Dd-85. Are the HEBREWS SUPERIOR to GENTILES? DOWNLOAD to SAVE as a PDF Doc to read OFFLINE. Dd-85. Are the HEBREWS SUPERIOR TO GENTILES? Is the Hebrew race of people SUPERIOR to all other races of people? In other words, are the Hebrew Israelite BELIEVERS in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior SUPERIOR to the Gentile Christians? Now, the reason that I ask these questions is that a dear brother in the Lord, who is a Black African Hebrew Israelite, wrote to me to tell me that I must SUBMIT myself to him as my TEACHER. This was my FIRST encounter with those who sincerely believe that they are the descendants of the TRUE Hebrew RACE of people. And for those of you who may have not been aware of any Christians saying that they are the TRUE Hebrew Israelite people, then you need to know that they sincerely but WRONGLY believe that they are God’s CHOSEN people, the NATURAL born children of Israel. And to THEM, they sincerely believe that they are SUPERIOR to all other races of people. Let me say this another way, there are at least TWO groups of Christians who are boldly claiming that they are the superior race of people. One group is a WHITE Caucasian RACE claiming to be the TRUE Hebrew race and the other group is a Black African RACE claiming to be the TRUE Hebrew race. But NEITHER group is the TRUE Hebrew race. For you see, their MOTIVE for desiring to be the true Hebrew race is the FALSE teaching that Jesus died on the cross for ONLY the children of Israel. In other words, they do NOT believe that Jesus died for the sins of the WHOLE world as we are clearly and plainly taught in SIMPLICITY in 1 John 2:2.
Please read 1 John 2:2.
“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and NOT for ours ONLY, but ALSO for the sins of the WHOLE world.”
Obviously, I knew in my spirit that he was deceived, but I wanted to try and understand WHY he felt so strongly that he was superior to me and all other GENTILE Christians. So I wrote him back and asked him this question. What gives you the idea that you are superior to the Gentile Christians and that all Gentile Christians must submit to what you believe and teach? And he wrote back quoting a verse of Scripture written by the Apostle Paul. And then, he proceeded to tell me that I must submit to his teaching. Please read Romans 3:1,2. “What ADVANTAGE then has the Jew? or what PROFIT is there of circumcision? 2. MUCH EVERY WAY: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.” So I wrote back to him explaining the TRUE meaning of these two verses of Scripture being LEFT in their CONTEXT to correctly interpret them in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. The Greek word translated as advantage does indeed carry the meaning of being superior. But nowhere in the meaning of this Greek word does it mean to LORD OVER others as this brother in the Lord was doing or trying to do using the FEAR tactic. This Greek word actually means superior in QUALITY. And Biblically, this being superior in quality means that BEFORE the cross the Hebrew Israelites were the ONLY CHOSEN people of God. And thus, all of the Gentiles were without God and without HOPE. But that was BEFORE the cross. And NOW, the Gentiles who were ONCE without hope are made nigh by the blood of Jesus. So what Paul is talking about in this passage of Scripture is that the UNSAVED Jews have an advantage over the UNSAVED Gentiles, in that, the gospel was preached to the Jews FIRST. You will see what I mean by this when we read the CONTEXT. But first, I want to remind my readers that EVERY false teaching in the Christian church denominations and in the splinter Christian groups exist because of Scripture being taken OUT of its CONTEXT. Now, most Christians who read and study the Bible know about the immediate context which is the reading of the verse before and after the verse in question. But there are OTHER contexts as well. There is a broader context of reading SEVERAL verses of Scripture both before and after the verse in question. The broader context may even involve reading the “chapters” before and after the chapter where the verse in question is found. The verse in “question” is the verse of Scripture that you desire to know the TRUE sound Biblical meaning. And then there is ALSO the context of the WHOLE word of God which is what I sometimes call the “Big Picture” or the GOAL of the whole word of Almighty God. And then there is the context of ALL that the Apostle Paul teaches or ALL that the Apostle John teaches. For you see, none of the Apostles of Jesus will contradict themselves. For example, the