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See our videos "Is Sabbath Keeping Essential to Be a Real Christian? Former SDA Pastor Answers This Question" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0L3rSSL_H8, "Sabbath Keeping Is Not Required For New Testament Christians: Seventh-Day Adventists Beware" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFt4TOR6E8&index=8&list=PL5316CC6F66F24283 & "KEEPING THE OLD TESTAMENT LAWS & COMMANDMENTS CANNOT EARN HEAVEN OR SALVATION WITH GOD!" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIh3T31ujuU&list=PL5316CC6F66F24283&index=14. See also //www.scribd.com/doc/110229267/Sabbatismos-the-Sabbath-under-the-Gospel . John 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Response: Scripture plainly states that the Jewish leaders were upset with Jesus for breaking the Sabbath, not that they were upset with Him because they thought He was breaking the Sabbath. Concluding that Scripture doesn’t always mean quite what it says begins a dangerous and slippery slope that ends with ourselves, rather than Scripture, as the final authority. Jesus didn’t claim that He wasn’t working on the Sabbath. Instead, He compared His work with the fact that the Father was working. It is not a sin, it does not break any commandment, for God to work on the Sabbath. But what about Jesus instructing the man to carry his bed? This also broke the Sabbath Law (and not just the added Rabbinical Laws as Adventism claims). Jer 17:21 Thus says the Lord, “Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem. 22 You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers. … 27 But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched.” The only realistic explanation is understanding that this law was a shadow pointing to Christ. Since the Light had arrived, the purpose of the shadow was completed. Jesus’ rest was available during His ministry and intensified when the New Covenant was fully ushered in. Jesus was establishing the teachings of this Covenant before His death, including His commandments. Jesus defended His non-observance of the Sabbath by pointing out that this shadow didn’t apply to Him. He is Lord of the Sabbath, and He (like His Father) is working all the time. That explains His actions on the Sabbath, but having the man carry the load on the Sabbath seems to require that the shadow was fading away in light of the arrival and teaching of the Lord.Should our desire to follow Jesus’ example translate into Sabbath-keeping? I’d like to highlight a couple of points about how Jesus related to the rituals of his day. First, when he touched lepers to heal them, he became unclean himself. Though he sent these men to the priests to re-establish their “cleanness,” there is no record of him going through the cleansing rituals himself. When touched by the woman who had been bleeding for years on the way to Jairus’ house, and then later when he held Jairus’ daughter by the hand and raised her from the dead—these were both situations where he was made ritually unclean. This did not concern Jesus, of course. He had a much higher purpose, and was soon to make this statement, “Nothing outside a man can make him unclean by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean…Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? For it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, and then out of his body. (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods ‘clean.’) He went on: What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’” Mark 7:14-23. There are several implications from this passage. Jesus is showing that ritual law is being superceded by the eternal principles on which they were based. The Christian, reading these writings, realizes that the Jewish practices of cleansing, though clearly mandated in the books of the Law, are now irrelevant since Jesus became the complete revelation to which the Law and its rituals were pointing. The cleansing rituals, once learned, were actually so much easier to follow than the standard Jesus set. Instead of ritual purification, the Christian is called to clean living through his/her actions. Several of the principles contained in the commandments are mentioned (though not Sabbath-keeping, or even worship). But others (malice, lewdness, slander, and arrogance) while not addressed in the 10 commandments, are still clearly “unclean” behavior. That sexual immorality and lewdness go beyond simple adultery is clear, as they are mentioned in addition to adultery. It is clear that the principles contained within the 10 commandments are more important than ever, but are only the beginning of the lifestyle we will try to live through the Spirit and the grace of God. The critical distinction will become clear in Romans and is this: Our salvation is not dependent on us achieving that lifestyle. Rather it is based on Jesus who successfully lived that life in our place. Our gratitude and love is what motivates us as Christians to follow in his example. Lastly from this verse, the groundwork is laid for setting aside the system of clean and unclean foods. Paul will later quote from this scripture in making the same case when discussing clean and unclean meats. More on this later. My point from the previous paragraph is that Jesus, while living in a Jewish society, growing up as a Jewish boy in the usual ways (circumcised, law-school, etc.), would begin to move his followers out of Jewish methods of religion and worship. The very Laws he gave to Moses, he would take the liberty of setting aside. Besides the uncleanness discussed above, there was the harvesting of grain while passing through the field by his disciples on the Sabbath. This was clearly a violation of Sabbath