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Correct the 7th day and the sabbath are two different items. The sabbath is observed by some on our 7th day of the week.Genesis 2:2–2:3
2"And on the seventh day Elohim finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. 3So Elohim blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it Elohim rested from all the work that he had done in creation."
Oh, I see, you're saying the seventh day is not the Sabbath?
Define the word "therefore."Exodus 20:11
"For in six days Yahuah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore Yahuah blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
The Sabbath points directly back to the true Creator...remember?
No one does this in the sense you mean.Ephesians 2:14
"For he is our peace who made the two one, and he destroyed the wall that was standing in the middle."
Yeah, the Good News is, in Messiah, that division is gone, which is why we get to walk as He walked!
Hearing Torah isn't hearing Jesus. Jesus wasn't preached in the synagogue every sabbath or any sabbath for that matter. And Jesus isn't preached in the synagogue these days either.That is not quite true. For gentiles yes. However, early, early Christians would have been in the synagogues if they were "Ger Toshav", not quite full converts to Judaism but following the Laws given by James (Noahide laws). While there, they would have heard Torah every Shabbat.
To add - what about walking on water or commanding the wind to be still.Yes. Please do.
John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
Matthew 10:8
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
No if you obey the law you're controlled by it.Romans 6:16
"Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?"
To be under the law, simply means you are disobedient.
When you are walking in obedience you are, essentially above the law.
In Messiah, we are obedient to the Law, though, as you pointed out, we are still battling with the flesh.
But, that is why we must continually repent for being disobedient (under the law) and strive to follow our Master.
This we do, by the power of His Spirit within us.
These very early Christians were Jews. So your point is invalid.Understand that. These very early Christians were however even allowed in the Temple.
Not true in Acts 13 - "they asked that the Gospel be preached again to them the next Sabbath".
Also in Acts 17 - 3 Sabbaths in a row -- Gospel preaching in the Synagogue. Not just "A believer sitting in the Synagogue" but actual preaching.
And of course in Acts 18:4 "every Sabbath" there was gospel preaching.
James was a Jew.James was in the Temple and synagogues all the time
Exactly.To add - what about walking on water or commanding the wind to be still.
Here is what we find in context.…
Romans 3:31
"Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law."
If that is what "under" means (I disagree) then why would the Apostle Paul say he is "under" Christ's law?
Furthermore, why would the Apostle say this? (see below) Who would "want" to be under the "condemnation" of the law?
Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
Right.I sure don't want to be under the condemnation of the law.
No if you obey the law you're controlled by it.
Right.
Read Galatians 4:21-31 to find out who does.
Context is my best ally.Do you think that this promise is void? Didn't you just identify yourself with a child of promise?
Galatians 4:28
"Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise."
Context is my best ally.
Galatians 4:28-31
Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
What about this?
Acts 21:27-29
When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, 28 shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” 29 (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)
Do you remember why Saul went to Damascus?
Correct the 7th day and the sabbath are two different items. The sabbath is observed by some on our 7th day of the week.
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