I had to look up antinomian and I must say guilty as charged. I am happy to be antinomian, if this is the correct definition that I found: "In Christianity, an antinomian is one who takes the principle of salvation by faith and divine grace to the point of asserting that the saved are not bound to follow the Law of Moses."
That is exactly what the New Covenant is all about.
No, it is not.
If we are bound to follow the Law of Moses as "bound" demands that you do it; you obtain righteousness by keeping the law... then that is hardly the New Covenant when that is significantly the Old Covenant.
If you read Matthew 12:1-8, You will see Jesus coming to the defense of His disciples for plucking the ears of corn on the sabbath day by referring to 2 incidents in the Old Testament where the saints had profaned the sabbath day but were blameless because they were in the Temple when this was done, and then Jesus announced that One greater than the Temple was here to the Pharisees for why His disciples were blameless, namely Himself.
Matthew 12:1At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.[SUP] 2 [/SUP]But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.[SUP] 3 [/SUP]But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;[SUP] 4 [/SUP]How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?[SUP] 5 [/SUP]Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?[SUP] 6 [/SUP]But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.[SUP]7 [/SUP]But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.[SUP]8 [/SUP]For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
So understand this; the saints under the Old Covenant DID profaned the sabbath day but were blameless because they were in the Temple and so His disciples are blameless at the time He was speaking because He was with them.
You are not bound to keep the sabbath day because Jesus is Lord of the sabbath day.
1 Corinthians 6:[SUP]19 [/SUP]What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?[SUP] 20 [/SUP]For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
2 Corinthians 13:[SUP]5 [/SUP]
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.
Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Are we profaning the law of keeping the sabbath day? Yes.. but Jesus has fulfilled the law where only His righteousness is sufficient to bring us Home apart from being bound by the law to do them in bringing us Home. It is in Him, we are free.
So I understand why sabbath day keepers does not believe that the keeping of the sabbath day was done away with, but Jesus did acknowledge the profaning of the sabbath day, but His disciples were blameless because He was with them. So in light of the New Covenant, it is because Jesus Christ is in us as our body becomes the Temple of the Holy Spirit is why by His righteousness He is able to make us stand for not keeping the sabbath day.
Believers are free to honor the Lord on the sabbath day or any day or every day....but they must truly honor Him that sabbath day by recognizing that they are not bound to keep the sabbath day, therefore by declaring His righteousness apart from the law, they have enter into that rest in the Lord every day of the week for the Lord is able to make them stand for they are the Lord's.