Jesus is God’s Sabbath - Sparks

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). What has happened? Jesus has appropriated the Sabbath to Himself. It is no longer a day of the week - it is a divine person. (If the Seventh Day Adventists saw that, the whole of their system would go in five minutes!) No, Jesus is God's Sabbath. He is the end of God's works, and in Him God has entered into His rest. This is the 'rest which remaineth for the children of God' - not a day of the week or on the calendar, but a divine person, the Son of God. In Him we come to rest, and that which was our bondage is now our servant. In Him that against which we were always struggling is now our victory. Oh yes, Jesus is the Sabbath, and if we live in Him we shall not spoil the Sabbath. Every day should be a day of rest to our souls. Oh, this is a mighty thing that the Lord Jesus has done!

Two very good books on this subject;

https://www.ratzlaf.com/The-Sabbath-and-the-Lords-Day-9780962754678.htm

https://www.ratzlaf.com/Sabbath-in-Christ-Revised-Edition-9780974767987.htm

The one by Dale Ratzlaff is exhaustive, leaving no stone unturned. He is also the founder of Life Assurance Ministries, a ministry to Seventh Day Adventists. See his website for more information in the links for the books.

Hebrews 4:1-11

John 20:1 (KJV) -- The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early……

"Something is introduced, almost imperceptibly it creeps in there, and unless you are very much awake you do not notice what has crept in; something has come in which is absolutely startling if only you are alive to it. ‘On the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early...’ - you have changed the dispensations. The Lord's day is the first day of the week; in Judaism it was the seventh day - but do you notice what that carries with it? The Jews worked six days and rested on the seventh. The believers rested on the first and worked the six. Believers start their work with a day of rest, and work six days. Jews work six days and rest on the seventh. You have got a change of dispensations, but it carries with it this tremendous truth that God is now working, from rest, not to rest; the old dispensation was working toward rest; in the new it is working from rest. God has come to His rest in the work of Calvary in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and having reached His finality, His fulness, His rest in Calvary in the resurrection, now He is working from that, and He is working with us from a position of perfection, out from a fulness, not toward a fulness; He has got the fulness and it is of His fulness that we are receiving.”

--- T. Austin-Sparks

Scripture:

John 1:16 (NASB) -- For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

Working from rest!! I love that. Thank you