Are we to keep the Ten Commandments today? It is also called the Royal Law, the Law of Liberty, Law of Christ in the NT.
If we are called to be holy like Christ and the ten commandments reveal his character, then shouldn't we apply them? Especially the first one that starts out , Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
Exodus 20 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
So by nature as some say, through love, keep his commandments , then how are we showing our love for him by letting him do the love for us when he died on the cross keeping all ten for us. ? Was that the law nailed to the cross or the ordinances? Love is an action verb and Jesus says we are to lay down our lives for each other . Does the ten commandments which are love commandments valid today? Jesus says a new commandment I give to you, that you love each other like I have loved you. 1 John 3:16 (perfect parallel to the famous other verse of John 3:16) Hereby we perceive the love of God , because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
John 3:16 King James Version (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 13:34-35 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Adam and Eve kept the Sabbath, Abraham, the Israelites, Peter, Paul, and it was kept in 70 A.D when the temple was destroyed and some say beyond until it got changed to sunday to avoid persecution for Judaism.
Colossians 2:16,17: Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you **EAT** or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a **SABBATH DAY**. These are a *SHADOW* of the things that were to come, the reality, however, is found in Christ!!!
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body!" By saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!! He went on "What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. For from within , out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean!"
I Timothy 4:1-5: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through **HYPOCRITICAL LIARS**, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them **TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS**, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and **NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED** if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer!!
I Corinthians 10:25: Eat **ANYTHING** sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it!"
Lobster Tail, Shrimp and Ham are now yum yum yummy and are so good for your tummy!!
Actually TNT you have apparently forgotten that the forbidding to eat certain animals birds and fish was strictly in the OT Covenant for Jews. According to Noah's Covenant and Adam's Covenant God allowed people to eat everything with the breath of life in it!!!!!
God's First Covenant with Adam:
Genesis 1:29,30: Then God said, "give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it They will be yours for food. And to **ALL THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH** and **ALL** the birds of the air and **ALL** the creatures that move on the ground--**EVERYTHING** that has the breath of life in it for food!"
God's Second Covenant with Noah:
Genesis 9:1-3: Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea, they are given to your hands. **EVERYTHING** that lives and moves will be **FOOD FOR YOU**!!
Galatians 3:23-25: "Before faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, *WE* ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!" {Zech disagrees with these inspired words of God!! since he believe we are still under the supervision of OT Law!}
I Corinthians 9:20,21: Paul said, "To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law though **I MYSELF AM NOT UNDER THE LAW**, so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law though I am not free from God's law but **AM UNDER CHRIST'S LAW!!"
I have a wood burning stove and I make sure all the wood is stacked inside prep day or night before Sabbath and when Sabbath at dawn begins
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Makes perfect sense to me too as my Daddy always cut wood BEFORE winter not during (I remember him chopping with a splitting maul and me stacking), so likewise the man had enough time to prepare for the Sabbath, so he had no excuse. He knew the Law. He broke it, he died.
The OP says "love is an action." I never mentioned anything about the food regulations in the law of moses. nor did I condemn anyone for their obedience to those things. I quoted two verses.no wonder no one likes to contribute on here.
Zech writes - "The dietary laws are not about heaven or hell, or being right with God, but rather about good health."
You see the NEW direction the thread is going here Montana? Zech claims the choice of continual obedience of dietary laws have nothing to do with FAITH, nor RIGHTEOUSNESS or being "right with" Yahweh come judgment day. He is quite confused, so is Grace and most of all Richard!
Zech does not consume those unclean abominations because of his love to Yahweh but then he teaches a false doctrine that those who do consume those scavengers, Biblically COMMANDED not to do so, will still go to heaven? Lol! Grace and Richard7744 say it does not matter anyway, that's OT stuff and actually commit the sin of eating those scavengers and unclean abominations in the face of Yahweh! Wow!
Please keep in mind that the righteous like Noah and family were "vegetarians" until sometime during the time on the ark and leaving it.
Grace completely takes out of context Noah's life and OBEDIENCE to the dietary laws while on the ark and after leaving it into the new cleansed flat earth! Grace seems to claim and assume there were no "dietary rules were set in place" immediately while Noah and family were ON the ark and after leaving it. He takes out of context Gen 9:3 claiming that AFTER the flood that "every moving thing
that is alive shall be food" for Noah and his family! LOL! Nothing could be further from the truth because there were ONLY two each of the unclean that came off the ark, so how could he eat any one of the two pairs because if he did they would be extinct. You see?
But there were many of the clean by sevens (perfection number) that came off the ark for food AND offered on the alter as a sacrifice to Yahweh! Clear as a bell? Common sense logic? Grace has STILL not answered me back on his blunder?
Then you chime in Montana with what I thought was the tipical "Christian love thing" I was thinking, of "neither circumcision has any power to do any thing, nor uncircumcision;" and I miss understood you, thinking you was trying to imply that "circumcision" is to be just like the "dietary rules" and all done away in comparison. Sorry to misunderstand you. Everybody was joining in on the NEW misdirection of the thread and I guess you was attempting to get it back on track! Not happening when you have Richard7744 hijacking every thread with his off topic posts. I thought you knew that and I would of really liked to see what you thought of all this misinterpretation of the dietary laws from the time of Noah on the ark and afterwards to this present day.
Montana states - "no wonder no one likes to contribute on here"
Actually the truth of the matter is nobody wants to "contribute on here" because Richard P7744 destroys every thread with MASSIVE long posts and mostly off topic! Then He NEVER responds unless just to call names or misinterpret MORE Bible verses! Never discusses anything!
Time to blow up the toilet. 
