John 14:15 – “If you
love me keep my commandments.”
Hebrews
8:10 – “For this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put My
laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and
they shall be My people.”
1 John 5:3 – “For
this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments
are not burdensome.”
Matthew
5:17 – “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did
not come to destroy but to fulfill.”
Matthew 5:18-20 – “For
assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle
will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” “Whoever therefore
breaks one of the least of the commandments, and teaches men so, shall be
called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” “For I say to you, that unless
your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of scribes and Pharisees, you will
by no means enter the kingdom of heaven”.
Romans 3:
20 – “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His
sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
Romans 3:31 – “Do we
then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish
the law.”
John 5:46,47
- “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about
Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my
words?” (Meaning that the 10
commandments Moses talked about in the old testament are the same ones Jesus
talks about in the new testament……they never change).
Luke 16:17 – “And it
is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to
fail.”
Ezekiel 20:12 – “Moreover I also gave them My
Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the
Lord who sanctifies them.” (During the
time when the Israelites worship idols of Egypt). The Sabbath is a sign that
when we keep the Sabbath we are saying that the Lord is our God and that they
might know that its the Lord who sanctifies them).
Exodus 31:17 – “It is a sign between Me and the
children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the
earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”
Ezekiel 36:26-27 – “ I will give you a new heart and
put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.” (Keeping the Sabbath is a visible
manifestation of the internal sanctification of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
We are saved by a faith that works. Example:
Jesus compares the Holy Spirit to wind. We can’t see the wind, but we know it’s
there. The Holy Spirit is the same way….the work of the Holy Spirit in our
hearts is invisible. The result of that is seen in the life, the life we live. It
says that we are the people of God. Keeping the Sabbath is the public
announcement to people looking at us that God is in our hearts and we obey his
commandments, and love Him enough to stand up for his laws and what the Bible
teaches).
Acts 18:4 – “And he reasoned in the synagogue every
Sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.”
(Apostils, Jews, and Greeks
all keep the Sabbath. It’s for everyone!).
Isaiah 66:23 – “And it shall come to pass that
from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall
come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
(The Sabbath will be kept in heaven and in the new Earth so why would
you want to go to heaven if you don’t want to keep the Sabbath here on Earth
now? It’s good practice to start doing it now).
Mark 2:27-28 – “And He said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and
not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath”.
(Meaning that it’s not about legalism or what you can’t do, it’s about doing
what Jesus did on the Sabbath…which was helping others and ministering to the
sick).
Luke 14:3-4 – “And Jesus answering, spoke to the
lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”. But they
kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go”. (Jesus healed on the Sabbath to help
others as the Sabbath is a day of healing, rest, rejoicing, and feasting….the
way the Pharisees and religious leaders of Jesus day painted and viewed the
Sabbath was wrong and it gives Christians of today an awful view of what the
Sabbath is supposed to be like. Follow and practice the Sabbath of Jesus, not
the Sabbath of the Pharisees).
Acts 17:30 – “Truly, these times of ignorance God
overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent”. (If you don’t truly know about the Sabbath, God
will overlook your ignorance…but only if you were never shown the truth before.
God knows our hearts and what you truly know to be truth or not. So if you
don’t keep the holy Sabbath day that’s between you and God, only God knows if
you aren’t keeping it because of ignorance or your aren’t keeping it because
you truly don’t know).
1 John 2:3-6 – “Now by this we know that we know
Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him”, and does not keep
His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His
word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in
Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He
walked”. (Meaning that if we call
ourselves true Christians and really know God, and really love God….then we
need to show that in our everyday lives as living examples to others. To do
that is to keep all 10 of His commandments. If we aren’t doing that then the
Bible says we are a liar, and the truth is not in us. Meaning we would be fake
Christians. I want the perfected love of Jesus in me, don’t you?).
1 John 2:7 –
“Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment
which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which
you heard from the beginning.” (Meaning that the 10 commandments are the same
forever and ever, both in the old and new testaments. They never change and
never will change).
Hebrews 10:26-27 – “For if we sin willfully after we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which
will devour the adversaries.” (Meaning
after we received the knowledge of the truth, if we still sin willfully knowing
and also fail to study, understand, accept, and obey the truth for ourselves.
Well then Jesus will hold you accountable for breaking the Sabbath or any other
part of the truth you received because you have Bible’s and failed to study it
for yourself. Jesus expects all of us to have a one on one relationship with
him and to examine evidences and Bible truths for ourselves. Remember Jesus
knows you heart and what you really know and what you really don’t know about
God’s truth. That’s why we shouldn’t judge others, only ourselves. Remember if
you are fighting inside yourself over an issue in the Bible, but just won't
accept it because you choose not to see it for whatever reason, or because your pride gets in the way, I
advise you to rethink that and see what the Bible says because God knows your
heart. Pray about it and talk it out with him, Jesus will guide you to the true
truth if you listen and come to Him with an open mind and heart).
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