Purpose of the sabbath

[guevaraj]

Never said He did. Prove the points of the post wrong and we will recant. Posting your opinion without addressing the points of the post proves nothing except that you have differing opinion.

Brother, Israel entered the promised land with "Joshua" but the passage says that "Joshua" had not given them rest. Entering the promised land is not the rest that those who died did not enter, because those that did enter the promised land with Joshua also did not enter God's rest.

Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. (Hebrews 4:6-11 NIV)​

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge

 

[Cribstyl]

It was given to man (Adam in Hebrew) in Genesis, just as Yeshua said it was. It was to be A SIGN of the Mosaic covenant for the Jewish people.

Where does it say that it was given to man in Genesis? God said it was a sign between Him and the Children of Israel. Where does Jesus say it was given in Genesis?

The account about Jesus allowing His disciple to pick corn on the Sabbath is recorded by Matthew, Mark and Luke. Some people take words and add what Jesus never said.
Here's Matthew's account;
Jesus was being accused of breaking the Sabbath by the Pharisees. True or false?
His defense was to remind them of scriptures concerning what David, His men and the high priest did. True of False?
According to the Pharisees ; "your disciples did what was not lawful to do on the Sabbath day."
According to Jesus: Have you not read what David and his men did when they was hungry?
My point is about the consistent lesson being taught in all 3 books.

Mat 12:1 ¶At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Mat 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Mat 12:3 ¶But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Mat 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
What can we learn from this context?
Jesus had the authority as Lord of the Sabbath, to allow His men to break the Sabbath by picking corn because they were hungry. God would prefer us to show mercy than sacrifice.
Let's look at Mark next.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Where does it say that it was given to man in Genesis? God said it was a sign between Him and the Children of Israel. Where does Jesus say it was given in Genesis?

The account about Jesus allowing His disciple to pick corn on the Sabbath is recorded by Matthew, Mark and Luke. Some people take words and add what Jesus never said.
Here's Matthew's account;
Jesus was being accused of breaking the Sabbath by the Pharisees. True or false?
His defense was to remind them of scriptures concerning what David, His men and the high priest did. True of False?
According to the Pharisees ; "your disciples did what was not lawful to do on the Sabbath day."
According to Jesus: Have you not read what David and his men did when they was hungry?
My point is about the consistent lesson being taught in all 3 books.

Mat 12:1 ¶At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Mat 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Mat 12:3 ¶But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Mat 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
What can we learn from this context?
Jesus had the authority as Lord of the Sabbath, to allow His men to break the Sabbath by picking corn because they were hungry. God would prefer us to show mercy than sacrifice.
Let's look at Mark next.

You seem not to even understand the context at all. READ what I wrote. Man (Adam) was created first on day 6 and then the Sabbath on day 7 (Shabbat was made FOR Adam, NOT Adam for Shabbat). Yeshua did not say the Sabbath was made for just Jews. Also it is not against Torah to eat on Shabbat so no, they did not break the Sabbath.

 

[Bob S]

If man was given the Sabbath after Creation days, why isn't it recorded in all history until after Israel crossed the Red Sea. If the Sabbath was so important why didn't God stop the Israelites and have them observe during their flight out of Egypt? I know you cannot answer those questions, but it surely should make you think.

 

[Bob S]

Sabbath was "created" after the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. That is a Bible fact. And the fact also is that God has never commanded any other nation to observe it.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

If man was given the Sabbath after Creation days, why isn't it recorded in all history until after Israel crossed the Red Sea. If the Sabbath was so important why didn't God stop the Israelites and have them observe during their flight out of Egypt? I know you cannot answer those questions, but it surely should make you think.

Why would you question anything that God personally wrote with His own hand and dedicated 170+ scriptures to in the Holy Scriptures?

Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God:
Isaiah 58:13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the Lord honorable,

This should be the end of the discussion because your argument is with the Most High

 

[BABerean2]

All you posted here was something that agrees with what I have already told you. Did you read it?

Yes. I did read it.

Do you use the "traditions" of the Roman Catholic Church as your source of truth?

Do you believe the Church was built on Peter?

Every Christian cult in existence today claims to be the true Church of Jesus Christ.

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[LoveGodsWord]

If man was given the Sabbath after Creation days, why isn't it recorded in all history until after Israel crossed the Red Sea. If the Sabbath was so important why didn't God stop the Israelites and have them observe during their flight out of Egypt? I know you cannot answer those questions, but it surely should make you think.

It was recorded in the bible. Jesus says so in Mark 2:27. Do you believe the words of Jesus? Now Bob, what came first the chicken or the egg? What came first Adam and Eve or babies? What came first God keeping the Sabbath through resting (שׁבת; shâbath) or the Sabbath? According to the scriptures after God made and created all things including mankind on the 6th day of the creation week *Genesis 1:26-31, God rested on the "seventh day" from all the work he had made *Genesis 2:1-2 and he "blessed" the "seventh day" and made the "seventh day" a holy day of rest *Genesis 3:3 for all mankind *Mark 2:27 because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made *Genesis 2:3. God had to make the Sabbath on the "seventh day" of the creation week by setting it apart from all the other days of the week and blessing it and making it a holy day of rest for all mankind before there was a Sabbath. Therefore the very first Sabbath was the one that God rested on and blessed and made a holy day of rest for all mankind *Mark 2:27.

Sabbath was "created" after the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. That is a Bible fact. And the fact also is that God has never commanded any other nation to observe it.

See above scriptures in the previous section that disagree with you here Bob. According to Jesus that Sabbath was made for all mankind at creation before sin and unbelief in God's Word and before and plan of salvation was given for mankind because mankind had not sinned when the Sabbath was made *Mark 2:27. After the fall or man and sin and unbelief entered into the world God always had a people that believed and followed His Word just as he does today. Of course those who do not believe do not follow back in the old testament as those who do not believe do not follow God's Word in the new testament. Gods' Word is for those who believe and follow God's Word. This is Gods' true ISRAEL according to the scriptures of the new covenant *Romans 9:6-8; Galatians 3:28-29; Romans 2:28-29 etc..

 

[LoveGodsWord]

Do you use the "traditions" of the Roman Catholic Church as your source of truth?

No I do not use the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church as my source of truth. I choose to believe and follow what God's Word says. Do you use the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church as your source of truth? Sunday worship is a tradition and teaching of the Roman Catholic church that has led many to break the commandments of God. Jesus in Matthew 15:3-9 says that if we follow the teachings and traditions of men that break the commandments of God we are not worshiping God. Do you believe these words of Jesus in Matthew 15:3-9? There is not one scripture in all of God's Word that says that Gods' 4th commandments has been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a holy day of rest is there? So who should we believe and follow God or man?

Do you believe the Church was built on Peter? Every Christian cult in existence today claims to be the true Church of Jesus Christ..

I believe that the Roman Catholic Church was prophesied in the bible and represented as BABYLON which is the mother Church Protestantism as shown in Revelation 17:5; Revelation 14:6-12 and that God still has His true followers in all of these church's *John 10:16 who are living up to all the light from Gods Word he has revealed to them and that God is calling us all where ever we might be to come out from following these fallen Church's and man-made teachings and traditions that break the commandments of God *Revelation 18:4; Matthew 15:3-9 back to the pure Word of God. According to Jesus the hour is coming and now is that the true worshipers will worship Him in Spirit and in truth for the father is seeking such to worship Him. God is a Spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth *John 4:23-24. God is calling us where ever we might be back to the pure Word of God. According to the scriptures Gods' sheep will hear His Voice (the Word) and follow him. Those who do not hear and do not follow according to the scriptures because they are not His sheep *John 10:26-27.

May God bless you as you seek Him through His Word

 

[BABerean2]

Sunday worship is a tradition and teaching of the Roman Catholic church that has led many to break the commandments of God.

Your statement above does not match up to the historical facts.

There was no Roman Catholic Church before the time of Constantine.


Early Church Fathers comment on the Sabbath before the time of Constantine:


Ignatius of Antioch

If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord’s Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death—whom some deny, by which mystery we have obtained faith, and therefore endure, that we may be found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only Master(Letter to the Magnesians(shorter) Chapter IX.—Let us live with Christ [A.D. 110]).

During the Sabbath He continued under the earth in the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathæa had laid Him. At the dawning of the Lord’s day He arose from the dead, according to what was spoken by Himself, “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man also be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” The day of the preparation, then, comprises the passion; the Sabbath embraces the burial; the Lord’s Day contains the resurrection(The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians Longer Versions. Chapter IX.—Reference to the history of Christ.)

Justin Martyr

The Lawgiver is present, yet you do not see Him; to the poor the Gospel is preached, the blind see, yet you do not understand. You have now need of a second circumcision, though you glory greatly in the flesh. The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not discerning why this has been commanded you: and if you eat unleavened bread, you say the will of God has been fulfilled. The Lord our God does not take pleasure in such observances: if there is any perjured person or a thief among you, let him cease to be so; if any adulterer, let him repent; then he has kept the sweet and true sabbaths of God. If any one has impure hands, let him wash and be pure.(Dialogue with Trypho the Jew Chapter XII.—The Jews violate the eternal law, and interpret ill that of Moses.)

For we too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined you,—namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your hearts. For if we patiently endure all things contrived against us by wicked men and demons, so that even amid cruelties unutterable, death and torments, we pray for mercy to those who inflict such things upon us, and do not wish to give the least retort to any one, even as the new Lawgiver commanded us: how is it, Trypho, that we would not observe those rites which do not harm us, —I speak of fleshly circumcision, and Sabbaths, and feasts?(Dialogue with Trypho the Jew Chapter XVIII.—Christians would observe the law, if they did not know why it was instituted. [A.D. 155]).

