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NASB | Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath [a day of rest dedicated] to the LORD your God; on that day you shall not do any work, you or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock or the temporary resident (foreigner) who stays within your [city] gates. |
Bible Question:
The Law cannot get sin out of our life ... it told us what our sin was. Even since Christ, we need the Law to know the perfect standard. If we don't have Christ the penalty of the Law will kill us. Is the Law a covenant? Were there more than one covenant in the OT? |
Bible Answer: There were tons of Covenants in the OT. Look at Deut. 4:13 So He declared to you His COVENANT which He commanded you to perform, THE 10 COMMANDMENTS; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. Look at Deut. 5:2-3 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today... Did you notice that? 2 covenants, both based upon the same thing. Ch 4:13 There is NO misunderstanding that, the Covenant is the 10 commandments. The only thing God wrote on stone where those. The rest of the mosaic law rests on those 10. Therefore, I could be wrong, Paul refers continually to the 10 as the Law of Moses and Moses called the 10 a covenant, so the law was a covenant. If you've got evidence to the contrary, I'd like to know it cause I do think this is important. Now look at Deut. 29:1 These are the words of teh covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Children of Israel in the land of Moab, BESIDES THE COVENANT THAT HE MADE WITH THEM IN HOREB. Horeb was Mt Sinai the giving of the Law the 10 commandments. You know, I've been thinking about what you said we need the law. You know, you only need the law until you realize that you are a sinner. Once you figure out you are a sinner, you have no further need of it. That's my reading of Gal 3:24-25. How do you read it? What about Gal 4:21-24 Mount Sinai gives birth to bondage. that's the OT law including the 10. Again, let me reiterate, I have nothing against the 10. It's just not God's way of justifing His kids. We are justified freely by the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Most Christians get saved, then go try to keep the 10 commandments to be spiritual. That's the whole point of the book of Galatians. The way you are saved is the way you become spiritual. BY FAITH. See Gal 3:1-9 and 5:7-26. If you are going to keep the "Sabbath" you might as well keep circumcision. I think we've beat this dead horse enough. It was a really fun topic. I'll find something equally fun for this week. |