Israel and the New Covenant.

[SabbathBlessings]

God's covenants are with Israel. The New Covenant is also made with Israel.

The first covenant

He spoke to the Nation of Israel. He spoke the Ten Commandments, codified it with His own finger and added no more to them Deut5:22

Exo 34: 28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Sadly the covenant was broken before Moses could deliver the written Testimony of God because there was a delay. So God re-wrote the exact words on stone again. Deut 10:4

This cannot be a clearer expression of God's will, written by God, spoken by God, His Testimony under His mercy seat where judgement and mercy will come together soon. Rev11:18-19

Because Israel did not continue in the covenant because they broke it. God keeps His promises and said He would not alter His words of the covenant Psa89:34 not a jot or tittle Mat5:18. So in His longsuffering for mankind, He writes a New Covenant, not established on the old promises of the people doing Exo 19:8 it is established on the better promises Heb 8:6 of what He will do. Heb8:10 Instead of writing His covenant in stone, He writes them in the hearts and minds of His people. Still made to Isarel.

Heb 8:10 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 in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

If we are God's people, we are in a Covenant relationship with God and heirs to the promises Gal 3:26-29. If we are in a Covenant relationship with God, we have His laws (His version) from written on stone (external) to written in the heart (internal- part of who we are) 2 Cor3:3 God keeping His promises Psa89:34 Mat5:18 based on Him doing Heb8:10 John14:15-18

So what does Israel mean?

God gives us these answers....

Exo 4:22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD: "Israel is My son, My firstborn.
Hos 11:1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.

Israel is God's son, His firstborn. If Israel was literal it would mean Adam. Obviously its not literal as it represents God's people.

Who is the true Israel?

Mat 2:14 When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt,
Mat 2:15 and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON."

Christ is the true fulfillment of Israel.

Christ is the Vine, we are the branches and Gentiles are grafted into Christ or Israel (God's people) through faith

Gal 3:7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.


Rom 11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles
Rom 11:12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
Rom 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
Rom 11:14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
Rom 11:15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Rom 11:11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
Rom 11:16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
Rom 11:18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
Rom 11:19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."
Rom 11:20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
Rom 11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.

The only way we are part of God's Israel is through faith. Tuning out all of the noise of the world and following what God of the Bible says.
Jesus makes it so clear we need to be connected to the Vine. And of course those who have not rebelled against the new covenant Rom8:7-8 and keep His commandments as they have God's laws written in their hearts and minds, His version because He is God Exo31:18 Deut4:13, not mans edited version against the will of God Deut4:2 Psa89:34 Mat5:18 Isa56:6

Joh 15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
Joh 15:2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Joh 15:3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
Joh 15:5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
Joh 15:8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
Joh 15:9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
Joh 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.


1Jn 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
1Jn 2:4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1Jn 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
1Jn 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.


1Jn 3:24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Lets enter into the New Covenant by faith. Having our Fathers laws written in our hearts and minds obeying Him and His Testimony which there is no One greater, through our love and faith.

These are the saints that will enter into the gates of heaven.

Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

Lets get back to what the God of the Bible and Universe Rev14:7 Exo20:11 says before its too late Rev18:4 Rev22:11

 

[childeye 2]

John 1:13
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Matthew 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Galatians 4:23-29
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise

24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Deuteronomy 9:12
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

Exodus 31:13
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

1 Corinthians 1:30
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Philippians 3:3-7
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

Yes the allegory of the two covenants, one came by flesh, what man did, like when Sarah took it upon herself to fill God's promise that He would make Abraham a great nation by conceiving a child with Hagar a bondwomen, versus allowing God do so by His promise through Sarah. The first covenant was based on the people doing Exo 19:8, verses the promise of what God will do Heb8:10. Why the NC is established on better promises Heb8:6

 

[Delvianna]

Amen! Very well thought out and written, excellent job!

 

[childeye 2]

Yes the allegory of the two covenants, one came by flesh, what man did, like when Sarah took it upon herself to fill God's promise that He would make Abraham a great nation by conceiving a child with Hagar a bondwomen, versus allowing God do so by His promise through Sarah. The first covenant was based on the people doing Exo 19:8, verses the promise of what God will do Heb8:10. Why the NC is established on better promises Heb8:6

Hebrews 3:18-19
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Acts 7:49
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

Hebrews 4:4
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

Hebrews 3:18-19
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Yes, unbelief is sin (breaking God's laws 1John3:4 James2:11) rebellion and disobedience. We are told not to follow the same path of disobedience, so we can enter our rest, which is in God's Kingdom Rev22:14 No one in God's Kingdom is going to be breaking God's commandments that is unrest, rebellion, sin and unbelief. Isa48:18 Rev14:11-12

Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

 

[childeye 2]

Yes, unbelief is sin (breaking God's laws 1John3:4 James2:11) rebellion and disobedience. We are told not to follow the same path of disobedience, so we can enter our rest, which is in God's Kingdom Rev22:14 No one in God's Kingdom is going to be breaking God's commandments that is unrest. Isa48:18 Rev14:11-12

Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4:7-10

7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

I believe we cease from trying to make ourselves righteous through the works of the letter of the law (ten commandments) even as we come to believe/understand that it is God's Spirit Who sanctifies us. --> It's my testimony that The Holy Spirit uses Love God with all your heart mind and soul and love your neighbor as yourself, to convict me of sin.

 

[Delvianna]

Hebrews 4:7-10

7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

I believe we cease from trying to make ourselves righteous through the works of the law as we come to believe/understand that it is God Who sanctifies us.

There is saving faith and there is faith that does not save. Saving faith has PROOF which shows in our actions Paul argues this point in Romans 4.
Example: "What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. - Romans 4:3 and in James
"But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. " James 2:18

So in essence, faith is proven via works. Not that works are what saves you (like the law) but it proves where your heart is. True faith will want to keep his commandments, but those who practice lawlessness (sin on a continual basis) will be given this:

"“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" - Matthew 7:21-23

Edit: fixed the romans verse, Sorry! And adding:

"And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only." - James 2:23-24

 

[SabbathBlessings]

I was hoping to address the OP, but happy talking about this as it is important as long as it doesn't get too off topic.

Hebrews 4:7-10

7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Today we are not to harden our hearts in rebellion, disobedience unbelief Heb 3:7-19 which is a direct quote from David Psa 95. We should not wait another day to obey God.

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

Jesus, would have let the Israelites enter into their promise land much sooner had it not been for sin rebellion and disobedience. Why they spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness during their trial and why another day of entering Canaan was spoken of.

One of the things they rebelled against in the trial of the wilderness, which sadly many continue doing so, despite being told not to follow in the same path of disobedience

Eze 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Yes, the rest remains for the people of God and the rest in this verse literally translates into keeping the Sabbath

sabbatismos: Sabbath rest
Original Word: σαββατισμός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Pronunciation: sab-bat-is-mos'
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos')
Definition: Sabbath rest
Meaning: a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Yes, to enter into Christ rest one must ALSO cease from his works as God did from His, on the seventh day Heb4:4 Exo20:11 Gen2:1-3. Why Sabbath-keeping remains for the people of God, because in God's rest there is no sin, rebellion or disobedience, Just peace.

Isa 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Yes and other translations use the word disobedience which means the same thing as unbelief, sin and rebellion

Heb4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience

 

[childeye 2]

There is saving faith and there is faith that does not save. Saving faith has PROOF which shows in our actions Paul argues this point in Romans 4.
Example: "What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. - Romans 4:3 and in James
"But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. " James 2:18

James is not claiming saving faith does the works of the law to be saved. James is talking about works that are the fruit of the Spirit.

So in essence, faith is proven via works.

There is a transformation from the carnal mind to the spiritual mind. So, I'd say some will have more faith than others as their faith grows, but it's not proven by works of the law, it's proven by the fruits of the Spirit. If the fruits are not present in one's life, then for some reason the Spirit is not prospering in that body.

Not that works are what saves you (like the law) but it proves where your heart is. True faith will want to keep his commandments, but those who practice lawlessness (sin on a continual basis) will be given this:

"“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" - Matthew 7:21-23

Edit: fixed the romans verse, Sorry!

Jesus said he establishes the law, not abolishes the law. His point is that the Righteousness of his Spirit is greater than the righteousness of the letter of the law.

 

[Abraham1st]

There is saving faith and there is faith that does not save. Saving faith has PROOF which shows in our actions Paul argues this point in Romans 4.
Example: "What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. - Romans 4:3 and in James
"But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. " James 2:18

So in essence, faith is proven via works. Not that works are what saves you (like the law) but it proves where your heart is. True faith will want to keep his commandments, but those who practice lawlessness (sin on a continual basis) will be given this:


"And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only." - James 2:23-24

Abraham believed God and obeyed and went into the land of Canaan. Abraham is given the promises, and this is what is important, because Christ confirmed those promises. Abraham also offered his only son to God when called to offer hm as sacrifice on the alter, receiving him as a figure. ( to Christ.)

