I'm not talking about being in bondage to the Law. I'm talking about doing it out of response to gracious salvation. And the benefits of keeping the OT Law is living a life in the way God wants you to live. Each of the Laws given have a physical and spiritual benefit to them. Pick one of the 613 and see if you can find a physical and spiritual benefit to your life if you did it today. If you can't find any or have trouble with one, feel free to ask me if you'd like.
The laws that were given at Sinai are the same laws given by Jesus because God and Jesus are one.
For the 4th commandment ,As the old covenant people of God, they were obligated to observe it or it was death.
Exodus 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
But in the new covenant God promise, what happen to the obligation to keep the sabbath. Did the apostles of Jesus commanded the Gentiles to observe such a day.
The Letter to the Gentiles Belivers
Acts 15-24
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying,
Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no
such commandment:
Acts 15:28-29
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Someone is Lying on this fourm, Thee apostle of Jesus Christ where filled with the holyghost that tells all truth.
As Linda70 shared and many, many, many, other belivers in Christ Jesus have shown by scripture. you have seen this scripture and perhaps read it plenty of times.
The Council at Jerusalem
Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command
them to keep the law of Moses.
Acts 15:8-11
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as
he did unto us;
9And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Thee Desciples of Jesus Christ understood clearly , the diffrence between the law (school master) & Faith.
Galatians 3:23-24
The purpose of the Law
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Sons Through Faith in Christ
26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29And if ye
be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
My question to lawkeepers are you under the schoolmaster or Faith has come ?
God Bless