Mark 1:21, Mark 6:2, Luke 4:16, Luke 4:31, Luke 13:10.
Where are we told to follow Jesus example?
That's what it means to be a follower or disciple of Christ or be made to be like Christ. In 1 Peter 2:21-22, it says to follow his example, in 1 John 2:3-6, it says that those who are in Christ we ought to walk in the same way that he walked, and 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul said to imitate him for he imitated Christ.
Were is it taken as granted that Gentiles are going to be continuing to keep the Sabbath and learn about how to obey the Law of Moses every week?
Acts 15:21.
You keep telling us that, but there were 613 laws that pertained to Israel. Many of them were ritual laws. Only the laws pertaining to morality are laws Christians acknowledge and are part of the new covenant law of love.
Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to obey God, so all of God's laws are inherently moral laws. In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Law and the Prophets as being instructions for how to love God and how to love your neighbor, and Galatian 5:14, it says that love fulfills the entire Law, so the Mosaic Law is the law of love.
True, but all the laws every Israelite was subject to like cutting sideburns, wearing special material and on and on you cast off as unimportant or cannot be observed because.... all excuses if you believe you are subject to the Law of Moses.
There's no particular reason why those laws can't be observed, but how they should be observe is a matter of interpretation. For example, they command is not to mar the corners of the beard, which Jews have interpreted according to tradition as not cutting their sideburns, but I do not think that is correct. The word means corrupt, blemish, damage, destroy, destruction, devastate, ruin, harm, waste, or ravage, so it is not how I would describe someone who was trimming an overgrown hedge to make the sides nice and even, but is more akin to someone who started with a nicely trimmed hedge and hacked away at it haphazardly with a chainsaw. The practice is associated with the prohibition of cutting oneself for the dead, so it was likely associated a pagan tradition, and never intended to cause people to walk around with long sideburns.
Too bad you burden yourselves with laws that only pertained to Israel
We become part of God's chosen people, Israel, through faith in Messiah (Romans 9:6-8, Ephesians 2:12-19, 1 Peter 2:21-22, Jeremiah 31:31). While God's Law was only given to Israel, it was never meant only for Israel, but rather Israel was intended to be a light to the nations to teach them how to serve God and to walk in His ways (Deuteronomy 4:5-6, Isaiah 2:2-3, Isaiah 49:6), and there are many verses that quote walking in God ways as following His Law. You are focusing too much on who the commands were given to and not enough on who they were given by because God was instructing them how to walk in His ways.
I found it in 1jn3:19-24 and it reads like this: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.
If you will notice John gives Christians the key as to what is expected of us. The key given to you by some person didn't come from scripture, it came from that person's imagination. I believe we should go by what scripture tells us. People err. As you can plainly see John didn't put a 10 in front of commands nor did he tell us we are subject to the law of Moses. God had commands well before the ones He specifically gave to Israel. Paul even wrote that the 10 commandments were temporary laws and he came to the same conclusion that John did, the Holy Spirit guides us not the law.
I was speaking about looking something that specifically lists how to have a holy conduct, which you have not yet found. It doesn't do you any good to say that we just need to believe in Jesus when you don't understand what it means to believe in him. You can't believe that he is Lord without submitting to him as Lord, and Romans 10:5-10 quotes Deuteronomy 30:11-14 in regard to what it means to submit to him as Lord. Likewise, you can't believe that he gave himself to redeem you from all Lawlessness and purify a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works while while not repenting of your Lawlessness and refusing to obey His instructions for how to do good works.
God's righteousness is eternal (Psalms 119:142), so the way to act according to His righteousness is likewise eternal (Psalms 119:160), and we have much evidence of these laws already being in place prior to Sinai, so the Law did not change anything, but rather it revealed what has always and will always be ways to walk according to God's righteous. When God instructed Israel how to act according to His righteousness and you are told to act according to His righteousness, then it shouldn't be this difficult for you to figure out what you should be doing.
What "they" did and what is expected of Christians are two different things. Paul kept the feasts, but he didn't expect others to do as he did. Holy conduct is ow we relate to God and to our fellow man, not to a ritual day given only to Israel which is now defunct along with the ritual day.
In 1 Peter 1:13-16, he was reference Leviticus in order to show what is expected of Christians. Paul instruct us to imitate him as he imitated Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). Disciples followed their rabbi around learning to memorize their teachings learning to follow their example, so there was no room for a rabbi to say one thing and do something else, but rather they taught by both word and by example.
Leviticus 11:45-45 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.”
Very clearly, one of the ways that God instructed for how to have a holy conduct in accordance with His eternal and unchanging holiness was to not defile ourselves by eating unclean animals. So this is not just in regard to how we related to our fellow man.
Right, they are shadows of a defunct nation. The reality is Jesus. We are not living in a shadow. Well, you might be, but you certainly are not going to convince me that I should.
Jesus brought light to the shadows so that we could see their full meaning in what God was teaching us through them. Understanding Jesus as being our Passover Lamb makes it all the more important to celebrate Passover, and to rehearse what we will be doing during his reign.
It is good to study. It is not good to spend time doing things that have no value towards our salvation. It is not good to study the twisted word which is what you are doing.
According to Titus 2:11-14, our salvation involves being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, and sinful, which is essentially what God's Law was given to instruct us how to do, so our salvation involves being trained by grace to do these things.
