So 9 out of 10 are to be kept today... the only one of the 10 commandments we are to forget is the one that God said to REMEMBER..
Who was God addressing in Exodus 20:8 when he said "remember the “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy?" The Israelites under the old covenant of law or the Church, the body of Christ under the new covenant? Obviously the Israelites under the law.
Exodus 20:1 - And God spoke all these words: 2 I am the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 5:15 - And remember that
you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and
the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore
the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
The civil law was not part of the 10 commandments.
The civil law was part of the Jewish nations laws for ordering and controlling the people.
Sabbath keeping with all it's regulations, which included controlling the people was
part of a covenant with Israel (Exodus 16:23, 29; 31:12-18; 35:1-3; Leviticus 19:30; 23:2-3, 32; Numbers 15:32-36; 28:1-10; 29:39-40; I Chronicles. 23:30-31; II Chronicles 31:2-4; Isaiah 1:13; Amos 8:5; Nehemiah 10:31) which falls under civil law.
The moral law says.....
Exo 20:8-11
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
That is not merely moral and the rules and regulations goes much further. There were
burnt offerings that went along with keeping the Sabbath. (Leviticus 19:30; 23:2-3; Numbers 28:1-10; 29:39-40; I Chronicles. 23:30-31; II Chronicles 31:2-4; Isaiah 1:13)
No kindling a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath. (Exodus 35:3)
Every man must remain in his place on the sabbath. (Exodus 16:29)
No trading. (Amos 8:5)
No marketing. (Nehemiah 10:31; 13:15,19) You say this has nothing to do with controlling the people?
Nothing in the commandment about the death penalty...
According to Exodus 31:12-18; 35:1-3 and Numbers 15:32-36,
anyone who profaned the sabbath was put to death and any person who does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from his people.
James tells us to keep all 10.
Jas 2:10-12
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.
Where did James say here for the Church to keep the Sabbath day? Paul says differently in Colossians 2:16-17. Also, in 2 Corinthians 3:6-9, we read - "He has made us competent as ministers of a
new covenant —
not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the
letter kills...the
ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone...the ministry that
condemns." But if the
ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
The law on our heart and mind is the
love of the Spirit, not the law of the letter. This is why Paul tells us that the new covenant is a covenant of the Spirit, and not of the letter. The old and new covenants do not mix.
Show me just one verse in the New Testament where the Church/the body of Christ is commanded to keep the Sabbath day (with all it's rules and regulations) from the old covenant of law. I'll be waiting.