Christian Fellowship

Gerhard Ebersöhn · Puppy Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 223 Location: SA

Thank you, Nobby, for the invitation!

I am in the unenviable position where I, because of my believing Sabbath-keeping, am not welcome in my Reformed, Sunday-keeping fellowship; and, because of my reasons for believing Sabbath-keeping, am not welcome in existing Sabbath-keeping fellowships.

Therefore I have composed the following, as an invitation to Christian Fellowship with whomever other Christians within practical range, and pray God that it may result in actual, spiritual, Sabbath-keeping Christain Fellowship :-

Sabbaths’ Feast of Christ Assemblies

To joy in the Fellowship of Christians persuaded by God of the sanctity of the Seventh Day Sabbath for to be the Lord Jesus’ Day of Worship-Rest.

The urgency of Sabbaths’ celebration for the Christian Faith and Church, springs from the knowledge of the energy of God’s operation in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Ephesians 1:17-23.

The Sabbath, its engagement and enjoyment, are grounded in Divine Election and Predestination and realised in the “Gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord”, whom God the Father “Declared the Son of God with Power according to the Spirit of Holiness by resurrection from the dead:— by Whom we have received Grace for the obedience of the Faith for His Name among all nations, among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ, to the end ye may be established and comforted by the mutual faith in the Gospel of His Son.” Romans 1:1...12.

“Where two or three are gathered together
in My Name, there I am in the midst of them.”
We are not a ‘Church’ – new, or, another!
We do not take money or favours!
We don’t have nor desire an ‘earthly tabernacle’ to worship!
We do not want ‘growth’ in numbers!
We do not ‘count the nation’ or record attendance!
We do not baptise!
We do not convert!
We are few, and will stay few.
We believe because God had given us faith first.
We love because God first loved us.
We love the Fellowship of Christ, and in Christ.
We love the Name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
We love the fear of God and His Word Proclaimed.
We love the pure Gospel of God’s free Grace.
We love the knowledge and increase in the knowledge of Christ.
We are not ashamed of, nor let ourselves be judged with regard to, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. (Ro1:16, Col2:16)
Therefore we remember, enjoy and celebrate “The Lord’s Day” Sabbath, in the name of Christ, because of Christ, and for the sake of Christ, being the Body of Christ’s Own.
We occasionally remember, enjoy, celebrate and so receive Sabbaths’ Eating and Drinking of the Lord’s Supper.
We proclaim Jesus Christ Risen from the dead.
“For this cause we do not cease to pray that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” (Col1:9)
‘Singing in our heart to the Lord’, we ‘sing with the spirit and with understanding’, ‘speaking to ourselves in Psalms’. (Col3:16, 1Cor14:15, Eph5:9,19)
We abhor self-righteousness or ‘legalism’.
We abhor self-satisfaction or complacency.
We abhor boasting or distinction of men.
In case you would like to join in Sabbath’s Celebration through the study and proclamation of the Word ‘according to the Scriptures’,
the contact person in your area is, Gerhard Ebersöhn, Cell phone: 072-550-0539

eleven · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject:

Just answer me this question, will ya please? Cause I have asked this of other Saturday Sabbath observers and have yet to receive an answer.

What about those who have to work on the Saturday Sabbath? Are we condemned to hell because we worship on Sunday rather than Saturday?

Very interested in your reply.
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Gerhard Ebersöhn · Puppy Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 223 Location: SA

Gerhard Ebersöhn · Puppy Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 223 Location: SA

I also hold an 'official' statement or confession of faith regarding the Sabbath, but what we in Afrikaans call a 'dolerende belydenis' of 'nonconformitist confession'. The Eglish unfortunately does not contain the element of sorrow which the Afrikaans has. We protest with sorrow, not eagerly, but grievingly:

12, Ons bely, betreur, bestry, bestraf en verwerp die Kerk se ontkenning, miskenning en misbruik van die Bybel as
die Woord en openbaring van God se wil vir die Volk,
sy volhardende misbruik van eie profetiese amp en
onberouvolle versmading van eie wordingsgeskiedenis,
in diens en tot diens van die afgodery
van Sondagsheiliging en Sabbatsveragting.

Gerhard Ebersöhn · Puppy Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 223 Location: SA

I may add to Paul and the Holy Spirit the Church itself, for protagonist of Sabbaths' Feast as and for Christians, because Paul here condones and encourages the Christian Congregation in its Sabbaths' celebration.

Further, and most important, is the First Cause in this regard, namely, as it is written from verse 12 to verse 15, that Christ "init triumphed" --- "in it" namely, his sacrifice in suffering and death and resurrection from the dead. Undeniably is the Sabbath in Colossians 2:12-19 intricately and irrevocably connected with and fastened to Christ and to the resurrection of Christ from the dead.

Neither Christ or His resurrection is thus related with the First Day of the week; not nearly; not in the least; not at all! But the Church in that it so dishonoured the Sabbath by having stolen the sabbath's God-given honour of Jesus' resurrection and by having given that honour to the First Day, not only dishonoured and defamated the Sabbath Seventh Day, but dishounered and defamated the First day of the week, because it has stripped it of its God-given honour of having been created a day for the work and duty of man.

Gerhard Ebersöhn · Puppy Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 223 Location: SA

eleven · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

Gerhard Ebersöhn · Puppy Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 223 Location: SA

Through this thread a fellowship between two individuals thus far has been maintained --- a fellowship I wish no longer to continue for obvious reason here as well as on another thread.

I pray I may enjoy the company of others for Christian fellowship on this thread, that may keep it alive and well and going.

eleven · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:37 am Post subject:

I'm very sorry to hear that, because we learn nothing from separation.

But I'm also not surprised, because this is the exact same response I get from everyone who insists the saturday sabbath is the only thing God respects.

Once pressed to answer the question-
if that is true, why would God have people work on saturdays (babies born, fires, communication, and so on)
the response is always the same..........."I don't care to discuss it anymore."

Which only goes to show you, insisting that saturday and only saturday can be the sabbath, is not true.

GE, I respect you, I truly do.
I'm sorry if you think I pressed too hard.

God bless you and I'll be thinking of you on saturday.
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Gerhard Ebersöhn · Puppy Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 223 Location: SA

Eleven, I apologise; you gave me a good, honest answer, and I ask that we may continue our conversation. On that other thread, I also made some sort of apology because I was wrong about you.

Now, here, is your sole and ultimate argument for what also you make clear in your statement:

"Once pressed to answer the question- if that is true, why would God have people work on saturdays (babies born, fires, communication, and so on) the response is always the same..........."I don't care to discuss it anymore." Which only goes to show you, insisting that saturday and only saturday can be the sabbath, is not true. "

Now that is making the bad answer of a bad sabbatharian your best argument against one of God's best gifts of grace and love to his Church.
You didn't use the Word for that, did you?

But to save you and me much trouble, I say again, the Sabbath is not about the work of man, but about the work of God - his work that in itself IS the Rest of God. The Sabbath is about God in Christ working "to-us-ward", "the exceeding greatness of his Power when He raised Christ from the dead", thus, to have rested, and to have entered into His Own Rest as God in His Own", Hb4:10, Eph1:19: "THEREFORE THERE REMAINS VALID FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD THEIR KEEPING OF THE SABBATH DAY"!