apone said:
Hi ,
I believe everyone that has responded knows when they themselves are breaking the Sabbath,we feel it...the law is in our hearts now. If I move a sofa from one room to the next for redecorating i know in my heart it is wrong for me, God has made it so thru the Holy spirit.If the Holy Spirit leads me to help a non sabbath keeper having a difficult time moving a sofa that would be ok.....for me.....Our Lord tought us not to judge by external standards.What do you guy think?
With love,Ron
Shalom, Ron.
When something is "in" or "on our hearts"... it is on our hearts to do that thing. If I say, "it's on my heart to call my mom, today", then I mean to say it is on my heart that I do that very thing... it is not on my heart so that I would say, "it's on my heart to call my mom, and since it's on my heart now and that's all that matters -- intention, then thankfully I don't have to bother myself with doing it."
Or what do we mean when we say something *isn't* in our hearts? We memorize things "by heart", which means able to recall those things exactly as they are written. And why do we learn the Word, study the Word, memorize Scripture, etc., if not to *do* it (?) ...to make our lives conform to it?
But instead, Christianity has twisted what is meant by "in your hearts". We learn and think that, hey, (now) we have the Law of G-d in our hearts so the gist of it is essentially there and all that matters is that it's in our hearts to follow the "Law" -- intention, ya know -- so we don't have to bother ourselves with doing the "Law". That would be the same as if I, who majored in English, were to say, "well, HEY, I've got my degree in English (the goal of my studies) so now, anything I write -- regardless of whether it conforms to the grammatical rules of this language -- is automatically
right, now. Whatever seems good to me, or 'works' for me, that's all I need to bother doing, because I *got* the end result." This is what people are really saying when they declare that since Yeshua was the "Goal" of the "Law of G-d", then "Law" of G-d was meant only to bring us to faith in Yeshua, and so now that we have the "Goal", we don't have to worry about the Torah teaching ("Law") *itself* anymore.
Just thoughts you might consider.