And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday,1 all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration.(First Apology Chapter LXVII.—Weekly worship of the Christians. [A.D. 155]).

“Wherefore, Trypho, I will proclaim to you, and to those who wish to become proselytes, the divine message which I heard from that man. Do you see that the elements are not idle, and keep no Sabbaths? Remain as you were born. For if there was no need of circumcision before Abraham, or of the observance of Sabbaths, of feasts and sacrifices, before Moses; no more need is there of them now, after that, according to the will of God, Jesus Christ the Son of God has been born without sin, of a virgin sprung from the stock of Abraham. For when Abraham himself was in uncircumcision, he was justified and blessed by reason of the faith which he reposed in God, as the Scripture tells. Moreover, the Scriptures and the facts themselves compel us to admit that He received circumcision for a sign, and not for righteousness.(The Second Apology of Justin for the Christians Addressed to the Roman Senate. Chapter XXIII.—The opinion of the Jews regarding the law does an injury to God.)

“As, then, circumcision began with Abraham, and the Sabbath and sacrifices and offerings and feasts with Moses, and it has been proved they were enjoined on account of the hardness of your people’s heart, so it was necessary, in accordance with the Father’s will, that they should have an end in Him who was born of a virgin, of the family of Abraham and tribe of Judah, and of David; in Christ the Son of God, who was proclaimed as about to come to all the world, to be the everlasting law and the everlasting covenant, even as the forementioned prophecies show.(The Second Apology of Justin for the Christians Addressed to the Roman Senate. Chapter XLIII.—He concludes that the law had an end in Christ, who was born of the Virgin.)

Tertullian

“[L]et him who contends that the Sabbath is still to be observed as a balm of salvation, and circumcision on the eighth day . . . teach us that, for the time past, righteous men kept the Sabbath or practiced circumcision, and were thus rendered ‘friends of God.’ For if circumcision purges a man, since God made Adam uncircumcised, why did he not circumcise him, even after his sinning, if circumcision purges? . . . Therefore, since God originated Adam uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, consequently his offspring also, Abel, offering him sacrifices, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, was by him [God] commended [Gen. 4:1–7, Heb. 11:4]. . . . Noah also, uncircumcised—yes, and unobservant of the Sabbath—God freed from the deluge. For Enoch too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, he translated from this world, who did not first taste death in order that, being a candidate for eternal life, he might show us that we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please God”(An Answer to the Jews Chapter II.—The Law Anterior to Moses. [A.D. 203]).

It follows, accordingly, that, in so far as the abolition of carnal circumcision and of the old law is demonstrated as having been consummated at its specific times, so also the observance of the Sabbath is demonstrated to have been temporary.For the Jews say, that from the beginning God sanctified the seventh day, by resting on it from all His works which He made; and that thence it was, likewise, that Moses said to the People: “Remember the day of the sabbaths, to sanctify it: every servile work ye shall not do therein, except what pertaineth unto life.” Whence we (Christians) understand that we still more ought to observe a sabbath from all “servile work” always, and not only every seventh day, but through all time. And through this arises the question for us, what sabbath God willed us to keep? For the Scriptures point to a sabbath eternal and a sabbath temporal. For Isaiah the prophet says, “Your sabbaths my soul hateth;” and in another place he says, “My sabbaths ye have profaned.”9 Whence we discern that the temporal sabbath is human, and the eternal sabbath is accounted divine; concerning which He predicts through Isaiah: “And there shall be,” He says, “month after month, and day after day, and sabbath after sabbath; and all flesh shall come to adore in Jerusalem, saith the Lord;” which we understand to have been fulfilled in the times of Christ, when “all flesh”—that is, every nation—“came to adore in Jerusalem” God the Father, through Jesus Christ His Son, as was predicted through the prophet: “Behold, proselytes through me shall go unto Thee.” Thus, therefore, before this temporal sabbath, there was withal an eternal sabbath foreshown and foretold; just as before the carnal circumcision there was withal a spiritual circumcision foreshown. In short, let them teach us, as we have already premised, that Adam observed the sabbath; or that Abel, when offering to God a holy victim, pleased Him by a religious reverence for the sabbath; or that Enoch, when translated, had been a keeper of the sabbath; or that Noah the ark-builder observed, on account of the deluge, an immense sabbath; or that Abraham, in observance of the sabbath, offered Isaac his son; or that Melchizedek in his priesthood received the law of the sabbath

