Is it OK to tell God no we won’t do what He asks?

Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Jesus took the physical ordinances of Israel out of the way nailing them to His cross for they were contrary to us because they had no bearing on spiritual salvation.

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 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.

Eph 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

Also there is no laws for the Jews that is not for the Gentiles but they go by the same laws, and truth, which when a Gentile is saved they are a Jew and part of the commonwealth of Israel, but it is spiritual now.

If Gentiles do not have to heed something according to the Bible then the Jews do not either, and if the Jews have to go by certain things according to the Bible then so do the Gentiles.

For they are all the same now if they are in Christ, and there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile.

Based on the thread title, I was actually going to mention what happened to Jonah when he (initially) refused to do what God told him to do, which was to go to Nineveh to preach repentance. I assumed it would be about obeying or disobeying a specific directive or command from God to a specific person, but it's really about whether Gentiles should obey certain aspects of the Mosaic Law or not..............

Evidently I am the only person in the world who has pondered these questions. I care, you don't, so OK.

You started this thread with several assertions followed by questions. As your questions are based on your assertions, I asked you several questions regarding your assertions. I think it is both civil and Christian to ask questions, and to answer them. So, please answer my questions so that I can answer yours.

So i read that you are accusing me of making an issue and i answered. And based on your position that the Lord does not include the gentiles when he addresses the Israelites (Wow. You usually object to something when I try to understand your position) you have't read scripture telling the Israelites to honor the feasts., and you have answered your own question.

Many deceivers have come into the word who do not blieve that Jesus is the Christ of God. Why would you want to be one of them. if I was God I would give people lile that a kick n the nuts and walk away; so they cant reproduce and bother my children. But maybe God did that when He kursed the fig tree. "No fruit grow on you for ever."

So i read that you are accusing me of making an issue and i answered. And based on your position that the Lord does not include the gentiles when he addresses the Israelites (Wow. You usually object to something when I try to understand your position) you have't read scripture telling the Israelites to honor the feasts., and you have answered your own question.

I dont need to check history to verify that no other king has risen in Israel since Jesus cursed the fig tree, I just take His word for it. And for Jesus to say, Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. jesus refering to Israel being restored in their land as the last generation; fulfiling a prophesy.
The Lord says, 'In the time of the end, I will bring my people Israel and Judah back and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess, how awful that day will be! None like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it."
It has been over 70 years from the time Israel has been restored into their land as a nation:
"Our days come to seventy years, and if by reason of strength it be eighty, they are labor and sorrow.” Jesus mentioned signs of the end as labor pains increasing in intencity and frequency: famines, pestilences, earthquakes and storms. Earth changes have been increasing for 15 years: the outcome is delivery. "At that time your people will be delivered, everyone whose name is found written in the book. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting Life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who instruct many into righteousness, like the stars forever and ever." The end of time is upon us. 36 years ago the Lord told me: Behold I am with you in a time of trouble such as never was and shall never be again. Now the signs are all around us for those who see. Meanwhile your woried about the old covanant being done away because Israel wanted to be like other nations and have a king to lead them in battle instead of trusting the Lord as their King. Obviously God knew this would happen. That we were all bent on living outwardly and unable to live inwardly in fellowship with God appart from the Holy Spirit.

Not all Israel is Israel . The Israel Judah represents the new creature having nothing to do with the temporal land that will go up in smoke on the last day. The land of the ancestors is the eternal land not of here under the Sun the temporal . This corrupted land will not be here for anyone to return to.

We who do walk by faith of Christ that works in us (believing. . not seeing the temporal things). are not supported by the temporal things seen. Flesh and blood. And neither do we wrestle against it.

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree it was cut off never to be used to signify the unseen things eternal of God henceforward for ever

Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

You would ageee that the Lord has no intent in ever restoring the old covenant with an eartly temple there, that Jesus is the rebuilding of the temple. Tho I think that God restoring them in their land at the time of the end is to show them mercy in revealing Himseld to them.
"For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?"
"And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
I understand we dont wrestle against flesh and blood. That there are powers of darkness and that the Lord is the one that will open their eyes, this is a hard learning that our trying to help God is in vain rather than to be watching and waiting for Him.

How long do you think it took Jonah to get the smell of whale vomit out of his mind?
I agree, we can and do tell God no when we let the voice of the world drown out the guidance of the Holy Spirit. However, as in any relationship, it takes time to build total and full trust to let go of the desire to satisfy the identity of, I, and , me, so that God's way has us living in concert with Him and seeing, us, and, we.

Dodge! Answer the questions I asked in post #2 please.

It is in the scripture where God is speaking to the Israelites, so why do you want to have me look it up for you?

You are a man after my own heart!! You are thinking about it.

Through the new, improved covenant (or way of communicating with the lord) we are not required to do physical things to help us toward the spiritual like cutting of flesh and restricting our eating. The Lord makes that very clear to us. The question that i don't find in scripture is something like "this is a physical rite not necessary now, this is a spiritual issue and it simply involves an unnecessary something we do to express the spiritual". Like giving help and supplies to people in need. The Lord makes it very clear that even though that is physical,n it is necessary for us to do. We have eliminated other things I would like to see a reason for and scripture to back it up, like the feasts. I see scripture saying "for all generations" for example. It does not say that about cutting flesh. Where did God tell us the feasts were a physical thing and God takes back that He said "for all generations?

You made the assertions, you provide the references. That's how civil discussion works.

No one recognized Jesus in the resurrection until receiving Him as a stranger

we forsake Him and fall that we may learn to continually repent

You would have quite an impossible task, this being righteous. That is what Christ does for those who asks Him to. But I know what you mean, Christ is in your heart and the Lord bless and keep you.

But you must listen to what the lord says in order to keep Him in your heart. It isn't a matter of simply standing in one spot, empty inside.