As I've said, we'll commence the stoning of Sabbath-breakers and adulterers when we find ourselves under the new Theocracy. You'll know it when you see the Earthly High Priest wearing the 12 Stone breastplate and communicating with God through Urim and Thummum (which, of course, will never happen again).
No, the OT sinner's faith was in the promised coming Messiah and the NT sinner's faith is in the Messiah Who came.
This statement is patently false. The blood of animals could never take away sin - it was by
their faith they obtained the righteousness of God which grants them entrance to heaven, not their works. Their works merely demonstrated their faith, and our works do the same. Dispensationalism is first-rate creative Christian theology that has zero Bible evidence to back it up.
Jesus didn't tell that man to sell everything to prove that we can break as many laws as we want to and still go to heaven, nor was He wrong about what He told the Rich Man was the requirement for entrance to heaven. He said what He said to reveal to the Rich Man the covetousness that was deep down in his heart. Notice that he quoted commandments 5-9 and when the Rich Man said he was down with all of that, Jesus hit him where it hurt him - the tenth commandment.
Why do you keep restating what no one denies - that obedience justifies no one? Do you want me to say it? OBEDIENCE JUSTIFIES NO ONE. Did you get it this time? Now, what obedience does is PROVE that Jesus is in your heart, because without Jesus in your heart, you can't obey the least commandment. And people who argue that we may break the Ten Commandment prove that they follow the father of lies, according to 1 John 2:3-4 KJV.
James' words have nothing to do with whatever point you are trying to make here. James was clear that their are people like you who claim to have faith but no works and he calls that faith DEAD. Then he points to living faith, faith that is demonstrated by works. You can't spin his words around to make them mean anything but what I just said, because that's exactly what James plainly said.
So you're claiming that Hebrews 4:9-10 KJV does not mean what it says - that if we have entered into the SPIRITUAL rest of Jesus we will demonstrate that we have by our LITERAL rest from our toil and labor - because SPIRITUAL rest is
continual while LITERAL rest from toil on Sabbath is
just once a week?
Well, why get baptized then - which is a simple,
one-time ceremony where we hold our breath to symbolize death of the old man, plunged underneath to symbolize the burial of the old man, and then come up and take a breath to symbolize the resurrection into a new life
which is continuously lived in Jesus?
Or why partake of communion,
a ceremony that is periodically observed as a memorial to our Savior Who was alive and then was dead,
and behold is alive forevermore?
Frequency has nothing to do with types and antitypes.
So, you think heaven will be like India - a Celestial caste society where the "least" will washing everyone else's feet? You're misinterpreting the verse. It doesn't mean these law breaking teachers of lawlessness will be in the kingdom washing every one else's feet - it means that when those up there in the kingdom of heaven speak about these lawbreaking teachers of lawlessness down here (like people who teach we may freely break the fourth commandment), they who are up there will refer to these down here as "least". Conversely, when they up there speak about people down here doing and teaching God's commandments, they call them "great"- praise God, what a sublime thought!
The answer to your question is in verse 21 and the following verses. Suffice it to say, Jesus was contrasting the "letter of the law" from which the Pharisees derived their righteousness, with the "spirit of the law" which fulfillment is accomplished only by the indwelling power of Jesus, the One from Whom we derive our righteousness.
When Jesus lives in our hearts, we are not only kept from committing murder, lying, adultery, etc., but His power keeps our very own thoughts pure.
You're failing to make the distinction between a multitude of
encamped, immobilized Israelites with no excuse for not having food stored up for Sabbath ---and--- Jesus and His disciples who were
continuously on the move spreading the Gospel and engaging in evangelism. What did the spies eat on Sabbath when they went to spy out the land of Canaan, seeing they had no Manna with them? Yes, they did just as Jesus and the disciples did. Again, please stop trying to make Jesus "destroy the law" when He Himself said He didn't come to do that.
James told Christians
thirty years after Calvary that if they kill or commit adultery, "thou art become a transgressor of the law". Can't you realize that
James would have never written this if Jesus had taught him and the rest that Christians who break the Ten Commandments are guiltless, as you so badly want us to believe?
As stated earlier, Jesus brought up David's sin and the profaning priests to expose the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, not to tell us that we are guiltless if we break the Ten Commandments.
Jesus didn't say David was "guiltless". Jesus brought it up to expose the Pharisees' hypocrisy for giving David and the priests a pass for their temple crimes, but wanting to stone to death the One greater than the temple.
Since you refuse to acknowledge the KJV's clear teaching that if we're resting Spiritually in Jesus, we'll rest Literally on Sabbath, please try Hebrews 4:9-10 Peshitta Syriac Version, the Bible of Ancient Eastern MSS and closest to the KJV:
"It is therefore the duty of the people of God to keep the Sabbath. For he who has entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His."