But the Jews are sure to say, that ever since this precept was given through Moses, the observance has been binding. Manifest accordingly it is, that the precept was not eternal nor spiritual, but temporary, which would one day cease. In short, so true is it that it is not in the exemption from work of the sabbath—that is, of the seventh day—that the celebration of this solemnity is to consist, that Joshua the son of Nun, at the time that he was reducing the city Jericho by war, stated that he had received from God a precept to order the People that priests should carry the ark of the testament of God seven days, making the circuit of the city; and thus, when the seventh day’s circuit had been performed, the walls of the city would spontaneously fall. Which was so done; and when the space of the seventh day was finished, just as was predicted, down fell the walls of the city. Whence it is manifestly shown, that in the number of the seven days there intervened a sabbath-day. For seven days, whencesoever they may have commenced, must necessarily include within them a sabbath-day; on which day not only must the priests have worked, but the city must have been made a prey by the edge of the sword by all the people of Israel. Nor is it doubtful that they “wrought servile work,” when, in obedience to God’s precept, they drave the preys of war. For in the times of the Maccabees, too, they did bravely in fighting on the sabbaths, and routed their foreign foes, and recalled the law of their fathers to the primitive style of life by fighting on the sabbaths. Nor should I think it was any other law which they thus vindicated, than the one in which they remembered the existence of the prescript touching “the day of the sabbaths.” Whence it is manifest that the force of such precepts was temporary, and respected the necessity of present circumstances; and that it was not with a view to its observance in perpetuity that God formerly gave them such a law.(An Answer to the Jews Chapter IV.—Of the Observance of the Sabbath.)

Therefore, since it is manifest that a sabbath temporal was shown, and a sabbath eternal foretold; a circumcision carnal foretold, and a circumcision spiritual pre-indicated; a law temporal and a law eternal formally declared; sacrifices carnal and sacrifices spiritual foreshown; it follows that, after all these precepts had been given carnally, in time preceding, to the people Israel, there was to supervene a time whereat the precepts of the ancient Law and of the old ceremonies would cease, and the promise3 of the new law, and the recognition of spiritual sacrifices, and the promise of the New Testament, supervene;4 while the light from on high would beam upon us who were sitting in darkness, and were being detained in the shadow of death.5 And so there is incumbent on us a necessity6 binding us, since we have premised that a new law was predicted by the prophets, and that not such as had been already given to their fathers at the time when He led them forth from the land of Egypt,7 to show and prove, on the one hand, that that old Law has ceased, and on the other, that the promised new law is now in operation.

And, indeed, first we must inquire whether there be expected a giver of the new law, and an heir of the new testament, and a priest of the new sacrifices, and a purger of the new circumcision, and an observer of the eternal sabbath, to suppress the old law, and institute the new testament, and offer the new sacrifices, and repress the ancient ceremonies, and suppress8 the old circumcision together with its own sabbath, and announce the new kingdom which is not corruptible. Inquire, I say, we must, whether this giver of the new law, observer of the spiritual sabbath, priest of the eternal sacrifices, eternal ruler of the eternal kingdom, be come or no: that, if he is already come, service may have to be rendered him; if he is not yet come, he may have to be awaited, until by his advent it be manifest that the old Law’s precepts are suppressed, and that the beginnings of the new law ought to arise. And, primarily, we must lay it down that the ancient Law and the prophets could not have ceased, unless He were come who was constantly announced, through the same Law and through the same prophets, as to come.(An Answer to the Jews Chapter VI.—Of the Abolition and the Abolisher of the Old Law. [A.D. 203]).

But you, many of you, also under pretence sometimes of worshipping the heavenly bodies, move your lips in the direction of the sunrise. In the same way, if we devote Sun-day to rejoicing, from a far different reason than Sun-worship, we have some resemblance to those of you who devote the day of Saturn to ease and luxury, though they too go far away from Jewish ways, of which indeed they are ignorant.(Apology Chapter XVI.)

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[klutedavid]

Brother, your comment shows how you came to have a wrong point of view. We are not to interpret the word of God, but allow the Bible to interpret itself. The scriptures interpret themselves when you search for the correct interpretation by not contradicting the rest of the scriptures.

When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected. So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?” “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.” (Genesis 40:6-8 NIV)​

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge

There seems to be a misunderstanding taking place here concerning the word, 'interpretation'. An interpretation is a method of understanding the revelation contained in the scripture.

We are only talking about one verse in the book of Acts.

Acts 15:10
Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

The plain reading of this verse certainly indicates that the 'yoke' is the law.

Now if you apply an interpretation to that verse (Acts 15:10). Then it could be understood in many different ways. Yoke could mean sacrificial law, Roman law, ceremonial law, moral law, ethics, etc.

In the context of Acts 15 the word 'yoke' definitely means the law.

You can be guaranteed that your interpretation is incorrect, if you apply a different meaning to that word, 'yoke'.

 

[LoveGodsWord]

Your statement above does not match up to the historical facts.

Sure my statements match up with Historical fact. I already posted the first four centuries of them from the bible and Historical records showing that Gods people have kept God's 4th commandment unbroken since the days of Jesus and the Apostles and the early church, while you are only posting sources from the Roman Catholic Church.

HISTORY OF THE SABBATH IN THE EARLY CHURCH AFTER THE DEATH OF JESUS

Sabbath Observance Through The Centuries - The First Century A.D.

