Originally posted by adam332
Well as romantic as the thought is of keeping any day as His Sabbath, and it still be considered as abiding in Him is ridiculous.
Where else do you dare apply such interpretation?
Explain to everyone: "How can you literally break any of the other nine commands and still be spiritually keeping them.
Can you literally use the Lord's name in vain, but still have kept the spirit of the law?
Can you literally murder someone and still have kept the spirit of the law?
etc.....
Doesn't Christ portay keeping them in the spirit, as the act of hate is the same as murder, the act of lust is the same as adultery, etc....
Such loose interpretation does not stand up to Biblical principals and is quickly found to be inconsistant
Actually what we find in the NT is that if we are indwelt with His Spirit, He will empower us to do these effortlessly. And that means He will make our thoughts Holy as well as are actions.
To imply that a literal application of the law, as a guage for sin, is no longer necessary, is the exact opposite scriptural instruction.
1John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Gal. 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
Rom. 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Rom. 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Rom. 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom. 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
There was never an issue between Christ and the Pharisee's rigidness on what day the Sabbath was!!!! The issue was purely on the strictness found in mans personal additions to the Sabbath. Christ showed us how to keep His Sabbath, in His spirit.
The bottom line is that all are fulfilled through Christ, for without His spirit we could not keep a single one. You truly want to know if you are abiding in Christ, then inspect your fruits!!! They are the evidence of Christ's enabling Spirit working in the heart of His believer. If while inspecting your fruits you notice that you do not keep HIS SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, then maybe you aren't as close to His spirit as you think.
Mat. 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: