Then explain this:
If we have no obligation to behave as Jews, it does not say that we
have no obligation to understand and be feverent in keeping Gods
commandments. If we have no understanding of our roots, which for
all intents and purposes are jewish, then why are we also called
abrahams seed? The father of the Jewish nation? Why would God bring
us back to an Abrahamic covenant and promise? And what did God say
to Abraham about his blessings which we have obtained by this
promise God made to Abraham?
In Romans 3:26-29, it says:
26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ
Jesus.
27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on
Christ.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus.
29And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
And what new covenant do you think this is? Jesus himself said, I
come not to abolish the law but to fulfil it. So if the law is not
abolished, it still stands. Jesus himself also said to obey the
Fathers commandments. Where do you suppose those commandments are
found? In the old testament.
Just because Jesus came, it does not mean that God does away with
all He has said and ordained in the OT. Our God is a God who is the
same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus came so that we may be
justified and have righteousness by faith in Him because Jesus
lived the law perfectly, so therefore, being perfect, He fulfilled
the law on our behalf, he was the perfect sacrifice which atoned
for our failure to keep the law. By his death we have freedom from
the curse of the law if we stumble in keeping the Lords
commandments, but it does not mean we do not try to live our lives
according to the commandments of the Lord.
Please remember, the gospel of Jesus is one for the JEW FIRST, then
for the gentile. We have grace because they our brothers and
sisters (the Jews) have been blinded for our sakes so that God may
graft us the wild branches in. But if God did not spare the natural
vine, how much more will He also not spare us if we do not obey His
commandments?
That is how death came into place because Adam failed to obey God's
commandment. That is the same for the Jew, and also for the
gentile. Jesus said this:
In Matthew 5:16-18
16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I
am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or
one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.
What do you then suppose this means? Why would Jesus or God want us
to keep the pagan festivals? Even Christmas, we know that it is the
wrong date, and we have a clear idea of when it should be so why
not celebrate it at the right time? Why are the significant moments
of our Lords' life intertwined with pagan heresy? Why does it need
to be and why does it need to replace it?
And in Galatians 4:8-9, Paul says this:
8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which
by nature are no gods.
9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,
how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye
desire again to be in bondage?
Please bear in mind that when Paul said this to the Galatians, he
was talking to people who were not Jews, but pagans who celebrated
pagan festivals before, and turned back to celebrating them again
even after knowing God.
Read these same verses in the amplified version:
8But at that previous time, when you had not come to be acquainted
with and understand and know the true God, you [Gentiles] were in
bondage to gods who by their very nature could not be gods at all
[gods that really did not exist].
9Now, however, that you have come to be acquainted with and
understand and know [the true] God, or rather to be understood and
known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly
and worthless elementary things [[d]of all religions before Christ
came], whose slaves you once more want to become?
10You observe [particular] days and months and seasons and
years!
11I am alarmed [about you], lest I have labored among and over you
to no purpose and in vain.
Paul also said this in Romans 3:31
31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law.
By celebrating EASTER, we are missing out on the significance of
Jesus being the passover lamb. Easter is easter and passover is
passover. I have already posted on this in an earlier post. What
then is the significance of the easter eggs and of the easter
bunny? All this is not to condemn, but to speak the truth so that
to those who have ears, let them hear.