INSTITUTION OF THE SABBATH
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." (Genesis 2:1-3 )

JESUS
"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read." (Luke 4:16)

JESUS
"And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." (Matthew 19:16,17)

JESUS
"But pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the Sabbath day." (Matthew 24, 20).
NOTE: Jesus asked his disciples to pray that in the flight from the doomed city of Jerusalem they would not have to flee on the Sabbath day. This flight took place in 70 A.D. 40 years after the Jesus' crucfixion and we see here that Jesus fully expected His church to be observing His true seventh day Sabbath that He Himself proclaimed to be the Lord of.

JESUS' FOLLOWERS
"And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." (Luke 23:56.) Did these women make a mistake and keep the wrong sabbath or was it that Christ NEVER EVER hinted that there would be a change forthcoming???

PAUL
"And Paul, as his manner was went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures" (Acts 17:2) Did Christ fail to inform Paul on the road to Damascus that there's now a new sabbath? Or rather does the silence of Christ speak volumes against the papal sabbath???

PAUL AND THE GENTILES
"And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. And the next Sabbath came almost the whole city together to hear the Word of God." Acts 13:42, 44.

Here we find Gentiles in a Gentile city gathering on the Sabbath. It was not a synagogue meeting in verse 44, for it says almost the whole city came together, verse 42 says they asked to hear the message the "next Sabbath."

And get this: The Bible does not say it is the "old Jewish Sabbath that was passed away," but the Spirit of God, writing the Book of Acts some 30 years after the crucifixion, calls it "the next Sabbath."

JOHN
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." Rev.1:10 (Matthew 12:6; Mark 2:28, Isa.58:13, Ex.20:10, Clearly show the Sabbath to be the Lord's day).
The term "Lord's day" in reference to sunday came later. The Biblical meaning for Lord's day is the day that God calls "My holy day" and the day that Jesus said He is Lord of.

JOSEPHUS
"There is not any city of the Grecians, nor any of the Barbarians, nor any nation whatsoever, whither our custom of resting on the seventh day hath not come!" M'Clatchie, "Notes and Queries on China and Japan" (edited by Dennys), Vol 4, Nos 7, 8, p.100.

PHILO
Declares the seventh day to be a festival, not of this or of that city, but of the universe. M'Clatchie, "Notes and Queries," Vol. 4, 99

So we have incontrovertible proof that the observance of sunday was NOT practiced by the apostolic church of the first century. Although the poison of apostasy had already begun, it did not reach the ascendancy until the passage of a few more centuries.

The next installment will show the historical record of the early christians observing the true seventh day Sabbath in the second century A.D.

Sabbath Observance Through The Centuries - The Second Century A.D.

EARLY CHRISTIANS - 2nd Century
"The primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath, and spent the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted but they derived this practice from the Apostles themselves, as appears by several scriptures to the purpose." "Dialogues on the Lord's Day," p. 189. London: 1701, By Dr. T.H. Morer (A Church of England divine).

EARLY CHRISTIANS - 2nd Century
"...The Sabbath was a strong tie which united them with the life of the whole people, and in keeping the Sabbath holy they followed not only the example but also the command of Jesus." "Geschichte des Sonntags," pp.13, 14

EARLY CHRISTIANS - 2nd Century
"The Gentile Christians observed also the Sabbath," Gieseler's "Church History," Vol.1, ch. 2, par. 30, 93.

EARLY CHRISTIANS - 2nd Century
"The primitive Christians did keep the Sabbath of the Jews;...therefore the Christians, for a long time together, did keep their conventions upon the Sabbath, in which some portions of the law were read: and this continued till the time of the Laodicean council." "The Whole Works" of Jeremy Taylor, Vol. IX,p. 416 (R. Heber's Edition, Vol XII, p. 416).

EARLY CHRISTIANS - 2nd Century
"It is certain that the ancient Sabbath did remain and was observed (together with the celebration of the Lord's day) by the Christians of the East Church, above three hundred years after our Saviour's death." "A Learned Treatise of the Sabbath," p. 77

Note: By the "Lord's day" here the writer means Sunday and not the true Sabbath," which the Bible says is the Sabbath. This quotation shows Sunday coming into use in the early centuries soon after the death of the Apostles. It illustrates the apostasy that Paul the Apostle foretold of when he spoke about a great "falling away" from the Truth that would take place soon after his death.

"From the apostles' time until the council of Laodicea, which was about the year 364, the holy observance of the Jews' Sabbath continued, as may be proved out of many authors: yea, notwithstanding the decree of the council against it." "Sunday a Sabbath." John Ley, p.163. London: 1640.

Sabbath Observance Through The Centuries - The Third Century A.D.

