GOD'S LAW (10 commandments) ARE FOREVER!

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you assume wrong
How so?

You state if the fourth commandment is not observed your name cannot be written in the lambs book of life.

But where obedience to Jesus teaching is concerned, you say you are no one's judge
 
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Sorry it was not a question but a request that I asked you to respond to.



The mark of the beast only becomes when Sunday worship is enforced and Gods people have to make a choice.

Please share your opinion on the seal of God with me.

I did answer your second question but you do not appear to like the answer, please tell me the answer you are looking for.

Please curtail you use of LOL Your use of it is not what JWD as it appears to belittle others
What is Gods seal in the believer?

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption
Eph4:30
 
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The thief was redeemed because Jesus said he would be with Him in paradise/heaven. You invalidate your argument.

  • Jesus knew the thief's heart it is called Grace thank you Lord
It does not invalidate Jesus statement of If you love me keep my commandments is valid as the thief had a conversion on the cross and his sins were forgiven it has to be this way as there are no confessed sins in heaven, all the redeemed have their sins covered by the blood of Jesus.
 
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What is Gods seal in the believer?

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption
Eph4:30

it says you are sealed but does not say what the seal is.

What is the seal? God never forces anything on anyone it has to be a free choice by us.
 
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it says you are sealed but does not say what the seal is.

What is the seal? God never forces anything on anyone it has to be a free choice by us.
You don't agree the Holy Spirit us your seal for the day if redemption. The Bible states he is
 
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You don't agree the Holy Spirit us your seal for the day if redemption. The Bible states he is

Please provide a verse that says the HOLY SPIRIT is the seal and not the sealer
 
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Please provide a verse that says the HOLY SPIRIT is the seal and not the sealer
The Holy Spirit is your seal, for the Holy Spirit DOES NOT dwell in the unsaved, only the saved, as you should know.
Having believed you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit, guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are Gods possession-to the praise of His glory
Eph1:13&14
 
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By studying the word of GOD in the historical hermeneutics.


John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.

It does not say 9 of ten.
I have a question for you.

If God writes the law in your mind he desires you to follow, you must know in your mind what is placed there, so you must instinctively be aware of what that law is in your mind. And law placed in your heart must bring heartfelt consciousness of sin when you wilfully transgress it, for:
Through the law we become conscious of sin rom 3:20

So why, are you only conscious of which laws you believe should be obeyed, by studying the word of God in historical hermeneutics?
 
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Hello Soyeong, so nice to meet you here friend.

I have added some comments below to your post. However your post was very large so to make things easier I might organise my reply into a series of smaller posts for ease of reading. Ok let’s start with the first section of your post # 64.

Hello friend,

I probably should start by replying to your earlier posts, but there are some important points to make in this one.

Actually Christ death has everything to do with ending many of the ceremonial laws that pointed to a lot of the plan of salvation. This is what Colossians 2:14 is referring to when it says; “Blotting out (G1813; ἐξαλείφω; exaleiphō; ex-al-i'-fo; means to obliterate; erase; wipe away) the handwriting of ordinances which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way nailing it to the cross.”

What is the handwriting of ordinances that are to be erased and nailed to the cross?

The Greek words used here is handwriting G5498 χειρόγραφον; cheirographon; which means; hand written legal document which is combined with ordinance G1378 δόγμα dogma dog'-mah From the base of G1380; which means; civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical law: - decree;

The Greek meaning of handwriting of ordinances in V14 is a hand written legal document or book of civil, ceremonial and ecclesiastical laws. These are the laws referred to in verse 14 that have been erased and are nailed to the cross.

Again, crosses were never uses as a means of disposing of outdated laws, but rather what was written on crosses were the charges against the person being crucified (Matthew 27:37), and this is what is being referred to as the handwriting of ordinances that are against us. In other words, they wrote the violations of the law that the person had committed as explanation for why they were being crucified, not the laws themselves, so they didn't have to legislate new laws every time someone was crucified. This fits perfectly with our sins or violations of God's Law been nailed to Messiah's cross and with him dying in our place to pay the penalty of our sins, but does not fit with him dying to free us to do what God has revealed to be sin. Titus 2:14 does not say that He gave himself to redeem us from the Law, but to redeem us from all Lawlessness.

