Ten Commandment Question?

Question

One of the 10 Commandments says to "remember the sabbath and keep it holy." Does Christ's new covenant do away with the 10 commandments, and the punishments for not following them.

Because I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath and Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death.

Answer 1

Yes, it's now okay to steal, lust, and covet.

Answer 2

My first advice is to NOT KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR...

Christ's new covenant does not do away with the the 10 Commandments...The Sabbath Day is holy and should be kept but the Lord also knew that some things could not be helped...

Matthew 12:1 " At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn; and His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat." Plucking the corn was labor or work but He had to do it to feed His disciples...

If its for your own personal gain...like if i work Sunday, i get double time even though its not mandatory..Thats just to benefit yourself...

but if the boss says if you dont work Sunday then dont come back on Monday...I think that is something that cant be helped and the Lord understands that...

I believe you will still give an account of everything that you do while on the earth when the Judgement day comes..

I hope this makes sense

Answer 3

The moral law of the Old Covenant remains forever (otherwise we could question whether it was perfect) whereas the Ceremonial and Civil laws were no longer required once Jesus fulfilled the Law by keeping it perfectly and becoming the once-for-all-time perfect sacrifice to take away the sins of the world.

God then extended his promised Abrahamic blessings to non-Jews and any believer in Christ became a spiritual Jew: the nation of Israel lost its special status. God no longer required animal sacrifices and ritual purification. The punishments also were of no effect. So those who uphold the 10 Commandments today have no authority to punish violators. Don't worry about your neighbour with respect to punishment. God made the Sabbath for man, for his benefit. Your neighbour will pay her/his own price for ignoring God's blessing, most likely by wearing themself into a frazzle, mentally if not physically.

Those who rubbish the Sabbath ordinance are a bit more concerned about their neighbour stealing, or coveting their wife or goods, or lying to them, or commiting murder. Is this not picking and choosing? Who has the right to do that? God gave the 10 Words as a complete set of instructions. It is because people continually violate the 1st and 2nd commands that they fail to see the importance of the 4th. The subject is too vast to summarise here, but it boils down to our own standing before God, so I hope you scrutinise yourself far more so than you do your neighbours.

Answer 4

The 10 Commandments and all the rest still stand: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law" (Mt 5:17-8).

Jesus, however, taught us how to live the law. "You have heard that it was said... 'You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment.' But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment" (Mt 5:21-2). And also, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath" (Mk 2:27). In other words, the spirit and the essence of the law is far more important than the exact letter.

And finally, "Let the one who is without sin throw the first stone." Always forgive others, and always strive to teach others through our own good example.

Answer 5

If he is not the boss of the company but merely an employee then his job may demand that he work on The Sabbath day. You did say that he insists and not his boss. We need our jobs and they are not all easy come by. You work the hours that your job demands or you lose it. Are you the boss and set the hours and days or you are independently weathy and can afford not to work? We should all be so lucky.

The good book also says the Evening and the Morning was the first day. I will assume that you start your day in the evening.

There was no calendar when God started creation. Man named the days and there starting order. He named them after planets and Gods. The Sabbath meant 7th day not Saturday. Not that you work Sunday to Friday and rest on Saturday but that you start work on one day and that is your first day and the next day is your second and so on and so forth and when you have worked 6 days then you rest from work on the seventh day from where you started your work.

If you cross time zones and in one part of the world it is Monday and another Tuesaday and another Wednesday; your plane crashes or ship wrecks and you don't know what day on the week it is but you can work at your effort to leave the island or area you are in. You will work at it six days and rest on the seventh day without knowing the calendar day. The day was made for man and not the other way around. Man needs his rest. I can't say that it, (remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy) isn't engraved in stone for we who believe in God know that it was. Christ I believe told of a man who rescued an animal on the Sabbath day and he himself healed on the Sabbath. I think also that his diciples went into the field to gather something to eat on the Sabbath also and Christ had something to say on that also. The Sabbath was made for man but Mankind has made it into a nightmare worth killing a man over.

There was but one unforgivable sin. Stop trying to hang a man over the Sabbath. Are you one you is so wrapped up in this that you would hang a man over the Sabbath on the Sabbath?

I think that both Muslims and Jews will kill on the Sabbath. If your life depended on it, I think, so would you.

Answer 6

Deuteronomy chapter 5:1-22
Sorry everyone but the Ten Commandments was given to the House of Israel on the Mount. Not to their fathers but to THEM that were there. Nor to the Gentile nation did God give this covenant.
The Mosaic period of time was parallel with the Patriarchal time period. The Christian dispensation of time began when Christ rose from the grave, nailing all that were a Shadow of things to come to the cross. NT writings secular history back up that Christians met on the first day of the week . peace out

Answer 7

The Law Covenant was made with the nation of Israel. Not with any of the other nations on the Earth. While the 'Principles' of the law apply to all people, the 'letter' does not.