Apostle John may say something that is INTERPRETED one way by a group of Christians and then that same verse of Scripture is INTERPRETED another way by a different group of Christians. So another CONTEXT is to use the words of the SAME writer to show what the writer INTENDED his words to mean in that verse in “question” that is interpreted in different ways. Then there is the context of what is taught under the Old Covenant written in the Old Testament versus the context taught under the New Covenant written in the New Testament. And every FALSE teaching can be attributed to taking verses OUT of at least ONE of these several different CONTEXTS. And the Hebrew Roots Movement is not any different. For you see, they also take verses out of their context to try and support their teaching that all Christians must keep the Law of Moses to PLEASE God. And one of the groups of Christians within the Hebrew Roots Movement is the TRUE Hebrew Israelite Movement which is also divided. And by being divided I mean that there are white Caucasian believers in Jesus who claim that Jesus died on the cross for ONLY the white Caucasian RACE of people meaning that ALL white people are the true Hebrew race of people. And then there are the black African believers in Jesus who claim that Jesus died on the cross ONLY for the RACE of black people meaning that ALL black people are the true Hebrew race of people. So then, HOW did all these different seventh DAY of the week Sabbath-keeping groups of Christians come to be? Well, to ME, I see that this deception seems to always BEGIN with one simple and very GOOD question that DESERVES a SOUND Biblical answer. But in TRUTH, those who ask this question are not asking the question for the PURPOSE of it being answered with a SOUND Biblical answer. In other words, they are asking this question for the SOLE PURPOSE to get NON-seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians to be GUILTED into BECOMING Sabbath-keeping Christians. So by that ONE question of WHY do Christians NOT keep the weekly Sabbath DAY like the Jews the DECEPTION begins. Their end goal is to FIRST get you used to going to their church on a Saturday in order that they will begin to teach you to KEEP the Law of Moses to become SUPERIOR Christians so that they can BOAST. And again, that one simple question that has DECEIVED Christians is “Why do Christians NOT keep the FOURTH commandment but they keep the other NINE of the Ten Commandments?” Now, if you really and truly want to know and to understand the SOUND Biblical answer to this question, then please read the in-depth study Dd-12. Why Only NINE of the TEN Commandments But, for now, let us get back to CORRECTLY interpreting Romans 3:1,2 by keeping it in its CONTEXT. We will begin with the “immediate” context of the surrounding verses. To keep things short, simple, and to the point, I will not include the context of the previous chapter because there is more than enough PLAIN and simple evidence in the following context to show that the word “advantage” here in this context does NOT mean that the Jewish Christians are SUPERIOR to the Gentile Christians.
Please read Romans 3:1,2,9.
“What ADVANTAGE then has the Jew? or what PROFIT is there of circumcision? 2. MUCH EVERY WAY: chiefly, BECAUSE that unto them were committed the oracles of God... ...9. What then? Are we BETTER than they? NO, in NO WISE: for we have before proved both Jews AND Gentiles, that they are all under sin;”
So clearly, Paul never intended his words to mean that the Jewish Christians are BETTER and SUPERIOR to the Gentile Christians. BUT, if you are IN one of these seventh DAY of the week Sabbath-keeping groups, then you will NOT be taught the WHOLE word of Almighty God. You will always be TOLD what verses mean. And if you dare to QUESTION what the leaders of those Sabbath-keeping groups teach, then they will use the GUILT tactic to keep you in line. They will always return to that first question that sucked you into their way of “interpreting” the Scriptures. They will say things to GUILT you like, “Are you saying that YOU do NOT believe that Christians are to keep ALL TEN commandments of God?” And then, because you have not CORRECTLY answered that very first question for yourself as to “WHY do Christians NOT keep the FOURTH commandment to observe the Sabbath day as the Jews?” with a SOUND Biblical answer, then you will continue to listen to their twisting of the Scriptures to their own destruction and to YOUR own destruction as well. The truth of the matter is that the UNSAVED Jews have an advantage over the