Christ's death ended what? The authority of ceremonial law you say. The 4th commandment is purely ceremonial. To keep the 4th because of creation is ceremonial.
The 4th commandment was
never ceremonial. It is a
memorial of creation you can read it here.
Exodus 20:8-12,
8, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9, Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:10, 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:
<why?> 11,
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.
God has set the 7th Day aside in the creation week by making it a Holy day because it is a memorial of the finished work of creation.
Genesis 2:1-3,
1, Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2,
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3, And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Ceremonial laws were only prophetic in nature and shadows of the plan of salvation for forgiveness of sin under the Old Covenant (burnt offerings, animal sacrifices, meat and drink offerings, festivals etc under the ceremonial laws of Moses) The 7th Day Sabbath was never a ceremonial law of Moses. It is one of God's 10 commandments. It is part of a FINISHED WORK of the creation week and was given for mankind BEFORE SIN entered the world so can never be a shadow of anything. (
Genesis 2:1-3, Mark 2:27). The 4th commandment is a memorial not ceremonial and as such is a part of God's Forever Laws forming the standard of the Old and New Covenants (stone and heart) and the judgement to come (
James 2:8-12)
Correct in that Jesus doesn't give liberty to sin. The problem with your presentation is the belief sin is only transgression of the law. That isn't what the full verse of 1 John 3:4 states.
Sin is not believing God's Word and breaking God's Law
1 John 3:4,
Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law:
for sin is the transgression of the law.
Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7,
What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
God forbid.
No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
God's Law shows us what sin is and gives us a knowledge of what sin is
No one here promotes the idea the law is annihilated. No one here says the law never was. What the Scripture teaches is the law is no longer in force. See Luke 16:16 for example. There's no need in referencing every passage. If Luke 16:16 isn't believed neither will any other passages. John 3:3 isn't based on the anything found in the OT.
The scriptures
do not teach God's Law is not in force. The scriptures do however teach the ceremonial laws of Moses are no longer binding because they pointed to Jesus and were nailed to the cross Col 2:14. This is where you are confused I think.
God’s Law (10 commandments) had a similar role in the Old Covenant as it does in the New Covenant and that is to point out sin and the standard of God’s righteousness.
(1) God’s Law point out what sin is and the punishment of sin which is death (Rom 3:20; 1John 3:4). It was never a cure for sin. But it was the work of God which is forever and the foundation of the Old Covenant, the New Covenant and the Judgement to come.
(Ex 32:16; Ex 31:18; 31:18; Ex 20:1-22; Deut 10:5; Rom 3:20; 1
John 3:4; Rom 6:23; Heb 7:19; Ecc 12:13-14,
James 2:10-12, 1
John 3:4, Acts 17:31; Ps 111:7-8; Rev 12:17; 14:12; 22:14; 1
John 3:5-8; 1
John 2:3-4; Ecc 3:14)
(2) The laws of Moses however were the prescriptive cure for sin with all the Levitical and ceremonial laws, burnt offerings, annual feast days foretelling the plan of salvation which were connected to Feast days with New Moon sabbaths, food and drink offerings and other Holy days. These where all types pointing to Jesus and the plan of salvation and were nailed to the cross with our sins because they are now fulfilled. Now that Jesus is here we are under the New Covenant. Jesus is our Passover and the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world and as no longer need to provide burnt offerings when we sin to seek forgiveness.
(Lev 1:1-13; Lev 23:1-44; Num 28:1-31; 29:1-40; Deut 24:10-11; Ex 24:3; Deut 31:24-26; Col 2:16-16; Heb 10:1; Eph 2:14-15; Lev 4; 5; 6; Heb 4:14; 9;10;
John 1:29; Hebrew Chapters 8; 9; 10; 2Cor 5:6-7)
It is the laws of Moses that are nailed to the cross (Col 2:14) not the 10 commandments
James 2:8-12
8, If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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.
As to the scripture you quoted lets have a look.........
Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it.
Why? Because all the Law and the Prophets pointed to Jesus the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the World (
John 1:29). The Savior of mankind.
What you left out are the next verses..
v17-18
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. <Jesus then goes on to talk about one of the 10 commandments in v18> 8, Whosoever puts away his wife, and marrieth another,
commits adultery: and whosoever marries her that is put away from her husband
commits adultery.
So nope your interpretation is not correct about Luke 16:16 trying to say God's 10 commandments are no more.
Lets have a look now at John 3:3 where you say that the scripture is not based on anything in the Old Testament....
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,1 he cannot see the kingdom of God.
This scripture is based on the New Covenant and
is found in the Old Testament
Deuteronomy 30:6,
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou may live.
Ezekiel 36:26-27,
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. 27, 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.
Jeremiah 31:33-34,
33, But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith 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. 34, And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, 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, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (see reference to in
Hebrews 8:10-12; 10:16-17)
2 Corinthians 3:3
For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Being born again is in reverence to the changing of our hearts of stone so that we can love God and our neighbor, because LOVE is the fulfilling (doing) of God's Law
as we walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit (
Romans 8:4) and is why Jesus says, If you love me keep my commandments (
John 14:15).
The 7th Day Sabbath is one of the 10 commandments. If you love Jesus you will believe God and follow him.