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We gather to celebrate the risen Christ and to remember what He did for us. We worship and praise Jesus and break the bread on that day.True, we're not required to rest, but it's good for us to do so. Resting on the Sabbath is more effective than on any other day. And getting much needed rest does wonders for one spiritually.
Jesus kept the Sabbath because it was still in effect until He was crucified and risen.
No I am not wrong.
The will of God is to believe in Jesus Christ and that is the life that I live. The blood of bulls cannot save anyone. The law is weak and useless for salvation and for seeking righteousness.
Hebrews 7:18
For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness.
Let's take a close look at your next quotation.You threw six hundred laws from Moses into the bin and ignored the law of Moses. That is despising the law of Moses and you have condemned yourself.
Nothing absurd about the truth.God never said that. All throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to His law, so it would be absurd to think that He holds those who do that in contempt by viewing our actions as filthy rags. In Isaiah 64:6, it is not God speaking, but rather it is the people complaining about God not coming down and making His presence known. The reality is that the righteous deeds of the saints are like fine white linen (Revelation 19:8).
You cannot pick and choose which laws to obey. Yet you cannot obey all 613 laws because the temple does not exist. If you break one law, you break them all. You condemn yourself. Romans 3:19-21No I am not wrong.
The will of God is to believe in Jesus Christ and that is the life that I live. The blood of bulls cannot save anyone. The law is weak and useless for salvation and for seeking righteousness.
Hebrews 7:18
For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness.
Let's take a close look at your next quotation.You threw six hundred laws from Moses into the bin and ignored the law of Moses. That is despising the law of Moses and you have condemned yourself.
We gather to celebrate the risen Christ and to remember what He did for us. We worship and praise Jesus and break the bread on that day.
If you want to lay around all day and rest from work, then find another day to do that on. Christians gather to worship and not to rest.
You must practice the new moon day as a day of rest. Then you count six more days and you have the Sabbath day. Always six days of work and a day of rest.
Exodus was written under the format of a lunar calendar.
You are more than likely using a papal calendar. A solar calendar has extra days and a continuous cycles of weeks.
Passover is celebrated by a lunar reckoning and not by a papal calendar. That says it all as far as I am concerned.
In Acts 2:38, when Peter told his audience to repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins, the Mosaic Law was how they knew what sin is. Repentance doesn't change the fact that we have already failed to have perfect obedience, so the fact that repentance has value disproves our need for perfect obedience. The law leads us to Christ because everything in it teaches us about who he is, how to walk as he walked, and how to grow in a relationship with Him.It is God's will that you repent and believe in Jesus Christ. That is what the law and the prophets are all really about. The arrival of the messiah. Obeying the law in part or fully, will not ever meet God's perfect requirement for immortality.Christ was the one who achieved perfect legal obedience, perfect righteousness. That is the righteousness that we receive as a gift from God Himself.
Surely you will not arrive at the wedding wearing your own wedding clothes? Stained with your own failure to meet the law in full and perfect obedience. Tell me your not going to do that.
The white linen is the righteousness of Christ that we wear.
Romans 4:6
Just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works.
Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 5:17
For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
The word is clear we do not have to keep the Sabbath. That is not to say you cant because it is implied that that is allowed, if you want to.
You must practice the new moon day as a day of rest. Then you count six more days and you have the Sabbath day. Always six days of work and a day of rest
So, if that was the case, why would you not eant to observe it?
If knowing observing it pleases Him and you can freely join in this celebration with the angels (according to the book of jubilees), what work or purchase would come before that to you, that couldn't be done another day?
Or to put it another way, if the Messiah was physically present with His disciples around you, would you keep it then or would you say "sorry, i need to buy or sell this today and I need to do these chores".
Just some food for thought. If you don't want to celebrate it or it would seem like hassle to you, then don't. The Sabbath should be enjoyed and appreciated with joy rather than approached with a reluvtant heart (not saying that's you btw).
Love & Shalom
I don't observe the weekly Sabbath because 1) it's not required 2) I already spend all my time devoted to God already. I don't need to follow the rules of the Jewish Sabbath to honor God. God knows I love Him and spend all my free time devoted to Him. He doesn't care if I keep the Sabbath or not, as His word tells us. I honor Him much more than only 1 day a week. If I were to keep the Sabbath strictly as did the Jews, it would be a hindrance to the ministry and good works God has set for me to do.
We did indeed enter that eternal rest with Christ.
The Levite priesthood was a shadow of Christ's High Priesthood in the eternal realms.
The food laws were a shadow of the approaching bread from heaven.
The moral law restrained people until the law of Christ liberated people into the true freedom of love, written on our hearts.
The Old Testament, the prophecies, the law, has all been fulfilled in Christ. We are not under the law now for we are under grace.
(CLV) Ro 8:4
that the just requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who are not walking in accord with flesh, but in accord with spirit.
Please read chapter ten of Hebrews again and again. Until you understand what the author of Hebrews is talking about.Hebrews 10:26-29 KJB
"26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?"
This verse Hebrews 10:26 is talking about the regenerated Christian who has apostasized from the faith (walking in obedience unto God).
Apostasy defined by the Marriam Webster Dictionary:
"1: an act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith
2: abandonment of a previous loyalty :"
That is not to say that willful sin is okay, because it is not at all. Do not tempt the Lord.
That is the shortest summary of the O.T and the N.T, that I have ever seen.Flesh: OC
Spirit: NC
Yes I can illustrate from the scripture that we are indeed citizens of the new creation.Can you prove this with scripture?
That is not true.The Levite priesthood will be operating in the Kingdom to come.
The text states, 'New Covenant', not a renewed covenant.That's the LAW! He writes the LAW on our hearts. This is at the heart of the renewed covenant.
The law cannot save or sanctify and that is very clear.(CLV) Ro 8:3
For what was impossible to the law, in which it was infirm through the flesh, did God, -sending His own Son in the likeness of sin's flesh and concerning sin, He condemns sin in the flesh,
If you try to obey the law, then you are walking according to the flesh. Christ fulfills the requirements of the law in us, through His sacrifice for us.(CLV) Ro 8:4
that the just requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who are not walking in accord with flesh, but in accord with spirit.
I don't observe the weekly Sabbath because 1) it's not required 2) I already spend all my time devoted to God already. I don't need to follow the rules of the Jewish Sabbath to honor God. God knows I love Him and spend all my free time devoted to Him. He doesn't care if I keep the Sabbath or not, as His word tells us. I honor Him much more than only 1 day a week. If I were to keep the Sabbath strictly as did the Jews, it would be a hindrance to the ministry and good works God has set for me to do.
No it's not because every Christian on earth commits willful sin!This verse Hebrews 10:26 is talking about the regenerated Christian who has apostasized from the faith (walking in obedience unto God).
Apostasy defined by the Marriam Webster Dictionary:
"1: an act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith
2: abandonment of a previous loyalty :"
That is not to say that willful sin is okay, because it is not at all. Do not tempt the Lord.
No it's not because every Christian on earth commits willful sin!
The author of Hebrews is stating that falling away from Jesus and returning to the law is that willful sin.
Hebrews 10:29
How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Your quoting Hebrews 10:26 out of the context of what the author is saying.
So in effect your actually saying, that a Christian has not been sanctified by the blood of the covenant. Because if a Christian commits a willful sin, then that sanctification is lost.
That is what you are teaching; any Christian is one willful sin away from damnation. That is not what chapter ten is saying.
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