law, but Jesus justifies it using an example of David violating a different ritual aspect of the same law, but who obviously received God’s blessing. Jesus is elevating his listeners, early Christians, and you and me, to principles above and beyond the law. What Jesus is doing in this passage (John 5:16-18) is using the Sabbath to teach them something about himself. You cannot separate these verses from the broader theology of John and what John is setting out to do. Jesus is not teaching us about the Sabbath, as we typically hear on these stories of Sabbath healings. Jesus is teaching us something about himself. I can say that with confidence because it is all over this story. Jesus makes the point that God works on the Sabbath (and no one is calling God a law breaker – John 5:17), so when Jesus works on the Sabbath he can break the Law of Moses because He and God are the same. Jesus point is not about the Sabbath. Jesus is using the Sabbath as an opportunity to teach them something about his identity. We are not called to have faith in the Sabbath but faith in Christ. We often miss the forest for the trees on this one and get all caught up on the Sabbath rather than on the Lord of the Sabbath. Often this point is entirely missed because we are unaware or unconcerned with the broader theology of the Gospel of John that this fits so well into. Sabbatarians enjoy pointing to Jesus as our example to keep the Sabbath. Is this a valid argument? If we are to follow Jesus' examples of how he lived under the old covenant, should consider this? Do Seventh Day Adventists Follow Jesus' Example? No! Jesus wore tassels on a robe with a blue cord. Jesus paid tax to the temple and supported temple worship Jesus went to a Jewish synagogue on Sabbath and read from the Torah in Hebrew. Jesus spoke out against the Jewish Leaders. Jesus limited his study only to the Torah. Jesus kept all 12 sabbaths including eating the Passover lamb. Jesus did not baptize anyone. Jesus did not own a home, did not marry, was not employed, had no income, stayed in other peoples homes, rode a donkey. Let’s evaluate specific statements Jesus made about the law, starting with the passage in Matthew 5:17-19. Many believe that Jesus is establishing with his own words the everlasting application of the 10 commandments. This is not the case, however. Here is why…first, the text, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets: I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” The first key feature is in the first sentence and the term, “Law or the Prophets.” This is a clear reference to the entire Old Testament, which is divided into Law (1st 5 books), Prophets (all the other books). Evidence for this is contained in these verses, “For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John” Matt 11:13. This is a clear reference to the body of Old Testament scripture. “Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath, and are innocent” Matt 12:5. This was in defense of his disciples’ Sabbath-harvesting. The portion of the Law He is referring to is in Leviticus where the priest’s duties are described. “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’” Matt 22:36-40. Note the use of the term “the Law and the Prophets” which clearly references the entire Old Testament scripture. Further, “the Law” is clearly a reference to the Torah, or Pentateuch as we call the first five Bible books. Both of the commandments Jesus quotes are from these books, but neither is one of the Ten. The first is from Deut 6:5, and the second is from Lev 19:18. Of course Adventists are quick to point out that the 10 commandments can be divided by first 4 (love for God) and last 6 (love for fellow man). This is an assumption. Jesus does not make this point. Rather, he broadly states that the message from the entire Old Testament scripture can be summed up this way. So, I think you’ll agree that what Jesus is stating in verse 17 is that He has come to fulfill the entire Old Testament. Then in verse 18, the term “the Law” can not be seen to mean “the 10 commandments” and must instead be seen to mean the whole Torah – first 5 books of the Bible. This is the way the term “the Law” is used throughout Matthew and the rest of the Gospels. The Greek word is “nomos” and will be discussed further regarding its usage in the NT Epistles. Even in the encounter with the rich young ruler, Jesus uses the term “commandments” (Greek word “entole”), not “the Law” – and that was only to test this man, who was evidently very good at keeping the commandments (the Ten plus others), but did not want to turn his life over to Jesus. The point of this story is that the keeping of the commandments does not change the heart. But, back to my point about the original verse: the term “the Law” has to mean the entire Pentateuch. Given this interpretation, the meaning of the verse is this: the Jewish system of worship (the Old Covenant) will not pass away until I (Jesus) have fulfilled it. Well, either we had better be sticking to the sacrificial system in its entirety, or we need to be able to point to a time when Jesus fulfilled that system of worship. I believe the Bible is clear about this. Gospel writers use the terms “fulfill” and “accomplish” as markers for the end of this system described in the Law and the Prophets. Notice the parallel between this verse in John 19:28 “Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, I am thirsty.” Matthew as well uses the term “fulfilled” in a final way, never in a state of on-going fulfillment. For instance, “But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled…” Matthew 26:56. I believe a correct interpretation of this verse in Matthew 5 shows that the Old Covenant system