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Some of you only want to be responsible to God by keeping the law and you use the 4th commandment as your show case commandment to prove or test yourself whether you are honest about keeping the law. You don't use the other laws to show case your obedience because they are a little more subjective and there is more room to play with those. To keep the Sabbath holy you have to honor a designated period of time each week, you have to refrain yourself from working during that time including everyone in your household and some of you must bring yourself together to worship God. There are others who have to limit how far they can travel or walk and if there is no occasion to show mercy on that Sabbath day then you have kept that day to fulfill the righteousness of the law that has told you to keep it holy.
This is the truth that many of you fall under and you would rather be under the law then under grace because it is more tangible for you. You can go to the law to find out where you have gone wrong and correct it instead of being led of the Spirit that might convict you otherwise. The Spirit convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment in (John 16:8-11), do the law do such things? We are not the adult sons and daughters of God because we keep the law but rather because we are led of the Spirit (Rom 8:14). If you, as believers in Yeshua, want to be honest and without hypocrisy concerning (John 15,16 & 17), you will come to the conclusion through the Spirit that the law has nothing to do with what Christ is addressing with His disciples and His Father in those chapters.
This is the truth that many of you fall under and you would rather be under the law then under grace because it is more tangible for you. You can go to the law to find out where you have gone wrong and correct it instead of being led of the Spirit that might convict you otherwise. The Spirit convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment in (John 16:8-11), do the law do such things? We are not the adult sons and daughters of God because we keep the law but rather because we are led of the Spirit (Rom 8:14). If you, as believers in Yeshua, want to be honest and without hypocrisy concerning (John 15,16 & 17), you will come to the conclusion through the Spirit that the law has nothing to do with what Christ is addressing with His disciples and His Father in those chapters.
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?