UNSAVED Gentiles because the Jews have been taught the Old Testament Scriptures from a small child. The Jews have memorized many verses of Scripture. Please understand that to unsaved Jews, the Old Testament is the Scriptures. They do NOT trust the New Testament. So when Paul preached the gospel to the unsaved Jews he simply REMINDED the Jews of the prophecies of the Messiah in the Old Testament Scriptures. But when Paul preached to the Gentile Christians he had to get out the scrolls so to speak and teach them the Scriptures first before he could explain the Scriptures. Then Paul had to explain that the Scriptures contain hidden PROPHECIES and that Jesus FULFILLED those prophecies. But the Jews ALREADY knew about the Scriptures being prophecies. The Jews were already familiar with all the ceremonial Laws of Moses. So all Paul had to do is to explain to the Jews that the Law of Moses contained in ordinances were SHADOWS pointing to Jesus like SIGN posts. But with the unsaved Gentiles, Paul had to take the time to explain what an ordinance was. And then he had to explain the whole process of each ceremonial law before he would explain that they were types or figures pointing to Jesus as the Messiah. So then, by ALREADY having a BACKGROUND knowledge of the Scriptures is having an advantage over the Gentiles who may have not even known what the Scriptures are. That is ONE way that the UNSAVED Jews have an advantage over the UNSAVED Gentiles. Another way is that the Jews are God’s CHOSEN people. And that means that God spoke ONLY to the Jews through his prophets. And then the Jews were to convert any Gentile who wanted to become a Jew. So then, the “advantage” is the promises of God were to the Jews FIRST and then to the Gentiles. NOT because they were BETTER but because they were CHOSEN by God. Please understand the TRUE SOUND Biblical meaning of CHOSEN by God. It does NOT mean that every single Jew will be saved. But rather, it means that God chose to make a COVENANT with the Hebrew race of people, which was the smallest in number at the time God called Abraham out of paganism to worship him as the ONLY TRUE God. And IF they KEPT his covenant, then He would BLESS them. BUT they kept BREAKING His covenant with God so God promised to make ANOTHER covenant with the children of Israel who came out of BONDAGE in the land of Egypt, And that OTHER covenant is the NEW COVENANT established in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God who suffered and died on the cross for the sins of the WHOLE world. So then, in truth, this was God’s PLAN long BEFORE God chose Abraham. The Messiah, Jesus, was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world but there are NO prophecies about God choosing Abraham first. There are NO prophecies about God making the FIRST Covenant. But there are prophecies of God promising his NEW COVENANT. And that was God’s PLAN all along. The shedding of INNOCENT BLOOD for the remission of sin was God’s PLAN all along which he kept SECRET from his ENEMY, Satan, the Devil.
Please read Matthew 26:28.
“For this is my BLOOD of the new testament, which is SHED for many FOR the REMISSION of sins.”
Hebrews teaches us that WITHOUT the shedding of BLOOD there is NO remission of sins
Hebrews 9:22.
“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and WITHOUT shedding of blood is NO remission.”
Jesus is the Lamb that was SLAIN from the foundation of the world as being the end GOAL of God’s MASTER plan of SALVATION. And there is NO other name given among the entire human races of people of many nationalities whereby we ALL MUST be saved. The Bible teaches us that Jesus Christ is the END of the LAW for RIGHTEOUSNESS. And what that means is that the Law of Moses contained in ordinances is the SCHOOLMASTER to lead the UNSAVED Hebrew Israelite CHOSEN people of God to God’s Messiah, Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God. And that is WHY the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached to the Jews FIRST and THEN to the Gentiles. Let us read those verses that I just made reference to in this paragraph.
Romans 10:4.
“For Christ is the END of the law for righteousness to EVERYONE that BELIEVES.”
Therefore, if you are a believer in Jesus where you are a natural-born Hebrew Israelite Jewish Christians or whether you are a Gentile Christian then your faith in Jesus is the END of the Law of Moses contained in ordinances for RIGHTEOUSNESS. Let us read the next passage of Scripture to see WHY Jesus is the END of the Law of Moses contained in ordinances for righteousness.
Galatians 3:22-29.
