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I don't think Charlie Kirk wrote this chapter. I think his editor's Sunday school teacher did. It's a poorly researched speed bump, full of regurgitated propaganda and elementary reading comprehension errors, in the middle of an otherwise great book.
I only address the first 3 "objections" to keeping the Sabbath because the rest are all just as bad. I urge you to look up these passages in the Bible and read them very carefully for yourself. Ask to whom was this written? What does the surrounding text tell you about the actual subject matter?
Colossians 2:16-17, Romans 14:5-6, Galatians 4:10-11
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I only address the first 3 "objections" to keeping the Sabbath because the rest are all just as bad. I urge you to look up these passages in the Bible and read them very carefully for yourself. Ask to whom was this written? What does the surrounding text tell you about the actual subject matter?
Colossians 2:16-17, Romans 14:5-6, Galatians 4:10-11
Inspired by Charlie Kirk's book, Stop in the Name of God. Affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3LGZJTA
From Jay Carper at Common Sense Bible Study (https://CommonSenseBibleStudy.com) and American Torah (https://www.AmericanTorah.com).
This content is free, but I accept contributions via Paypal at https://jaycarper.com/paypal.
Follow me on X: https://jaycarper.com/twitter
Follow me on Facebook: https://jaycarper.com/fbat
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00:01AJ Carper here from American Torah and I'm back to reading in Charlie Kirk's
00:06book, Stop in the Name of God. I'll put a link to this in the video description.
00:12And most of the middle didn't have a whole lot that I wanted to comment on, so
00:16I skipped ahead to chapter 10. And to be honest, this was a really disappointing
00:22chapter. And it's very sloppy, it's very poorly thought out, and it reads
00:29as if somebody's Sunday school teacher just copied a list of talking points off
00:36of a church bulletin and dashed it off in about 15 minutes. I honestly don't think
00:44that Charlie Kirk wrote this chapter. The entire book is talking about how profound
00:49the Sabbath is, and how keeping the Sabbath connects you with God, and keeping it is
00:56really emulating God. This is a declaration of who is your King, who is your Sovereign.
01:04Is it you, or is it Yahweh? If Yahweh is your Sovereign, keep His Sabbath. If not, do
01:10your own thing. But then chapter 10 comes along and says, forget all that, it
01:14doesn't really matter, do whatever you want. The Sabbath, take it or leave it.
01:18There's some really good arguments for not keeping the Sabbath, so don't listen to
01:22anything else I said. And then he immediately goes back to talking about how
01:25profound and important the Sabbath is. I think that Charlie's editors inserted
01:31this chapter into the book, and maybe he knew it was going in there, maybe he
01:36didn't, I don't really know. But it's so poorly written and poorly thought out that I
01:44just have trouble believing that he actually wrote this or approved of it. So I just want to
01:51hit a couple of points in this chapter, I don't want to hit every one of them. You
01:55know, what he really does is, or whoever wrote this, they go through all the usual
02:00anti-Sabbath talking points, and he doesn't refute them. He actually says, yeah, this is
02:05a good reason not to keep the Sabbath. Not Charlie Kirk, who, the editor, whoever did
02:10this, his Sunday school teacher. Somebody who clearly did not spend a lot of time
02:15thinking about what these passages mean. So I'm not sure how many of them there are
02:24in here, but I'm only going to go through a few of them because it would, this video
02:28would be too long if I addressed them all. But they're all equally poorly thought
02:31out. So I'll do a couple of these, and you'll see what I mean. All the rest of them
02:37don't really say what this editor claims that they say. So first one here is
02:43Colossians 2, 16 to 17. First off, let's read it.
02:51Let's see. Colossians 2, 16 and 17. So let no one judge you in food or in drink
03:04or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are shadow of things to
03:08come, but the substance is of Christ. And this meddling editor wrote, Paul's
03:16message to Colossians, to the Colossians is bold. Don't let anyone judge you for
03:20not observing Sabbath days. But is that really what Paul wrote? Let's read a
03:26little bit more of that passage. All right. Let's see. Let's go back to, let's see,
03:40verse 14, I guess. Sorry. No, actually, I'm going to go ahead and start with verse 15
03:55and then read a few verses past what the editor quoted.
04:00Having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them,
04:04triumphing over them in it. So let no one judge you in food or in drink or
04:08regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to
04:12come, but the substance is of Christ. Let no one cheat you of your reward,
04:16taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those
04:20things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.
04:25Bugs. Sorry. And not holding fast to the head from whom all the body nourished
04:30and knit together by joints and ligaments grows with the increase that is from God.
04:33Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world,
04:38why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,
04:41do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, which all concern things which perish
04:46with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
04:51These things indeed have no appearance of, or have an appearance of wisdom in
04:55self-imposed religion, false humility and neglect of the body, but are of no value
05:01against the indulgence of the flesh. So whatever Paul is talking about here,
05:06they are the basic principles of the world, according to the commandments and
05:11doctrines of men. Are God's commandments the basic principles of the world?
05:16Are God's commandments the commandments and doctrines of men?
05:21Clearly, what Paul is talking about here is not God's commandments to keep the
05:25Sabbath. He's talking about man's commandments. Don't let men judge you about
05:30how you keep the Sabbath, as long as you're doing it God's way.
