Dietary laws, do you keep them?

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SavedByBlood

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Soyeong said:
In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that tithing was something that they ought to be doing while not neglecting weather matters of the law, so he was not opposing what they were doing, but was calling them to have a higher level of obedience to God's law in a manner that is in accordance with its weightier matters. Orthodox Jew have an unbroken chain from one rabbi to another back to the Pharisees of the 1st century, so they are the modern Pharisees.
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I don't disagree with your statement. I'm not under the authority of talmudic Judaism so I'm not bound to their decrees.
I'm bound to the Chief Shepherd, Jesus/Yeshua.
 
KohenMatt

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Dino246 said:
Do you also attend the temple in Jerusalem three times a year and stone adulterers "to walk in grateful obedience to the God who saved" you?
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Nope. The Believer is the living temple in which God dwells today. And as Jesus is the High Priest, it's His job to administer whatever discipline He sees fit.
 
KohenMatt

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Hakawaka said:
May I ask based on your profile picture, do you also keep the 7 feasts? If you do, how do you keep the feast of tabernacles for example which requires sacrifices(like all the other feasts!) and for you to live in a booth somewhere. Me personally I live in an apartment with no balcony, so how on earth am I supposed to keep that feast? These are family oriented imo
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I do keep the feasts as best as I can. (No physical sacrifices needed today. Jesus became that sacrifice.)

Our church spends 8 days camping at our church property in tents, campers, RV's etc. The instruction regarding Tabernacles refers to temporary dwellings. My wife and I spent 1 year in a tent on our back patio. But the legalistic interpretation and application of how to celebrate those feasts isn't the important thing.
 
KohenMatt

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Nehemiah6 said:
As I already said, Christians are at liberty to either follow the dietary laws or follow the NT teaching. But there is no merit in following the dietary laws, and God does not expect your obedience in this matter at all. If some choose to be vegetarians, that too is fine. The Lord Jesus Christ already told you that it is not what goes into the stomach that defiles a man.
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I think obedience to God's instructions are very important, whether in the Old Testament or New. Does obedience to those thing impact my salvation? No. But walking within God's blessing brings a natural blessing in itself.
 
SavedByBlood

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KohenMatt said:
I do keep the feasts as best as I can. (No physical sacrifices needed today. Jesus became that sacrifice.)

Our church spends 8 days camping at our church property in tents, campers, RV's etc. The instruction regarding Tabernacles refers to temporary dwellings. My wife and I spent 1 year in a tent on our back patio. But the legalistic interpretation and application of how to celebrate those feasts isn't the important thing.
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I have spent the Feast of Sukkah's in a booth. It was meant as a type, are lives here on earth are temporary, harsh and we sometimes must deal with adversity.
 
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KohenMatt said:
I do keep the feasts as best as I can. (No physical sacrifices needed today. Jesus became that sacrifice.)

Our church spends 8 days camping at our church property in tents, campers, RV's etc. The instruction regarding Tabernacles refers to temporary dwellings. My wife and I spent 1 year in a tent on our back patio. But the legalistic interpretation and application of how to celebrate those feasts isn't the important thing.
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No physical sacrifice by the high priest once a year for the sin of the people.
Your correct, Jesus offers eternal forgiveness of sin through His perfect sacrifice (Genesis 22).

Yet, the offerings are still valid under the law. How many lambs do you offer
up to the Lord? Remember to build the altar first without tools (Exodus 20).

Numbers 28:9
Then on the Sabbath day two male lambs one year old without defect, and two-tenths
of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and its drink offering.

Try and get it right.

1) Grain offering
2) Drink offering
3) Two lambs without defect

That's every Sabbath day.
 
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