Strange how people carve out the 7th day Sabbath that is right in the heart of of law.
Strange how people think the 10 commandments are just for the Jews ... or that 9 of them are for everybody, just not the 4th
Strange how people don't see the 10 commandments as the broad view ... and that what Jesus taught didn't change those laws ... He provided much more detail about them .... magnified them.
Strange how people have the Holy Spirit who through Him working in the believer helps us to keep the Law ... we can't do it without Christs's holy Sprit in us.
Strange how sin is defined as transgression of the law, and when one transgresses the law, the Holy Spirit leads one to repentance and through the work of the Holy Spirt helps one fight against and overcome sin (which is transgression of the law)
So what then .... when we are convicted by the Holy Spirit that we have transgressed the law are we to ignore it? Do we not respond to the Holy Spirit teaching us that we have transgressed the law? Do we not ask for forgiveness and repent (turn away from sin)?
Through Christ's great sacrifice those who receive Him are not condemned to eternal death and that is His free gift ... but one has to choose to receive that gift.
I am the Lord they God, I change not.
He does not change ... but He does provide more detail.
Matthew 5
The Fulfillment of the Law
17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Are these just for the Jews
Proverbs 4:4
Then he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments and live;
Leviticus 18:5
'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Matthew 19:17
And He said to him, "Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Deuteronomy 4:2
You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.
Galatians 3:12
However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, "HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM."
Galatians 3:21
Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.
God does not change.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Psalm 119:89
Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
It is not legalistic to keep any of the commandments of God because it is God working in the believer ... doing what? Being conformed to His image (His character) becoming more Christ like.
Christ's work in the believer IS helping them to keep the law. Christ's work in the believer is helping them to understand the far reaching depth and details of the law.
Romans 2:13
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Romans 3:31
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Keeping the law .... it's NOT our work .... it's His work.
and because we love him we respond to HIS work.
Did Jesus keep the Sabbath because He was a Jew ... or because He was/is God and it is in His commandments He gave on mount Sinai?
Again ... nothing new ...... many more details given about the depth of the law through Christ's ministry on earth.