Any scriptural evidence that evangelized Gentiles are to keep the Sabbath?

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I have no arguement apart from saying I did not inject the ten commandments into this, you did. There are actually 613 commandments and they do not prevent the rich man from having his riches. He had done nothing wrong. It was unbelief that prevented him from obeying Jesus.
Sabbath keeping is an issue that predates the ten commandments which is why it is also a different issue then Law keeping.
My argument is that you are injecting the 10 commandments into Colossians 2 by trying to claim that Colossians 2:16 is in reference to Gods 4th commandment which is one of God's 10 commandments when Colossians 2:16-17 is talking about the annual ceremonial shadow sabbaths in the feast days and not God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *ROMANS 3:20; ROMANS 7:7; 1 JOHN 3:4.

Happy to discuss the detail through the scriptures if your interested and show what Paul is referring to in the Old testament. If your interested let me know?

613 commandments had nothing to do with God's 10 commandments written and spoken by God and the conversation of JESUS to the rich young ruler. If God (JESUS) tells you to sell all that you have and follow him and you say no I want to keep my riches what commandment of the 10 commandments do you think the rich young ruler was breaking? (hint *EXODUS 20:3). Riches became his God which he loved more then the God who gave him those riches. He went home sorrowful because he knew that this question showed him his sin and what would keep him out of God's kingdom.

How many commandments are there in God's 10 commandments spoken and written by God on tables of stone; are there 9; 10 or 613? Here are some scriptures to help *EXODUS 34:28; DEUTERONOMY 4:13; DEUTERONOMY 10:4. There is not 613 commandments in the 10 commandments spoken by God and written with the finger of God on tables of stone.

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My argument is that you are injecting the 10 commandments into Colossians 2 because your trying to claim that Colossians 2:16 is in reference to Gods 4th commandment which is one of God's 10 commandments when Colossians 2:16-17 is talking about the annual ceremonial sabbaths in the feast days and not God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *ROMANS 3:20; ROMANS 7:7; 1 JOHN 3:4. 613 commandments had nothing to do with God's 10 commandments written and spoken by God and JESUS to the rich young ruler. If God tells you to sell all that you have and follow him and you say no I want to keep my riches what commandment of the 10 commandments do you think the rich young ruler was breaking? (hint *EXODUS 20:3). Riches became his God which he loved more then the God who gave him those riches.

Thing is, I would not do that because I don`t see the Law being a strong enough argument to rule out Sabbath keeping which is why I take exception to your insistence that I am using the ten commandments as part of my position on this. Yes, I could disagree with Sabbath keeping if somebody is trying to replicate the Galatians error with it but I don`t consider that a good enough argument since God ordained the Sabbath day long before the Law of Moses was written. It sounds like you want to divide the Torah into two sets of Laws?
 
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Thing is, I would not do that because I don`t see the Law being a strong enough argument to rule out Sabbath keeping which is why I take exception to your insistence that I am using the ten commandments as part of my position on this. Yes, I could disagree with Sabbath keeping if somebody is trying to replicate the Galatians error with it but I don`t consider that a good enough argument since God ordained the Sabbath day long before the Law of Moses was written. It sounds like you want to divide the Torah into two sets of Laws?
Very simple question that makes your whole argument fall down if you can answer it honestly. Is God's 4th commandment one of God's 10 commandments spoken by God and written with the finger of God on the tables of stone? YES/NO. If you say yes which is the answer shown from the scriptures alone in EXODUS 20:8-11 then you have no argument do you.
 
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My argument is that you are injecting the 10 commandments into Colossians 2 by trying to claim that Colossians 2:16 is in reference to Gods 4th commandment which is one of God's 10 commandments when Colossians 2:16-17 is talking about the annual ceremonial shadow sabbaths in the feast days and not God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *ROMANS 3:20; ROMANS 7:7; 1 JOHN 3:4.

Happy to discuss the detail through the scriptures if your interested and show what Paul is referring to in the Old testament. If your interested let me know?

613 commandments had nothing to do with God's 10 commandments written and spoken by God and the conversation of JESUS to the rich young ruler. If God (JESUS) tells you to sell all that you have and follow him and you say no I want to keep my riches what commandment of the 10 commandments do you think the rich young ruler was breaking? (hint *EXODUS 20:3). Riches became his God which he loved more then the God who gave him those riches. He went home sorrowful because he knew that this question showed him his sin and what would keep him out of God's kingdom.