Why were these ceremonial laws pointing to Jesus nailed to the cross?

Colossians 2:17; “Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”

God’s Law (10 commandments and the ceremonial laws of Moses had completely different roles in the Old Covenant.

God's holy days are important foreshadows of what is to come that are extremely rich with teachings about God, God's plan of redemption, and what we will be doing during Messiah's reign. Paul was writing Colossians 2 to encourage them to keep obeying God's holy days and to not let any man keep them from obeying God.

) God’s Law (10 commandments) pointed out what sin was and the penalty of sin which is death. It was never a cure for sin in the Old Testament as well as in the New. It only gives a knowledge of what sin is and righteousness (right doing) (Rom 3:20; 1John 3:4; Rom 6:23; Ps 119:172).

(2) The laws of Moses was the second set of laws and included all the civil, ceremonial, and ecclesiastical laws. These laws could not tell you what sin was this was the job of God’s Law, however the laws of Moses were the prescriptive cure for sin in the Old Covenant. These laws included all the Levitical and ceremonial laws, sacrificial burnt offerings for sin, annual festivals and earthly sanctuary services for sin. These laws were the cure for sin so the sinner could be made right with God.

God's Law is inclusive of any law that God has ever commanded either directly or indirectly and it is always a sin to disobey any of God's commands, so you are creating a false distinction. The laws of Moses were commanded by God through Moses acting as a mediator, so they were not given by the authority of Moses, but by the authority of God, and are therefore also required. In Deuteronomy 8:6, it does not describe them as the ways of Moses, but as the ways of God. They are God's ways because they all teach us about Him and about how to reflect his attributes to the world. For example, the ceremonial laws are God's instructions for how to reflect His holiness. The blood of goats and bulls never took away sin (Hebrews 10:4), so the law of Moses were never given as a prescriptive cure for sin, but rather a relationship with Christ is the goal of the Law for righteousness for everyone who has faith (Romans 10:4), so it has only ever been through our intimate relationship with Christ that our sins are cleansed both in the OT and NT, and the Law teaches us how to grow in that relationship.

Many of the ceremonial laws of Moses where all prophetic in nature, teaching the plan of salvation which pointing to Jesus as the true lamb of God and our great high priest and His Work on our behalf in the Heavenly Sanctuary. (Leviticus 1; 3-12; 14-17; 22-23; Number 6-8; 15; 28-29; Deut 12; 33; Ex 25:8; John 1:29; 36; Rev 5:6; 1Cor 5:6-7; Heb 8:2-13; 9:1-28).

It was these ceremonial laws which included all the Levitical, ceremonial laws which included the animal sacrifices as well as many of the annual festivals which pointed to Jesus our Passover lamb, circumcision, many of the annual Jewish festivals along with our sins that where nailed to the cross because they all pointed to Jesus. (John 1:19, 1 Corinthians 5:6-7; Romans 2:28-29)

If you do not believe these laws have been nailed to the cross and pointed to Jesus as a Shadow you would be obliged by the ceremonial laws of Moses to do animal sacrificed for the forgiveness of sin. Do you now sacrifice animals for your forgiveness? If you do not then you must concede your statement cannot be true and is not biblical.

All of God's laws invite us to ponder why He commanded them because they were given to teach us about Him and how to reflect His attributes, so I completely agree that they point to Christ, and furthermore they still point to him because they are still extremely rich with teachings about him and are still important foreshadows of what is to come. However, if we have faith in God to guide us in how to rightly live, then at the end of our ponderings, we will still obey what He has commanded. Again, what was nailed to his cross were our sins or violations of the Law, not the Law itself.