“But the Scripture has CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN, that (Or so that, or in order that) the PROMISE BY FAITH of Jesus Christ might be given to them that BELIEVE. (In other words, whosoever of any person of any RACE who BELIEVES can be saved) 23. But BEFORE faith CAME, we (The unsaved Jewish Hebrew Israelite chosen people of God) were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed. 24. WHEREFORE, (Or for this REASON of the PROMISE of the NEW COVENANT to be GIVEN to ONLY those who BELIEVE in Jesus Christ as the atonement for their sins) the LAW was our SCHOOLMASTER to BRING us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25. But after that FAITH has come, we are NO LONGER under a schoolmaster. (In other words, ONLY the Hebrew Israelite Jewish people were ever under the Law of Moses. And in the Law of Moses, there were ceremonial services to God that had HIDDEN prophecies in them as figures, type, and shadows that pointed to Jesus as the Messiah. For example, the feast of the Passover lamb was a shadow pointing to Jesus as the TRUE Passover Lamb. To say this another way, God used all the ceremonial laws and all the Law of Moses contained in ordinances as TEACHING tools that taught the Jews to look for their Messiah. And when their Messiah came then those who TRUST in the New Covenant are no longer UNDER the Law of Moses because the FOUND their Messiah, Jesus. And that means BOTH the Jewish Hebrew Christians and the Gentile Christians) 26 For you are ALL the children of God BY faith in Christ Jesus. (Speaking of BOTH the Jews who BELIEVE and the Gentile who BELIEVE are ALL the children of God by their FAITH in Jesus Christ) 27. For as many of you as having been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28. There is NEITHER Jew NOR Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are ALL one in Christ Jesus. (In other words, EVERY true born-again believer in Jesus Christ is a NEW creature created IN Jesus Christ by Almighty God. And we are all EQUAL in God’s eyes have the SAME gift of RIGHTEOUSNESS. You can not get any more PERFECT than being MADE the very righteousness of God through FAITH in the shed blood of Jesus. So then, ALL of the advantage that the chosen Hebrew race ever had BEFORE the cross ENDED when the first GENTILE BELIEVED and God filled those Gentiles with the same Holy Spirit when they became true born-again Christians. We ALL have the SAME Holy Spirit who teaches us ALL the same things. But some Christians are not listening to what the Holy Spirit is teaching the body of Jesus Christ, the church.) 29 And if you are Christ's, then are you Abraham's SEED, and heirs according to the promise.”
Let us now read Romans 1:16,17.
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to EVERYONE that BELIEVES; to the Jew first, and ALSO to the Greek. (So again, the only advantage that the Hebrew Israelite people had BEFORE they believed in Jesus is that the gospel was preached to the Jewish people FIRST. But that does NOT mean that salvation is ONLY for the Jew because this vers and many other verses teach us that God turned the gospel of salvation ALSO to the Gentiles) 17. For therein (Speaking of the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ the POWER of God unto salvation) is the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
Now, anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear can see and understand that God hates PRIDE and BOASTING. So to ELIMINATE all pride and boasting concerning salvation Almighty God himself made the choice for salvation to be IN His LAMB which He ALONE provided. But since God’s Lamb needed to be a human being God gave his Lamb. the Son of MAN, Jesus, the freedom to CHOOSE whether he would die on the cross for the sins of the world or to not die on the cross for the sins of the world. God set a JOY before the Son of MAN, Jesus, so that it would make it a little easier for him to overcome his OWN WILL to OBEY the WILL of his God and Father to lay down his life to suffer a cruel death on the cross for the sins of the entire world to provide the WAY unto salvation.
Please read Hebrews 12:2.
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who FOR the JOY that was SET BEFORE HIME ENDURED the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
And what great honor and joy could there be than for God to highly exalt the Son of MAN, Jesus to the HIGHEST possible position of authority and power without being over Yahweh the Father himself. What a great JOY to be TRUSTED with the power and the authority to rule and reign FOR Yahweh in the world to come for 1000 years. And that is WHY Almighty God the Father commands us to HONOR his Son EVEN AS we honor our heavenly Father, Yahweh.
Please read John 5:22,23.
“For the Father judges NO man, but has COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT unto the Son: 23. THAT (Or so that) all men should honor the Son, EVEN AS they honor the Father. He that honors NOT the Son honors NOT the Father which has sent him.”
So then, the CORE of the true sound Biblical faith is to believe that Jesus is the Messiah. And WHOSOEVER of ANY person in the entire world who BELIEVES in Jesus as the Savior is SAVED the very moment that they first believe. BUT that is only the first half of the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ, the second half REQUIRES CONDITIONS to be met in order for us who believe in Jesus to RECEIVE eternal life in the world to come. In SIMPLICITY, we MUST OBEY the words of Jesus that he taught his Apostles and disciples under the NEW COVENANT written in the New Testament. And NOWHERE under the New Covenant that is written in the New Testament does it teach that Christians are to KEEP the Law of Moses. However, Paul does INDEED teach us that those Christians who desire to be under the Law of Moses are NOT OBEYING the TRUTH of the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ.
Please read Galatians 2:4,5.
“And that because of FALSE brethren (Or Christians who were NOT OBEYING the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ) unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5. To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the TRUTH of the gospel might continue with you.”
