CharismaticLady
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straw man, and you know it. Reply to the points made in QTs post.
cc: @quietthinker
No it isn't. It is to show you in the simplest terms you'll understand that when a covenant is fulfilled, the sign ends. When Jesus, the Seed, died and the New Covenant came into being, circumcision was no longer of the FLESH, but of the Spirit. It is the same with the sign of physical rest of our body of FLESH. When the covenant ended at the same time as the Abrahamic covenant ended, the fleshly sign of physical rest became of the Spirit. God's rest. Jesus was always the unseen substance of the Sabbath. Jesus was concealed all throughout the Old Testament (our schoolmaster), and revealed in the New Testament. By you mocking against 'Jesus is our rest,' that is scary.
Even the Ten Commandments are of the flesh. Murder, stealing, adultery. Rather than the Spirit - hate, selfishness, lust. The first are the commandments of the Father, and the latter are the commandments of the Spirit. Read the sermon on the Mount to see how Jesus deepened the superficial commandments of the Father.
John 15:10
10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
When you keep the commandments of Jesus, you automatically keep the commandments of the Father, including the spiritual substance of the Sabbath. The commandments are meant to save. How can you have a set of commandments without the Savior? It was there in the flesh of the Sabbath. Now look at the New Covenant commandments.
1 John 3:21-24
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
Adventists have be misappropriating the apostle John's use of the word 'commandments' and superimposing them onto the Ten Commandments. Don't forget John wrote Revelation also. I see Adventists quoting John all the time, and just shake my head.
BTW, Sunday is a day of celebration, not law, for if Jesus had just died, but never rose again, we would have no hope of our own resurrections. It is considered the 8th day, the day of new beginnings.
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