1 Peter 1:13-16
is not a reference that we have to practice the ceremonial laws of Moses as these were nailed to the cross as shown above. 1 Peter 1:13-16 is a reference to Holiness. Any reference Leviticus is in relation to being forgiven and cleansed from sin by Jesus our true Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Old Testament references are to both (1.) God’s Law (10 commandments) that point out sin and (2). The ceremonial laws which pointed to the forgiveness and cleansing from sin. 1 Peter 1:13-16 is the fulfilment of these in Jesus. This is further references in 1 Peter 1: 17-23 that you left out which reads…

1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

In these verses Peter told us to have a holy conduct and then directly quoted OT Scripture in regard to what it means to have a holy conduct. For example:

Leviticus 11:44-45 For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. 45 For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”

So refraining from eating unclean animals is a way that God instructed for how to act in accordance with His eternal holiness. It should also be relatively straightforward that part of what it means to have a holy conduct involves keeping God's holy days. In 1 Peter 2:9-10, it says that we are part of a holy nation, so again we should therefore follow the instructions that God has given for how to live as a holy nation.

1 Peter 1:17-23,
17, And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18, Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19, But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20, Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. 22, seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23, Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.

Holiness does not come through the ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant. These pointed to Jesus. Salvation from sin is Holiness and this only comes from Jesus through faith in His promises.

I completely agree. God's Law was given to reveal how to have a holy conduct, but not how to become holy. So no amount of doing things like refraining from eating unclean animals will ever cause someone who is not holy to become holy, but rather it is God alone who makes us holy and and because we have been made holy, we are therefore required to follow God's instructions for how to have a holy conduct. The same thing goes for God's righteousness. God's Law reveals how to practice or train in righteousness in accordance with God's righteousness, such as to help the poor, but no amount of doing things like helping the poor will ever cause someone who is not righteous to become righteous because the one and only way to become declared righteous is by faith, and by the same faith we are therefore required to train in righteousness (1 John 3:10, 2 Timothy 3:16-17).

2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Romans 6:22
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

You may need to rethink your interpretation of the scripture 1 Peter 1:13-16 that holiness comes from the ceremonial laws of Moses. The ceremonial laws of Moses were a shadow of the plan of salvation pointing to Jesus his new ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary and the New Covenant (Hebrews 8; 9; 10; 1 Corinthians 5:6-7; John 1:29)

Hope this is helpful

In Christ Always!

So ceremonial laws are essentially God's instructructions to people that He has made holy for how to therefore do what is holy in accordance with His holiness. Christ live in perfect obedience to the Mosaic Law and set an example of how to obey it for his followers to follow.
 
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God’s Word says: LOVE is the fulfilling of God’s Law (10 commandments)

No one can keep the letter of the Law because all God’s Law does is to point out Sin (1John 3:4). It is our mirror that shows us our condition and that all our own righteousness is as filthy rags (James 1:22-25; Isa 64:6). It is our teacher to bring us to Jesus so that we can have salvation by faith in God’s Word alone because there is nothing that we can do in our own strength to save ourselves. It is a gift of God lest any man shall boast (Rom 6:23). It is God’s Law that brings us to Jesus (Gal 3:24). He has not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance (Matt 9:13).

Jesus summarized the greatest two commands as to love God and our neighbor and that that the rest of the laws are just examples of how obey those two commands. For example, the first five of the Ten Commandments are in regard to loving our creators while the last five are in regard to loving our neighbor, but all of the other commands in the Bible can be divided into these categories, so love fulfills the Law because it is obeying it as it should be obeyed. So to say that no one can keep the Law is to say that it is impossible to love anyone, which is quite clearly false. Furthermore, it is in direct disagreement with God, who said that what He commanded was not too difficult (Deuteronomy 30:11-14), which Paul also echoed in Romans 10:5-10 in regard to what it means to what our faith says for how to submit to Jesus as Lord. In 1 John 5:3, it also confirms that the commands of God are not burdensome.

While God's Law certainly points out our sin, that is far from the only thing that it does because it is primarily given to teach us how to walk in God's ways in accordance with His attributes (Deuteronomy 8:6): holiness, righteousness, goodness (Romans 7:12), justice, mercy, faith (Matthew 23:23), and other fruits of the Spirit (Exodus 34:6-7). Pointing our sin is only a step in leading us back to repentance and obedience. The Law points us to Christ because he is the only one who can redeem us from our sin and purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works (Titus 2:14). God does not command us to do good works all throughout the Bible and then turn around and show disdain for our good works, so the righteous deed of the saints are not like filthy rags, but rather they are like fine white linen (Revelation 19:8). In Isaiah 64:6, it was not God speaking, but rather it was the people complaining about how they thought God was viewing their righteous deeds. In Deuteronomy 6:24 and Deuteronomy 10:13, God said that what He commanded was for His people's own good, so living in obedience to God's commands has never been about trying to save ourselves through our own effort, but rather it has always been about living by faith in God to guide us in how to rightly live.

is the fulfilling of God’s Law In us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit;

Love is in-deed the fulfilling of God’s Law. This is the promise of the New Covenant. Spoken about by God in the Old Testament and repeated in the New.