This whole passage of Scripture in Galatians chapter 2 is the record of what took place at the very first church council at Jerusalem to settle the DISPUTE as to whether or not Christians are required to keep the Law of Moses. Obviously, the Apostle Paul was teaching everyone to whom that he was preaching the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ to NOT keep ANY of the Law of Moses INCLUDING the keeping of the WEEKLY Sabbath day. So the Apostle James sent some SPIES down to Paul’s congregation in Antioch to see if this was true or not true. And when the false brethren sent by James from Jerusalem got in a heated dispute demanding with Paul and Barnabas that the only way for Gentiles to be saved is if they are CIRCUMCISED in the flesh AND they KEEP the Law of Moses. So the false brethren said to Paul that the Apostle in Jerusalem will settle this matter. And Paul said Bring it one so to speak. So they all went up to the church at Jerusalem to settle the matter of the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul stood fast by what Jesus HIMSELF taught to him in visions and through the Holy Spirit and the Scriptures that the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ is that God saves whosoever believes in Jesus WITHOUT ANY works of the Law of Moses. And the FALSE brethren were very confident that they were correct and that God saves only those who submit to being circumcised in the flesh AND who then KEEP ALL the Law of Moses. Now let us read what the first church council SETTLED at the church in Jerusalem.
Please read Acts 1:1-24.
“And certain men (Referring to the FALSE brethren in Galatians 2:4 which is Paul’s words recounting this event in Acts chapter 15. The CERTAIN men that AROSE and began TROUBLING other Christians was a SECT of Jewish Christians of the sect of Pharisees) which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. 2. When therefore, Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, (No doubt their BEST Judaizing apologists) should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. (In other words, the FALSE brethren were very confident that the Apostles at the church congregation in Jerusalem would SIDE with them since they were all Jewish Christians. And Paul said In my paraphrased version, “Bring in on, give it your best shot, so to speak, and we will see your teaching to keep the Law of Moses is NOT a persuasion that comes from God. For you see, Jesus is on my side”) 3. And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. 4. And when they came to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. (In other words, Paul’s defense was the PROOF that God was saving heathen gentiles right and left WITHOUT them doing any works of the Law of Moses) 5. BUT there ROSE UP certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, ( You see, when a teaching RISES UP then that teaching was NOT what the Apostles of Jesus taught. It says CERTAIN of the sect of Pharisees which means that this uprising was a MINORITY group of Christians who had their OWN ideas and theories on how to be saved. And the FALSE perverted gospel of those FALSE brethren in Galatians 2:4 that brought the Apostle Paul to the church at Jerusalem to prove to their CLAIM that Christians MUST KEEP the Law of Moses to be saved) saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, AND COMMAND command them to KEEP the law of Moses. 6. And the Apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. 7. And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, you know how that a good while ago God made the CHOICEamong us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8. And God, which knows the hearts, bare them, witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; (Which we all know and agree that the Holy Spirit can NOT be received by and UNSAVED person) 9. And put NO DIFFERENCE between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. (In other words, Almighty God Himself CHOSE to put NO DIFFERENCE between the true NATURAL born Hebrew Israelite Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians. Therefore, the ONLY advantage that a Hebrew Israelite EVER HAD was BEFORE a Jew is SAVED. And AFTER a person of the Hebrew race is SAVED they are NO DIFFERENT from a Gentile Christian. And thus, the so-called TRUE Hebrew race or Christians SINNING with the sin of PRIDE and arrogance to BOAST that they have an ADVANTAGE OVER Gentile Christians. But the MAIN teaching in this context is that ALL seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians are DISOBEYING the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ and they are TEMPTING Almighty God by their DISOBEDIENCE to the TRUE Gospel of Jesus to COMPEL Christians to KEEP the Law of Moses) 10. Now, THEREFORE, WHY TEMPT you GOD, to put a YOKE upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 12. Then all the multitude kept silent, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. 13. And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14. Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16. After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17. That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the Lord, who does all these things. 