ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
months of the year could keep the Sabbath? It was given to Israel to be obeyed while in Palestine. · He that despised the Mosaic Law died without mercy. If you put yourself under it, you are under "the ministration of death" and condemnation. The only reason there was ever mercy during the ministration of death, was because the ark was made and the tables of stone were shut up in it. God saw that it was necessary for the law to be taken out of sight, even as we have already seen in this study. We have seen that the Jewish Sabbath was a "shadow" of our rest in Christ. You and I enter into God's Sabbath rest when we ~ome to know Christ as the One who died for our sins and rose again for our justification. That man gathering sticks was a legalist. Instead of putting his trust in the promised Redeemer, he was gathering sticks. He was de-- pending on what he could do. The wages of works# as well as the wages of sin# "is death." God was careful of that Sabbath rest. The man who carried a burden on that day was a picture of the man who shoulders his own burden of guilt and sin, instead of confessing it and casting it upon Christ. The rest into which we enter after ceasing from our own wor~s and trusting Christ, is the rest taught in Hebrews and in all the New Testament. 4. CHRIST IS "LoRD EVEN OF THE SAB:8ATH DAY," Matt. 12: 8. Christ healed the sick and gathered corn on the Sabbath Day. He deliberately did those things to show that He had come to be "the end of the law" to the Christian, to show that He is "Lord even of the sabbath day." The very One who had said in Old Testament times, "Bear no burden," now said, "Take up thy bed, and walk." In Col. 2: 16 we are commanded not to allow these shadows to rule us, now that Christ has come; for they were really only shadows. The Lord was the answer to those shadows. Consequently He told the lame man to do the very thing the law had forbidden. Christ was the anti-type. This Page 130)
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