Soyeong
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I know that is what you believe and you are free to do so. But do not go around telling others they are sinning against the Lord if they do not.
The Bible defined sin as the transgression of the Law (1 John 3:4) and the Law says to keep the Sabbath, so it is therefore a sin to break it, and I love people too much to see them caught in sin without helping to restore them.
Colossians 2:16: "Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths."
If you look at Colossians 2:16 by itself, then it is ambiguous as to whether Paul was saying not to let anyone judge them for keeping God's holy day or for not keeping them, but if we look at the context of the views of the people judging them and well as keep in mind the broader theme that we must obey God rather than man, then it becomes clear:
Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Paul would never have described those teaching people to obey the holy, righteous, and good Law of our God in accordance with Christ's example as taking people captive by philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition and not according to Christ. He went into more details about what these elemental spirits of the world are later in the chapter:
Colossians 2:20-23 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? 23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
So the Colossians were keeping God's holy days in obedience to God's commands, they were being judged by those teaching human traditions and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, and Paul was writing to encourage them not to let any man keep them from obeying God.
Here it is merely mentioned, showing that it has been abolished in view of the Dispensation of Grace.
Dispensationalism is fundamentally false because at its basic level it seeks to excuse the fact that we have changed by saying that God has change, why he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Grace has always been an important attribute of God that he showed to people throughout the OT. For example, in Psalms 119:29, David asked God to show His grace to him by teaching him to obey His Law. In Genesis 6:8-9, it says that Noah found grace in the eyes of God and that he was a righteous man, and this was by no accident, but rather he was taught how to rightly live by grace and was righteous because he obeyed through faith.
God's Law was given to instruct us how to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and how to refrain from doing what is ungodly and sinful, so Titus 2:11-14 is essentially saying that our salvation involves being trained by grace to obey God's Law. According to Romans 1:5, we have received grace in order to bring about the obedience that faith requires. According to John 1:16-17, grace was added upon grace, so the grace of Christ was added upon the grace of the Law. According to Jude 1:4, the ungodly pervert God's grace into a license to sin. According to Strong's, "grace" is defined as "the divine influence upon the heart and its reflection in the life" and when God's will is reflected in our lives, it takes the form of obedience to His commands, so God shows His grace to us by teaching us to obey His Law. There are 1,050 commands in the NT, so both the Mosaic Covenant and New Covenant are just as much covenants of grace as they are of Law. According to Leviticus 19:1-3, keeping God's Sabbath is about acting in accordance with the holiness of our God, so the way to act in accordance with God's holiness can't be abolished without first abolishing God's holiness.
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