RAPHU posted this scripture
Romans 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
John the Baptist(or anyone)All these scriptures the sunday go to meetin guys send to explain away Gods sabbath, ive found scriptures to prove their points not true except the above. By no means do i believe this scripture to say the 4th commandment of God has been done away with. If God had done that HE would of course come right out and say it in the scriptures. I have found scriptures speaking of eating and drinking things on specific holy days, but i believe we are to still keep Gods holy days.They were givin by ordinance. And the new testament is clear that it was the law contained in these ordinances that Jesus fulfilled. Anyways, has anyone found scripture that would explain the scripture Raphu sent?
wreck n sow,
I am afraid it is futile to push this point..
The ordinances have been abolished.
Have you read;
2 Cor 3
3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;
not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
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Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
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But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance;
which glory was to be done away:8
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth
the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect,
by reason of the glory that excelleth.11
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.12
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that
the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:14
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth
the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read,
the veil is upon their heart.16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
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Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The ordinances, have been abolished, these were given as the answer to them that broke the law, but where there is not law, there is no need for ordinances.
The Apostles and Elders, resolved this matter, once and foreve at the first Council at Jerusalm, when they by the Holy Spirit, rejected the teaching, that circumcision and Law of Moses, had to be observed by Christians, you can read the whole story at Acts 15, I would encourage to do so.
Romans 4, teaches us that Abraham, was given the promises, while in uncircumsicion before the law was given;
11 ..........the sign of circumcisiona seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
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Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.Jesus, has abolished death in His flesh, and brought life and immortality to lite through the Gospel. (2 Tim 1:10)
During the OT period, everyone was under the Law, until the promise of the Faith which should come (Gal 3:22-25), whoever broke the law was put to death, that very day;
So by your teaching, Christians who do not keep the Sabaath, the 4th Commandment, are worthy of death. This is an erroneous teaching.
While the transgression of the Law in the period of the Law the OT, caused death, to them that have been saved, during this age of Grace (the NT period) the Law has no power to kill the soul, since it is not subject to the law of sin and death, it Christians lives unto a higher Law, the Law of Faith.
Please note;
Rom 3
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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded.
By what law? of works? Nay: but by
the law of faith.28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,
we establish the law.Rom 6
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
The Law was simply a schoolmaster to bring men to Christ, once having done it job, men are no longer under the Law.
Yes, Christians are to obey the Commandments, the day the Lord rested was the Sabbath, but he speaks of another day of rest for His people, and it is the new day, we observe, it is the day, Jesus rose from the dead, the firts day of the week.
It is the new day we look to, which will dawn in our hearts.
(2 Pet 1:19)
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:Blessings
Petro