Brakelite
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Yes. The day of the week He rested on.I'm actually of the opinion that if you are going to observe a literal Sabbath day (no foul in that) you should do it on the day of the week God prescribed that you do it on.
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Yes. The day of the week He rested on.I'm actually of the opinion that if you are going to observe a literal Sabbath day (no foul in that) you should do it on the day of the week God prescribed that you do it on.
It's not a day of the week. The Sabbath rest we enter into is Christ. He is the rest we enter into from the task master of sin and our evil works. The Mosaic requirement was a foreshadow of that. Now that the reality that cast the foreshadow is here we can set the foreshadow aside as unneeded and obsolete and observe the reality. We don't break or cast down the Mosaic requirement for Sabbath rest. We just don't need it anymore. We don't have to draw near to God through Moses' Sabbath rest anymore now that we have already been brought near to God, perfectly and forever, through Christ. And so we are not found in violation of Moses' lawful requirement for Sabbath rest. Our faith upholds it (Romans 3:31).
Coming from the What is Repentance thread, Maybe now I'm thinking legalism is thinking repentance is only skin deep?Well I would say that we enter into rest from our works because of Jesus. Not that He is our rest. He is the cause of us resting from our works to be righteous. Because Jesus is our righteousness.
But to actually reply to YOUR post . . .Well I would say that we enter into rest from our works because of Jesus. Not that He is our rest. He is the cause of us resting from our works to be righteous. Because Jesus is our righteousness.
If there's no required observance, then there is no required day. We have liberty. If someone keeps a day for rest, they keep it unto God. What does that have to do with anyone else? It is between that person, and God.I'm actually of the opinion that if you are going to observe a literal Sabbath day (no foul in that) you should do it on the day of the week God prescribed that you do it on.
Coming from the What is Repentance thread, Maybe now I'm thinking legalism is thinking repentance is only skin deep?
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When you go through the Bible (including the letters to the seven churches) Christian codes of conduct are part and parcel of being a Christian. So in reality they are necessary. Not to merit salvation, nor to maintain salvation, but to maintain a Christian testimony. We are all witnesses to the grace of God which requires that we live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, while maintaining good works.The third is when Christians judge other Christians for not keeping certain codes of conduct that they think is needed to obey, but in reality is not.
Well repentance is a one time act We perform to become believers. The word is metanoia which means to change thinking.
To divide between flesh and spirit.When you go through the Bible (including the letters to the seven churches) Christian codes of conduct are part and parcel of being a Christian. So in reality they are necessary. Not to merit salvation, nor to maintain salvation, but to maintain a Christian testimony. We are all witnesses to the grace of God which requires that we live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, while maintaining good works.
Not sure what you mean by that, but if you are suggesting that you do not have a code of conduct, then you are just fooling yourself. That is a part of walking in the Spirit.To divide between flesh and spirit.
That is completely false. Spirit was correctly capitalized.Alert: Translators have capitalized the "S" in spirit, when it is talking about our mind, not the Holy Spirit.
That's right, I do not live according to a self-compiled "Law". Either my actions towards others are trust in Jesus and love for them, or they are not. This goes way beyond what a list of rules is able to accommodate.Not sure what you mean by that, but if you are suggesting that you do not have a code of conduct, then you are just fooling yourself. That is a part of walking in the Spirit.
Unless you want to engage on these things you shouldn't tag me. I thought you didn't want to debate.CC: @marks and @Enoch111
In reading Romans 7:13 we see that the law is holy, but the Old Covenant required the letter of the law to be kept in opposition to the indwelling sin nature. That is why the struggle is described in Romans 7:14-23, it is the mind/spirit against the flesh. The law was given to us because of transgressions to guard us and to show us our sin UNTIL Jesus came to take away our sin nature that produced sin and required the Law. The Laws of God's love are written on our hearts by the Holy Spirit, thus giving us life. We no longer have to keep laws we are in opposition to, requiring us to struggle. No, our new nature naturally wants to keep the laws of the Spirit of life in Christ, and we are no longer in the flesh, but in the Spirit which has freed us from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 5:16-18
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Alert: Translators have capitalized the "S" in spirit, when it is talking about our mind, not the Holy Spirit. Those who are born again are not "in" the flesh, but in the Holy Spirit. It is one or the other, but not BOTH!
See Romans 7:25
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
The mind struggles against the flesh, and the flesh against the mind. That error has caused whole denominations to believe we can never be free from sin.
That is completely false. Spirit was correctly capitalized.
Unless you want to engage on these things you shouldn't tag me. I thought you didn't want to debate.
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