You can believe that Jesus lived under the "old covenant" that has vanished and gone away and all of His teachings and following His example would automatically vanish as well. I can see why this would be a popular teaching for those so desperately trying to get rid of the Sabbath, that
is according to the commandment Luke 23:56 and people would rather throw out the other 9 commandments then keep the one God said Remember, now we have to throw out Jesus being our example, because Jesus kept the Sabbath- basically the devil really takes issue with God Sabbath and has taught millions if not billions we don't need to keep, or it can be edited to suit our own lifestyle.
Mans condemnation means nothing to be, it actually recharges my faith because we were told the commandment keeping people would be persecuted Rev 12:17 Mat 10:22 so thank you.
That said, if interested in looking at the scriptures to see what His word teaches lets take a look.
Jesus was born under the law Galatians 4:4 Jesus was born human under the law, just as Mary, just as us and this means under the condemnation of the law. The wages of sin is death Rom 6:23. The curse is still there, but Jesus gave us another option, to die of self, and live for Him, which means following the example He left for us. He is the only one who has been able to keep the law without sin, and if we are right with Christ, abide in His love and follow Him, He will impute His righteousness, because we have none.
Had Jesus not been born under the penalty of the law and sinned just once, He could have not been our Savior and all of humanity would be lost.
But, Jesus did not fail. While He was tempted, just as we are He was without sin
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses
, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
The New Testament means New Covenant
Jesus was the Mediator of the New Covenant so lived in the New Covenant, not the Old.
Hebrews 9:15 And for this reason
He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
His death ratified His covenant- It Is Finished John 19:30
Meaning nothing can be added or changed to His covenant.
The Sabbath rest after His death, is still
according to the commandment Luke 23:56
God said in the commandment
the seventh day is the Sabbath Exo:10
The author of Hebrews didn't change the Sabbath 40 decades after Christ death as many try to read into that passage. This passage supports what God said and one would have to understand the story of Joshus and David in the OT to understand fully this passage. If anyone interested in going verse by verse with me on it, I would be happy to go through it and study together. But changing God's Sabbath or any of the God's commandments goes against what Jesus taught. And while many believe what He taught and how He lived was for other people, its not what Jesus said
Jesus said to him,
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Sadly, people think they can skip all of His teachings, all of His sanctification and just be in Christ, but it doesn't work like that.
Jesus said:
John 14:15 “
If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father,
and He will give you another [e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 t
he Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love, j
ust as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
No one is walking in harmony with Jesus in His Spirit by not loving Him and disobeying His commandments. And His commandments are His version, what He wrote and what He spoke and if we believe in Him, we would believe in His teachings and follow His example.
How do we abide in Jesus?
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love,
1 John 2:6
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
1 John 2:4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
So lets not deceive ourselves, if we abide in Christ, we will keep His commandments and follow the example He left for us.
Jesus kept all of the commandments including the Sabbath and He said follow Me, not to follow man, that path leads to a ditch Mat 15:3-14
If we believe in Jesus, we would believe His teaching such as
Mat 4:4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’
This is Jesus quoting Old Testament- so despite the teachings of many, Jesus puts all the Glory of what God said, not to just "hear" but to live by i.e. do.
Exodus 20 And God spoke all these words, saying:
Exo 20: 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day
is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates. 11 For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
I say we have faith in Jesus in what He taught, how He lived. He is the way, will only lead us down the narrow path back to reconciliation Isa 56:1-6 Rev 22:14
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