EGYPT (OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRUS) (200-250 A.D.)
"Except ye make the sabbath a real sabbath (sabbatize the Sabbath," Greek), ye shall not see the Father." "The oxyrhynchus Papyri," pt,1, p.3, Logion 2, verso 4-11 (London Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898).
EARLY CHRISTIANS-C 3rd
"Thou shalt observe the Sabbath, on account of Him who ceased from His work of creation, but ceased not from His work of providence: it is a rest for meditation of the law, not for idleness of the hands." "The Anti-Nicene Fathers," Vol 7,p. 413. From "Constitutions of the Holy Apostles," a document of the 3rd and 4th Centuries.

AFRICA (ALEXANDRIA) ORIGEN
"After the festival of the unceasing sacrifice (the crucifixion) is put the second festival of the Sabbath, and it is fitting for whoever is righteous among the saints to keep also the festival of the Sabbath. There remaineth therefore a sabbatismus, that is, a keeping of the Sabbath, to the people of God (Hebrews 4:9)." "Homily on Numbers 23," par.4, in Migne, "Patrologia Graeca," Vol. 12,cols. 749, 750.

PALESTINE TO INDIA (CHURCH OF THE EAST)
As early as A.D. 225 there existed large bishoprics or conferences of the Church of the East (Sabbath-keeping) stretching from Palestine to India. Mingana, "Early Spread of Christianity." Vol.10, p. 460.

INDIA (BUDDHIST CONTROVERSY), 220 A.D.)
The Kushan Dynasty of North India called a famous council of Buddhist priests at Vaisalia to bring uniformity among the Buddhist monks on the observance of their weekly Sabbath. Some had been so impressed by the writings of the Old Testament that they had begun to keep holy the Sabbath. Lloyd, "The Creed of Half Japan," p. 23.

EARLY CHRISTIANS
"The seventh-day Sabbath was...solemnised by Christ, the Apostles, and primitive Christians, till the Laodicean Council did in manner quite abolish the observations of it." "Dissertation on the Lord's Day," pp. 33, 34

Sabbath Observance Through The Centuries - The Fourth Century A.D.


ITALY AND EAST-C 4th
"It was the practice generally of the Easterne Churches; and some churches of the west...For in the Church of Millaine (Milan);...it seems the Saturday was held in a farre esteeme... Not that the Easterne Churches, or any of the rest which observed that day, were inclined to Iudaisme (Judaism); but that they came together on the Sabbath day, to worship Iesus (Jesus) Christ the Lord of the Sabbath." "History of the Sabbath" (original spelling retained), Part 2, par. 5, pp.73, 74. London: 1636. Dr. Heylyn.
ORIENT AND MOST OF WORLD
"The ancient Christians were very careful in the observance of Saturday, or the seventh day...It is plain that all the Oriental churches, and the greatest part of the world, observed the Sabbath as a festival...Athanasius likewise tells us that they held religious assembles on the Sabbath, not because they were infected with Judaism, but to worship Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, Epiphanius says the same." "Antiquities of the Christian Church," Vol.II Book XX, chap. 3, sec.1, 66. 1137,1138.

ABYSSINIA
"In the last half of that century St. Ambrose of Milan stated officially that the Abyssinian bishop, Museus, had 'traveled almost everywhere in the country of the Seres' (China). For more than seventeen centuries the Abyssinian Church continued to sanctify Saturday as the holy day of the fourth commandment." Ambrose, DeMoribus, Brachmanorium Opera Ominia, 1132, found in Migne, Patrologia Latima, Vol.17, pp.1131,1132.

ARABIA, PERSIA, INDIA, CHINA
"Mingana proves that in 370 A.D. Abyssinian Christianity (a Sabbath keeping church) was so popular that its famous director, Musacus, travelled extensively in the East promoting the church in Arabia, Persia, India and China." "Truth Triumphanat,"p.308 (Footnote 27).

ITALY-MILAN
"Ambrose, the celebrated bishop of Milan, said that when he was in Milan he observed Saturday, but when in Rome observed Sunday. This gave rise to the proverb, 'When you are in Rome, do as Rome does.'" Heylyn, "The History of the Sabbath" (1612)

SPAIN-COUNCIL ELVIRA (A.D.305)
Canon 26 of the Council of Elvira reveals that the Church of Spain at that time kept Saturday, the seventh day. "As to fasting every Sabbath: Resolved, that the error be corrected of fasting every Sabbath." This resolution of the council is in direct opposition to the policy the church at Rome had inaugurated, that of commanding Sabbath as a fast day in order to humiliate it and make it repugnant to the people.

SPAIN
It is a point of further interest to note that in north-eastern Spain near the city of Barcelona is a city called Sabadell, in a district originaly inhabited. By a people called both "Valldenses" and Sabbatati."

PERSIA-A.D. 335-375 (40 YEARS PERSECUTION UNDER SHAPUR II)
The popular complaint against the Christians-"They despise our sungod, they have divine services on Saturday, they desecrate the sacred the earth by burying their dead in it." Truth Triumphant," p.170.

PERSIA-A.D.335-375
"They despise our sun-god. Did not Zorcaster, the sainted founder of our divine beliefs, institute Sunday one thousand years ago in honour of the sun and supplant the Sabbath of the Old Testament. Yet these Christians have divine services on Saturday." O'Leary, "The Syriac Church and Fathers," pp.83, 84.

