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Colossians 2
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
In Colossians 2:16-23, Paul described the people who were judging them as teaching human traditions and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, so they were being judged by pagans. This means that the Colossians were keeping God's holy days in obedience to His commands in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow and Paul was encouraging them not to let any man judge them and keep them from obeying God.
Galatians 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.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
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:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Are you a Jew ?
In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Torah, so the Torah is of faith. In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law that was of works with a law that was of faith, so works of the Torah are of works, while he said in 3:31 that our faith upholds the Torah, so again the Torah is of faith and Paul contrasted the Torah with works of the law. In Galatians 3:10-12, Paul associated a quote from Habakkuk 2:4 with a quote from Leviticus 18:5, so the righteous who are living by faith are the same as those who are living in obedience to the Torah, while no one is justified before God by works of the Torah because they are not of faith in God.
I'm a gentile not under the law- Jesus set me free from the law and the commandments as per Romans , Hebrews and Galatians.
BTW- its rather hypocritical to talk about man and other churches started by man all the while the SDA made by man claims exclusivity. You are trapped within the SDA with its rules and regulations for membership. The church has replaced the freedom in Christ in place of rules and regulations, restrictions regarding worship.
hope this helps !!!
In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, which is what the Torah was given to instruct how to do. Furthermore, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to free us from being under the law, but in order to redeem us from all lawlessness, so believing in what Christ accomplished on the cross looks like becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Torah (Acts 21:20), while saying that Jesus set us free from the law undermines what he went to the cross the accomplish. The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to sin. Jesus set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Torah and he did not hypocritically preach something other than what he practiced, so saying that he set us free from the law also undermines what he sent his ministry doing. Following what Jesus taught by word and by example is not just for Jews, but for Gentiles too.
Then by all means keep practicing the law thats your choice not mine. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed ! Gal 5:1
The reason why God set the Israelites free from bondage in Egypt was not in order to put them under slavery to His law, but rather it is for freedom that God set us free (Galatians 5:1), and God's law is a law of freedom (Psalms 119:142), while it is sin in transgression of God's law that puts us into bondage (John 8:31-36).
Romans 8
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
The righteous requirement of the law is obedience, so Jesus set us free from sin, which is disobedience to the law so that we might be free to full its righteous requirement, which is obedience to it. In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who refuse to submit to God's law.
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