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Certainly it is good to worship and pray in all days!

I Thessalonians 5:17
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
 
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Question, can everyday be Saturday or Sunday? Question ?
It may surprise you to know that on the Church calendar, every single day of the year we acknowledge the saints in Christ, celebrate and acknowledge specific incidents, and worship the Holy Trinity. However, if your post is merely a way to justify not meeting together to worship with believers then you need to rethink that, because it is not scriptural. Saturday is still the sabbath and Sunday is still the day that the Church has met for the last two thousand years to celebrate the Eucharist in the divine liturgy. It is the day we specifically celebrate the Resurrection of Christ.
 
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Certainly it is good to worship and pray in all days!

I Thessalonians 5:17
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

That is just as true in the NT as it is in the OT, but does not excuse anyone from disobeying God's command to keep the Sabbath.
 
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Other than the fact that those in Christ have fulfilled the whole Law already.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. (Romans 13:8, 1984 NIV)

Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
(Romans 13:10, 1984 NIV)
 
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Other than the fact that those in Christ have fulfilled the whole Law already.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. (Romans 13:8, 1984 NIV)

Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
(Romans 13:10, 1984 NIV)

Jesus summarized the law as being instructions for how to love God and for how to love our neighbor, so love fulfills the entire law because that is showing a full understanding of what the law is essentially about how to do.
 
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Jesus summarized the law as being instructions for how to love God and for how to love our neighbor,
Where did he do this? Jesus said it was love to obey his commands, not the Law. Obedience is what love produces, not the other way around.
so love fulfills the entire law because that is showing a full understanding of what the law is essentially about how to do.
Understanding is not required to love. The love that fulfilled the entire Law for us was Jesus' love, not ours. Hence those who are in Christ have fulfilled the whole Law. They cannot fulfill it any better.

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Where did he do this? Jesus said it was love to obey his commands, not the Law. Obedience is what love produces, not the other way around.

He did that in Matthew 22:36-40. If you believe that Jesus was sinless, that he practiced what he preached, and that he preached what he practiced, then you should believe that he taught obedience to the Mosaic law both by word and by example. In John 7:16, Jesus said that his teaching were not his own, but that of the Father, so he was not in disagreement with what the Father commanded, and did not go off and teach his own commands. Furthermore, John 6:38 says that he came only to do the Father will. If we obey his commands and follow his example, then will will live by faith and love according to the Mosaic law.

Understanding is not required to love. The love that fulfilled the entire Law for us was Jesus' love, not ours. Hence those who are in Christ have fulfilled the whole Law. They cannot fulfill it any better.

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Galatians 5:14 does not refer specifically to Jesus loving our neighbor, but to anyone who loves their neighbor. Fulfilling the law is a rabbinic term that was used to refer to demonstrating a full understanding of how to obey it by word or by example. In Matthew 5, Jesus was about to teach against what the teachers of the law had been teaching, which would have sounded to them like he was abolishing or undermining the law, so he preceded it by saying that he came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it, and then proceeded to fulfill it six times by teaching how to correctly understand and obey it.
 
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Jesus summarized the law as being instructions for how to love God and for how to love our neighbor, so love fulfills the entire law because that is showing a full understanding of what the law is essentially about how to do.
Interesting. Loving a law that finds you guilty in the eyes of God. That is love.

What did Christ do then to promote love? If the law is so good, then why Christ?
 
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Interesting. Loving a law that finds you guilty in the eyes of God. That is love.

What did Christ do then to promote love?

Psalms 119:97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.

Psalms 119:165 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Do you think that David had the correct response to God's law? It also says multiple times throughout the Psalms that David delighted in obeying God's law, which Paul aso said (Romans 7:22). While it is true that the law reveals our guilt, that is not what David loved about the law, but rather he loved the law, among other reasons, because it contains instructions from the creator of the universe for how to rightly live that we given for our own good. The law is God's instructions for how to live according to His holiness, righteousness, and goodness and when we do sin, the law teaches us to repent and turn back to obedience to God. Christ promoted love for God and for our neighbor through setting an example for us to follow of living in obedience to the law.

If the law is so good, then why Christ?

Paul said that the law is holy, righteous, and good (Roman 7:12), that he sought to do good (Romans 7:13-20), and that OT Scriptures are profitable for equipping us to do every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17), so there is no question about whether or not the law is good. And Christ came because the law is good so that we could be set free from sinning in transgression of the law and made free to become obedience servants of God (Romans 6:16-19).
 
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Psalms 119:97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.

Psalms 119:165 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
Then the New Covenant was wrong when it said that the Messiah brought in a new and better covenant. Superior to the Old Covenant.

Do you think that you can be under two covenants?

Let me also say that when Psalm's was written they didn't have a choice. You are choosing to push the Law and Old Covenant which is dissing Christ. I have no idea why. You believe in Yeshua, but then go back to the Old Covenant after He made a better covenant in His blood.

I find this very odd. I wish you could help me understand.
 
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Do you think that David had the correct response to God's law? It also says multiple times throughout the Psalms that David delighted in obeying God's law, which Paul aso said (Romans 7:22). While it is true that the law reveals our guilt, that is not what David loved about the law, but rather he loved the law, among other reasons, because it contains instructions from the creator of the universe for how to rightly live that we given for our own good. The law is God's instructions for how to live according to His holiness, righteousness, and goodness and when we do sin, the law teaches us to repent and turn back to obedience to God. Christ promoted love for God and for our neighbor through setting an example for us to follow of living in obedience to the law.

Interesting you pick David.

But what about the Israelite's who built and worshipped the golden calf? Or the times when they did not listen to the prophets?

I mean, let's be well rounded about what happened in the Old Testament. I can list twice as many negative events as you can list positive. As a matter of fact, a Messiah was sent because the Israelite's could not keep it.

Just love how you read into the Old Covenant, disrespecting the covenant in Messiah's blood. Was the Father out of His mind sending His Son then?

You point Christians back to the Law every time you can, yet don't acknowledge that gentiles were NEVER under the Old Covenant. How convenient.
 
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