Dear bro.tan,
You said:
There no place in the word of God that will tell you that. Christ is not the one who keeps the law through us, you have to keep the law, you.... not Christ. Jesus did his part, now you have to do yours.
Only by "walking by the Spirit" can anyone keep the commandments of Christ. It is the Spirit that causes us to "will and do of His good pleasure".
Paul says in Romans 8: 4 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
That righteousness of the law Paul is talking about here is the Commandments of God. So if you walking in the spirit you walking in the law, and one of those Commandments is to keep the Sabbath day on the seventh day of the week Saturday.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
So if being taught you don't have to keep the law, then you are carnal minded, simple as that.
No where in scripture does it say that "Jesus did his part, now you have to do yours". If we did have a part to play in our salvation, we would have something to boast about concerning it.
Stop copying how I say things, I never said there was a scripture that says Jesus did his part, but Jesus did do his part according to scriptures. Paul says in Acts 24: 14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: Let's get another witness in Luke 24: 25 Then he said unto them,
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26
ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Again, Jesus did his part!
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Your beliefs are not coming from God's Word.
That's a lie. You are not understanding the word of God, and some scriptures and verses are clean cut, telling you what to do. If all the prophets, apostles and Jesus have to keep the Commandments (Law) Statues and Judgements, through out all the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, then everyone else. What Paul is saying in this verse you quoted Eph 2: 8-10 is going back to Adam sin and that the creation of man would have all been in the second death. This is not talking about not having to keep the Commandments. For example Noah found
grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8), And Noah and his family was saved. Jesus gave the creation grace, by all he did and dying on the cross. So Noah will come up in the first resurrection, but Cain will not. Why? Because of the law, Cain broke the law!
Now Paul said in (Rom. 3:23-25) (v.23)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (v.24)
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (v.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.
So the bible tells you to
repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2 :36-38). And by doing so you come up under his precious blood and then you
are saved from your sins that are past, not present or future sins but for sins that are past. We were all locked under death by Adam’s sin, even the second death. But when Jesus became (he was God in the beginning) man and died for the sins of the world, he gave us access back to the tree of life (himself) which Adam had caused us to lose. That’s what grace is, our free gift our access back to the tree of life but that’s another lesson for another time.
So by coming under the blood of Jesus you are saved from your past sins. And if you are saved now, it is on a day to day basis. Because
for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 23:3), and if you continue to live you will sin again. It is the willful sinning that you need to put in check.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a
certain fearful looking for of judgment and
fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrew 10: 26, 27)
You said:
That's a lie, because the prophet Daniel foretold that Jesus time would be cut off. Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week (Wednesday is the middle of the week) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (Remember, Jesus is the sacrificial Passover Lamb). You seem to believe what people tell you vs what the Bible is saying. Stop teaching the Bible in the mighty name of Jesus until you learn!!
It's common sense according to the scriptures, if Jesus got cut off in the middle of the week, then Jesus didn't fulfill all.
I have a complete teaching on Daniel's Seventy Weeks prophecy on my website. You should read it because your understanding of the prophecy is very flawed. The Seventy Weeks prophecy is a teaching on Christ's work of saving the Elect. When Christ came in the flesh, the last week of years began. After 3 1/2 years of ministry, Christ was cut off at the cross. This caused the continual sacrifice to end because His death was the perfect and final sacrifice. Upon Christ's resurrection, the New Covenant began. That last 3 1/2 years for Christ to complete the salvation of His Elect began at this time. The last 3 1/2 years is individually and spiritually fulfilled within each of the Elect. It begins for an Elect person when they receive the Early Rain and enter the church. It ends when Christ returns with the Latter Rain. Everywhere in scripture it talks about 3 1/2 years (42 months, 1260 days or time, times and a half) it is teaching on this time period between the Early and Latter Rain a Elect believer must experience. When Christ comes with the Latter Rain, this is the moment the prophecy is fulfilled for a particular Elect person. After the last Elect person is saved in this age, the prophecy will be totally fulfilled and the resurrection of the dead with occur.
You said:
Grace is nothing more than a free gift. And that free gift is our access back to the tree of life (Jesus) which Adam caused us to lose by disobeying God. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5: 12) But to maintain your grace you must keep the law. (1John 3:4) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Now we have just read the biblical definition of sin, the transgression (breaking) of the law (commandments.) It doesn’t matter what you or I think sin is, it’s what God says sin is that counts.
Grace is God's unmerited favor upon mankind. The Holy Spirit is the free gift. Our faith (which Christ must give us) is what makes the pathway straight for the Lord to come to a person with the free gift of the Holy Spirit. When a person adds their own works to faith like you are doing, the straight pathway is made crooked. Christ will not come to a person on a crooked pathway to give them the free gift of the Holy Spirit (the Latter Rain). Because He doesn't come, they will die in their sins and will remain under the Law.
Joe