SputnikBoy said:
Allow me to help you some more.....
In order to "obey" the 10 commandments a person must keep all ten commandments every moment they live.
If just one of these commandments is not kept then the person has in fact broken all (not kept any).
Its like this,.... if your mother sends you to the store to buy some milk and says "Go straight there buy the milk and come straight back", and what you actually do is go see a friend on the way then go buy the milk and go straight back.
You did some of what your mother commanded and you got the milk, but going to see your friend made a mockery of your mothers instructions and in fact means that you did not do what your mother asked you to do.
God did not say "Here are 10 commandments go keep those that you can",.... He said here is one commandment that I will break down for you into 10 aspects.
The fact is, no man except Christ Jesus can keep all the commandments, or even any one of the commandments.
I know, you will say "I have not murdered anyone so I have not broken the 6th commandment."
But you would be wrong as Jesus said that the "act" of murder is not where the commandment is broken, but it is in the motive that is where the commandment is broken.
Just being angry (unrighteous anger) at another breaks the commandment.
Following this truth, a person can physically "keep" the Sabbath for his or her entire life yet in their heart they wanted to be doing other things. If this is true oif the person then in God's view they did not keep the Sabbath for in their hearts there was the wrong motive.
Understand this though, prior to Jesus' incarnation (the coming of God's New Covenant) their was only the Commandments/Moses law, and the ordinances. (Also, at times God also used prophets to speak to the Jews.)
But when Jesus came, all these types/shadows were no longer the point of focus as the reality of the types/shadows was now here with men.
With the coming of Jesus men now needed to focus on/receive Jesus and take their focus off the types/shadows.
But lets not get ahead of ourselves;...... Back to men keeping the Commandments/Moses law, the ordinances, and the prophets....
The fact is, the first two commandments are the foundation on which all the other commandments sit. And why? Because of a thing called love.
Love is the essential core of being right with God.
Love God and love your neighbor,... be right with God.
Today, are all "Sabbath Day-keepers" right with God according to loving both Him and their neighbors? At all time and in all places?
Is today's "Sabbath Day" abiding in perfect love?
For if not, then whichever "Sabbath Day-keeper" is not then they are simply mocking God and fooling themself.
And honestly, the fact is, all men are fallen, none are perfect and so none abide in perfect love. Therefore none can truly "keep" the Sabbath of God.
This is why for someone to say that they "obey out of love" is really the speaking of a deceived mind. There is no unperfected man who can say that they love God. And no man is perfected.
The truth is, today's "Sabbath Day-keeper" is a religious ritual-keeper; keeping rituals for the purpose of serving themselves, serving their concepts of what God wants from men.
The problem is, God does not want man's fallen concepts, God wants Christ.
Tell me, does a "Sabbath Day-keeper" bring Christ to God?
No.
Thus its meaningless to God.
In love,
cj