of worship practiced by the Jews was fulfilled by the life and death of Christ and have now lost their importance, making room for a new system of worship and a new understanding of our relationship with God: the New Covenant. This makes many uncomfortable, but I emphasize again that the eternal moral principles contained throughout the Old Testament and Old Covenant system are timeless and are incorporated into the New Covenant system as well. The focus, however, is (and has to be) different. It is now based on Jesus and his accomplished sacrifice, instead of the promise of the coming sacrifice which was the focal point of the Old Covenant. The Old was leading up to that triumph, and the New is life after the triumph – related, but very different perspectives – like Adam before and after the fall. Same man, but entirely different “state.” One more point about this verse…When Jesus uses the term “commandments” in verse 19 (Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments…,) he appears to be using a general term that applies to the many God-given directions in the Torah, including, but not limited to the Ten Commandments. (The Greek word is “entole.” We will examine its usage throughout the New Testament later in this paper.) This is supported by the whole context of the verse, and the usage of the term elsewhere in the gospels. Again, see the verses in Matt 22 which also incorporate all these exact terms. (When asked about the greatest commandment, He responds with statements found elsewhere in the Torah.) He is upholding the entire Torah, not just the Ten. I believe a different conclusion is speculation, which is fine to do, but not when formulating doctrine. Adventists think they have Ellen White to validate their speculation, but without her validation, these proof texts are much less clear. I want to take some time here to examine what Jesus does emphasize from the 10 commandments in his pivotal sermon on the mount. He cuts through the letter of the law to reveal the eternal principle behind this covenant made between God and the Israelites. Principles which make perfect obedience to the law impossible, yet are still what we strive for. 1. In addition to refraining from murder, don’t even be angry. Avoid lawsuits. Don’t hold grudges. 2. In addition to refraining from adultery, don’t even look at a woman with lustful thoughts. Exactly where does one cross the line from admiring beauty to lustful thinking? That is not spelled out for us. People who would prefer to live by a well-defined law don’t know what to do with this because it is not black and white. Then Jesus moves outside of the 10 commandments into other principles of the Law, including divorce, and the use of oaths. There is no hint that these are any less important, or separated in any way. He then breaks more new ground introducing the New Covenant principles of turning the other cheek, loving ones enemies, stewardship and the attitude of the heart behind giving and prayer life. The idea of “eye for an eye” is indeed a Biblical principle, enunciated in Exodus 21:24. Yet Jesus shows a more mature approach. My two points of emphasis are these: 1. Jesus does not make a distinction between the 10 Commandments and the rest of the Law. 2. Jesus does emphasize a new focus beyond the letter of that Law – not setting it aside, but in fact making it even harder to follow – impossible in fact without the Holy Spirit. (Good news – obeying the Law, or the principles behind it, is not a requirement for salvation! Thanks be to God.) There is no sign that 7th-day worship is one of those eternal principles. But worship itself certainly is, as is Sabbath rest, and this will be examined at length in Hebrews. “If you love me, you will obey what I command.” Adventists like to reference John 14:15 as a specific direction by Jesus to uphold the Ten Commandments, including the Sabbath. “If ye love me, keep my commandments. (KJV)” Or in the NIV that I’ve been using for this study, “If you love me, you will obey what I command.” Elder Vandeman, in his book A Day to Remember, made a point of emphasizing that it was really Jesus who met with Moses on Mount Sinai, and wrote the Ten on the tablets of stone with his finger. I don’t think this is crystal clear from scripture, but I wouldn’t argue the point. Either way, Jesus is a full member of the Trinity, and thus wholly God. However, and most importantly, this argument in no way establishes that Jesus is referring to the 10 commandments in this verse. In fact, the context of this verse strongly promotes the “Law of Love” that Jesus is emphasizing to his disciples during the Last Supper. Vandeman tries to brush this off, but gives no justification for doing so. Simply read the chapters from John 13-15 to see that Jesus is preparing his disciples for his death and resulting separation from them. Yet he encourages them with the promise of the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit. He assures them that the character of God has been manifested to them through him, so they can love and trust God in a richly personal way – patterned after their human relationship with Him (Jesus.) Over and over Jesus states clearly what command he is giving to his disciples: Love one another as Jesus has loved them (us). John 13:34, 35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Keeping the Sabbath is not how all men will recognize Christ’s true followers! Instead, it is the first fruit of the Spirit – Love. (And along come Joy, Peace, etc.) Let me summarize a bit at this point: I hear it said often by Sabbath-keepers that since Jesus kept Sabbath, we should as well. Of course, Jesus was Jewish, and so was circumcised, educated by the Rabbis, celebrated