I am tired of the SDA and folks like that condemning people for not worshipping as they do. Some even condeming the gathering and worshiping together on Sunday. It all borders on legalism and a false understanding of the New Covenant that Jesus established.Don't get me wrong. I have attended a Messianic Jewish congregation and the Rabbi doesn't make the same errors out SDA folks here on the forums make. So if folks want to keep the feast or worship on Sat they have that freedom in Christ. However folks cross the,line when they condemned judge others. I can provide Bible verses if needed.
What is legalism? No one that I know BELIEVES that we are saved by anythng that we do. WE are ONLY saved by GRACE through FAITH and NOT OF OURSELVES it is a GIFT of GOD and NOT of WORKS lest any man should boast.
However if your FAITH does not have the FRUIT of OBEDIENCE then you are still in your SINS because you have rejected the GIFT of God's dear son (James 2:18-20; 26; Romans 6:23). If your tree has NO FRUIT then it is cast down and thrown into the FIRE (Matthew 7:12-23; Hebrews 10:26-27).
Many do not know why God has given us GRACE and FAITH. Let's see what God says.........
WHAT IS GRACE FOR?
Romans 1
5, By whom we have received
GRACE and apostleship,
FOR OBEDIENCE TO THE FAITH among all nations, for his name.
Romans 6
[FONT="]1,[/FONT][FONT="] What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.
2, How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
DOES FAITH ABOLISH GOD'S LAW?
Romans 3
31, Do we then ABOLISH THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID: YES,
WE ESTABLISH THE LAW.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO CONTINUE IN SIN ONCE THEY RECEIVE A KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH?
Hebrews 10
26, For
if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Indeed, those who CONTINUE IN SIN will not enter the KINGDOM of HEAVEN.
Now make NO mistake here these are God's WORDS not mine. I am no one. If you feel God speaking to you HARDEN NOT your heart. GOD is blessing you with HIS SPIRIT calling you because he wants to have a closer walk with you.
God is a spirit and those who WORSHIP him must worship him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH.
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Sola Scriptura (On God's Word alone). Let's be honest here, who are you really following? God's WORD or the Catholic tradition? God knows many do it out of ignirance and in these times of ignorance God winks at but is now calling all men EVERYWHERE to REPENT.
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SIN is the breaking of God's Commandments (James 2:9-11; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4)
Those who CONTINUE in UNREPENTANT SIN will NOT enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN.
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God's 4th commandment is one of the ten (Exodus 20:8-11) If we knowingly break it when God asks us not to we stand guilty before God of committing sin (James 2:8-12).
If we do not seek him in repentance and forgiveness we are in danger of the Judgement (Hebrews 10:26-27)
Sunday worship is a tradition and teaching of man that has led many to break the commandments of God. Jesus says that if
we follow the traditions of man that break the commandments of God we are not following God (Matthew 15:3-9)
There is not one scripture in all of God's Word that says that God's 4th Commandment is now ABOLISHED and we are now commanded to KEEP Sunday as a Holy day.
Who should we follow the teachings and traditions of men or the Word of God? Who should we believe the Words of men or the Word of God?
In times of ignorance God winks at but now ,<when a KNOWLEDGE of the truth has come> calls all men everywhere to REPENT (FOLLOW) (Acts 17:30-31).
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