Dear Love Gods Word:
Grace, peace, and love to you from the Lord Jesus Christ.
I will offer one last appeal to reason with you with God's Word.
If you don't get it after my post here, I am not going to endlessly argue with you back and forth (out of respect to my desire to obey the command in Titus 3:9).
You said:
Why would you think that every commandment needs to be repeated word for word as it is written in the OLD TESTAMENT for it to be accepted in the NEW TESTAMENT when everyone in the NEW TESTAMENT was keeping, teaching and obeying all the 10 Commandments and they were already given by God 4000 earlier?
Why would I think most of God's commands need to be clearly spelled out for us in the New Covenant for us to obey God? Well, because we are under a New Covenant and not the Old Covenant.
The commands are different between the two covenants.
Paul even said that if a believer seeks to be circumcised, Christ shall profit them nothing (Galatians 5:2). This lets us know that the Old is no longer the covenant we look to (primarily) to obey God.
You said:
Why would Jesus teach how to keep the SABBATH and PAUL warn against those not entering God's Sabbath rest who do not believe God's WORD and why would Jesus and all the Apostles who are our example keep God's 4th Commandment even after the death of Jesus if we are no longer to keep it?
Jesus taught another about how a person needs to first reconcile with their brother before they offer an animal sacrifice unto God (Matthew 5:24), it does not mean we still offer animal sacrifices in the New Covenant. For the laws on animal sacrifices and the priesthood ended when the temple veil was torn from top to bottom at Christ's death.
You said:
Where is the scripture in the NEW TESTAMENT that says God's 4th Commandment is abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day? Woops there is no scripture.
Jesus nailed to the cross those ordinances that were against us (Including he Sabbath).
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;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of
the sabbath days:
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Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body
is of Christ."
(Colossians 2:14-17).
So I am not going to let you judge me in respect to the Sabbath day(s). For Christ blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that were against us. How was the Sabbath against us? If you lived during the time of the Old Covenant and disobeyed the weekly Sabbath, you could be physically killed by other believers. For a man who collected sticks on the Sabbath was killed.
You said:
Not looking good for some come judgment day when we are told that if we KNOWLINGLY break any of God's 10 Commandments we stand guilty before God in sin *JAMES 2:8-11
It's kind of ironic. You think James 2:8-11 is in reference to the Old Law. You are using James 2:8-11 to argue your position to keep a ceremonial law that is no longer binding anymore. Eternal Security Proponents or Antinomians agree with you that James 2:8-11 is talking about the Old Law or all Law in general. However, in reality: James 2:8-11 is actually talking about New Covenant Law (and not Old Covenant). We know this based on the context.
The chapter starts out with James telling us about how we are not to have respect of persons in giving favor to the rich brethren over the poor brethren. James is saying that if we were to do that, it would be denying the Royal Law of loving your neighbor (Which is the 2nd greatest commandment). This is in line with what the New Covenant focuses heavily upon (unlike the Old Covenant).... which is to love your neighbor (Note: For while the OT does mention that we should love our neighbor, too; It is not the same exact way of loving your neighbor according to the New Covenant; For we are told to love our enemies, etc.). James says in verse 12,
"So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty."
(James 2:12).
The law of liberty is not the Old Covenant Law but it is the New Covenant Law.
Galatians 4:21-31 talks about how the Old Law is bondage.
For we are delivered from the Law (Old Law) to serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter (the Old Law) (See Romans 7:6).
You said:
HEBREWS 4:9-11 [9] So then, it remains for the people of God to keep the Sabbath.
[10], For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. [11], Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
I want you to do me a favor. Try asking the Father in Jesus name for the Holy Spirit in understanding on Hebrews 4. Then after you prayed, try to read all of Hebrews 4 with no Sabbath day agenda in mind. Just let the text speak to you with the help of the Holy Spirit. Let the whole of Hebrews 4 speak to you and do not just try to pluck verses out of context to prove your belief on wanting to keep the Sabbath. All the words in Hebrews 4 are interconnected and breath as a whole. I believe if you were to honestly do that now, you will not see Hebrews 4 as talking about the Sabbath day. Let me show you what the text actually says.
I have provided my commentary to the text below by adding words in blue within brackets.
1 "Let us therefore
fear [fear God], lest, a promise being left us of entering into his
rest [the rest through accepting Christ as Savior or by a believer coming back to Jesus through seeking His forgiveness of their sins], any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was
the gospel preached [The good news of salvation through Jesus], as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit
them [Israel, and or the Pharisees],
not being mixed with faith in them that heard it [Meaning: It did them no good, because when they heard it, they did not accept it with faith - GNT].
