Hi there,
I am a New Covenant believer as well. God’s first covenant was the Ten, in the New Covenant His laws (the Ten) are written in our hearts and minds. God did not transfer nine out of the Ten, He wrote His laws (all) in our hearts and minds. Same laws new promises. I would find it very strange He would write all His laws except the only commandment He started with “Remember” and that is the one commandment we are supposed to forget. His covenant cannot be broken according to scripture:
“It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail” (
Luke 16:17).
“My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips” (Psalm 89:34).
“All His precepts [commandments] are sure. They stand fast forever and ever” (Psalm 111:7, 8).
The scriptures you reference requires our
full obedience. There is no scripture in the entire Bible that says God’s Holy Sabbath, He told us was a perpetual covenant Exodus 31:16, has been abolished and the new Holy day is now Sunday. This is a teaching of man and one Jesus warns us about. Mathew 15:3-8. Colossians 2 that you reference is not about God’s Holy Sabbath and you would know that by reading the scriptures above how His covenant can not be broken. If you read Colossians in its proper context it is all about food and drink which references the yearly Sabbath(s) festivals in Leviticus 23, not God’s weekly Sabbath that is eternal made from creation Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:8-11 which is why Sabbath continues on the New Earth Isaiah 66:23 because it is God’s chosen holy day, not the one changed by man.
All the early scholars knows the Sabbath day never changed. The Roman Catholic Church wants you to know if you go to church on Sunday you are not obeying a commandment of God, but a commandment of the Catholic Church.
It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.
—Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, NJ ‘News’ on March 18, 1903.
Protestants ... accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change... But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that ... in observing Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the Church, the pope.
—Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 1950.
A. Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; —she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the Seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.
—Rev. Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism; New York in 1857, page 174
There was and is a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction be found: Not in the New Testament – absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week.
—Dr. E. T. Hiscox, author of the ‘Baptist Manual’.
I hope you consider this in prayer and when quoting the importance of obeying God. It really means all of His laws.
God bless!
