If God's Spirit living inside of you "obeys and performs" commandments on your behalf, what commandments (if any) are you supposed to DO yourself?
Live in Christ, and from me comes faith, hope, and love which are the three things that last all eternity. The law was forever made to pass away.
Hebrews 8:13 - 13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is
ready to vanish away.
The law has not vanished away, it is ready to vanish away, for we are given a new heaven and a new earth.
For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. - Matthew 5:18
So the great things of God which last forever, the things above we are to set our eyes upon, are not the Friday Evening to Saturday Sabbath, this is not a heavenly thing but a lesser thing given to men to teach us about heavenly things.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. - Colossians 3:2
Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love. - 1 Corinthians 13:13
... Against such things there is no law. - Galatians 5:23
Law here includes the Sabbath. There is no Sabbath against the law of love, because love was always greater than the Mosaic laws in the Torah. God does not change, however, God was always greater than the law he gave... and if you have to pick, faith, hope, and love vs. the laws given to Moses, you pick the former, which are contrary to the law of self-works, but the law points to them by pointing out our failures.
Does God's Spirit living in side of you make it so that you don't have to physically obey any of God's commandments?
Think of walking on a tightrope of God's grace. If you are on the tightrope, the law can't apply because you are above it. Walking on the tightrope is love. I certainly fail to love, and I certainly abandon God to return to his commandments which point out my sin. But the commandments which point to my sin, in no way give me any ability to walk on the tightrope. So when I fall off the tightrope, it is not productive to go through the laundry list of sins I have done. I repent to God about them, but I don't stay fallen off the tightrope. God has called me to greater things. When you're on the trightrope, there is no law, and you have the love of God expressed through you by Jesus.
If I abandon love, to focus on following the commands of God, I am disobedient to God, because I have fallen from grace, and abandoned the obedience of faith.
Through him we received grace and apostleship to
call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name's sake. - Romans 1:5
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. - Galatians 5:4
Where are you getting any of the above information from?
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. - Genesis 2:2
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. - Genesis 2:15
So Adam worked on the 7th day, the first Sabbath day ordained by God. The 7th day lasts until Adam fell, it is all one Sabbath because it was Eden.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. - Hebrews 4:11
Hebrews 4:11 indicates we labor every day, to enter the sabbath, but this is clearly not the sabbath given in the law of Moses, but the true promise of the Sabbath, of which the Mosaic Sabbath was a type and a shadow, but not the true thing.
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. - Colossians 2:16-17
So I will go to church multiple times a week when I can, not just Sundays. I pray to God often.
God says, remember His Holy Sabbath day and keep it sanctified. 6 days you should work, but not on the 7th.
I don't work when I am in Christ. It's not really "working". It looks like work in the natural human realm but spiritually, I am delivered from Adam's fall where he had to toil and sweat.
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." - Genesis 3:19-20
It is also true that Christians never die because the doctrine of Christianity is that we fall asleep when we are believers. This is not conceit nor silliness on our part. We are supposed to believe this. Though we see dust on the ground, those redeemed by the faith Abraham had, are those who are continually alive and not dead.
Now about the dead rising--have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!" - Mark 12:26-27
If I am presently delivered from the death Adam brought into the world, then I am also presently delivered from all the curses. This includes the curse of toil. The curse of toil that Jews and all men lived under is one of the reasons the Sabbath was given where men toil 6 days and do not work on the 7th.
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The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. - Mark 2:27
I am redeemed from the fall of Adam, and so it is as though I live in the garden of Eden by covenant of God in Christ. This means I "work on the Sabbath"... just as Adam worked on the 7th day, having been born on the 6th. But this work is a blessing and not a curse, because I was delivered from the fall. The rules are simply different.
God's various laws, such as the law of faith vs. the laws Moses gave, have different stipulations depending upon your circumstances. The Mosaic law was only given to Jews for example. You could become a Jew, but if you were not a Jew, it never applied to you. The law of faith only applies to those who have faith.
God also has different covenants in scripture...
Genesis 15 - Abraham's Covenant ordained in blood
Exodus 24:8 - Mosaic Covenant Ordained in blood to Jews only, it is a different covenant than Genesis 15, and a different covenant than the one Christ made at the cross
2 Corinthians 5:19 -
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. <--- This is the covenant on the cross, which was the ultimate fulfillment of the Genesis 15 covenant. It is a greater covenant than Genesis 15 and Exodus 24:8. This covenant was never given to Abraham, Abraham was only given revelation of it when he went to sacrifice his son... however, Abraham was promised this covenant would be enacted through him.
You say "working is permitted on the Sabbath".
For Christians. For Jews no. If you are not a Christian but a Jew and reject Jesus as the Messiah, please follow the Sabbath. But I am not a minister of the Mosaic law... I am specifically instructed by God not to teach on the Mosaic Sabbath as a way to maintain or attain righteous living.
He has made us
competent as ministers of a new covenant--
not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. - 2 Corinthians 3:6
According to the Holy Spirit and revelation given by Paul, I am an incompetent minister of the letter of the Mosaic law. What this means that this incompetence is not sin on my part, but opposition by God himself to teach the Mosaic law or live under it.
If I am an incompetent minister of the Mosaic Sabbath law, then why would I ever tell anyone to follow it?
And if I am incompetent by the power of God to not preach on that subject, why would I sin against God and disobey him, presuming I can do something in my own strength when he has said I cannot?