How many commandments are there in God's 10 commandments spoken and written by God on tables of stone; are there 9; 10 or 613? Here are some scriptures to help *EXODUS 34:28; DEUTERONOMY 4:13; DEUTERONOMY 10:4. There is not 613 commandments in the 10 commandments spoken by God and written with the finger of God on tables of stone.

Hope this helps

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The 10 commandments are part of the 613 and according to Paul you have to keep all 613 if you want to get saved by them.

Moses wrecked the tablets that God made for them with His own hand. All 613 Laws were authored by God and written down by Moses.

In the case of the young ruler, It was Jesus who put the blame on his unbelief not me. Jesus said his trust or in other words his faith was in his riches. Unbelief in the words of Jesus and faith in his riches.
 
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Very simple question the makes your whole argument fall down if you can answer it honestly. Is God's 4th commandment one of God's 10 commandments spoken by God and written with the finger of God on the tables of stone? YES/NO. If you say yes which is the answer shown from the scriptures alone in EXODUS 20:8-11 then you have no argument do you.

I`ve already answered that question in detail so I don`t find your question to be interesting. You appear to think the 10 commandments have been separated from the Law of Moses and there is nothing in scripture to support that view.
 
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In response to your edit,
The 10 commandments are part of the 613 and according to Paul you have to keep all 613 if you want to get saved by them.

Nope, sorry wrong answer. You were provided the scriptures to answer the question earlier. Did you read them?

The question was...

How many commandments are there in God's 10 commandments spoken and written by God on tables of stone; are there 9; 10 or 613?

EXODUS 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

DEUTERONOMY 4:13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

DEUTERONOMY 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the mount out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.

The scriptures and God's Word (not my words) say that there is not 613 commandments in the 10 commandments spoken by God and written with the finger of God on tables of stone.
Moses wrecked the tablets that God made for them with His own hand. All 613 Laws were authored by God and written down by Moses.
Hmm nope. Moses broke the 10 commandment written by God the first time symbolic of ISRAEL breaking God's law by making other God's. The context you have left out here is that God told Moses to hew out to tables of stone on which God would write the 10 commandments again with his own finger.

Scripture context is here....

EXODUS 34:1 [1], And the LORD said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first: and I will write on these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you brake.[2], And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me in the top of the mount.

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Some commentaries below...

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
Hew thee two tables.—Something is always lost by sin, even when it is forgiven. The first tables were “the work of God” (Exodus 32:16). the second were hewn by the hand of Moses. Of stone.—Literally, of stones—hewn, i.e., out of two separate stones, which could not be said of the first tables, since none knew how God had fashioned them. I will write.—It is quite clear, though some have maintained the contrary, that the second tables, equally with the first, were inscribed “with the finger of God.” (Comp. Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:2; Deuteronomy 10:4.) It is also quite clear that exactly the same words were written on each. Upon these tables.—Heb., upon the tables.

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Matthew Poole's Commentary
He was there forty days and forty nights; as he had been before, being now to renew the broken covenant. This forty days’ fast of his is mentioned four times, Exodus 24:18, and here, and Deu 9:18 10:10, but it is evident it was performed but twice, as the occasion of it happened only twice. He wrote, not Moses, but the Lord, as appears from Exodus 24:1, and from Deu 10, the relative pronoun being here referred to the remoter antecedent, of which there are many instances, as Genesis 10:12 1 Samuel 21:14 27:8 Psalm 99:6.

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Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights,.... and he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments; not Moses, for these were tables of stone, which he could not write or engrave upon without proper instruments, which it does not appear he had with him on the mount; but it was God that wrote them, who, in Exodus 34:1 says he would write them, and from Deuteronomy 10:2 we are assured he did.

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Pulpit Commentary
Verse 28. - He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. As on the former occasion (Exodus 24:18).... It has been argued from this expression that Moses wrote the words on the second tables; and it would be natural so to understand the passage, had nothing else been said on the subject. But in ver. 1 we are told that "God said, I will write upon these tables;" and the same is repeated in Deuteronomy 10:2. Moreover in Deuteronomy 10:4, it is distinctly declared "He" (i.e. God) "wrote on the tables according to the first writing." We must therefore regard "he" in this passage as meaning "the Lord," which is quite possible according to the Hebrew idiom.
In the case of the young ruler, It was Jesus who put the blame on his unbelief not me. Jesus said his trust or in other words his faith was in his riches. Unbelief in the words of Jesus and faith in his riches.
Jesus did no such thing. Scripture please.

