god of wisdom, replaced Mercury; Thor, the god of thunder, replaced Jupiter; and Frigg, the goddess of love, replaced Venus.

Question: Did God name the days of the week?
Answer: He didn’t, man did! Man used the Latin language to name the days of the week after the Roman Gods. Man named Sunday (Solis in Latin ) for the Sun, and Monday(Lunae) for the Moon. Tuesday (Martis) was named for Mars the Roman god of war. Wednesday (Mercurii) was named for Mercury the messenger god for the Romans. Thursday (Jovis) was named for Jupiter the Greek god who was king of the gods. Friday (Veneris) was named for Venus the Roman god of Love. And, finally Saturday (Saturni) was named for Saturn the Roman god of the Harvest. German language names were substituted for the Latin names for Monday, and Friday. The Old English names were used to identify the Latin (Roman) names for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

Question: Why then is any one particular day of the pagan week considered the Holy day of God?
Answer: "Centuries of the Christian era passed away before Sunday was observed by the Christian church as a sabbath. History does not furnish us with a single proof or indication that it was so observed previous to the sabbatical edict of Constantine in 321 A.D." [William Domville Examination of Six Texts]
"In the year 325, Sylvester, Bishop of Rome (AD 314-337), officially changed the title of the first day, calling it the Lord's day." (Lucium, Historia Ecclesiastica, p. 739)

Question: What day, then, should we stop and worship our Lord God?
Answer: After working six days, you take your day of rest. It does not matter if you work the six days from Thursday to Tuesday, then Wednesday would be your seventh day, your day of rest.

Proof: A simple search of any version of Strong's Concordance (printed form or internet) will show that not once in the Bible is any day of the week mentioned. Not Monday, not Tuesday, or Wednesday. Neither is Thursday or Friday mentioned! Saturday or Sunday are never named. Not one of them, not once! Even our “Good Friday” is never mentioned in the New Testament. This one simple fact only goes to prove that God did not name the days of the week!

What God did mention in many, many locations is the Sabbath. (A simple search in Strong's Concordance ( at http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html for example) for Sabbath will once again back me up, Sabbath occurs 137 times in 116 verses). Here’s the one verse that says it all:
Exd 16:26 Six 08337 days 03117 ye shall gather 03950 it; but on the seventh 07637 day 03117, [which is] the Sabbath 07676, in it there shall be none. is about working 6 days and resting on the seventh day or Sabbath day. (blueletter bible.org)

Question: What is the Sabbath to us (Christians)?
Answer: It (the Sabbath) is the seventh day after working six. The Sabbath is The Day of Rest. If one works six days then he should rest the on the seventh day, the Sabbath.


Now why? Why should we work six days and rest on the 7th? The reason is so simple; He created the world in 6 days and He rested on the 7th!

Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. (blueletter bible.org)

Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (blueletter bible.org)

Notice in Genesis 2:2-3 He has not named the seventh day as the Sabbath, He simply refers to it as the “seventh day”. He did not name the Sabbath until Moses was leading them out of Egypt and they had nothing to eat except the Manna that they were picking up.

Exd 16:22 Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, New American Standard Bible © 1995 Lockman Foundation

Exd 16:23 then he said to them, "This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning." New American Standard Bible © 1995 Lockman Foundation

So, here’s the first time that the term Sabbath had been used in the Bible. It (Sabbath) was never mentioned in Genesis! It was simply “the seventh day”!

At this time, Moses and the rest of the Hebrews never mentioned any day of the week, ie: Monday, Tuesday etc. In fact, the days of the week are never mentioned in the Bible. Just Six days for work. Rest for everyone and everything on the seventh (Sabbath). Then it would start all over again, just as it does now.


When Moses received the 10 commandments (Exodus 20: 1-17) God actually included the Sabbath as one of the 10.
Exd 20:8 Remember 02142 the sabbath 07676 day 03117, to keep it holy 06942 . (blueletter bible.org)
Exd 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work (NIV)
Exd 20:10 But the seventh 07637 day 03117 [is] the sabbath 07676 of the LORD 03068 thy God 0430: [in it] thou shalt not do 06213 any work 04399, thou, nor thy son 01121, nor thy daughter 01323, thy manservant 05650, nor thy maidservant 0519, nor thy cattle 0929, nor thy stranger 01616 that [is] within thy gates 08179: (blueletter bible.org)
Exd 20:11 For [in] six 08337 days 03117 the LORD 03068 made 06213 heaven 08064 and earth 0776, the sea 03220, and all that in them [is], and rested 05117 the seventh 07637 day 03117: wherefore the LORD 03068 blessed 01288 the sabbath 07676 day 03117, and hallowed 06942 it. (blueletter bible.org)

It is after this that we find that God does indeed intend to enforce the commandment for the Sabbath day.
Exd 31:14 Ye shall keep 08104 the sabbath 07676 therefore; for it [is] holy 06944 unto you: every one that defileth 02490 it shall surely 04191 be put to death 04191 : for whosoever doeth 06213 [any] work 04399 therein, that soul 05315 shall be cut off 03772 from among 07130 his people 05971. (blueletter bible.org)
Exd 31:15 Six 08337 days 03117 may work 04399 be done 06213 ; but in the seventh 07637 [is] the sabbath 07676 of rest 07677, holy 06944 to the LORD 03068: whosoever doeth 06213 [any] work 04399 in the sabbath 07676 day 03117, he shall surely 04191 be put to death 04191 . (blueletter bible.org)
Did He mean it?
Num 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. (blueletter bible.org)
Num 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. (blueletter bible.org)
Num 15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. (blueletter bible.org)
Num 15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. (blueletter bible.org)

Num 15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses. (blueletter bible.org)

Now Jesus was reprimanded for ‘work’ on the Sabbath.

Luk 6:1 And 1161 it came to pass 1096 on 1722 the second 1207 0 sabbath 4521 after the first 1207, that he 846 went 1279 through 1223 the corn fields 4702; and 2532 his 846 disciples 3101 plucked 5089 the ears of corn 4719, and 2532 did eat 2068 , rubbing 5597 [them] in [their] hands 5495. (blueletter bible.org)
This was Also in Matthew and Mark



Luk 6:2 And 1161 certain 5100 of the Pharisees 5330 said 2036 unto them 846, Why 5101 do ye 4160 that which 3739 is 1832 0 not 3756 lawful 1832 to do 4160 on 1722 the sabbath days 4521? (blueletter bible.org)


Luk 6:5 And 2532 he said 3004 unto them 846, That 3754 the Son 5207 of man 444 is 2076 Lord 2962 also 2532 of the sabbath 4521. (blueletter bible.org)

Luk 6:9 Then 3767 said 2036 Jesus 2424 unto 4314 them 846, I will ask 1905 you 5209 one thing 5101; Is it lawful 1832 on the sabbath days 4521 to do good 15 , or 2228 to do evil 2554 ? to save 4982 life 5590, or 2228 to destroy 622 [it]? (blueletter bible.org)

continued in part two