We should worship God 365/24/7 and Jesus in His own words relates false worship as laying aside the commandments of God. Mat7:7-13 Mat15:3-14. So if we are following something that replaces one of God's commandments that when it becomes problematic because we are replacing what God said with words of another. Its what kept many of the Israelites out of the promise land Eze20:15-16 we are told not to follow in their path of disobedience Heb4:11
The Ten Commandments are the Covenant, did you know?
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That you do not understand these verses is telling. The rock is Jesus. The others built their house on something else. The man who built his house on the rock will do what Jesus tells them because they were made spiritually alive and their desires were changed. The others who built on something else are still spiritually dead and are unable to follow Jesus because their desires are for themselves.
Yes, the Rock is Jesus and what did those who built their rock on Him do according to Jesus?
The change was the promises Heb8:6 where God placed His laws - from tablets of stone, to tablets of the heart 2Cor3:3 Heb8:10 the law is holy, just and good Rom7:12 and perfect Psa19:7 because the Holy Spirit of Truth wrote them.
Believe as you wish, all will get sorted out at His time.
We both agree there were dietary restrictions in the Mosaic law. We disagree on whether they are still in place today. Referencing the Mosaic law to argue whether there are current restrictions is changing the subject.
We probably have a misunderstandings of what Jesus means by hears and does "His sayings" which would be all of His teachings, but at least we can agree on the concept.
Beware of demanding Scripture conform to what you want it to say instead of conforming to what GW says.
It appears that your demand is due to unwillingness to interpret the OT in light of the NT, including:
"The former regulation [Levitical law] is set aside... and Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant." (Heb. 7:11, 18a & 22b).
“A new commandment I give you: Love one another as I have loved you.” (John 13:34a)
"God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit he has given us." (Rom. 5:5)
"He who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law/commandments." (Rom. 13:8b)
You Judaizers will do well when you harmonize and conform to these.
Likewise, none of these verses says we do not have to obey the commandments of God. Just read the next verse in Rom13:9 that Paul told us what makes us the second greatest commandment, which is from the Ten Commandments just as Jesus did when He quoted Deut6:5 right after the Ten Commandments was repeated 40 years later for the Israelites to diligently keep before entering into the promise land, sadly not everyone did. Eze20:15-16
Jesus taught the same thing because He does not change as He is the one speaking at Mt Sinai Mat5:17-30 Mat15:3-14 Mark7:7-13 etc
Christians value the Ten Commandments not to feel righteous, but because they show what love and faith look like in daily life. Jesus lived them and taught that loving God means obeying Him. The commandments do not replace becoming like Christ; they describe the path He walked.
Do you believe one's salvation is based upon the keeping of the ten commandments or of keeping any other law?
No, I believe our salvation is based on grace through faith. All have sinned and has come short, why we are saved by grace, but through Jesus He can lead us to true obedience through Him that flows through the heart John14:15-18
Obeying God's law is a consequence of genuine faith Rev14:12 Rom3:31 not a means of salvation. Disobedience is still sin, rebellion and unbelief all used interchangeably Heb3:7-19
Yes, but your blind spot is not seeing that OT commandments are superseded by the command to love,
nor does any NT verse say we have to obey the 4th of the ten commandments.
God did indeed change the OT law to the NT Gospel (Heb. 7:11-10:1),
and He condemns those who refuse to conform (John 8:42-44, Gal 1:9).
It wasn't a blind spot, Paul was quoting the second greatest commandments that came from the Ten Commandments of love towards our neighbor, why the first 4 commandments was absent, not just the Sabbath commandment. He also said if there are "any other commandments" are there other commandments that God wrote and God spoke from this unit, of course.
The greatest commandments love to God with all our heart are from this same unit just as Jesus said Deut6:5
Exo 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [a]bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor [b]serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting[c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
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.
Heb. 7:11-10:1 - this covers a lot and Heb7:11 without the next verses that shows the context of what is being changed shows me how Scripture is being interpreted, sadly taken out of context.
Jesus in His own Words said the commandments of God would not end Mat5:17-30, not a jot or tittle I am sticking with what He said Mat4:4 He warned us about laying aside this very thing and could not condemn this teaching more Mat15:3-14 Mark7:7-13
No. Obeying the law because it is law would place us under the law, and if under law, then under God's wrath. The law was abolished in Christ. You can't have it both ways.
[Gal 3:10 KJV] 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
[Eph 2:15 KJV] 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;
Gal 3:10 is speaking about what was placed outside the ark as a witness againt Deut31:24-26 which was everything that was written in the book of the law
Deut 31:24 So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished, 25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 26 “Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness against you;
Which is the same laws handwritten by Moses that contained the ordinances
2 Chro 33:8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers—only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.”
The Ten Commandments was written by the finger of God, not Moses Exo31:18 and was placed inside God's ark Exo40:20. Paul is speaking of the curses in law of Moses for disobedience, not the commandments of God written by God Himself.
Jesus said If you love me, keep My commandments and would not put anyone under a curse for doing what He says.
The jot and tittle refer to Jesus fulfilling the OC, whereupon the NT Gospel began with equally dire warnings for those who pervert it (John 8:42-44, Gal. 1:9, Heb. 10:19-31), so DON'T!
No. Not under any law, period, with no qualifications to it. We cannot be under law and at the same time be under Christ in any sense or to any degree - they are diametrically opposed to each other - unreconcilable each with the other.
Jesus's commandment was to believe in Him as the Savior and love to the brethren, both of which are given by God to those saved when
saved as a gift (but not as a work of law).