If I am enrolled in high school and
graduate, when I move on to college or to an occupation, I am no
longer under the authority of that high school. If I attempt to
throw out what I have learned in grade school, middle school and high
school (all that I learned about math, grammar, music, etc.), I would
be dysfunctional at college or my new occupation that I am now under
the authority of.
Some may have not gone to grade school, middle school and high school or a formal institution of higher learning, but they have learned the principles these schools teach and have applied them. If they reject them, they could not please their new employer or excel in their new occupation. Example: Years ago in kindergarten, I learned that 1+1=2. Today, I am not longer under that Kindergarten administration, but I have discovered the mathematical rule 1+1=2 to still be true. The rule is not limited to the Kindergarten administration I was under (The rule remains whether or not that Kindergarten administration exists or not). Contrarily, my Kindergarten class had an appointed time for me to rest (nap time). For me that rule was limited to that administration (I am no longer required to take a nap). In like manner, the consecration of the appointed weekly time the Lord set aside at creation, the 7th Day Sabbath, is not limited to administration such as the dispensation of Law & the dispensation of Grace, and the fact that the proprietor is the Lord remains true. How can we be taught right and wrong through the Law (we have the scriptures in writing), be given the experiences of successes and failures of our patriarchs in the faith with their relationship with the Lord, and have the Lord Himself come down on earth, walk in the Word, fulfilling the Word, expounding on the Word, give us His Spirit, engraving the Word in our hearts and minds, then be excused of being immoral by pleading ignorance? Hebrews
8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of
Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their
mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and
they shall be to me a people:
Some reject the Seventh-Day Sabbath (considering it as a Jewish Old Testament Law), then while guilty of infringing on the Lord's Time (His Holy Day), they ask Him for help. One says "Help me have more faith", "help me remember your Word", "help us to be in unity". All these are increased by properly keeping His Day. What good does it do to say I have faith (love God), but my works uphold the traditions of baalim? Faith without works is dead. A person's works reflect what is in a person's heart. If I uphold the tradition of contempt (namely, profaning the Sabbath, in support of commemoration of the destroyer), should I realistically pray "Lord, why can't we repeat the actions of the First Apostles?" Is it not silly to reject His Word, then ask for it the next minute? We are to obey the Spirit: Romans
8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. What did the Spirit say about the 7th Day? Did He make it a common day where we may follow our own desires or did He set it aside that we would know that He is Lord? Genesis
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created
and made.
There is not a single paragraph written in the Old Testament that is not useful for edification. A man who discards the knowledge given in the Old Covenant is as a swine trampling pearls in the mud. II
Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be
perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
The Law of Christ
is implicit not explicit (it is written on the fleshly heart, not by
the letter, on stone).
Your heart should say, "separate holy from unholy". |