Law Covenant.
The Law covenant between Jehovah and the nation of natural Israel was made in the third month after their leaving Egypt, in 1513 B.C.E. (Ex 19:1) It was a national covenant. One born a natural Israelite was, by birth, in the Law covenant and was thus in this special relationship with Jehovah. The Law was in the form of a code, arranged in an orderly way, its statutes grouped together. The Law, transmitted through angels by the hand of a mediator, Moses, was made operative by a sacrifice of animals (in the place of Moses, the mediator, or “covenanter”) at Mount Sinai. (Ga 3:19; Heb 2:2; 9:16-20) At that time Moses sprinkled half the blood of the sacrificed animals on the altar, then he read the book of the covenant to the people, who agreed to be obedient. Afterward he sprinkled the blood upon the book and upon the people. (Ex 24:3-8) Under the Law, a priesthood was established in the house of Aaron, of the family of Kohath of the tribe of Levi. (Nu 3:1-3, 10) The high priesthood passed by descent from Aaron to his sons, Eleazar succeeding Aaron, Phinehas succeeding Eleazar, and so forth.—Nu 20:25-28; Jos 24:33; Jg 20:27, 28.

The terms of the Law covenant were that if the Israelites kept the covenant they would be a people for the name of Jehovah, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, with His blessing (Ex 19:5, 6; De 28:1-14); if they violated the covenant, they would be cursed. (De 28:15-68) Its purposes were: to make transgressions manifest (Ga 3:19); to lead the Jews to Christ (Ga 3:24); to serve for a shadow of the good things to come (Heb 10:1; Col 2:17); to protect the Jews from false, pagan religion and preserve the true worship of Jehovah; to protect the line of the seed of promise. Added to the covenant with Abraham (Ga 3:17-19), it organized the natural seed-nation of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob.

The Law covenant extended benefits to others not of natural Israel, for they could become proselytes, getting circumcised, and could receive many of the Law’s benefits.—Ex 12:48, 49.

How did the Law covenant become “obsolete”?

However, the Law covenant became in a sense “obsolete” when God announced by means of the prophet Jeremiah that there would be a new covenant. (Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:13) In 33 C.E. the Law covenant was canceled on the basis of Christ’s death on the torture stake (Col 2:14), the new covenant replacing it.—Heb 7:12; 9:15; Ac 2:1-4.

Answer 8

Christians abide by the Bible but filter the developing theological understanding of what God desires for them through the NT teachings of Jesus. Jesus addressed the sabbath issue and clearly stated that the sabbath was created for the benefit of humanity, not for God. Thus, this commandment was for humanity's practical benefit in that everyone needs a certain amount of rest and relaxation to maintain physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

Answer 9

If you break one your guilty of breaking the whole law the bible says.

Sin is transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4

The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23

The good news is that Jesus has paid the penalty for us, because "all have sinned." Romans 3:23

Isn't it ironic that the one commandment that begins with the word "remember" is the one that is forgotten and trampled on by the majority of people.

Catholics ask protestants why they keep their holy day if they claim the Bible and the Bible only for their rule of faith. There is no evidence in the Word of Jesus or any of His apostles changing it.

Now, as far as your neighbor is concerned, we are not to carry out the punishment. That is God's duty. All who are in sin and unrepentant, will perish at the last day when Jesus comes in the clouds of glory.

And no, God's new covenant does not do away with the ten commandments. Murder, adultery, stealing or any other commandment has not now been permitted by God.

For a more complete study and many good resources on Bible study using the Bible to explain itself, not someones opinion, go to www.bibleuniverse.com

God bless you in your search for the truth.

Answer 10

The Fourth Commandment says:
8 “ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

This commandment as well as the other 9 can not be done away., and Jesus also said that He did not come to abolish or cancel it.

People misunderstood the text in Colossians 2:14-17


14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

The seventh-day Sabbath is not a shadow of things to come, but a memorial of the things past, it is a rememberance of His creation, which was in the past. Six days He created the world and everything in it, and rested on the seventh-day.

Some people think it is only for the Jews, but before a single Jew was in existence, the Sabbath had been put aside by God for man, of every nationalities.

The Sabbaths which have been abolished are the 7 festival sabbaths mentioned in the book of Leviticus 23. Those are called Shadows Sabbath. They are prophecies pointing to Jesus, But the Seventh-day Sabbath is a permanent memorial throughout eternity. Even in the new earth, it will still continue to be a memorial of His creation and re-creation.

Isaiah 66:22,23

22 “ For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the LORD,

“ So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

Answer 11

The new covenant through Christ fufills the law. Clearly we need people to work on the Sabbath for society to function (ie... police, doctors, etc..) Christ fullfilled the commandments and taught us how to follow them, realizing that "...all win sin and fall short of the glory of God". It is belief in Christ that wins us salvation.