05:33Don't let men say, you're not allowed to eat this, or you're not allowed to be with
05:39your wife on the Sabbath, or don't heal on the Sabbath. These are all man-made rules.
05:45Just keep God's commandments, and don't let people judge you about how you keep it,
05:50or whether or not you keep their rules. That's the real lesson of Colossians 2.
05:56So let's go to the next one.
05:59Romans 14, 5-6.
06:02One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike.
06:06Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
06:10Here, Paul grants liberty of conscience about esteeming days. In context, this includes the
06:15Sabbath days.
06:17Does it?
06:18What does Romans 14 actually say?
06:21It always helps to read context, and not just the couple of verses that somebody quotes,
06:25because every quote taken out of the Bible is taken out of context. Every single one.
06:30So go back to the Bible and read what it actually says.
06:33Romans 14, 5-6.
07:03Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
07:07He who observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he who does not observe the day to
07:10the Lord, he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks,
07:16and who does not eat to the Lord, he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
07:20For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
07:24And then it goes on to continue talking about matters of conscience in regard, food and drink.
07:30So the chapter begins with matters of conscience, what he calls in this translation disputes over
07:37doubtful things, and then talks about esteeming a day, and then back to food, and then more about
07:44food, and unclean food, and drinking, and food.
07:48This chapter is not talking about calendars. It's not talking about the Sabbath. It never once in the
07:54entire book of Romans even mentions the Sabbath day. That passage is talking about food and man-made
08:01rules about food. If one person doesn't want to eat meat because he's afraid it might have been
08:07contaminated by something unclean, or it might have been offered to an idol, that's okay. It bothers his
08:15conscience. You shouldn't push him to eat it. Let him eat vegetables. If you want to fast on this day
08:20or eat on that day, there's no commandment that you have to eat or fast on any particular day except
08:25maybe Yom Kippur. So if you're going to fast, not eat as Romans 14 says, then fast to the Lord.
08:33If you're going to eat, eat to the Lord. It's fasting or not fasting that it talks about
08:39on a particular day. And this was a big point of contention in the first century. Lots of people
08:44argued with each other and even divided fellowships over it. Which days of the week should we fast?
08:50But this is nowhere found in scripture. That's not God's commandment. Those are man's commandments.
08:55Just like in Colossians, Romans 14 is talking about man-made rules. Don't let anyone judge you
09:02for not keeping their rules, for not keeping the Sabbath their way.
09:11All right, let's go on to the next one. Galatians 4, 10 to 11. Galatians is a favorite of antinomians
09:18because it's very easy to take things out of context. You observe days and months and seasons
09:24and years. I'm afraid I have labored over you in vain. Paul's words here are deeply concerned,
09:29says the editor, or the editor's Sunday school teacher, I don't know which. He sees the Galatian
09:35Christians sliding back into Jewish calendar observances, not as cultural expressions, but
09:40as obligations. Jewish cultural, Jewish calendar observances? The Galatians? The Galatians weren't
09:50Jewish. What does Galatians 4 actually say? Galatians 4. All right, let's back up a few verses
10:05to get some context. All right, therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son. And if a son,
10:12then an heir of God through Christ. But then indeed, when you did not know God, you serve those which
10:17by nature are not gods. So they were pagans, not Jews. But now, after you have known God, or rather
10:26are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you
10:32desire
10:33again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest
10:38I
10:39have labored for you in vain. All right, so are God's commandments weak and beggarly elements?
10:45Are these people that Paul just said are former pagans, that before they found God, they worshiped
10:53idols, things that are not gods. They serve those things which by nature are not gods. And then he
10:59says, and you want to return again to these things that kept you in bondage, days and weeks and months.
11:07Are the days and weeks and months God's days, weeks and months? Aren't they pagans? Didn't he just say
11:13these were, they were returning to the things they had before, which were not gods?
11:21Galatians was written to a bunch of former pagans. It was not written to Jewish people.
11:25When Paul says, he's afraid that you're returning to the pagan elements, these pagan practices that you
11:32did before. Pagans have days, weeks, seasons, they have holidays. The Galatians were returning to pagan
11:39holidays. And Paul is saying, cut it out. You're supposed to give up all this stuff. Don't do
11:44anything in honor of those pagan gods. Don't adopt a man-made holidays to replace God's holidays,
11:54which is the very thing that Christians, antinomian Christians want to tell you you're supposed to do.
12:00Don't do God's holidays. Don't do God's Sabbath. That's evil. Instead, let's do our man-made holidays.
12:07That's so much better than God's. It is just ridiculous. And all the rest of the so-called
12:13proofs against keeping Sabbath in chapter 10 are just as bad. The rest of this book is great.
12:18Fantastic. That one chapter, Charlie Kirk did not write that. I'd be surprised if whoever wrote that
12:24was older than 15 years. It's that bad. So I encourage you, look up the passages in chapter 10
12:32yourself. Find out what's really happening. Who is Paul talking to? What commandments or traditions is
12:40he really talking about? Does it make sense that he would call God's commandments weak and beggarly
12:45elements? Principles of the world? That's dumb. That's not what Paul was saying. Anyways, this is
12:54Jake Harper from American Torah. Be blessed. Keep the Sabbath. Read the Bible for yourself. Don't trust
13:00people who just take it out of context. Don't even trust me. Go read it for yourself. Find out what
13:04it
13:04really says.
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