The KJV translates Strong's H4941 in the following manner: judgment (296x), manner (38x), right (18x), cause (12x), ordinance (11x), lawful (7x), order (5x), worthy (3x), fashion (3x), custom (2x), discretion (2x), law (2x), measure (2x), sentence (2x), miscellaneous (18x).
Notice that this Hebrew word is also translated into: custom, and law, too.
Your claims here are quite wrong. You have made an error in your search here from the Blue Letter Bible as your link to law is from a search of law and H4941 which simply highlights in red the scripture with the words law and Mishpat (H4941) not law linked to Mishpat or law meaning Mishpat. You will notice in your search there is only
one application of Mishpat to law not two from a total of 421 applications of Mishpat. Of the (1x) application from Mishpat to law the application of law is
not to anyone of God's 10 commandments but to
judgement for breaking God's law which is the meaning of Mishpat. H4941 (Mishpat) which mainly means judgements of God are only in one application to law and the context of this applications is
not to God's 10 commandments but to the
judgements or penalty for breaking God's law for those who kill a beast or a man (see Leviticus 24:22; context is Leviticus 24:15-23) - See also definitions from
Brown-Driver-Briggs linked
But that’s what Colossians 2:14-16 says. Verse 14 says that Christ blotted out those ordinances that were against us. Verse 16 says not to judge us according to sabbaths, etc. and the weekly Sabbath is among the group of things called the sabbaths.
Once again you are quite wrong here continuing from what was written above in the Hebrew where the Hebrew word for "ordinances" means judgements of God, the ordinances (judgements) that were against us in Colossians 2:14 was the penalty for breaking God's law which is sin and death *Romans 6:23. It is the penalty (judgement) for sin and death that was nailed to the cross for those who receive God's forgiveness for their sins as they have faith in Christ and his death for their sins. It is the penalty (judgement) for sin that is nailed to the cross for all those who accept the gift of God's dear son (see Romans 6:23). The Greek word used for
ordinances applied to judgement is δόγμα (dógma; G1378) and means a civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical law that was against us. The 10 commandments were not against us sin for breaking it and the wages of sin which is death was against us and this is what Jesus nailed to the cross.
James is not referring to the breaking of the Law of Moses. James is talking about the breaking of the Royal Law of love by not showing love/respect to the poor brethren and giving favor to the rich brethren instead. If they were to continue to do so, they would be breaking all of God’s laws under the New Covenant and not the Old one.
God's Word disagrees with you here. I will just post the scriptures. James 2:10-11 [10], For whoever 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 you commit no adultery, yet if you kill, you are become a transgressor of the law. Of course God's 4th commandment is one of God's 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4 and according to James if we break anyone of God's 10 commandments we stand guilty before God of sin.
Yes, is is true that Jesus kept the Sabbath, but He never commanded it.
Why would Jesus need to command keeping the Sabbath when God's people were already keeping the Sabbath for the past 4000 years? Jesus never said that we should not have other God's, make idols and worship them and take Gods' name in vain does that mean according to your logic here we are now free to break all the first four commandments of God's 10 commandments that show us our duty of love to God? Of course not. Jesus kept all of God's 10 commandments and taught us that is is the Lord of the Sabbath. That is he is the creator of the Sabbath and Heaven and earth that he made for all mankind *Mark 2:27-28; John 1:1-4; 14 and how to correctly keep the Sabbath the way that he intended it to be kept. This is it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath days (Matthew 12:1-12).
Also, no doubt Jesus was circumcised according to the Law, but that does not mean circumcision still applies today. Paul says clearly that if you seek to be circumcised Christ will profit you nothing (Galatians 5:2).
Circumcision was a "shadow law" of Moses and a physical sign of a new heart given through faith under the new covenant of God's promise of Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:24-27 repeated in Hebrews 8:10-12. (see also Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 4:4 and Romans 2:25-29). Circumcision is not one of God's 10 commandments. Your mixing up the "shadow law" of circumcision with God's eternal laws (10 commandments) that in the new covenant give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4.