Eze 36:26-27,
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Jer 31:33-34,
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says 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 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Heb 8:10-12,
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

So now under the new covenant when God changes our heart; we will love God and our neighbour.

if we love God we will not steal
if we love God we will not murder
if we love God we will not commit adultery
if we love God we will not lie
if we love God we will honour our parents
if we love God we will not covet
if we love God we will have no other gods except our God who loves us
if we love God we will not make unto any idols
if we love God we will not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain
if we love God we will Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as he asked us to!

God’s Law has always been central to both the Old and the New Covenant. It is only by the operation of God as we have Faith in His Word that God changes our hearts so that we can love him and love our neighbour that we can walk in his ways. This is why Jesus says its only if you love me we can keep hid commandments (John 14:15)

Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psa 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Psa 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psa 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Love is the fulfilling of the God’s Law. I love Jesus and want to follow Him how about you

If we are knowingly and wilfully breaking any of God’s Laws however we are sinning against God. Sin is the transgression of God’s Law and God’s Word tells us that if we continue in sin the wages of sin is death (1 John 3:4; Rom 6:23). If we choose to follow the teachings and traditions of man over the Word of God then we are unbelievers in God’s Word.

None of the verses you cited specify that they are only speaking about ten of God's laws. We have it recorded that Jesus talked about obeying more than the 10 commandments, so you can't talk about the importantance of obeying his commands while at the same time disregarding most of them.

Sunday Worship is a teaching and tradition of man breaking God’s Law which has no basis in God’s Word. The question remains who do we really follow God or Man? This is the great test that will come to each of us. God’s sheep hear his voice… He that has ears to hear let him hear (Matt 11:15) If we say that we know Jesus and are breaking His commandments God’s Word says we are lying and the truth is not in us (1 John 2:3-4)

Hope this is helpful,

In Christ always

It's like you are on the right path in focusing on the important theme of obeying God rather than man, but stop short of the delight, the privilege, and the blessings that could be yours by letting man limit you to only obeying only ten of God's commands. Those who are in Christ ought to walk in the same way that he walked (1 John 2:3-6), and the way that he walked was in perfect obedience to all of God's commands.
 
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What law Stewart? Why does the same writer in the same chapter tell us if we believe in Jesus and love our fellow man like Jesus loves us that we are doing the will of God? Why must you think we have to keep Torah in order to be sinless? Why didn't John tell us it is Torah that we have to keep in order to be sinless? Instead of parroting others why not read the truth for yourself?
1Jn3

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
 
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WHAT DID JESUS AND THE APOSTLES TEACH ABOUT GOD’S LAW

Jesus taught the 10 commandments…..

1. Jesus kept God’s Law (10 commandments) and said the Law and the prophets would not pass away (Matt 5:17-18)
2. Jesus taught others to follow the 10 commandments (Mark 10:17-21)
3. Jesus taught that Love is the fulfilling (doing) of God’s Law (10 commandments Matt 22:36-40)
4. If we break God’s Law by following man-made traditions we are not following God (Matt 15:3-9)
5. Jesus says if we commit sin we are a servant of sin and he has come to free us from sin (John 8:32-36)
6. Jesus taught if you love God you will keep God’s Law and abide in His Love (John 14:15; 15:10
7. If anyone is breaking any of God’s commandments and teaching others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven <least = lost> (Matt 15:19)
8. No one can obey God’s Law producing the fruit of obedience of ourselves and unless we abide in Jesus we can do nothing (John 15:4-10)

"The Law and the Prophets" (1) is a phrase that specifically refers to the five books of Moses and the eight books of Prophets in the Hebrew canon, so there is no way to reduce that to only the Ten Commandments. I would agree with (2), but I think he was just listing examples of commands in regard to loving our neighbor, and where he lacked was in the commands to loving our creators. In (3), Jesus said that all of the Law and the Prophets hang on the greatest two commands, so all of the laws in the OT are included. I agree with (4-5), but they don't specify the Ten Commandments. With (6), Jesus said in John 14:23-24 that his teaching was not his own, but that of the Father, which was a lot more than just the Ten Commandments. In regard to (7), this is a warning you should take more seriously because you are relaxing more the least of the commands when you teach that we don't have to obey ceremonial laws. I agree with (8), but again same point.

