Where did I ever state we should do good only on the Sabbath? So the accusation seems unfounded.
The Sabbath is not just about “doing good”. The Sabbath is about keeping the seventh day Sabbath holy Exo 20:8-11 a holy convocation Lev 23:3 the day to set aside all secular work and focus on Christ for one full day Isa 58:13 He knows we have to work to survive and pay bills and clean house etc . And why He gives us 6 days to do those things Exo 20:9 and only asks for one day back and He was very specific Exo 20:10. We should worship God 365 24/7 but that still doesn’t mean we should not negate our moral obligation to obey God’s commandments. Jesus related our obedience to God’s commandments as true or false worship Mat 15:3-14
The argument with the Pharisees they were accusing Jesus because He did good on the Sabbath by helping animals and people in need it was a sin. This is what Jesus was correcting, its not a sin to eat on the Sabbath, not a sin to help people who are in need or an animal stuck in a ditch, but Jesus main focus was going to the synagogues on the Sabbath sharing the Word of God Luke 4:16-30. He died for our sins (we too must die of self) and lived to be our example if we abide in Him 1 John 2:5-6 to follow in His footsteps 1 Peter 2:21-22
Jesus was not giving a “new command” and no scripture says new commands delete old commands. He was repeating the Old Deut 6:6 Lev 19:18 Testament and saying it in a new way in hopes people would understand and hear Him.
The commandment to love thy neighbor does not go undefined
Rom 13:9 For the commandments, “
You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” [b]“You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if
there is any other commandment,
are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Which set of law is Paul only quoting from to summarize the greatest commandment to love thy neighbor?
The Ten Commandments
The summary does not delete the details. Love to our fellow man is summarized in the last 6 commandments, love to God is summarized in the first 4 commandments which makes the greatest commandments to love God and love they neighbor the Royal Law- so the Royal law
is the Ten Commandments
summarized.
Its obvious or should be if the greatest commandment to love our neighbor come directly from the Ten Commandments on how we deal with our neighbor, the greatest commandment to love God with all thy heart, soul and mind would also come from this same unit of Ten on the commandments that deal with how we are to love Him Exo 20:3-11.
Jesus said:
Matthew 22:37 Jesus said to him, “
‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is
the first and great commandment. 39 And
the second
is like it: ‘
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
So the whole bible hangs on the principles of the Ten Commandments- love to God, love to our fellow man. Love never went undefined
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this
is the love of God, that we
keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome
If one was keeping the Ten Commandments the way Jesus taught us to
Mat 5:19-30 everything God asks of us would be kept through love. Take the first commandment
Exo 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me. If one were keeping this very commandment, we would be keeping everything God's asks of us.
What seals God's Ten Commandments is the Sabbath. Without a seal, the law would mean nothing, it would be a set of laws that no one would know where they came from and who authorized it.
Right in the Sabbath commandment reveals God's seal.
Exo 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day
is the Sabbath of
the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates. 11 For
in six days
the Lord made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
The 3 elements of a seal
1. Name: Lord thy God.
2. Territory : Heaven and earth
3: Title: Creator
It’s why the devil has attacked the Sabbath so much and has tried counterfeiting everything God has made. Sadly, people prefer to throw out or edit the Ten Commandments, but no one can because no one is above God and He said He would not alter not even and dot of an i or cross of a t. No wonder why so many people try to tear down the Ten Commandments to mean less than how God intended, and then try to pretend it came from God, when God clearly said He would not alter His Words
Psa 89:34. Whoever we obey is who we serve
Rom 6:16 God only numbered one set of laws, He only personally wrote one set of laws, only one set of laws is inside the ark of the covenant, only one set of laws we will be Judged by, the law of Liberty
James 2:10-12 Rev 22:14-15 The Ten are principles of the entire scriptures- love to God, love to our fellow man and should be kept through love and faith to God, our Creator of everything