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The Royal law according to the scriptures is God's law and the same law that Jesus says on these two commandments of love to God and love to our fellow man hang all the law and the prophets. Therefore, love to God and man is not separate from Gods' law it is expressed in obedience to what Gods' law says and is how love is expressed. To say we can now love our neighbor as our self and do not need to obey Gods' 10 commandments is a contradiction of the scriptures. For example how can we say we love our neighbour and then go and break Gods' 6th or 7th commandment and go out and murder your neighbor or go out and commit adultery with your neighbors spouse? - No, love therefore is expressed in obedience to Gods' law not by going out and disobeying what Gods law says. This is why James says in....
- JAMES 2:8-12 [8] IF YOU FULFILL THE ROYAL LAW ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF [Sums up our duty of love in the 10 Commandments Romans 13:9] , you do well: [9], But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convicted of the law as transgressors. [10], FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. [11], FOR HE THAT SAID, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, SAID ALSO, DO NOT KILL. NOW IF YOU COMMIT NO ADULTERY, YET YOU KILL, YOU ARE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW. [12], So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
That is loving our neighbour as our self is simply summing up our duty of love God our neighbour as revealed in Gods' 10 commandments which is why James is saying in James 2:10-11 if we keep the whole law and break one of Gods 10 commandments we stand guilty before God of sin and condemned by the law. In fact Paul is also showing in Romans 13:8-10 that love to our neighbour is expressed in obedience to Gods' 10 commandments here...
- ROMANS 13:8-10 [8], OWE NO MAN ANYTHING, BUT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER: FOR HE THAT LOVES ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. [9], FOR THIS, YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT KILL, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, YOU SHALL NOT COVET; AND IF THERE BE ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT, IT IS SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING, NAMELY, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. [10], Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore, LOVE IS THE FULFILLING [DOING] OF THE LAW.
This is what Jesus is saying when he agrees with both James and Paul when he says in Matthew 22:36-40...
- MATTHEW 22:36-40 [36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law? [37], Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. [38], This is the first and great commandment. [39], And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. [40], ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
So according to the scripture love to God and our fellow man is expressed in obedience to Gods law not by breaking Gods law. Breaking Gods' law is only a sign that we do not know God (see 1 John 2:3-4).
The Royal Law is to love our neighbour as ourselves. You want to make that equivalent to keeping the 10 Commandments.
When Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love God with our whole being and the second is to love our neighbour as ourselves, and that the whole law and prophets hang on these, it means that if we keep those 2 commandments we have fulfilled the whole law and prophets.
Romans 2 tells us that even gentiles who may not even know about the law or Sabbath can keep the law.
The Sabbath was for the Jews and was made for man, so that we have a break and recharge physically and spiritually. Nothing in the New Testament tells us to keep the Sabbath, you are inferring that but it does not say that.
Acts 15 tells us that the gentiles should not be told to keep the law, and that law includes the Sabbath.
Paul tells us that the law has been taken out of the way, being nailed to the cross, those in the New Covenant are not under law for righteousness, which comes from the obedience of faith in Jesus shed blood.
1John 2:3-4 is speaking about loving and about the commands Jesus gave, not obeying all the precepts of the law. Read on in the chapter and you will see that.
John 14:23
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love.
2 John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
But I am not saying that setting aside time for resting and worship is something that should not be done am I, even though I am saying that the day we rest is not as important as you make out.
1John 5:3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world.
So we are to obey God's Commands but that cannot include the Sabbath when that is something given for the Jews in the Mosaic Covenant and we are not under that covenant even though we learn from what God commanded the Jews in that Covenant.
It also cannot include the Sabbath because Paul said that for some people all days are the same.
Jesus lived as a Jew in obedience to the Law and we live in obedience to His Law, not following the letter, which kills but following the Spirit which gives life.
We just have a different understanding of the gospel it seems and it is good if you want to keep the Saturday Sabbath but it is not good of you to be judging others for those things they have freedom in before the Lord.
Once you start saying that someone must keep the Sabbath to be a Christian you are crossing a line that you should not cross imo.
According to the scriptures "we are saved by Gods grace through faith it is a gift of God and not of works lest any man should boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9. No one is saved by the law because all the law does is give us the knowledge of what sin is *see Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4 and shows us that everyone of us has sinned against God and in need of God's forgiveness and salvation from sin. Therefore, the law is our teacher that leads us to Christ that we might receive Gods' forgiveness through faith *Galatians 3:22-25. Therefore our salvation comes as we receive Gods' gift of grace through faith in Gods' Word. Faith according to Paul does not abolish the law it establishes the law in those who by faith believe and follow what Gods' Word says. So to say we no longer need to obey Gods' law is only a sign that we do not have genuine saving faith when it is written in the scriptures...
- ROMANS 3:31 31, DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID: YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW.
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- ROMANS 8:1-4 1, THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. 2, For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3, For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,1 condemned sin in the flesh: 4, THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.
We are to fulfill the righteousness of the Law, not the letter of the Law. We follow the Spirit who teaches us to love and we listen to the written Word of God and learn from it.
The Law is established but that does not mean we obey the letter of the Law.
2Cor 3:4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as
being from ourselves, but our sufficiency
is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Paul did not want anyone to go back to the letter of the Law, but to be free from the Law and obey the Spirit.
No one can claim to know God or love God therefore by breaking anyone of God's 10 commandments including Gods' 4th commandment which is one of Gods' 10 commandments according to the scriptures because love to God and our fellow man are expressed in obedience to Gods' law as we have faith in Gods' promises and have been born again to walk in Gods' Spirit (see also Romans 6:1-23)
- 1 JOHN 2:3-4 3, AND HEREBY WE DO KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 4, HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM, AND KEEPS NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IS A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM.
This is why Jesus says if you love me KEEP my commandments in John 14:15 and again those who love Him keep His commandments in John 15:10 and why John says in 1 John 5:3-4 for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments. No one can claims to know or love God therefore by living in disobedience to Gods law.
According to the scriptures Jesus tells us to " Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." - John 7:24. None of us are righteous therefore we cannot judge each other (see Romans 2:1-11). The only standard of "righteous judgement" therefore is Gods' Word because it is the standard of what is right and what is wrong. We as God's people we are to make judgement according to what is right and what is wrong as revealed in the scriptures. Doing good deed on the Sabbath according to the scriptures according to Jesus is not breaking Gods law it is obeying Gods law according to Jesus in Matthew 12:1-12. So we cannot break God's law in times of priorities. That is I cannot now go our and commit adultery with my neighbors wife because I feel it is a priority to because I am feeling lonely. Sin according to the scripture is the transgression or the breaking of anyone of God's 10 commandments and not believing and following what Gods Word says (see 1 John 3:4; James 2:10-11; Romans 14:23). If we knowingly sin before God we stand guilty before God and in need of Gods' forgiveness (see Hebrews 10:26-31). No one therefore can claims to know God Brian if they are knowingly and willfully breaking anyone of Gods' 10 commandments. This includes Gods 4th commandment seventh day Sabbath which is one of Gods' 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken (Romans 3:20).
You like the 4th Commandment but as I said we are not under the Law and the letter brings death. When we want to revive the letter of the Law we revive sin in us and that can kill us, but maybe you just love the Sabbath and keeping it and keeping it according to the Spirit, but don't accuse others, your brothers, when we stand or fall before the Lord and your opinion does not matter. (Romans 14:4)
And when you make the keeping of the Sabbath a necessity for being a Christian you are heading into the realm of cult when it comes to the gospel.