Do the words of our Savior carry any weight here with those against the teachings of God?
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10 [/SUP]For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: [SUP]11 [/SUP]But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. [SUP]12 [/SUP]And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; [SUP]13[/SUP]making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Perhaps the Word of God is of none effect through your tradition. Do you honestly expect when our Savior mentions but one of the Ten Commandments, He is saying the others, or any one of them is to no effect? Perhaps you will ammend what He says here to mean the Shabbat commandment is also null and void. Yes, tradition, tradition is your commandment, but not the Word of God, for you know what His Word says about all concerning the order of creation.[/QUOTE Hi JaumeJ As I said before are righteousness is to exceed the righteousness of the laws written on stone. The law is not done away with,in my reading of scripture. Looking on a woman with lust in your heart is as committing the act. This is exceeding the old law, but does not make it void. Hateing your brother without cause is as murder, again it exceeds but does not cancel the law. As many as sin without the law will be judged by the law. Seems to me the law is still around. But now it is written in fleshly tables of our hearts.To be know and read of all men. With the gospel, we are born again ,adopted into God's family, grafted onto the root, which is Christ. We have and are being changed from glory to glory into God's image and some day, we shall know even as we are known. (I just wrote some of this on another thread n feel like I'm repeating myself.) God does not follow written laws to do good , he walks in love because it is his nature. it is who he is.The Holy Spirit , the spirit of Jesus dwells in our hearts by faith and it is this nature of God that is our life,or righteousness, our love,all the fruits of the Spirit of God. God has planted that seed ,his word in our Hearts in Hope that it brings forth fruit, that we grow up unto ,in, and like him. We, if the Spirit is within us, have become a law unto ourselves. Not contrary to the old law, but superseding it, fulfilling it, which was always God's intent from the beginning. The Promise to Abraham was his offspring would be as the sand of the sea. God said ,let us make man in our own image.The law was a school master to bring us to Christ and have the law written in our hearts ,to have his nature,to truly be his children. even Jesus being found in the form of God ,thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but took upon him the form of a servant. He took the lowest seat at the banquet.Cause that's what God's nature is ,a servant. But make no mistake, He is also the Lion of Judah and will return with a fiery sword ready to judge us by the words of his mouth. This thread does seem to boil down to the Sabbath though. It seems so clear to me that the Sabbath was also exceeded in the new testament.The Sabbath has always been about ceasing from ones own works. God did on the seventh day ceased fro his works, and sanctified it, or set it apart as something special.Jesus defined it a little ,he said the Sabbath was made for man ,not man for the Sabbath.He said it was fine to do Good on the Sabbath, so it is not a matter of not working or doing . It is ceasing from our OWN works ,as God did from his. Hebrews says the one day a week Sabbath was not the rest, the promise land was not the rest,What house will ye build me , or what is the place of my rest? Seeing heaven is his throne and earth his foot stool? Our Sabbath is Jesus, we cease from our own works and enter into the finished work of Christ. and the works that we do are the works of the Holy Spirit within us.To every one is given a measure of the gift of Christ ,and it is this measure we are to walk in. We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not us. Christ who lives in us is our hope of glory.But we have the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in our selves , but in God who raises the dead.But if the ministration of death written and engraved in stones be glorious,so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away with . How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?For if that which was done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is much more glorious. We are to rest in Christ every day, that is our Sabbath now and forever. Now we are not to judge someone in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days ,which are a shadow of things to come. But now he has raised us up together ,and made us to sit(rest) in heavenly places in Christ. This is probably getting boring. God bless you all
