What are you grafted into?
I am in Jesus, the True Vine, who said that his followers are the branches.
Jesus taught us to remain in him, and Paul taught many time that believers are in Christ.
Yahweh's NEW Covenant, sealed by the blood of Jesus, is for everybody; Matthew 26:28, Mark 10:45, John 6:40, John 6:29, John 1:12.
If obeying sabbath laws and feasts and dietary laws is what your conscience tells you to do (and what your conscience tells you is right for you to do because you are made holy by the Spirit of Christ), then do it.I look at it the opposite way. Those who are "holy" (dedicated) to YHWH, dedicate their lives to doing his will. It's not doing his will that makes us dedicated. It's our dedication, love, and trust in him that brings obedience.
Repeating what you said before doesn't make it correct.
The people who were wandering in the wilderness were God's people whom he had rescued, called out of, Egypt. So yes, they were an ecclesia; a gathering that had been summoned forth.
Not the same as the Christian church.
That is what the word means. The ancient Greeks had groups called ecclesia; they weren't the church either.
Yes, it's ONE of the meanings; not the only one.
Unless you want to try to prove that the Christian church was in the wilderness having been rescued from Egypt.
If obeying sabbath laws and feasts and dietary laws is what your conscience tells you to do (and what your conscience tells you is right for you to do because you are made holy by the Spirit of Christ), then do it.
I love the meaning behind the Biblical moedim/appointed times too, and I know that Jesus and His apostles observed them, because they were all Jews, and the New Covenant, which God informed us in Jer 31:31-33 is not like the Covenant given through Moses (because it had been broken by the people), had not yet been established in the blood of Christ.
I do not believe that anyone "ought" to observe any sabbaths, appointed times or dietary laws. I believe that the love of God and neighbor produced by Christ in His life, and produced by Christ in you will automatically inspire and cause you to love and treat your brethren and your neighbor the way Christ would, and I believe that all the law and the prophets are but a shadow of this.
Nevertheless if you feel in your heart that part of loving God is to observe the sabbaths etc, then do so.
(CLV) Jn 14:15
If you should be loving Me, you will be keeping My precepts.
(CLV) 1Jn 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we may be keeping His precepts. And His precepts are not heavy,
(CLV) Dt 30:11
For this instruction that I am enjoining on you today, it is neither too difficult for you, nor is it too far off.
Why not use a translation that makes sense? The CLV is a "one man band" that is out of step with the Word of God as is generally accepted by most of Christianity.
John 14:15, “If you love me, you will obey my commandments"
1 John 5:3, "For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down"
Deuteronomy 30:11, “This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote."
I would bet that the great majority of people on this forum think, speak, read, and write -- ready? -- conventional English. The Biblical texts were not written in some bizarre version of the languages, as is the case with Adolph Ernst Knoch's strange translation.
I understand, from other threads also, that you believe we are saved by Christ, who kept the law perfectly, and are now Abraham's children and part of Israel. That being so, you want everyone here to realise that we are now Israel and have to keep the commandments and feast days given to Israel at Sinai.
That's going backwards. That's saying "now that you have been saved by Christ and are one of God's people, look at, and start obeying, all the commands that he once gave to his people" - which, incidentally, they were totally incapable of keeping. They broke his covenant many times.
No, it's a statement of fact; he never said it.
Matthew 28: 19-20 CJB
19 Therefore, go and make people from all nations into talmidim, immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh,
20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, yes, even until the end of the age."
So, since we have the Law, we don't need Jesus. Is that it?
Regardless of the red herring, I trust Yahshua at his word.
(CLV) Mt 15:24
Now He, answering, said, "I was not commissioned except for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
What I said, mirrors what Yahshua said. This should not be ignored.
Everyone who believes.
(CLV) Jn 5:47
Now if you are not believing his writings, how shall you be believing My declarations?"
"For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made in the law also." Heb 7:12(CLV) Jn 14:15
If you should be loving Me, you will be keeping My precepts.
(CLV) 1Jn 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we may be keeping His precepts. And His precepts are not heavy,
(CLV) Dt 30:11
For this instruction that I am enjoining on you today, it is neither too difficult for you, nor is it too far off.
There is only one assembly. All are one in Yahshua.
Ecclesia, Greek Ekklēsia, (“gathering of those summoned”), in ancient Greece, assembly of citizens in a city-state.
ec·cle·si·a
(ĭ-klē′zhē-ə, -zē-ə)
n. pl. ec·cle·si·ae (-zhē-ē′, -zē-ē′)
1. The political assembly of citizens of an ancient Greek state.
The ecclesia or ekklesia (Greek: ἐκκλησία) was the assembly of the citizens in the democratic city-states of ancient Greece.
Messiah and his Apostles kept the Moedim.
Do you think that if you were there with Noah; that you could have built your own ark, apart from the ark that YHWH instructed Noah to build, and still have been saved?
Yahshua is the way.
He calls us to follow his example of obedience to our loving Abba.
Trust him.
Matthew 28: 19-20 CJB
19 Therefore, go and make people from all nations into talmidim, immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh,
20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.
Neither did I.
(CLV) Ex 12:49
One law shall there be for both the native and for the sojourner sojourning in your midst.
This what YHWH said about those who were grafted into Israel, right after he gave instructions for keeping Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
He was speaking to the Church.
(CLV) Ex 12:47
The whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they shall do it.
However those who are not Grafted into Israel my not eat of it.
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