and following that out,
But generally speaking, we can say that those who make a habit of not remembering the Sabbath -- after hearing about the commandment -- have not seen Christ or known him.
Yes that's correct Dan. This applies to breaking any of God's commandments and why we need a new heart to be born again through faith in God's Word. Saving faith works by love and love is the fulfilling of God's Law in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.....
The New Covenant........
Hebrews 8:10-12
10, For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:5 and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11, And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12, For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Ezekiel 36
26,
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27, And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Must be born again to love God and man........
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but
faith which works by love.
Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (see also 1 Corinthians 13; Hebrews 8:10-12)
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
We must be born again through Faith in God’s Word. If you are born again you will not practice sin…...........
1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and
this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
1 John 3:9
Whosoever is
born of God doth not commit sin; for
his seed remaineth in him:
and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Sin (breaking God’s Law) and love do not go together, only obedience and love through faith go together....
Romans 13:8-10
8, Owe no man anything, but to
love one another: for he that loves another hath fulfilled the law. 9,
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10, Love works no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
James 2:8-12; 17
8, If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9,
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10, For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11, For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12, So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Being Born again by Faith in God's Word is the victory that overcomes the world..........
1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and
this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
Luke 8:11
Now the parable is this:
The seed is the word of God.
1John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for
his seed remaineth in him: and
he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Peter 1:22-23
22, Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:23,
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
The New Covenant is faith in God's Word alone for salvation that works by love because love is the fulfilling of God's Law...
Romans 8:1-4
1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit. 2,
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3, For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,1 condemned sin in the flesh: 4,
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
John 6:63
It is
the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 14:10
Believe thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me,
he does the works.
We can do nothing unless we abide in God's Word by faith............
John 1:14
And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth. <The Word of God is Jesus>
John 15:3-6
3,
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4,
Abide in me, and I in you <Faith in the Word>. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5, I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit:
for without me <the Word> ye can do nothing. 6, If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
2Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God
<the Word> all things are possible.
Mark 9:23
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believe.
<Faith the victory>
Matthew 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
May God be praised who can open the blind eyes to see and the deaf to hear and cause the lame to walk.... Many are called but few are chosen because narrow is the way few there be that can find it. Only the mirror can show the way. Can you hear His voice? He stands at the door and knocks will you let him in? Who art thou Lord? I am Jesus the Word. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Speak the Word only and my servant shall be healed. The mirror shows the way. I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance but go learn what that means... It is only through love that we can keep God's commandments because love is the fulfilling of God's Law in us who walk by faith and not by sight we are the blind who love him who first loved us...
May God bless you as you seek him through His Word....