the Jewish holidays, paid the temple tax, and still managed to convince the local experts on the Law that he was breaking the Sabbath on a regular basis. We don’t do all those other parts of the Jewish customs that Jesus did, so what again is the rationale for keeping the Sabbath? There is no mention of the Sabbath prior to the Ten Commandments. Though God rested on the 7th day after creation, He did not call it the Sabbath. There is no indication that humans rested on the 7th day until instructed to do so in the Old Covenant described by Moses in Exodus. This covenant was clearly made between God and Israel. Converts to Judaism first had to be circumcised (entrance sign) before they could worship in the Synagogue/Temple with the Jewish people on Sabbath (ongoing sign of the covenant). This covenant between God and Israel contains a ritualistic system of worship that even Adventists largely discard, though they and others hang onto the Sabbath because of its special inclusion in the Ten Commandments. However, it is clear that Christian living goes far beyond the 10 Commandments, as demonstrated by Jesus’ discourse on the subject, and later expanded by the New Testament writers. The Covenants Seventh-day Adventists arbitrarily divide the Sinaitic old covenant into two divisions, moral and ceremonial. They claim that the Ten Commandments are moral and the rest of the law/covenant is ceremonial. They have offered no biblical evidence to support a two-part division of the old covenant. There are moral and ceremonial commands in the whole law as well as a ceremonial command in the Ten Commandments. The Bible writers never declared the old covenant was a two-part covenant. The Jews understand that there is but one law/covenant and it is all equally holy and was ratified by the blood of animals. Ex 24:3 (NIV) When Moses went and told the people all the LORD’S words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.” There are 613 commands in the old covenant that Israel were required to keep perfectly. These are found in the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. The Ten has one ceremonial command, the sabbath, which is not a moral command. Sabbath keeping was given to Israel as a weekly ritual "to rest" from labor. It was never commanded as a communal day of worship. Israel was commanded to remember their deliverance from Egypt and that God created the world. The sabbath is not a moral command as no person has ever been charged with sin for breaking the sabbath except Israel of the old covenant. The Old Covenant is a binding agreement God made with Israelites alone at Sinai. It was made with no other nation on earth. It includes the entire Mosaic Law which includes the Ten Commandments written on tablets of stone by God. The entire covenant was ratified by the blood of animals. Ex 24:8 (NIV) Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Adventists teach that the sabbath is binding on all nations and all people for all time when in fact it was given only to one nation—Israel. Circumcision was the entry sign into the covenant. Gentiles could only legally keep the sabbath and be accepted by God, if they joined the Israelite community through circumcision and keep all the covenant. The sign of the old covenant between God and Israel was the sabbath. God never made the sabbath a sign for Christians in the new testament. Do you find Christians mentioned in the text? Can you legally enjoin on Christians that which God has not enjoined on them? Circumcision is just as much a perpetual covenant for Israel asis the sabbath. Circumcision was first made with Abraham as an "everlasting covenant"—but not the sabbath. Ex 31:16-17 (NRSV) Therefore the Israelites shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” Gen 17:9-10, 13 (NIV) Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. 14Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.” God then gave circumcision to the Israelites along with the sabbath in the law of Moses. John 7:21-24 (NIV) Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all astonished. Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the Sabbath. Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath? Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment.” The old covenant ended at Calvary with the death of Jesus. When a party to a covenant dies, said covenant ends. In this case it was Jesus who died, and He made that covenant with Israel. Thus the old covenant ended, even as a marriage covenant ends upon the death of either party. The surviving person is free to marry again, even as Jesus now takes the church as His new bride. If a mate dies, the surviving person is no longer married to a corpse. Rom. 7 shows this comparison of marriage and dying to the law through Christ. SDAs are married to the old covenant corpse. They read sabbath keeping in the old covenant (contract) God made with Israel and apply it to themselves. They do not accept the fact that they were never a party to that covenant. The only way for them to legally keep the sabbath is through circumcision and they are then obligated to keep ALL the old covenant with its 613 commands, which they do not do. They refuse to kill sabbath breakers and stay at home on sabbaths as the law requires. Thus they are lawbreakers, and subject to the condemnation of that law. What Ended at the Cross? Jesus Abolished Israel's Old Covenant law with Ten Commandments and regulations. Eph 2:15 (NIV) ...by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. Notice, "the law" is singular that was abolished, not laws. There was just "one law"—the Mosaic law—with many commands and regulations, that was abolished by Jesus. God canceled the written code and regulations nailing it to the cross. SDAs claim that the "written code" was not the Ten, but the law that Moses wrote. Both God and Moses wrote the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments written on stone tablets by the finger of God and were placed inside the Ark of the Covenant, and they were also written by Moses on parchment with ink and placed outside the Ark in the Book of the Covenant. Otherwise you would not be reading it in your Bible. Col 2 and Ex 24 explains this. Col 2:13-14 (NIV) When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. Ex 24:3-4 (NIV) When Moses went and told the people all the LORD’S words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.” Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel. vs. 7, Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.” Jesus was taken down from the cross, and the law with the sabbath remains nailed to the cross for eternity. SDAs try their best to pry the nails from the cross to make the sabbath binding on Christians. "The first Covenant" had "stone tablets of the covenant." Heb 9:1-4 (NIV) Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand, the table and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. The old covenant included the Ten Commandments as well as the Sanctuary furnishings not found in the Ten Commandments showing that the old covenant is not a two-part covenant claimed by Seventh-day Adventists. The Old Covenant with the Ten Commandments are obsolete. Heb 8:7-13 (NIV) For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8But God found fault with the people and said, “The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. The Ten Commandments were a ministration of death and condemnation. 2 Cor 3:6-9 (NIV) He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that condemns men is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! Only one who was a party to that law/sabbath could die to that law/sabbath. No one alive today was a party to the old covenant. For someone to insist on keeping the sabbath and other old covenant points of law is to insist on being bound to a dead mate. Christian Jews are "released from the Law" and now serve the Spirit and not in the way of "the written code". If you have not died to the law/sabbath you are holding onto a corpse. Good luck with that! Rom 7:4-6 (NIV) So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. The law was a witness against Israel not Christians. God gave the law to Israel to show them their sins and the law was a witness to it. They were a stiff-necked, rebellious, idolatrous, faithless nation. Deut 31:26-27 (NIV) “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you. For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die! The law was a school master (paidagogos) to bring Israel to Christ, not Christians who were never under that law. How can SDAs who claim to be justified by faith, want to be under Israel's schoolmaster (law)? Gal 3:23-25 (KJV) But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. A paidagogos was one who accompanied a child, who was usually a slave of the parents of the child, and even administered punishment as required. Once the child came of age and was mature, the paidagogos was dismissed from this oversight of the child. Those who insist on living by that law demonstrate their immaturity; still needing a law to tell them everything they are to do or not do. Christ is the end of the Law for Israel. The law made no one righteousness or moral and no one could keep it perfectly. Rom 10:4 (NIV) Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Rom 3:20 (NIV) Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. The Law of Sin and Death is the Ten Commandments. 2 Cor 3:6-7 (NIV) He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, The law was made for rebellious Israel, not Christians with the spirit of God. Do Christians need a law to tell them not to worship idols, not to murder and steal? 1 Tim 1:9-11 (NIV) We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me. How can Christians be righteous before God without the law? Christians receive their righteousness from the gospel and will live by faith. Rom 1:17 (NIV) For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Paul was not under the Law. Be like Paul and win SDAs and other sabbatarians that put themselves under the law. 1 Cor 9:20 (NIV) To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. Rom 6:14 (NIV) For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. Gal 5:14 (NIV) The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Gal 5:18 (NIV) But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. The Apostles opposed the Judaizers that were trying to impose the law on Gentiles. The issue was keeping the law of Moses all of it. Notice that the sabbath was not included in the discussion. In the Jewish mind a gentile must first be circumcised before he could keep the sabbath. This would have been an excellent time to tell the gentiles to keep the Ten as do SDAs. Acts 15:5 (NIV) Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.” Acts 15:10-11 (NIV) Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.” Acts 15:19-21 (NIV) “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.” Mount Sinai Covenant is Slavery represented by earthly Jerusalem. Jewish and gentile Christians are free in the New Jerusalem in heaven which is of faith. What was given on Mount Sinai? The Ten Commandments with the sabbath. Gal 4:21-31 (NIV) Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written: “Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. The New Covenant is God writing his laws on the Christian's heart. Hebrews 8:10 (NIV) This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. What