Hi ViaCrucis,
Yes, and I am a sinner too. However, in order to be a sinner you need to have the law that identifies you as such when you transgress it. The Ten Commandments are said law and that law contains the command to remember the Sabbath. If you believe--as some do--that the Ten Commandments are abolished, then you and I are not sinners. If we are not sinners, then we have no need of a Savior.
From my understanding of Scripture icy that the new covenant is only for the "people of Israel and the people of Judah" (Hebrews 8:7-13). If you're a Gentile like me then we become part of Israel by being grafted into Israel's tree (Romans 11:11-24).
I pray this helps.
But for the grace of God go I,cyspark
The NT is clear that the ten commands have been replaced by the two love commands, which fulfills ALL the law, without a command to keep any days.
That’s because Jesus is our rest, and the ceremonial day of rest ended.
It’s not a hard concept, yet shadow keepers continue to act clueless about the fact that love does no harm to your neighbor, thus love fulfills all the law.
The ten commands were an external law kept out of fear of punishment.
You didn’t murder your neighbor because you love him, but because you would be stoned to death under the same law that Moses received.
It’s not a hard concept to understand there is a huge difference between the reason for keeping the two commands vs the old ten.
Say you have two families, the smith family and the Jones family.
In both families the son has a law given to him to mow the lawn.
You might equate both laws as being the same, because both call for the lawn to be mowed.
But then you find out mr smith told his son, mow the lawn every Saturday, or I’ll kill you by stoning you to death - but mr Jones told his son to mow the lawn because he loves his father.
The two love commands far exceed a mere ten on how well you treat your neighbor, and thus are far superior.
And keeping them is done for a superior reason than fear of
Hi ViaCrucis,
Martin Luther gets it right when he affirms the ongoing continuity of the Ten Commandment covenant. He gets it wrong when he attempts to disembody the Sabbath from the unit of Ten, thus making his previous affirmation null and void since he is in reality only affirming the nine commandments. The Bible knows of no such fractured unit.
Of the Ten Commandments Paul calls them "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:7-12).
God bless!
But for the grace of God go I,cyspark
Now quote the rest of Paul, the law is only still in effect for the ungodly and sinners, but no longer is in effect for Christians.
What shadow keepers don’t realize is, the law of Moses is not meant for a righteous person, but for the ungodly, for sinners, for murderers, etc.: because it exists to show the unsaved what sin IS.
1Ti 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a RIGHTEOUS man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for THE UNGODLY and for SINNERS , for UNHOLY and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1Ti 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Christians are not ungodly anymore, but are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, thus we’ve died to the law.
Rom 7:4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have DIED TO THE LAW through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Rom 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, AROUSED BY THE LAW, were at work in our members to bear fruit for DEATH.
Rom 7:6 But now we are RELEASED from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the NEW way of the SPIRIT and not in the OLD way of the written code.
For Christians only, (not the ungodly) Jesus nailed the law of Moses to His cross and took it out of our way:
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
And the law of Moses was temporary until Christ came:
Gal 3:19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made (Jesus Christ), and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Gal 3:23 But BEFORE faith came, we were KEPT UNDER THE LAW, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Wherefore THE LAW was our SCHOOLMASTER to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But AFTER that faith is come, we are NO LONGER under a schoolmaster.
Christians have the fruit of the spirit, instead of the letter of the law, which is why for us THERE IS NO LAW, of Moses for us:
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such THERE IS NO LAW.
Paul comes right out and says, he is not under the law of Moses, but IS under the law of Christ ( the law of love aka the two love commands).
1Co 9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
1Co 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though NOT being myself UNDER THE LAW) that I might win those under the law.
1Co 9:21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but UNDER the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
There is a new covenant, that took effect at His death, as it was Jesus’ last will and Testament, and a blood covenant, and it is also with the House of Israel, meaning national Israel, not so-called spirit Israel.
(BTW the Bible doesn’t say that Christians are spiritual Jews, it says that genetic Jews are no longer Jews because of their national heritage, but they must be spiritually circumcised.
Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Proof of that is Romans 11 which shows there is a distinction between national Jews, and gentiles who believe, because gentiles have to be grafted into the new covenant with the House of Israel, by faith.
If Christians were spiritual Jews, they would not need grafted into the covenant with the House of Israel, per Romans 11.
However, we ARE said to be the seed of Abraham, and heirs to the promise, but Abraham was a Hebrew, not a Jew).
