The Ten Commandments are the Covenant, did you know?
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Yes, Christ is seated in the heaven sanctuary, it still has God's law. Gods Testimony, what man will be judged by regardless if we accept this or not. James2:11 Rev11:18-19
Why do you restrict the law to 10 commandments? There are 613. Not all apply to all people, but mostly they do. The problem with law is that they do nothing for relationship. You also end up with the same dilemma as the Israelites. Who decides what work is? Should hospitals close on Saturdays? Or Sundays if you do not observe the Saturday sabbath? Can you drive a car to church? What if you live miles away?
There are two laws that matter. Love God and love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour, you won't sleep with his wife, you won't steal from him, you will not slander him, you won't covet what he has and you do not. You won't make a false claim about him to the police.
If you love God, you will appreciate what He does for you, do as He asks without complaining.
Those who are born again have a new spirit where Jesus lives in the Person of His Holy Spirit. We need to learn to walk in the Spirit and follow the leading of the Spirit. God is happy with that.
As for me, my Bible says that the Law was put in charge of me to lead me to Christ. I came to Christ over 50 years ago. I now live by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ. That takes all the pressure off me. I never think to myself, "Have I broken God's law today?" I know that sin is far more subtle than that. I can be perfect outwardly and still sin inwardly. Acts 15 lays out the place of the law for Gentiles.
Because I am born again, I don't want to sin because it goes against my new nature. I have not memorised the 10 commandments. My focus is on grace and truth that came through Lord Jesus.
The 10 commandments in the ark were a type of the righteousness within Christ. Once we have his righteousness and the spirit to walk in it, there is no need for the 10 commandments.
You ignore God's word. Denominations are not the church. Perfect doctrine is not the qualification to enter heaven. And for sure you are not qualified to judge who is born again and who is not. 45,000 denominations is 44,999 too many. But that is because Christians are governed by intellect and opinions instead of the Spirit. God knows that. Lord Jesus is building His church in spite of the many flaws and imperfections of His people. All who are born again are precious to Lord Jesus. That is true even when there are doctrinal disagreements. You don't have to like it. it is the way it is.
Read Acts 15. I could not be more blessed and never have I kept the Saturday sabbath. Nearly 54 years now. The true sabbath rest is when believers cease from striving in their own, natural powers. For sure everyone needs a day off a week to be refreshed. That day is up to the individual, between him and the Lord.
I worked 16 hours a day for 3 weeks straight. When it was over, I slept for almost a day. Not a good idea but I had no choice. Did God condemn me? No. That's the difference between law and grace.
So no need to practice righteousness, no need to only worship God, no need to not keep His name holy, no need to not steal from our neighbor or lie to them, so break the least of these commandments instead of keeping them, the opposite of what Jesus taught Mat5:19-30. I guess we shall see how that works out.
1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
We practice righteousness when we believe God and love others. There is no higher law than these 2 commandments that is able to condemn us
So loving God with all our heart will lead someone to breaking what God asked us to keep.
Guess we have different ideas of what it means to love God with all our heart 1John5:3 John14:15 Exo20:6
God did write the 10 commandments on stone and gave them to Moses for the Israelites under the old covenant of law. (Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:1-21) You need to stop conflating the old covenant with the new covenant. (2 Corinthians 3:6-9; Colossians 2:16-17; Hebrews 8:13)
Your implication from your relentless broken record message is that YOU have sufficiently kept ALL 10 commandments (and not simply 9) so you will surely be saved yet believers who find their 'sabbatismos' rest in Christ (Hebrews 4:9) in contrast with keeping the weekly sabbath day under the law have only kept 9 of the 10 commandments and will not be saved.
Keeping the sabbath day (instead of believing the gospel by trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation) seems to be where your line in the sand is drawn on who will and won't be saved.
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This is the second greatest commencements- to love our neighbor all came from the Ten Commandments
Rom 13:9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” [a]“You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
The commandments to love God with all our heart, the greatest commandment comes from this same unit Deut6:5
Only God can define His laws and He did both written and spoken by God Himself Exo20:6 Deut4:13 Exo31:18 and while we are in the NC, the difference is the promises Heb8:6 and the location of God's laws, now written in the heart 2Cor3:3 Heb8:10 for those who don't rebel Rom8:7-8God did write the 10 commandments on stone and gave them to Moses for the Israelites under the old covenant of law. (Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:1-21) You need to stop conflating the old covenant with the new covenant. (2 Corinthians 3:6-9; Colossians 2:16-17; Hebrews 8:13)
Your implication from your relentless broken record message is that YOU have sufficiently kept ALL 10 commandments (and not simply 9) so you will surely be saved yet believers who find their 'sabbatismos' rest in Christ (Hebrews 4:9) in contrast with keeping the weekly sabbath day under the law have only kept 9 of the 10 commandments and will not be saved.
Keeping the sabbath day (instead of believing the gospel by trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation) seems to be where your line in the sand is drawn on who will and won't be saved.
Jesus in His own words said the Sabbath will not end Isa 56:6-7 Mat24:20-30 Isa66:22-23 my faith is in Him not what man changed Dan7:25 as if man can sanctify a day or sanctify themselves Isa66:17 instead of depending on God. Isa 56:2 Eze20:12
the Father is calling and bringing the Bride of Christ into perfection, into ONE with the Father and the Son,
There is ONE Body -- ONE Congregation -- in one accord, all speaking the same thing --- no division.
Being "Born From Above" occurs at the First Resurrection, That ONE Spirit is in me but I am not 'born' as yet.
For those who wish to remain on the old covenant plantation of law, its the 10 commandments engraved in stone given to Moses, with a heavy emphasis on the 4th commandment.
For you the new covenant is the 10 commandments "repackaged" (minus everything else) from the old covenant of law.
There is nothing wrong with God's laws, what He does is forever Ecc3:14 He makes no mistakes, we do by not keeping them. They are perfect Psa19:7 and holy Rom7:12 the issue was the hardness of the heart, why the location changed of God's laws, written in the heart based on the promise of what He will do, we still have to cooperate with Him, not everyone does Heb8:7-8.