Hope this helps
 
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I`ve already answered that question in detail so I don`t find your question to be interesting. You appear to think the 10 commandments have been separated from the Law of Moses and there is nothing in scripture to support that view.
Actually nope you avoided answering it. Is there a reason for that? I do not think it was a hard question.

The question was...

Is God's 4th commandment one of God's 10 commandments, spoken by God and written with the finger of God on the tables of stone? YES/NO.

If you say yes which is the answer shown from the scriptures alone in EXODUS 20:8-11 then you have no argument do you.

If you do not want to answer the question just say so. You do not have to if you do not want to. I can understand why you do not wish to. God separated the 10 commandments from the Mosaic book of the law in the Ark of the covenant not me (please read DEUTERONOMY 10:4-5 and DEUTERONOMY 31:26)

Hope this is helpful
 
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Here we go, again. Same song, second verse:


Follow their idea of "salvation" (meaning works-righteousness), or you go to hell. You see, they imply in statements like that, that they are the ONLY ones who know the way to heaven; Jesus is optional.



In other words, only our church knows how to get into heaven is that NOT a statement of hubris?



In other words, we not only judge the "quality of Christians on earth at this present age", but we plan to do so in heaven, and we will condemn you for not following our laws in heaven.



Back to verse 3 of the same song. "You must go to church on Saturday to be saved"



In other words, "taking the strychnine of law mongering is a good thing because it REALLY will cause you no harm."

imge, I do not hate you. It is not personal. What I am doing is taking your words, and demonstrating that your church actually strangles its adherents into keeping the rules of EGW, and of your church into believing that you guys have the keys to get into heaven. In that way, you are no different than the Roman Catholic Church, or the LDS church.

Each of them believe that their rites or "endowments" have the "magical authority" to keep people out of hell. Unfortunately, what you guys collectively cannot comprehend is that by definition if the LDS system of endowments is wrong because they are a system of works to enter heaven, then so also is the Roman system likewise wrong. Both involve using a system of works to merit eternal life.

But logically, if one says that ANY system of works-righteousness is wrong, then ALL systems of works righteousness are equally wrong. It cannot be that the rites or endowments of the Roman Catholic Church LDS church, are sufficiently "magical" that they give certain privileges to one group, but are ineffectual with the other group. Just because the participants have use different words and symbols to essentially accomplish the same goal: heaven, but the consistency argument requires proof to make the "magic words and acts" efficacious in this place, but not in that place. Thus, those insisting on any sort of works righteousness are no better than the naked Emperor believing in his very fine clothes. In reality, all they are left with is the banal hope of " being naked and I hope it works..."

It is simply a matter of consistency, and by your church's insistence on keeping your church's "rules and laws" to gain entrance into heaven, y'all are being highly inconsistent as well as being spiritually blind according to what Paul wrote:

2 Corinthians 4:
2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.
4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.​

I truly hope that you can see the consistency of argument that I presented and start to wonder what is it about obeying Ellen and her rules that gives you a more sure foundation than what the LDS and the RCC have.

Respectfully, I say there really is no difference among the three religions claiming that "Through our ceremonies, We know the way into heaven but other churches do not know that."

The biggest mistakes you are presenting is you are trying to make it seem like it's our laws and our words. Like I am quoting some resource other than the Holy Bible, despite always providing
scriptures on every post I make so anyone can look in their Bible and read it for themselves.

Not once did I say being an SDA was the only way to be saved. I didn't say that nor do I believe that. How is quoting scripture on God's Laws written on stone, by the finger of God "our laws?". It's everyone's laws. God gives everyone the opportunity to obey Him and worship Him.

It's not just about obeying. If you love God and want to worship Him you will WANT to obey Him.
“If you love Me,” Jesus said, “keep My commandments” (John 14:15).
You love God so therefore you want to do what He asks with a happy heart, not because its a requirement. He created His law for peace and happiness.

What is so harmful about Gods laws? Do we want to worship other Gods? Vain His name? Not spend time with God? Lie, Cheat, Murder. Covet? What is it about God's laws that are so harmful or offensive? Look at the world around us. The degradation of God's laws and moral code has created nothing but unhappiness, selfishness and no moral compass.

God saves us through grace, but we obey Him because we love Him and want to. Paul and the other disciples kept sabbath and Gods law. In the versus you are quoting I'm not sure the point you are trying to make. Paul was concerned he was preaching for himself and not God. I agree with that. He also goes on to say 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

The bible says you are either with God or against Him. Mathew 12:30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad. You can not serve two masters. You can not be lukewarm. How do we serve God? We love Him with all our heart. We give ourselves to Him and let Him lead our path through His truth, grace, promises and laws.

