Remember the Sabbath

The full verse is "Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law."

To understand what it means to establish the law we must understand the purpose of the law. This is the purpose in light of the revelation of Jesus Christ:

"What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator."

The law was meant to preserve the people through whom the Seed, singular meaning Christ, would come. Furthermore, Paul writes about the law from the perspective of a Jew:

"..the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we (meaning the Jews because Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were never under the law) were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, (Here tutor is a poor translation. The original Greek is best translated as "school master". A school master did not teach. He merely gathered the children from house to house to take them all to school.) that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor."

This is simple, right?: when the children arrive at school there is no longer the need for a school master: the children safely arrived at their destination.

The law served to set limits to the reach of sin. If sin always equaled the death of the sinner then man would have been wiped out in one generation. The law put legal limits on sin's affect upon the people where sacrifice and penance would be required. Sin always meant death but one's death could be substituted by the death of an animal or the giving upon of life sustaining food or supplies. Because, see, the law was meant to preserve the people. To its end, the law was designed to preserve the people through whom Christ would come. Once Christ appeared, then people could be reconciled to God the Father through faith once more.

"Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness".

This is how the "law was established" among the Romans: they were alive in Christ by faith, and Christ was alive in creation through the law. He was the Seed that came through the preservation of the people through the law.

By these two witnesses: 1) That Christ the Seed had appeared and 2) that men could be brought to God by faith in the One He sent, the law is established. It accomplished its intended purpose and is proven to be holy.

This is what "we establish the law" means. Christ's appearance and our faith is Christ establishes that the law performed its intended duties.

Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. We are no longer under the law.

I understand a state of fulfillment is that state of being where there is nothing missing, you have everything you want or need. If i doctor writes a prescription for 30 tablets, does the pharmacist give you 20 tablets and expect you to come up with the remaining 10?

A vast amount of text to demonstrate nothing but your ignorance of the New Covenant when it comes to the sabbath and God's law. You mix grace with law and so end up in confusion. The writer to the Hebrews calls the Law the shadow. I choose to live in the light.

Amen, Grace and law mixed, how right you are!

Interesting concept brother, so you will be ok if someone comes and kills your kids, steals your car, and takes your money?

Interesting concept brother, so you will be ok if someone comes and kills your kids, steals your car, and takes your money?

Out of the old covenant came the new from its foundation. When Christ taught, what laws did he quote back tot he boy who said which ones should I keep? Christ said I have not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.

Christ said I have not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.

If it is Jesus that provides us the forgiveness of sin. What law did He fulfill in that regard?

All the laws pertaining to the various offering which sacrificed animals in order to "cover" the sins of the Israelites. They could never take away sin. But the Lamb of God -- Christ -- took away the sin of the world. And it is His blood which was shed for the remission (forgiveness) of sins. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission (of sins). Since God already saw the sacrifice of Christ as an accomplished fact long before it happened, He could forgive sins even before Christ was crucified. And Christ Himself forgave the sins of many.

However, the sins of those that place their faith in the Lamb of God have been taken away and have been made spotless by His blood, which God had already judged would "take away the sin of the world."

Since God's nature hasn't changed, the way that we are to walk in Grace isn't much different that it was before the old covenant became obsolete. There is plenty in the New Testament writings that tell us that we saved unto good works, and we are to walk in the Spirit, that the laws of God are written on our hearts and minds... we have plenty of instructions on how to walk in obedience. So, we no longer need the task master of written laws when we have the Spirit of Truth living in us. And we believe this because Scripture supports it all very clearly.

When Christ taught, what laws did he quote back to the boy who said which ones should I keep?

Who said Christians are under the Old Covenant? And who said Christians must observe the 7th day Sabbath? Evidently you have ignored what is revealed in the New Testament (Covenant).

But why take the one commandment that God said to remember and make it void?

He did not mention keeping the Sabbath.

Nope, not only did Jesus not teach His followers to keep Saturday sabbath - none of the Apostles did either.

It's odd that the hebrew roots folks and the seventh day adventist folks claim one is not saved if they don't keep Saturday sabbath

They may be polite somewhat but they actually believe one goes to hell if they don't keep Saturday sabbath

But they cannot show where Jesus or His Apostles taught this. strange!

My answer is usually that I worship God each and every day!

And why would I want to just have one day holy unto the Lord when I can have all days holy unto the Lord!

I usually don't go too far with these guys since no matter what you say or show from
scripture you are wrong in their view to not embrace hebrews roots or seventh day adventist

What's really scary about the seventh day adventist is all the false predictions made by their founder Ellen G White

One of them was she was claiming Jesus was going to return on a particular day! Strange indeed.

I agree
The blood of Jesus is the only source of forgiveness. By faith in Jesus alone we can stand Justified and righteous before God.

Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

If the law was made void in the life that Jesus lived, why did Paul say "God forbid: yea, we establish the law".
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual:
If the Ten Commandment law had been blotted out at the cross, would Paul have spoken in such glowing language of its perfection and spirituality? He did not speak of a past law. He said, “the law is holy ... the law is spiritual.” In other words, it was very much alive and operating when Paul wrote to the Roman church. In contrast, he described the handwriting of ordinances in the past tense: “was against us ... was contrary to us.” It is certain he was not speaking of the same law. One was present, and one was past.
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;

One IS and one WAS