Paul affirms the Ten Commandments……
1. Paul teaches that there remains therefore a "Sabbath rest for the people of God" Hebrews 4.
2. Paul tells gentiles that "what matters is KEEPING the Commandments of GOD" 1 Cor 7:19
3. Paul tellw gentiles "it is not the HEARERS of the Law that are just before God but the DOERS of the Law will be justified... on the day when according to my GOSPEL God will judge all mankind" Rom 2:13-16
4. Paul askw that gentiles consider the doctrine of LAW "Do we then make void the LAW of God by our faith? God forbid! In fact we establish the Law of God" Rom 3:31
5. Paul tells ALL Christians that it is only the lost who will "not subject themselves to the LAw of God neither indeed CAN they" Rom 8:6-8
6. Paul tells gentiles that "The Law" is in fact "The LAW of Moses" and is to be used for testing doctrine 1Cor 9:8-9
7 Paul reaches all Christians under the NEW Covenant that God's LAW as known in Jer 31:31-33 is "written on the heart and mind" Heb 8:7-11
8. Paul tells all Christians that the OT text is to be used for Doctrine 2Tim 3:16
(see point 5 below) AND He never claims that "if I did not write it -- it is not scripture for us today" -- as one or two have imagined for us.
9. Paul tells all Christians that the 5th commandment is the "FIRST commandment with a promise" Eph 6:1-2 and is binding on all Christians.

I agree with (1 and 9), but (2-5,7) don't specify the Ten Commandments, while (6 and 8) actually inconsistent with only speaking about the Ten Commandments.

John affirms the 10 commandments……
1. John says it is only by keeping God’s 10 commandments that we know that we know God (1 John 2:3)
2. If someone says that they know God and do not keep God’s 10 commandments they are lying and not telling the truth (1 John 2:4)
3. We should purify ourselves as Jesus is pure (1 John 3:3)
4. Sin is the breaking of God’s 10 commandments (1 John 3:4)
5. Whoever is abiding in Christ does not commit sin (1 John 3:6; John 15:4-10)
6. If you are in unrepentant sin you have not seen Jesus or know him (1 John 3:6)
7. John warns us that only those that are obedience to God’s Law are his true followers (1 John 3:7)
8. If someone is committing unrepentant sin they are following the devil and not God (1 John 3:7)
9. If you are born of God and abiding in him you will not commit sin (1 John 3:9; 1 John 3:6; John 15:4-10
10. It is the keeping of God’s commandments that is the difference between those that are following God and those that are not following God (1 John 3:10; 1 John 5:3)
11. It is only by Love through faith that we can keep God’s commandments (1 John 5:3-4)
12. God’s true believers in the end days will keep all of God’s commandments through faith in Jesus (Rev 14:12; 22:14)

None of these points specify that they are only talking about the Ten Commandments.

James also affirms the 10 commandments…….
1. James says God’s Law (10 commandments) are a Royal Law (James 2:8)
2. If we break one of God’s commandments we a guilty before God as sinners breaking all of God’s Law and gave some examples of breaking God’s Law (James 2:9-11)
3. James says God’s Law is a law of liberty and freedom (James 2:12)
4. The 10 commandments (God’s Law) are the standard in the judgment (James 2:12)
5. If our faith does not have the fruit of obedience to God’s Law it is dead and not true faith (James 2:16-26)

See above.

