When you quote 1 John you should take into account the "commandments" John is talking about. Are they OT commandments, or NT commandments. Of course, they are of the New Covenant. And 1 John 3 tells you what they are. 23: 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave use commandment. The Sabbath was Old Covenant. Jesus has given us rest.
Hi 1stcentuarylady,
The context of the scripture you quoted is as follow is in relation to
SIN.
1 John 3:4-10,
4, Whosoever
commits sin transgresses also the law:
for sin is the transgression of the law.
5, And ye know that he was manifested to take away our
sins; and in him is
no sin.
6, Whosoever abides in him sins not:
whosoever sins hath not seen him, neither known him.
7, Little children, let no man deceive you:
he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8, He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9, Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10, In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:
whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.
How does God's Word define sin?
1 John 3:4
Sin = transgression of God's Law (10 commandments) context murder v 12.
1. Exo 20:3, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
EXAMPLE OF SIN;
Judges 10:10, And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying,
We have sinned against thee, both
because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
2. Exo 20:4-5, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
EXAMPLE OF SIN;
Jer 16:18, I will first doubly repay t
heir iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their
detestable idols and with their abominations.
3. Exo 20:7,Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
EXAMPLE OF SIN; (Professing God's name and not following him)
Mat 15:3-9, But he answered and said unto them,
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou might be profited by me; And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
4. Exo 20:8-11, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
EXAMPLE OF SIN;
Ex 35:2, Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. The wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23)
5. Exo 20:12, Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.
EXAMPLE COMMANDMENT;
Eph 6:1-3, "Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment with a promise:
6. Exo 20:13, Thou shalt not kill.
EXAMPLE OF SIN;
2Sam 12:9;13,
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon; David said unto Nathan,
I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David,
The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die
7. Exo 20:14, Thou shalt not commit adultery.
EXAMPLE OF SIN;
Lev 20:10, If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. The wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23)
8 Exo 20:15, Thou shalt not steal.
9. Exo 20:16, Thou shalt not bear false witness (lie) against thy neighbour.
EXAMPLE OF SIN;
Lev 6:2-4,
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbor in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbor;
Or have found that which was lost, and lies concerning it, and swears falsely; in any of all these that a man does, sinning therein:
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found
10. Exo 20:17, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
EXAMPLE OF SIN;
Isa 57:17, For the iniquity (SIN) of his
covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Eph 5:5, For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
1 John 3:4 "
SIN is the transgression of God's Law"
Ezekiel 18:4 "the soul that sins, it shall die."
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin
is death;"
Romans 8:13 "For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die:"
James 2:8-12,
8, If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
9, But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
10 For whosoever shall keep the
whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11, For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12, So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Sunday Worship is a man made teaching and tradition of man over the Word of God. There is no scripture in God's Word that tells us to keep it over God's 7th Day Sabbath. If you want to keep it over God's Word, this is between you and God. I do not judge you. The Word will Judge us in the last days.
In Christ!