18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19. Wherefore my sentence is, that we TROUBLE NOT them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: (In other words, STOP TEMPTING God by COMPELLING the Gentile Christians to be under the YOKE of BONDAGE to KEEP the Law of Moses which WE the Jewish Christians nor our fathers were able to keep) 20. But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from the blood. (Or BUT we should at least write to them to alt least abstain from these four things which the UNSAVED Jews will NOT tolerate at all) 21. FOR (Or BECAUSE) Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day. (So for their own safety the Gentile Christian should at least be taught to abstain from these four things lest they are severely persecuted by the unsaved Jews) 22. Then PLEASED it the Apostles and elders, with the WHOLE church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: 23. And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: 24. Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain (Speaking of the FALSE brethren in Galatians 2:4 and Acts 15:1,5) which went out from us have TROUBLED you with words, SUBVERTING your souls, SAYING, You MUST be circumcised, AND KEEP the LAW: to whom we gave NO SUCH COMMANDMENT:”
And even with all this SOUND Biblical proof taught to us in SIMPLICITY, there are still SOME Christians who are disobeying the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ to TROUBLE, SUBVERT and COMPEL Christians with their words, saying, that Christians MUST KEEP the Law of Moses in order to be PLEASING to God. But in truth, they are actually saying that Christians must keep the Law of Moses lest they SIN and LOSE their ETERNAL LIFE in the world to come for NOT obeying the COMMANDMENTS of God. However, the ERROR in their understanding of the Scriptures. They WRONGLY interpret the word “COMMANDMENTS” to ALWAYS mean the Law of Moses under the Old Covenant written in the Old Testament. But, in TRUTH, the word commandments in the New Testament is referring to the NEW commandments that Almighty God HIMSELF gave to the Son of man, Jesus to give to his disciples to write down to give to us. So if we do not obey God’s NEW commandment under the NEW COVENANT written in the New Testament then we are NOT obeying the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ. And Paul WARNS us that those who follow and obey ANOTHER Gospel to let them be ACCURSED and that they faith in Jesus Christ is in VAIN.
Please read Galatians 1:6-10.
“I marvel that you are so soon REMOVED FROM him that called you into the grace of Christ unto ANOTHER gospel: 7. Which is not another; but there are some that TROUBLE you, and would PERVERT the gospel of Christ. 8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preaches any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed. 10. For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”
What the seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians have FAILED to see and comprehend is that the early church was still YET LEARNING and the things that Jesus taught to the Apostle Paul were very HARD sayings to receive by what had been at first as and ALL Jewish Christians church. But Peter WARNS those who are TWISTING the words of Paul to their OWN DESTRUCTING.
Please read 1 Peter 3:14-18.
“Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things HARD to be UNDERSTOOD, which they, that are unlearned and unstable WREST, (Or they TWIST the teachings of Paul that are hard to understand like WHY do Christians only keep NINE of the TEN Commandments) as they do ALSO the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17. You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18. But GROW in GRACE, and in the KNOWLEDGE of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.”
Now, if you are a seventh DAY of the week Sabbath-keeping Christian or you KNOW someone who is a Sabbath-keeping Christians, then I IMPLORE you to read and study ALL of the in-depth Bible studies that I have on this very highly controversial subject of whether or not a Christian must keep the weekly Sabbath day in ANY manner? Please click on the heading >>>Dd-0. What is the TRUE Sabbath?<<< for a complete list of all the links to the studies that prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that Christians are not COMMAND to keep ANY day of the week lest they sin. Thanks for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to read ALL the studies that I gave links to throughout this study concerning this subject on Sabbath TRUTH. My heartfelt prayer is that all Christians RETURN to the TRUE FOUNDATION of the church that is taught by the very Apostles of Jesus in the first century. So let us all come into the UNITY of the faith and return to what Jesus and his Apostles taught us in SIMPLICITY in the New Testament.
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If you have any questions, please feel free to write to me. My contact email is MarkatAMatterOfTruth@Gmail .com. Some Sabbath-keeping Christians CLAIM that the early church kept the Sabbath as the Jews, but I assure you that the early first-century church was accustomed to gathering together BEFORE the light of daybreak on the FIRST day of the week that THEY called the Lord's day. Please read all the studies linked within this study and all the studies linked below. This study was just the TIP of the iceberg of exposing the ERRORS of interpretation made by the Saturday seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping churches, and the Sunday first day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians. All of the studies listed under the subject heading >>>Dd-0. What is the TRUE Sabbath?<<< And also read Dd-20. Did The Early Church KEEP the Sabbath day to learn the truth of what the early church believed. Thanks again for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the truth of the whole word of Almighty God.
Your Brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
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