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While it is true that we are under a New Covenant, we are nevertheless still under the same God who has the same standard of holiness, righteousness, and goodness. In Titus 2:14, it does not say that he gave himself to redeem us from the Law, but to redeem us from all Lawlessness, and it does not say that that he gave himself to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for rejecting God's instructions for how to do good works, but who are zealous for doing them. Jesus said that faith was one of the weightier matters of the Law (Matthew 23:23), so it is completely false that the Old Covenant was ever about not sinning by our own strength based the letter of the laws. God has always disdained it when His people outwardly obeyed His laws while their hearts were far from Him. Jesus began his ministry with the Message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand, and the Law was given to reveal what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to what God's Law reveals to be sin is a central part of the Gospel message and the New Covenant. Jesus has always been Lord of the Sabbath and the Sabbath has never been about trusting God once a week.
I agree. It is lawlessness that Jesus died in order to infuse us with His Spirit, so we would not sin. But that is by changing our very nature. We no longer need tablets of stone, the letter of the law, we need the mind of Christ. This was accomplished by His blood and why the sign of the New Covenant is the Cup of the New Covenant, not a day of the week to physically rest, our rest is in Jesus.
Just as some of the Hebrew Christians were still sacrificing animals, which trampled on the blood of Jesus, so we, if we keep the Sabbath are not trusting in Jesus and holding Him again in contempt. Don't you realize what you are doing? Think again, as veneration of the shadow, is mocking the substance, Jesus.
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