3 For we which have believed do enter into
rest [the rest we have in accepting Jesus as our Savior, seeking His forgiveness, and in the guidance of the Spirit], as
he [the Lord] said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if
they [Israel] shall enter into my
rest [Salvation through Jesus]: although
the works were finished from the foundation of the world [i.e. the works, meaning the works that Christ did on our behalf; Such as: Jesus living a holy life, taking on our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, His being whipped, beaten, and crucified upon the cross (including the rest He provides by these works) that was finished from the foundation of the world. For Revelation 13:8 says: "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."].
4 For
he [the Lord] spake in
a certain place [in a passage in Scripture, i.e. Psalms 95] of
the seventh day [the Saturday Sabbath] on this wise, And
God did rest the seventh day from all his works [God rested or ceased from his work on the 7th day after working for 6 days, i.e. the creation week].
5 And
in this place again [in Psalms 95 again: The Lord says...],
If they shall enter into my rest [The word "if" here in Hebrews 4:5 seems like a contradiction in the KJV because Psalms 95 says, "Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest." (Psalms 95:11); However, it is not a contradiction because Hebrews 4:5 was not meant to be a direct reference to Psalms 95:11 in their entering the physical Promised Land, but it was a reference to their entrance into the spiritual promised land by seeking the Rock of their salvation for forgiveness (See Psalms 95:1, Psalms 95:6-8). In Psalms 95, certain Israelites did not enter the physical Promised Land and thus it is true that they did not enter the Promised Land (Canaan). But the anti-type of the physical Promised Land in this chapter is the spiritual Promise Land, who is a person named Jesus Christ who is the Rock of our salvation. For Psalms 95:7 says, "Today IF you will hear his voice,"; Thus, this is where the word "if" comes from in Hebrews 4:5.].
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and
they [the Israelites] to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief [The Jews did not accept Jesus their Messiah because of their unbelief]:
7 Again,
he [the Lord] limiteth
a certain day [the day of salvation],
saying in David [by using David to write Psalms 95 to say...], To day, after so long a time; as it is said,
To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts [Meaning, if we all will not harden our hearts to our sin and we hear His voice so as to repent, we will receive the day of salvation by the Lord].
8 For
if Jesus had given them rest [Important Note: Joshua encountered a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ in Joshua 5:13-15. Jesus gave Joshua the battle plan (Joshua 6:2-5), and Jesus walked in-between the middle of the march around Jericho before the walls of Jericho fell down (Joshua 6:8). This was all a part of gaining victory so as to enter the Promised Land. In other words, Hebrews 4:8 is saying that if Jesus (at the battle of Jericho along with Joshua) had given his fellow Hebrews rest by conquering Jericho so as to inherit the Promised Land], then would
he [the Lord] not afterward have spoken of
another day ["the Day of Salvation" in accepting or seeking Christ's forgiveness after Christ's gospel went out to Israel and then later to the Gentiles - See 2 Corinthians 6:2].
9 There remaineth therefore
a rest [a day of salvation] to
the people of God [Both Israelites and Gentiles who believe in Jesus].
10 For
he [any person] that is
entered into his rest [by seeking forgiveness of one's sins with Jesus],
he [this person who enters this rest] also
hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his [Meaning: A person is initially and ultimately forgiven or saved by God's grace and they cease from trying to save themselves by "Works Alone Salvationism"; For the problem with the Pharisees is that they did not trust in the grace of God and they turned salvation into a form of "Works Alone Salvationism" (even though they broke the weightier matters of God's laws - See Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42). Granted, this does not mean works do not play a part in our salvation after we are saved by God's grace (2 Thessalonians 2:13); Hebrews 4:10 is merely saying that we are not saved by "Works Alone" in the fact that we can cease from our own works by trusting in Jesus our Savior for salvation and by seeking His forgiveness - See Romans 10:13, 1 John 1:9].
11
Let us labour [Call out unto God] therefore
to enter into that rest [To trust in Jesus for salvation ultimately], lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For
the word of God [Both Jesus and His Word] is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there
any creature [any human or living thing] that is not manifest in his sight
[in Jesus's Omniscient awareness of all His creation]: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of
him [Jesus] with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have
a great high priest [Jesus], that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast
our profession [our confession of our sins to Him and trusting that He has forgiven us by His Word].
15 For we have not
an high priest [Jesus] which cannot be touched with the feeling of
our infirmities [our struggles with sin]; but was in all points
tempted [externally tempted by others] like as we are, yet without sin.
16
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace [Seek to confess our sins to Him if we do happen to on occasion to stumble into sin in our holy walk with the Lord], that
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need [Note: See 1 John 1:9, cf. with Proverbs 28:13].
(Hebrews 4:1-16).
I hope this helps;
And may God's love shine upon you today.
Sincerely,
~ Jason.
