Do you believe Jesus Christ has called us to keep his Commandments ?

Question

Note: John 14:15
1 John 2:4
1 John 5:3
Revelation 12:17
Revelation 14:12
Revelation 22:14

Your comment......

Answer 1

        Yes.

        Most people have been taught incorrectly on the issue of God's Laws. The devil, of course, is the true source of this deception that God's Laws have in any way ended, been abolished, nailed to the Cross, done away with, or fulfilled. Here is the truth of the matter:

Psalm 89:34 "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."

Malachi 3:6 "For I am the LORD, I change not..."

        Thus, God will not change the rules in the middle of the game. Some claim that the Seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath commandment wasn't repeated in the New Testament. Or, they claim the Seventh-day Sabbath was just for the Jews. Such people don't have an accurate understanding of God's Word and I, therefore, encourage them to go to their knees and confess to the Holy Spirit that you need more Light and more Truth in your life. Here is that command from Jesus' own lips:

"If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15)
"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." (John 14:21)
"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." (John 15:10)

        Most will say, but He is not talking about the Sabbath commandment -- He is speaking of the Two Great Commandments He gave to replace the Old Testament law. My answer? A resounding, incorrect! Here is what He really said:

"Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law [Torah] and the prophets." (Matthew 22:36-40)

        (Check your favorite Bible dictionary for the meaning of that word "law" which I noted as standing for the entire Torah.) Now, did He say these were the ONLY two commandments? No! And did He say only the Ten Commandments hang on these two commandments? Again, No! He said "On these two commandments hang *all* the law [Torah] *and* the prophets." Meaning, just for starters:

1) If you truly love God, then you will have no other gods before Him.
2) If you truly love God, then you will not make an idol nor worship it.
3) If you truly love God, then you will not take God's name in vain.
4) If you truly love God, then you will worship Him on the Seventh-day Sabbath as God has asked you to.
5) If you truly love God, and your fellow man, then you will honor your Father (and your father and mother) all the days of your life.
6) If you truly love your fellow man, then you will not murder one of them.
7) If you truly love your fellow man, then you will not commit adultery with or against one of them.
8) If you truly love your fellow man, then you will not steal from one of them.
9) If you truly love your fellow man, then you will not lie about one of them.
10) If you truly love your fellow man, then you will not want what your neighbor has.

        Even beyond this, God gave many Statutes in order to more fully explain just what His Ten Commandments mean. He had to do this because we humans will justify any excuse to circumvent God's Holy Law. That is why they are *all* still binding upon all mankind -- because *all* of the law *and* the prophets hang upon the Two Great Commandments Jesus iterated and told us we would keep if we love Him.

        Some further try to claim that Christ's Sacrifice fulfilled *all* of the Old Testament law. If that is true, then why were nine of the Ten Commandments explicitly repeated as being still in force in the New Testament? Also, if that is true, then why were many of God's Statutes also explicitly repeated as carrying the force of eternal death (Rom. 1:16-32; 1Cor. 6:1-10) even in the New Testament -- *after* Christ's Sacrifice was already given? The answer... Because Christ only fulfilled the Sacrificial Law -- not the Ten Commandment Law nor God's Statutes.

        Thus, since *all* of the Law [Torah] has *not* been fulfilled, that means *all* of the Law [Torah] is still binding upon *all* mankind. If you try to insist on anything less, then you have not received the love of the Truth.

2Thes. 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Thes. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Thes. 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

God bless.

Answer 2

Yes, we are suppose to try to keep all of the commandments. When I see an answer like the one posted above (Christ is the Answer to e/?), it frustrates me because Adventists don't want people to go around suffering on the Sabbath. Adventists want people to recognize once again that the Sabbath is still valid. Do Adventists always succeed in keeping the Sabbath holy? NO Are they all perfect? No! We just want people to at least realize that the Sabbath is still a commandment. God gave us that day as a blessing to us. It is a day to spend with God our father. It is a day of rest.

People say that a person can rest any day of the week. This is true but why choose a day that God did not set aside for you? It would be like if you had divorced parents and your dad said he would come on Saturday and you two could spend the whole day together and you looked at him and said, "no thanks, I don't want to spend the day you set aside for me with you." If a person really loves God they will want to spend time with Him on the day he set aside for them.

Why is it so hard to understand that all of the 10 commandments are still important? I know there is one verse that says we are not to worry about Sabbaths. But that is ONE verse. Shouldn't we ask ourselves in light of the multitude of verses that support the 10 commandments, why does this one seem to not fit? If we did that, we would realize that they were speaking of ceremonial Sabbaths and not THE Sabbath spoken of in the 10 commandments.

If God had intended to change the Sabbath day, why would he have placed it smack dab in the middle of the other commandments that other people still recognize as valid?
How can humans pick and choose which commandments are valid and which are not?

Answer 3

Absolutely! In addition to some of the relevent comments made here, I have something else to point out. In Romans 6:14 it states:

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which [3] was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Jesus came to seek and save the lost, and none of us is perfect, I agree... But if He sent His Son to die for our sins, does that give us a license to keep sinning??? The Bible says "God Forbid". So many will agree that we should stop stealing and lying, but many discharge the 1st 4 Commandments, because the "Law was done away with at the cross"?

Rightly stated if you pefectly keep all the Commandments EXCEPT 1- YOU ARE GUILTY OF ALL.

So all things considered I have 3 compelling questions that if this was the case would not make sense.

1) If Lucifer was banished from Heaven because sin was found in him, does it make sense that God will bring up a bunch of careless sinners when he comes back?

2) How can God claim people as His own that won't obey his word or allow for themselves to be "dead" to sin, These are concious choices made contrary to God.

3) If the penalty of sin is death, and Jesus came because there was fault found in us all, and we were in need of redemption and GRACE, then how do you explain why Jesus had to die at all? "GRACE" is the forgiveness of "Sin", "SIN is the TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW, if there is no LAW, then there can be no TRANSGRESSION, and if there is consequently no TRANSGRESSION, then what need do we need a savior for?

Saying that there is no LAW, or that we are not bound by God's Law, we are ultimately believing and teaching the same lie Lucifer used to decieve a third of the angels of Heaven.

Answer 4

Yes, absolutely.

You forgot James: "If you break one commandment, you are guilty of breaking them all".

Have you or anyone else besides Jesus Christ kept the law their entire lives so as to not be guilty before God's eyes?

Have you ever lied or stole something? Have you always honored your parents in every situation?

Remember Romans 3:23 "There is none good."

Isaiah states: "All we like sheep have gone astray and have gone our own way".

God knew we would break His commandments (b/c of our sin nature) and in His grace and love made provision for our sins.

As for "keeping the Sabbath", by harping on this, Adventists align themselves with the Pharisees against the living God in the Scriptures.

Answer 5

Yes - but you can't begin to keep them without the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Answer 6

It is through the atonement that a man is made new.
Man is not perfect under the law.
It is through Jesus that we by faith are made new.

Jesus does not call us to be under the law but made new in agreement with God's righteousness (the law).

Answer 7

Absolutely! Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me Lord, Lord and do not do what I say?" If you do not do what He says, the bible clearly states that you do not love Him.

Answer 8

No, He made them so we do not follow them

Of course He wants us to keep them!

Answer 9

what do you yhink a command is, of course he meant us to keep them or try to at least.

Answer 10

yes I do.