These parts are important, because all is about Christ, this is here the blessing from the curse comes from, and why we are to believe in Christ having to be made a curse for us, while hanged on the tree. So without Abraham offering Isaac, the faith would not be perfect as it would be incomplete, and voided. The same as Jesus Christ, if He did not come into the world to confirm the promises made to the fathers, no righteousness would matter for Abraham or anyone else, as it is all in what our Lord Jesus Christ did.

in that same respect, Jesus commands us to love as He loved us, by the greater love to lay our lives down for our friends/the brothers, so faith that saves has to all go together, or it is incomplete and cannot work at all unless it is finished. ( all things are what saves)

 

[Delvianna]

James is not claiming saving faith does the works of the law to be saved. James is talking about works that are the fruit of the Spirit.

There is a transformation from the carnal mind to the spiritual mind. So, I'd say some will have more faith than others as their faith grows, but it's not proven by works of the law, it's proven by the fruits of the Spirit. If the fruits are not present in one's life, then for some reason the Spirit is not prospering in that body.

Jesus said he establishes the law, not abolishes the law. His point is that the Righteousness of his Spirit is greater than the righteousness of the letter of the law.

We need to establish what the law is because you're conflating the term "Law". There is the spiritual law (like the 10 commandments, which is why they are called commandments) and there is the religious Law (like being circumcised and sacrifice) which the Jews had to follow. Jesus fulfill the religious requirements of the "law" that were given to the Jews by being the perfect sacrifice which is why the temple curtain tore in two. But there is no alteration from the spiritual law that God requires us to follow. The moral law (commandments) will forever be in place because without it, "lawlessness" will increase.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

James is not claiming saving faith does the works of the law to be saved. James is talking about works that are the fruit of the Spirit.

There is a transformation from the carnal mind to the spiritual mind. So, I'd say some will have more faith than others as their faith grows, but it's not proven by works of the law, it's proven by the fruits of the Spirit. If the fruits are not present in one's life, then for some reason the Spirit is not prospering in that body.

Jesus said he establishes the law, not abolishes the law. His point is that the Righteousness of his Spirit is greater than the righteousness of the letter of the law.

How do you keep the spirit of the law by breaking the letter? Are you indicating we can literally murder our brother and literally steal from them? I think there's some misunderstanding here. I would suggest using Scriptures so we can see what is really being stated.

The law does not give us righteousness. The law shows us what righteousness is Psa119:172 and what sin is Rom 3:20 Rom7:7 but the law can't save us. We are only saved by faith through Jesus. Does faith void the law? Of course not Rom3:31 Jesus said why do you call me Lord Lord and not do what I say? Luke6:46 Faith is hearing, believing and doing. Our choices and who we obey determine the path we are on. There are only two paths. Whoever we obey is who we serve.

Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

The saints do not keep the law to be saved, its kept because of the love of Jesus and if we are abiding in Him, He is fulfilled the righteousness of the law meaning the right doing of the law in us, so its being kept through the power of the Holy Spirit John 14:15-18 John 15:10 the promise of being in a NC relationship with God. Heb8:10 If we are sinning and not trying to forsake our sins through Jesus Pro28:13 sadly it makes one an enmity to God Rom8:7-8 and have probably not entered His covenant promises.

 

[Abraham1st]

Yes, to enter into Christ rest one must ALSO cease from his works as God did from His, on the seventh day Heb4:4 Exo20:11 Gen2:1-3. Why Sabbath-keeping remains for the people of God, because in God's rest there is no sin, rebellion or disobedience, Just peace.

Isa 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Yes and other translations use the word disobedience which means the same thing as unbelief, sin and rebellion

Heb4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience

To be saved, Christ had to go through the law keeper Jews to only care about our Lord Jesus Christ offending them if Jesus or anyone was on the cross on the sabbath high day, that was their love and concern, total wickedness.

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.


But to be saved, Jesus Christ is a stumblngblock to that hatred, because the cross is foolishness to all who dont believe in Jesus Christ being dead then risen again.


The commandment of Christ is to love as He did, not as the Jews were to be concerned by nothing, but to be concefrned by others suffering, and to lay our lives down for our friends/the brothers.


1 Corinthians 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;



John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.



As for rest, it is by belief, not ours by that of Christ to confirm the promises given to Abraham, which he also had being uncircumcised. To be saved is not what was done in the law, but what Jesus Christ did and for us to believe in that, that is the rest that Christ entered into and what was glorious, after He suffered and rose again.



Romans 4:12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

Romans 4L20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Hebrews 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Isaiah 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

Luke 24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

 

[Abraham1st]

Jesus said he establishes the law, not abolishes the law. His point is that the Righteousness of his Spirit is greater than the righteousness of the letter of the law.

