I'm not teaching any of those things. Those who are saved have experienced repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 20:21) Those in Christ are a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17) Those who are born of God practice righteousness and not sin. (1 John 3:9-10)
Now can you please answer my 2 questions from post #1,112.
So you answered your own question.
Sin is the transgression of God's law 1 John 3:4 Romans 3:20 Romans 7:7 Mat 5:19-30. The opposite of God's righteousness Psa 119:172
The gospel message is we have good news in our salvation in Jesus Christ- Salvation from what? Sin. Sin is what? Breaking God's law. 1 John 3:4 Romans 3:20 Romans 7:7 So if we have not been reborn in Christ we will not be saved. Those who don't subject themselves to God's law is called lost in scripture Romans 8:4-8 Mat 5:19 1 John 2:4 Rev 22:15 Mat 7:23 You can't separate the 10 commandments from the everlasting gospel message. Which again is not how we are saved- the law has it purpose to reveal our condition and so we depend on God's righteousness Psa 119:172 and need for Jesus for His forgiveness, mercy and grace. If we cover our sins and not forsake them, we will not prosper Pro 28:13 Heb 10:26-30
In regard to Sunday being the mark of the beast I will repeat what I posted previously. Right now, we have freedom of religion, so the mark of the beast is not here yet, but many are not paying attention to what is happening in the government where they are trying to change the constitution to remove separation of State and Church. I believe we are very close to the return of Jesus Christ.
What I posted previously....
Someone had mentioned EGW and her comments on that the Sabbath shined brighter than all of the other commandments. I was listening to Walter Veith who explained in detail why (better than I do) and it makes perfect sense.
The reason the Sabbath shines brighter it is the only commandment that reveals the Author of God's law the Ten Commandments and only law that reveals the Authority and Creator over all heaven and earth. Its the commandment that contains the seal of God.
Without the power of God, we could never obey God's commandments. Removing the one commandment that reveals the Author, the Authority and the Seal the rest of the law is useless and without His power and no one could keep.
Can you imagine having a set of laws that congress passes into government and is not signed by the President, would be useless. The Sabbath is the one commandments that shows God's Authority which leads to the controversy.
Is our allegiance with the authority of God who created heaven and earth or to the one who changed times and laws
Dan 7:25 we are warned about and receive their mark of their authority. No wonder there is so much attack on the Sabbath commandment as it all comes down to the authority of who we worship. Someone is trying to take the place of God
Isa 14:14 who is working through an alternate system
Revelation 13:4 that the whole world follows when they follow their teachings over God's.
Their authority
Deny the authority of the Church and you have no adequate or reasonable explanation or justification for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday in the Third - Protestant Fourth - Commandment of God...
The Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.'
—Catholic Record, September 1, 1923.
God's Authority
Psa 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
Their authority
It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church,
and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.
—Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, NJ ‘News’ on March 18, 1903.
God's Authority
Exo 20:6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
Me and keep
My commandments.
Their mark
Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act.
And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.
—C. F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, in answer to a letter regarding the change of the Sabbath, November 11, 1895.
God's Seal
Exo 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day
is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates. 11 For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
The Sabbath contains the three elements of a seal:
Name: Lord thy God
Title: Creator
Territory: Heaven and Earth
Eze 20:20 hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a
sign between Me and you,
that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’
Their authority
Tradition, not Scripture, is the rock on which the church of Jesus Christ is built.
—Adrien Nampon, Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent, p. 157
God's Authority
And
in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
8
For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold
the tradition of men
At the end it will come down to our worship. In vain by keeping the traditions of man or following God and obeying
His commandments just the way He wrote and spoke and no one has Authority over God.
Rev 14: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night,
who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
Or the antidote we can obey God which is true worship.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here
are those
who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