COUNCIL LAODICEA-A.D.365
"Canon 16-On Saturday the Gospels and other portions of the Scripture shall be read aloud." "Canon 29-Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord's day they shall especially honor, and as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day." Hefele's "Councils," Vol. 2, b. 6.

There was no Roman Catholic Church before the time of Constantine.

This is something you have yet to prove (see here; here; here; here; linked). I do agree however that the Roman Catholic Church did come out of the Roman Empire and that Constantine's civil Sunday law in March 7, 321 AD did a lot to promote it's development. Now look at your argument now? Your seeking sources outside of the bible from the Roman Catholic Church over the Word of God in order to try and justify breaking God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandment despite there being no scripture anywhere that says Gods' 4th commandment has been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a holy day of rest? Who are you following despite the bible and History showing that Gods' people have always kept God's 4th commandment unbroken to this very present day.

Hope this is helpful

 

[klutedavid]

So what Law, Word is in the heart through Christ?

The Engrafted Word which is the Law of Liberty. Which includes and is not limited to The Royal law (love thy neighbor) and the ten commandments, the whole Law, in which we will be judged by.

James explicitly states what laws are in those whom hear God. Follow along please

Let us not be tempted, drawn away by our own Lust, bringing forth sin unto death. For every good gift and perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights, us. We are Begotten by the word of truth, receive with meekness the engrafted word, the PERFECT gift.

Being Begotten of the word. Be doers of the engrafted word not hearers only deceiving ourselves. For we are Begotten so don't forget who we are when Looking into a mirror at the perfect law of Liberty. Who we now are, first fruits of His creatures. Begotten through the engrafted word and continue therein when we goeth our way.

Be a doer of the work and we will be blessed in the deeds. Being Begotten with the engrafted Word, The Royal Law, the Whole Law, the Law of Liberty in which we will be judged.

Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Jas 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Jas 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Jas 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Jas 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Jas 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Jas 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Jas 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Jas 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Jas 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
Jas 2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
Jas 2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
Jas 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
Jas 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Jas 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Jas 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
Jas 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Jas 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Jas 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jas 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Jas 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

A big post you have there.

Can you abbreviate your post to say under ten lines?

If you could state exactly what you mean in your post, I found it confusing.

 

[BABerean2]

JESUS
"And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." (Matthew 19:16,17)

When the rich young man told Jesus he had always kept the commandments, did Jesus tell him he had earned eternal life?

Do you really believe the rich young man told the truth in verse 20 based on what is written in the rest of the New Testament, or did he break the 9th commandment?


Mat 19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
Mat 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Mat 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Mat 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
Mat 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Mat 19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Mat 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mat 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.



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[LoveGodsWord]

When the rich young man told Jesus he had always kept the commandments, did Jesus tell him he had earned eternal life? Do you really believe the rich young man told the truth in verse 20, based on what is written in the rest of the New Testament?

Matthew 19:16-26 is based on the question of the rich young ruler which was Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? (Matthew 19:16). Jesus responded there is none good but one, that is God but if you will enter into life keep the commandments (Matthew 19:17) The rich young ruler responded by saying which commandments and Jesus responded by quoting the 10 commandments to do with how we love our fellow man (thou shalt not murder; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt no lie; and honor your parents) in Matthew 19:18-19. The rich young ruler said he had done all these commandments from his youth up but knowing he was lacking something said to Jesus what do I lack in Matthew 19:20. Jesus knowing what he lacked said to him If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me but when the right young ruler heard these things he saw what he lacked and went away sorrowful in Matthew 19:21-22 because he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to His disciples rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven in Matthew 19:23. Jesus showed that rich young ruler that he loved is money and possessions more then he loved God and this was the reason he went away sorrowful because he was not prepared to give up the things of the world for the things of God. Although he was keeping the commandments of his duty of love to his fellow man he was breaking those commandments of his duty of love to God making a God of his money and possessions and bowing down and worshiping them over God. The scripture that you post here should be a wake up call to you. The question was asked by the rich young ruler what shall I do to inherit eternal live. Jesus quoted the 10 commandments and showed him that he was breaking the first two commandments. Gods' 4th commandment is one of the 10 commandments and also our duty of love to God.

Hope this is helpful.

 

[klutedavid]

Matthew 19:16-26 is based on the question of the rich young ruler which was Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? (Matthew 19:16). Jesus responded there is none good but one, that is God but if you will enter into life keep the commandments (Matthew 19:17) The rich young ruler responded by saying which commandments and Jesus responded by quoting the 10 commandments to do with how we love our fellow man (thou shalt not murder; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt no lie; and honor your parents) in Matthew 19:18-19. The rich young ruler said he had done all these commandments from his youth up but knowing he was lacking something said to Jesus what do I lack in Matthew 19:20. Jesus knowing what he lacked said to him If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me but when the right young ruler heard these things he saw what he lacked and went away sorrowful in Matthew 19:21-22 because he had great possessions. Then Jesus said to His disciples rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven in Matthew 19:23. Jesus showed that rich young ruler that he loved is money and possessions more then he loved God and this was the reason he went away sorrowful because he was not prepared to give up the things of the world for the things of God. Although he was keeping the commandments of his duty of love to his fellow man he was breaking those commandments of his duty of love to God making a God of his money and possessions and bowing down and worshiping them over God. The scripture that you post here should be a wake up call to you. The question was asked by the rich young ruler what shall I do to inherit eternal live. Jesus quoted the 10 commandments and showed him that he was breaking the first two commandments. Gods' 4th commandment is one of the 10 commandments and also our duty of love to God.

Hope this is helpful.

You failed to read the whole chapter.

Now read these extra two verses.

Mat 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Obedience to the ten commandments cannot deliver eternal life. Jesus just answered the apostles question, 'Who then can be saved?'.

No one can be perfect, no one can save themselves through obedience. It is impossible.

 

[LoveGodsWord]

You failed to read the whole chapter.

Now read these extra two verses.

Mat 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Obedience to the ten commandments cannot deliver eternal life. Jesus just answered the apostles question, 'Who then can be saved?'.

No one can be perfect, no one can save themselves through obedience. It is impossible.

Not really dear friend, of course I have read the whole chapter. I never said that anything is impossible to God. If I have never said anything is impossible to God why are you pretending that I did? I was quoting on why the rich young ruler went away sorrowful and the question he asked Jesus and what the response of Jesus was in answering the rich young rulers question. It was because Jesus had shown him that he loved his money and possessions more than God and he was breaking the first two commandments of our duty of love to God. Please read what you are quoting from before posting next time. It avoids misunderstandings.

Obedience to God's 10 commandments is not how we are saved it is the fruit of faith the words by love (see Matthew 22:36-40; Romans 13:8-12; James 2:10-12; 1 John 5:2-3; John 14:15: John 15:10; Hebrews 8:10-12 from Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Ezekiel 36:24-27). According to the scriptures we are saved by grace through faith and not of ourselves it is a gift of God and not of works lest any man should boast *Ephesians 2:8-9. As posted earlier, obedience to God's words are not how we are saved it is the FRUIT of genuine faith of one that is already been given Gods promise of salvation and the fruit of God's work in us *Philippians 2:13 as we believe and follow his word *John 10:26-27. If our faith has no fruit it is dead *James 2:18-20; 26 and our tree will be cast down and thrown into the fire *Matthew 3:10; 7:19-20; 13:49-50; Hebrews 10:26-27.

Therefore we do not abolish God's law through faith like some people teach but God's law is established in the heart by faith that works by love *Romans 3:31; 1 John 5:3-4; Romans 13:8-10. According to the scriptures, sin (breaking God' commandments and not believing and following God's Word) is the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil *1 John 3:6-10; 1 John 2:3-4; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 14:12; Revelation 22:14 and God's 4th commandment is one of God's 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken according to the scriptures (Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4; James 2:10-11).

Take care

 

[HIM]

A big post you have there.

Can you abbreviate your post to say under ten lines?

If you could state exactly what you mean in your post, I found it confusing.

No

 

[guevaraj]

There seems to be a misunderstanding taking place here concerning the word, 'interpretation'. An interpretation is a method of understanding the revelation contained in the scripture.

Brother, happy Sabbath! You have to let God tell you what He means in the context of everything He says instead of thinking that you know what He means, when it is in direct opposition to what He tells us He means in another part of Scripture. If you cling to "lies", you are among those "perishing". Jesus demands that we seek the truth as if your life depended on it, because it does, as God tells us below through Paul. Peter tells us that Paul has some things that we find difficult to understand. Be very careful with interpreting Paul in opposition to the rest of Scripture!

The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 NIV)​

We are only talking about one verse in the book of Acts.

This earlier idea of yours of isolating a passage from the rest of Scripture is how you force your own interpretation, not letting God tell you what He means in the rest of Scripture. Interpreting one part of God's word out of the context of all the rest of God's word is how you "distort" God's word "to your own destruction".

Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. (2 Peter 3:15-17 NIV)​

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge

 

[BABerean2]

Although he was keeping the commandments of his duty of love to his fellow man he was breaking those commandments of his duty of love to God making a God of his money and possessions and bowing down and worshiping them over God.

The statement above should be a wake up call to every human on the planet.

Only one human being has ever kept the ten commandments perfectly.

Do you think the rich young man was "born-again" of the Spirit of God, just because he claimed to keep the ten commandments?


Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Gal 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


Two books of the Bible were written to address the Judaisers.
The Book of Galatians, and the Book of Hebrews were both written to reveal the truth about the battle between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.


Heb 8:13 In that He says, "A NEW COVENANT," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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