Eating Is Rejecting Jesus!

If you still eat and drink, you aren’t really saved.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” John 6:35 ESV

How absurd!

Bread was invented for the benefit of people, and we don’t stop eating it because Jesus is the bread of life. Marriage was made for mankind, but we don’t stop getting married because we are the Bride of Christ.

Yet that’s how many people interpret Hebrews 4:9-11.

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God… Hebrews 4:9 ESV

Even though Hebrews doesn’t even go as far as John 6, never saying anything remotely like “Jesus is the Sabbath day”, some people really believe that the use of the Sabbath as a metaphor for the rest he gives us from sin means that Jesus literally cancels our need for a day off each week and God’s requirement to be kind to those who work for us.

The Bible never says, “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy until the Messiah comes and cancels it.” It says “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy because God set this day apart before sin had even entered the world and because you know what it’s like to be a slave forced to work every day of the week.”

Jesus said that the Sabbath was established by God for the benefit of mankind. It is also a metaphor of the rest he gives us from slavery to sin, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still need a day off from our physical labors to spend with our families and with God.

Do you really want to be like the antichrist figure of Daniel 7:25 and deny people a gift from God? Rejecting such a gift for yourself is like telling God he doesn’t know what’s best for you. Rejecting it for other people is robbing them of something God wants them to have.

It’s one thing to deny God for yourself. Do you really want to face him on judgment day and explain why you convinced others to deny him too?

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