In Acts of the Apostles 15:1, Acts of the Apostles 15:5, and Acts of the Apostles 15:24, we are told that the Gentiles do not have to keep circumcision or the Law of Moses, but the apostles merely wanted to stress in staying away from things strangled, from blood, fornication, and idols (Acts of the Apostles 15:20). Nothing is mentioned about the Sabbath at the Jerusalem council. It is implied that the Sabbath is a part of the Law of Moses and Gentile Christians are told that they do not have to keep the Law of Moses.
Your interpretation of Acts of the Apostles 15 has Paul in contradiction to Paul. Acts 15:1-2 which is the context of the chapter says [1], And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brothers, and said,
EXCEPT YOU BE CIRCUMCISED AFTER THE MANNER OF MOSES YOU CANNOT BE SAVED. [2], When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, THEY DETERMINED THAT PAUL AND BARNABAS AND CERTAIN OF THEN SHOULD GO TO JERUSALEM TO THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS
ABOUT THIS QUESTION.
Note: What question where did they go to Jerusalem to discuss according to the scriptures? The subject matter and the question being discussed in Jerusalem was not are Gods' 10 commandments a requirement and the standard for for Christian living but is "circumcision" a requirement for salvation for new gentile believers!
Your interpretation of Acts of the Apostles 15 has Paul in contradiction with Paul when he says sometime latter after the decision at Jerusalem to the Corinthians believers in 1 Corinthians 7:19 [19] CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT THE KEEPING OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. Acts 15 was never over the question are God's 10 commandments still the standard for Christian living. It was over the question is CIRCUMCISION a requirement for salvation for gentile believers (Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2).
Again, there are more laws than the 10 in the Torah. There are 613 of them. But yes, I am not in disagreement that 9 out of the 10 laws had been repeated in the New Testament. But they are not exactly the same because there is no judgments attached to some of them that includes death by capital punishment.
Of the 613 laws in the Torah or old covenants (first five books of the bible; Genesis, Exodus; Leviticus; Deuteronomy and Numbers) most of these laws were laws for the remission of sins that included all the Levitical Priesthood laws, the laws of the earthly Sanctuary, the laws of animal sacrifices and sin offerings, the annual Feast days and circumcision and supplementary moral laws to God's 10 commandment. Most of these laws were "shadow laws" pointing to the coming of Jesus as the Messiah and the body of Christ *Colossians 2:17 and Jesus as our great High Priest under the new covenant and His work on our behalf in the Heavenly Sanctuary that the Lord pitch and not man based on better promises *Hebrews 8:1-6. Jesus is now not only our great High Priest that ministers on our behalf in the Heavenly Sanctuary that the Lord pitched and not man but is God's sacrifice for the sins of the world once and for all (John 1:29; John 1:36; Hebrews 10:10). We are in the new covenant now not the old covenant so your argument here is a moot point as the shadow laws for remission of sins of the old covenant are now fulfilled and continued in Christ to who they pointed to. (see Hebrews 7:1-25; Hebrews 8:1-13; Hebrews 9:1-27; Hebrews 10:1-22). On the other hand God's eternal law spoken by God alone *Exodus 20:1-17 and written with God's own finger being the work of God alone (Exodus 32:16; Exodus 31:18) has the same role it always had according to the new covenant scriptures and that is to give us the knowledge of good (moral right doing) and evil (moral wrong doing); sin (moral wrong doing) and righteousness (moral right doing) *see Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; Romans 7:12; 1 john 3:4 and if we break anyone of them according to James (including God's 4th commandment) we stand guilty before God of sin *James 2:10-11.
You leave out the key verse.“For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.” (Hebrews 4:8). This means that they were not given a permanent rest and He spoke of another day. “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest,…” (Hebrews 4:1-3). The whole point here in Hebrews is believing in the gospel and God’s grace through faith in Christ is that rest. Granted, this grace not a license to sin as many teach today, but that rest first starts when we accept Jesus as our Savior, seek forgiveness of our sins with Him, and believe that He died for our sins, He was buried, and He was risen three days later for our salvation. This is the new rest! Read the beginning of Hebrews 4 in the passage above and then read what the gospel is in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. This is the rest that the author of Hebrews is talking about.
According to the scriptures in Hebrews 4 God's rest is defined in Hebrews 4:3-4 as the "seventh day" Sabbath from the foundation of the world.