This is not an SDA only secret scripture that you seem to think we have. Revelations 22:14
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.

God wants us to follow His laws because they are good for us. The Sabbath is not only for SDA's. We worship on the Sabbath because that is the day He asked us to from the beginning of creation. God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th. He asked us to also rest on the seventh day and blessed it. If this bothers you, I would suggest you pray and ask Him about it.
 
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I have no arguement apart from saying I did not inject the ten commandments into this, you did. There are actually 613 commandments and they do not prevent the rich man from having his riches. He had done nothing wrong. It was unbelief that prevented him from obeying Jesus.
Sabbath keeping is an issue that predates the ten commandments which is why it is also a different issue then Law keeping.
That makes no sense. Sabbath is in Law, the 4th commandment. God rested on the 7th day in creation only reinforces the importance of the 4th commandment which is part of Gods law.
 
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Read that verse again.

"and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work"

Someone is not listening.

We are not judged as I previously quoted and we are rewarded for our works.

The scripture says Revelations 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.

15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

Therefore, some will go to heaven and some with be outside of heaven. Who is making this "judgment" on who receives eternal life and who won't? God blesses those who keep and do His commandments, but outside are the ones who don't (liars, idolaters, immoral). We are all free to keep Gods Holy law.

Is it possible to obey the law? | Sabbath Truth
 
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Actually everything you have posted here is not what anyone has said whatsoever.

Begging your pardon, but you greatly misunderstand what I stated, and why I stated it.

It may be so that poster X, or Y never stated a certain tenet of SDA theology, but I did copy and paraphrase what a poster stated, and that mirrors exactly what they believe. Thus, your accusation has no merit.

Therefore, the issue is not individual belief; rather it is corporate belief, all of which can be verified through looking at their "28 Fundamental Beliefs".

What I am attempting to do is to stay away from the personal issue, and stay on the corporate level.

Admittedly it is not an easy thing to do, because I have years of experience on another forum where an overzealous SDA tried to consign me to hell because I did not obey Ellen White, nor go to their church on Saturday. They are uniformly personal attacks, and the SDAs on that forum were quite adept at hurling insults, and then blaming them on God.

Nor will I attack Ellen White, but it is not wrong to characterize the things that she said were either "healthy" of "unhealthy" as simple medical quackery that was founded on late 19th century superstition, and in some cases, founded on eugenics of that era.
 
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Begging your pardon, but you greatly misunderstand what I stated, and why I stated it.

It may be so that poster X, or Y never stated a certain tenet of SDA theology, but I did copy and paraphrase what a poster stated, and that mirrors exactly what they believe. Thus, your accusation has no merit.

Therefore, the issue is not individual belief; rather it is corporate belief, all of which can be verified through looking at their "28 Fundamental Beliefs".

What I am attempting to do is to stay away from the personal issue, and stay on the corporate level.

Admittedly it is not an easy thing to do, because I have years of experience on another forum where an overzealous SDA tried to consign me to hell because I did not obey Ellen White, nor go to their church on Saturday. They are uniformly personal attacks, and the SDAs on that forum were quite adept at hurling insults, and then blaming them on God.

Nor will I attack Ellen White, but it is not wrong to characterize the things that she said were either "healthy" of "unhealthy" as simple medical quackery that was founded on late 19th century superstition, and in some cases, founded on eugenics of that era.
If any SDA says you have to obey Ellen White than they are not real SDA's. God's word and only Gods word are we to obey. Sabbath keeping was not invented by the SDA church, it was created at the beginning of this earth and written in stone with Gods finger.

I am sorry you had a bad experience with someone on a different message board.
 
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I think these videos will be of interest for watchers of this thread:

Zac Poonen - Do You Still Have to Keep the Sabbath Day? | New 2015

The Sabbath-Rest For Christians by Zac Poonen

7. The New-Covenant Sabbath - Zac Poonen
 
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Actually nope you avoided answering it. Is there a reason for that? I do not think it was a hard question. The question was...

Is God's 4th commandment one of God's 10 commandments, spoken by God and written with the finger of God on the tables of stone? YES/NO.

If you say yes which is the answer shown from the scriptures alone in EXODUS 20:8-11 then you have no argument do you.

