Should Christians keep the seventh day Sabbath holy?
NO! The Christian is not obligated to the sabbath or the rest of
the law.
Are we being deceived by not remembering the Sabbath?
NO!!
The Bible says that the New Covenant will have two aspects. One, God forgives us of our sins, which are the violations of the law, which include the forth commandment. 1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
This does not refer to the 10 Cs. It refers to the commandments Jesus issued. No where did Jesus enjoin us to keep the sabbath or
the law.
Two, God will write His law on our hearts.
Yes that is true. God did not say He would write the covenant made with their fathers on our heart.
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But
this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord,
I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
We know from Scripture that keeping of the Ten Commandments saves no one, but rather, they point out our need for a Savior. It's God's grace that saves us.
This says nothing about puting or moving the covenant into the heart. Please pay attention to the blue highlighted above. The covenant made with the COI is the ten commandments -
13 And he declared unto you
his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. Deut 4
To whom was this covenant given?
3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. Deut 5 This is 430 years after Abraham who did not have this covenant - Gal 3:17 according to Moses.
This tells me that we don't keep the commandmends to get saved, but rather, once we are saved we will keep them because we love God and neighbor.
No so.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. John 15
Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Shall we break the law of God because we are now saved?
Notice what your verse says? It says sin it does not say violate
the law.
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Rom 5 Sin is not always the violation of
the law. ...for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Faith is not part of
the law.
God tells us that the keeping of the law is motivated by love for God and love for neighbor.
Where is this?
Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?'' Jesus said to him, " `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' "This is the first and great commandment. "And the second is like it: `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.''
Yes and Jesus did not quote one of the 10 Cs and therefore the 10 Cs has no more value than the rest of
the law.
How we love God and neighbor is defined in the Ten Commandments.
The first four teach us what pleases God and the last six teaches us what will please others.
How does God write these two aspects of the law on our hearts.
I want to know in light of the above from Jeremiah.
Under the Old Covenant they were commanded to keep the commandments or die.
Under the New Covenant we are free from that fearful aspect of death for not keeping the law and are now under grace, in other words, God frees us from the law and its penalty so that we now are free to obey or not obey without fear. This will open us up to obey God from the heart.
IOW there is no consequences of violating
the law or the 10 Cs. Is this not the same as cheap grace?
Ephesians 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
What is the will of God according to the NC?
Look at it this way. Lets say a guy hires a maid, she comes to his house twice a week. The guy puts up a list of chores for her to do, which entail, laundry, dishes, cooking and cleaning. If she does not do these things she will risk the chance of being fired. As she begins to work for him, several months go by when they begin to fall in love and get married. The first thing she does when she comes home from her wedding is she removes the list of chores. Does this mean she will no longer do these things? No, it means she does not need the list to tell her what to do because she loves her husband.
God takes away the law so that we can keep the law because we love Him. If I saw that maid doing all the house work for free I would have to ask why she was doing it. Her response would be, because she Ioves him.
Reads like you are using 2 different senarios in the illustration. Looks like you move from a hired servant to a wife to me. Some one doing things out of love is not a hired servant.
If someone asked me why I was keeping the Sabbath, since we are no longer under the law but under grace, I wound have to say, because I love Him.
I wonder if this is really the hard truth. Yes I question this because of my personal knowledge of the SDA religion. I further more do not believe you keep the sabbath as outlined even in the 10Cs.
The Ten Commandments have not been done away with, we just have a different relationship to them now. They go from being written on stone to being written on our heart through freedom and love.
Again this is not so. See above discussion.
Listen to how the Ten Commandments are referred to by Paul.
Ephesians 6:2 "Honor your father and mother,'' which is the first commandment with promise:
Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Listen to the whole context of Eph 6:1-2. Paul here is not talking to children not Christians. If Paul was telling Christians to keep the law he would not be able to say thing like found in Romans 7:6; 10:4 or Gal 5:4, 18.
Listen to how Jesus refers back to them.
Luke 18:18-21 Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'' So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. "You know the commandments: `Do not commit adultery,' `Do not murder,' `Do not steal,' `Do not bear false witness,' `Honor your father and your mother.' '' And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth.''
Again context is everything. First the Scripture plain states no one has ever kept
the law - Ps 14:3; 53:3; Rom 3:23.
And secondly Jesus is giving a fool's answer to a fool. Yes Jesus is making fun of him.
Thirdly if the above quote was not a tongue-in-cheek statement why did the young man leave sorrowfully knowing he did not have eternal life (salvation)? And lastly Jesus did not contradict his testimony about keeping
the law.
Jesus was even concerned about the Sabbath forty years after His resurrection.
Matthew 24:16-20 "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. "Let him who is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house. "And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. "But woe to those who are pregnant and to those with nursing babies in those days! "And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
Context once again is important here. Who is Jesus talking to? What are their habits and customs? Why do they even have such customs? Reading Acts we see they did not give up
the law very willingly.
Jesus even said He was Lord of the Sabbath and how the Sabbath was made for man.
Back to context yet again. Jesus did not say the sabbath was given to all man kind.
These are not words that do away with the law or the Sabbath, but rather, confirm the Sabbath and the law.
Of course not. You would not ever present something contradictory to what you believe.
You have them above.
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