HEBREWS 4 [1], Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest
, any of you should seem to come short of it. [2], For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. [3], For we which have believed do enter into rest
, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. [4], For he spoke in a certain place of the SEVENTH DAY on this wise, And God did rest the SEVENTH DAY from all his works
.
[5], And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
KEY POINTS FROM THE SCRIPTURES OF HEBREWS 4:1-5
Note: Context is God's REST from the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH REST OF CREATION (v4-5) and those who BELIEVE and FOLLOW GOD's WORD [the GOSPEL] enter into God's SABBATH REST as GOD did on the SEVENTH DAY of the week. CONTEXT is GOD's SEVENTH DAY SABBATH REST and those who believe or do not believe God's WORD do not enter into that rest. The new testament writer of Hebrews is warning us that if we do not believe and follow God's Word (the gospel) and we continue in sin and unbelief (
Hebrews 3:10-13; 18-19) we will never enter into God's rest (His Rest/My Rest) which is defined as the "
seventh day" Sabbath rest in
Hebrews 4:1-5.
Hebrews 4:3-5 defines God's rest by saying [3], For we which have believed do enter into rest (our rest from or the gospel rest of believing and following God's Word), as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest (God's rest): although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. [4], For he spoke in a certain place of the "
seventh day" on this wise, And God did rest the "
seventh day" from all his works. [5], And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest ("
seventh day"). You on the other hand your trying and define Gods rest (the seventh day Sabbath) as something the scriptures are not talking about. Your providing scripture and reading into the scriptures what the scriptures do not say or teach anywhere (eisegesis).
[6], Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
[7], Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
[8], For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
[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 that rest, [God’s REST the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH] lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief [rejecting God’s WORD and sin; Hebrews 3].
KEY POINTS OF HEBREWS 4:9
Now notice
Hebrews 4, verse 9: “
SO THEN, IT REMAINS FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO KEEP THE SABBATH.” In verses 1, 3, 4 and 8, the Greek word for “rest” is
katapausin. It means “rest.” But in verse 9, the Greek word for “rest” is
sabbatismos, which is a Hebrew word—
Sabbat, which means “the Sabbath”—combined with a Greek suffix—
ismos, which means “a keeping of” or “a doing of.” Put together,
sabbatismo means “a keeping of the Sabbath.” When correctly translated,
Hebrews 4:9 should read, “There remains therefore a
keeping of the Sabbath to the people of God.”
So then we should believe the scriptures There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Sorry, I just think my Sabbatarian brothers and sisters just want to keep the Old ways like the Sabbath because that is what they want to do and it really has nothing to do with what the New Testament or New Covenant says. There is no verse in the NT that gives a command to keep the Sabbath. There is no sin of breaking the Sabbath listed among the other sins that the apostle John and Paul give us. So this fact along with Colossians 2:14-16, and Romans 14:5 lets us know the Sabbath command is not given to us in this dispensation of the New Covenant. Yes, the Sabbath day exists as a calendar day, and yes you will see people keeping the Sabbath as recorded in Scripture, but that does not equate it with being a command from God within the New Covenant. God’s people made mistakes and misunderstood the Lord many times. No Sabbath command exists in NT Scripture.But…. “No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.” (Luke 5:39).
We are in the new covenant now not the old covenant and the new covenant does not teach a doctrine of lawlessness (without law). According to the scriptures and the very words of Jesus unless we are born again into Gods' new covenant promise (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 35:24:27 repeated in Hebrews 8:10-12) we cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. According to the scriptures those who are born of God do not practice sin in 1 John 3:6-9 and those who say they know God while breaking God's commandments are lying and the truth is not in them in 1 John 2:3-4. Sin is defined in the scriptures as breaking anyone of God's 10 commandments and not believing and following God's Word in James 2:10-11; 1 John 3:4; Romans 7:7; Romans 3:20 and Romans 14:23 and according to John the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil is that the children of God do not practice sin (breaking God's commandments) in 1 John 3:6-10; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 14:12; Revelation 22:14 and 1 John 2:3-4. We should be careful to believe and follow what God's Word says. A gospel of lawlessness (without law) is a false gospel and one that Jesus and the apostles never taught.
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