If you do not want to answer the question just say so. You do not have to if you do not want to. I can understand why you do not wish to. God separated the 10 commandments from the Mosaic book of the law in the Ark of the covenant not me (please read DEUTERONOMY 10:4-5 and DEUTERONOMY 31:26)

Hope this is helpful


You are building a strawman here. You have to make a real imaginative interpretation to believe the verses you cite separate the ten commandments from the rest of the Law. That is a modern doctrine, The Israelites didn`t believe that and Jesus certainly believed in just one Torah/Law.


36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
 
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That makes no sense. Sabbath is in Law, the 4th commandment. Just because God rested on the 7th day in creation only reinforces the importance of the 4th commandment which is part of Gods law.

The Laws were part of God`s covenent with the Israelites. It`s pretty cool to put up a copy of the ten commandments in the yard but that won`t save you.

Deuteronomy 10
14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. 15 Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.
 
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The Laws were part of God`s covenent with the Israelites. It`s pretty cool to put up a copy of the ten commandments in the yard but that won`t save you.

Deuteronomy 10
14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. 15 Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.


This is what the Bible says:

1 John 2:14 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Revelations 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.

Than it goes on to say what happens to those who do not(murderers, liars, idolaters, sexually immoral)

Revelations 22:15 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

Maybe you should pray about this subject.
 
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This is what the Bible says:

1 John 2:14 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Revelations 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.

Than it goes on to say what happens to those who do not(murderers, liars, idolaters, sexually immoral)

Revelations 22:15 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

Maybe you should pray about this subject.

Question becomes what does He command me to do.

Galatians 3
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3 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
 
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Question becomes what does He command me to do.

Galatians 3
King James Version

3 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.


Let me help, here are Gods commandments:
Taken from Exodus 20: 3-17
The Ten Commandments
20 And God spoke all these words, saying:

3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
 
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Let me help, here are Gods commandments:
Taken from Exodus 20: 3-17
The Ten Commandments
20 And God spoke all these words, saying:

3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”


Verse 12 indicates that God is speaking to the Israelites in this passage and making these works the salvation repeats the error of the Galatians.
 
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Verse 12 indicates that God is speaking to the Israelites in this passage and making these works the salvation repeats the error of the Galatians.
Gods law is not just for the Jews

1) Adam and Eve were not Jewish. “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it” (Genesis 2:3) before sin entered. “Sanctified” means “to be set apart for holy use.” The only ones in the Garden of Eden for whom the Sabbath was “set apart” were Adam and Eve, who weren’t Jewish.

2) “The Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27. Jesus said this. It was “made” in the Garden of Eden before it was “written” down on Mount Sinai. The Sabbath was “made” for “man,” not just Jews.

3) The other nine commandments are not “just for Jews.” God wrote “Ten Commandments” on stone, not just nine (See Deut. 4:12, 13; Ex. 20). Does “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” and “Do not bear false witness” apply only to Jews?

4) “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Exodus 20:10. God calls the Sabbath, “my holy day.” Isaiah 58:13. The Bible never calls it “the Sabbath of the Jews.” It isn’t their Sabbath, but God’s.

5) The Sabbath commandment is for the “stranger” too. The fourth commandment itself says the “stranger” is to rest on the Sabbath. Exodus 20:10. “Strangers” are non-Jews, or Gentiles. Thus the Sabbath applies to them too. Read also Isaiah 56:6.

6) Isaiah said Gentiles should keep the Sabbath. “Also the sons of the stranger … every one that keeps the Sabbath … for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people .” Isaiah 56:6, 7. Thus the Sabbath is for Gentiles and “all people,” not just for Jews.

7) “All” mankind will keep the Sabbath in the New Earth. In “the new earth … from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says the Lord.” Isaiah 66:22, 23. Here God says that “all flesh” we will be keeping the Sabbath in “the new earth.” If this is the case – and it is – shouldn’t we start now?

8) Gentiles kept the Sabbath in the Book of Acts. “The Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath … Paul and Barnabas … persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.”‘ Acts 13:42, 43. Here saved-by-grace Gentiles kept the Sabbath (see also verse 44).

9) “The law” [of Ten Commandments] is for “all the world,” not just for Jews. Paul wrote these words. Read Romans 2:17-23; 3:19, 23.

10) Luke was a Gentile who kept the Sabbath. Luke was the only Gentile who wrote any New Testament books (he wrote The Gospel According to St. Luke and The Acts of the Apostles). Luke traveled with Paul and wrote, “On the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river side.” Acts 16:13. It was the seventh-day Sabbath, the memorial of the creation (see Ex. 20:11). Both Luke and Paul knew it.
 
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