Peter affirms the 10 commandments……..
1. Sanctification is to obedience to God’s Law (1 Pet 1:2)
2. We can only be changed from sin to obedience to God’s Law by the power of God and it will be revealed in the last days (1 Pet 1:5)
3. We should give up our sins to be holy because Jesus is holy (1 Pet 1:13-16)
4. Jesus is your example who did no sin (1 Pet 2:21-22)
5. Cease from sin and do not live in the flesh (1 Pet 4:1-3)
6. Judgement will begin at the house of God and sinners (those breaking God’s 10 commandments) will not be saved.
7. God has given us his precious promises and as we believe them God will grant us his divine power to live a life of Godliness (obedience to God’s Law; 2 Pet 1:2-4)
8. The Un-Godly (disobedient to God’s Law) will be like Sodom and Gomorrah (2 Pet 2:6)
9. If any turn away from God’s Law and are in unrepentant sin breaking any of God’10 commandments they will be lost (2 Pet 2:20-22)
10 God is not willing that any should perish but that everyone should come to repentance and turn away from sin to follow God’s 10 commandments because those that do not will receive the judgements of God (2 Pet 3:5-14)

See above.

What did Jesus and the Apostles teach about the Sabbath in the New Testament?
1. It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath (Matt 12:1-8; 10-12; 24:20; Mark 3:1-5; Luke 6:1-10; 13:14-16; 14:1-5; John 7:22-23; 9:14; Mark 1:21; Mark 6:2; Luke 4:16; 31; Luke 14:1; 23:56)
2. Jesus made the Sabbath for all mankind (Mark 2:27)
3. Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28)
4. If you do not believe and follow God you cannot enter His Sabbath rest (Hebrews 4)
5. It is one of God’s 10 commandments we break it we are guilty or breaking all (James 2:8-12)
6. Breaking it is sin (1 John 3:4)
7. God’s true followers keep it Holy as God commanded (Rev 14:12; Rev 22:14; Eze 20:20)
8. Jesus is our example and he kept the Sabbath (Matt 12:1-8; 10-12; 24:20; Mark 3:1-5; Luke 6:1-10; 13:14-16; 14:1-5; John 7:22-23; 9:14; Mark 1:21; Mark 6:2; Luke 4:16; 31; Luke 14:1; 23:56; John 2:6; Matt 16:24; 1 Cor 11:1; Eph 5:1-21; Pet 2:20-22)
9. The Apostle kept the Sabbath (Acts 13:14; 13:27; 13:44; 15:21; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4; Rev 1:10)

I agree.

God’s Law in the NC is written on our hearts it is through love and it is love the fulfils God’s Law in us as we walk not after the flesh but after the spirit and is why Jesus says f you love me keep my commandments. (John 14:15; John 15:10). If we knowingly break one of God’s commandments we commit sin (1 John 3:4). This includes the 7th Day Sabbath which Jesus made for us and commands us to keep as a holy day.

In Christ Always!

I also agree.
 
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What law Stewart? Why does the same writer in the same chapter tell us if we believe in Jesus and love our fellow man like Jesus loves us that we are doing the will of God? Why must you think we have to keep Torah in order to be sinless? Why didn't John tell us it is Torah that we have to keep in order to be sinless? Instead of parroting others why not read the truth for yourself?
1Jn3

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Nothing you have written in the above shows that law written on stone is not now on tablets of human hearts.
Indeed, you appear very confused about the subject.
One minute you say the law got abolished, the next it exists to make us conscious of sin
 
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What law Stewart? Why does the same writer in the same chapter tell us if we believe in Jesus and love our fellow man like Jesus loves us that we are doing the will of God? Why must you think we have to keep Torah in order to be sinless? Why didn't John tell us it is Torah that we have to keep in order to be sinless? Instead of parroting others why not read the truth for yourself?
1Jn3

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
I mean, perish the thought a Christian in their heart wouldn't want to murder, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness for God transferred that law into their hearts.
Scandalous!!!
 
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Actually, Bob S isn't far from the truth if he did but know it. Law does exist, and it makes us conscious of sin, and it seers our consciences when we wilfully transgress it for that law is in our hearts. But law does NOT exist as a law of righteousness for the believer
 
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The internets a strange place at times.
On the one hand we have people, in reality preaching righteousness of observing the law/ follow after the written code not the Holy Spirit( for you cannot do both) rom7:6

And on the other hand we have people claiming what was written in the law on stone all got abolished. Well sometimes they believe it all got abolished anyway.
 
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