are the laws that God has written on our hearts? SDAs would have you believe that God is writing the same old covenant law of sin and death on our hearts. The Apostles tell us what they are. Law of Faith. To know we are justified before God without keeping the old covenant. Rom 3:27-28 (NRSV) Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law. Law of the Spirit. Has set us free from the law of sin and death. Rom 8:1-4 (NIV) Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. Live by the Spirit. If you are led by the Sprit you are not under the law. Gal 5:16-21 (NIV) So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. Law of Christ. Gal 6:2 (NIV) Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Law of liberty. James 2:8-11 (NIV) If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder. ”if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. James mentions two distinct laws—that is, (1) the royal law and the law of liberty (which are identical) and (2) "the whole law" (which includes the entire Torah, all the Laws of Moses). James tells us that the royal law is “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This law, found in Leviticus 19:18, is one of many laws that the Lord gave to Moses to instruct Israel regarding how to live moral lives and develop good interpersonal relationships with others. James also states that, as in the old covenant law, if you broke even one point of the whole law, you were guilty of the entirety of the old covenant, likewise, if you fail to show proper love for even one person by showing partiality, you are guilty of breaking the law of Liberty. Therefore to break one point in the Ten or in the "whole law" consisting of 613 commands, YOU are a lawbreaker. Jesus gave a new commandment to love one another. Will a Christian that loves one another, murder, steal, commit adultery, and worship idols? There is no need for that obsolete law or the Ten Commandments. Love does no harm to one’s neighbor therefore love fulfills the law. Keeping the law does not fulfill it. Another way to look at this is that, if a Christian has love for even his enemies, he would not commit these acts, seeing as these things are a result of an unconverted heart, not motivated by love. Do you trust the spirit to guide you? If not you have no faith just as Israel. John 13:34-35 (NIV) “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” The world will know you are Jesus' disciples if you love one another. Paul tells Titus what to teach. Do you notice nothing is said about teaching the law/sabbath. Titus 2:11-15 (NIV) For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. 15These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you. Finally, Sabbath Keeping in Alaska is a Problem. This shows that the Sabbath was a regional, temporary command for Israel and not for the world. Interesting problem in Alaska. According to the officious SDA sunset calculator, on Friday eve, May 30th, in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the sun set below the horizon, bringing with it the Jewish Shabbat, at 11:38 PM, almost midnight. Note: AK is so far west, it is on Hawaiian time. Here is the quote: Calculations for: Longitude: -148.34000 Latitude: 70.27000 Prudhoe Bay, Alaska Time Zone: Hawaiian Standard Time, HSTDate: 5/30/03 Friday Sunrise: 0:07am HST (sunrise Friday morning)Sunset: 11:38pm HST (sunset, Friday night, becoming sabbath) Next, we find sunrise on Sabbath, May 31st, actually starts before midnight Friday night and el sol invictus stays up all day Sabbath, and into Sabbath night, and into Sunday morning, and into Sunday night, for the next two months! Date: 5/31/03 Sunrise: Sun above horizon HST Sunset: Sun above horizon HST (meaning the sun never sets). Meaning: if you live and work in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, extracting dino remains buried and liquified by Noah's flood less than 4500 years ago, you have a problem! (no!! dummy! not the recent age of the earth!)... you have to quit working! Because on Friday night, May 30th, when the sun went down at 1l:38, bringing in the holy Lord's day, you had to stop working, thou, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and all the strangers within thy igloo. But the sun came up again on Sabbath just a few minutes later, but never went down after that!!! As I scribble this nonsense it is still Sabbath in Prudhoe Bay...cause the sun never went down....no Saturday sunset. So if you believe literally that you must keep sabbath from sunset on Friday night to Sabbath sunset.....the next day, Sabbath, did NOT have a sunset this summer! Won't be a sunset for another two months! So you are faced with keeping Sabbath for two months straight, and giving up your job with Exxon! Unless of course, you are the camp padre, trying to spread the word that black gold comes from dead dinos who missed the ark, or in the medical profession raking in piles of dough and salving your conscience by paying plenty of tithe to keep the hired-archy gainfully employed.... —sent by reader Seventh Day Adventists follow their false prophetess Ellen G. White (a woman authority over her religious followers which violates 1 Timothy 2:12, "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.") & her idol of Sabbath keeping for salvation requirement (violating Galatians 1:6-9) rather than what the Bible plainly teaches about Sabbath keeping for New Testament believers. For more see our playlist "Dealing with Seventh-day Adventism & Their "Prophetess"" with 23 videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5316CC6F66F24283. See the websites: www.TruthorFables.com, www.ExAdventist.com, www.LifeAssuranceMinistries.org & www.GreatControversyExposed.com. Titus 1:9-16