The law of faith is established, there is no righteousness in the letter of the law, it has sin in it. ( the law was added because of transgressions.)

 

[childeye 2]

I was hoping to address the OP, but happy talking about this as it is important as long as it doesn't get too off topic.

I thought this is about Israel and the New Covenant. What do you feel I've said is off topic?

Today we are not to harden our hearts in rebellion, disobedience unbelief Heb 3:7-19 which is a direct quote from David Psa 95. We should not wait another day to obey God.

Right, so long as we hear His voice; So long as He speaks to us.

Jesus, would have let the Israelites enter into their promise land much sooner had it not been for sin rebellion and disobedience. Why they spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness during their trial and why another day of entering Canaan was spoken of.

One of the things they rebelled against in the trial of the wilderness, which sadly many continue doing so, despite being told not to follow in the same path of disobedience

Eze 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Well, this is what concerns me. Are you saying that if people don't work six days and rest on the Sabbath, they are rebelling against Christ and despise God's judgments?

Yes, the rest remains for the people of God and the rest in this verse literally translates into keeping the Sabbath

The rest I found is in the hope of God's mercy I saw in the Love of the Christ on the cross. I'm forgiven as I forgive others who would crucify me. The Spirit of the Sabbath is remembering that it's God who sanctifies me and My faith in Christ is that God will perform the work in me that He began.

sabbatismos: Sabbath rest
Original Word: σαββατισμός
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Pronunciation: sab-bat-is-mos'
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos')
Definition: Sabbath rest
Meaning: a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.

Yes, to enter into Christ rest one must ALSO cease from his works as God did from His, on the seventh day Heb4:4 Exo20:11 Gen2:1-3. Why Sabbath-keeping remains for the people of God, because in God's rest there is no sin, rebellion or disobedience, Just peace.

Isa 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Yes and other translations use the word disobedience which means the same thing as unbelief, sin and rebellion

Heb4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience

The letter of the law was meant to condemn sin --> Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 2 Corinthians 3:6.

 

[Abraham1st]

We need to establish what the law is because you're conflating the term "Law". There is the spiritual law (like the 10 commandments, which is why they are called commandments) and there is the religious Law (like being circumcised and sacrifice) which the Jews had to follow. Jesus fulfill the religious requirements of the "law" that were given to the Jews by being the perfect sacrifice which is why the temple curtain tore in two. But there is no alteration from the spiritual law that God requires us to follow. The moral law (commandments) will forever be in place because without it, "lawlessness" will increase.

Lawlessness cant increase without the law being in place, lawlessness was because of the law, that is why a new law went out from God, of the law written in the heart by the Spirit the new covenant from God, following/believing in Christ is to see how God from heaven loves us, while we are sinners/enemies in our mind to God by wicked works ( done by being under the law) but we become friends to God by believing He sent His Son to redeem us from the law, that held us dead.

 

[childeye 2]

The law of faith is established, there is no righteousness in the letter of the law, it has sin in it. ( the law was added because of transgressions.)

I'm not sure what you mean by the law of faith; The law of life in Christ? Paul said if righteousness came through the law, Christ died in vain. Therefore, there is righteousness in the power of the cross.

 

[Abraham1st]

How do you keep the spirit of the law by breaking the letter?

The letter is broken by faith, as the law is not of faith.


Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Galatians 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

The law does not give us righteousness. The law shows us what righteousness is Psa119:172 and what sin is Rom 3:20 Rom7:7 but the law can't save us. We are only saved by faith through Jesus. Does faith void the law? Of course not Rom3:31

Jesus Christ shows us what righteousness is, it is His righteousness that is declared, not that of the law.


Romans 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.


Jesus Christ by the same faith shows us what sin is, sin is unbelief in the Lord Jesus Christ..


John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Romans 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

The saints do not keep the law to be saved, its kept because of the love of Jesus and if we are abiding in Him, He is fulfilled the righteousness of the law meaning the right doing of the law in us, so its being kept through the power of the Holy Spirit John 14:15-18 John 15:10 the promise of being in a NC relationship with God. Heb8:10 If we are sinning and not trying to forsake our sins through Jesus Pro28:13 sadly it makes one an enmity to God Rom8:7-8 and have probably not entered His covenant promises.

To love another is the fulfilling of the law, it is the law of Christ. ( which is what He fulfilled and what we are to believe in, how He loved us and died for us to redeem us from the CURSE of law)


Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

 

[Abraham1st]

I'm not sure what you mean by the law of faith; The law of life in Christ? Paul said if righteousness came through the law, Christ died in vain. Therefore, there is righteousness in the power of the cross.

Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.