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NASB | Jeremiah 7:23 "But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 7:23 "But this thing I did command them: 'Listen to and obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, so that it may be well with you.' |
Bible Question:
I have a question about the Old Testament Law. Are we still under it? I have always believed that we are under the grace of Jesus Christ and no longer have to follow old test. laws. People have been telling me lately that we are to keep the old laws, feasts, and Saturday Sabbath, etc. I am really confused. I keep finding scripture that Paul writes we are no longer bound to that law. If anyone could shed some light on this area for me I would very much appreciate it. Love In Christ, Emmalinabear |
Bible Answer: There is a surge of cult groups in America today that are what you might call gentiles that are Jewish wannabees. They are trying to mix christianity with Jewish traditions. They believe you should keep feasts and sabbath and spell God's name right and many other such legalistic things. They have scriptures for their teachings but taken from the Law and they pick and choose which ones apply to us today and which ones don't. For instance they will use the description of a feast day that was written at the same time that instructions were given for what a woman should do on her cycle. They will reject the part about the women for today and keep the feast one. This exposes their lack of honesty in really wanting to OBEY God as they say. They also like to learn Hebrew words and I suppose they think that we will speak Hebrew in heaven. Many of the things they say we must do are the very things Paul and the apostles already discussed and decided gentiles did not need to do such as circumcision. What do they do with Paul? They don't like Paul very much. They say listen to Jesus not Paul. This is strange to me since what they are really saying is listen to Matthew not Paul because Jesus wrote no new testament books so their letters in red are from Mark, or John or someone else. So if they were honest they would say "I believe Matthew was inspired but not Paul." But they say go by what Jesus said not Paul, becuase this has a little bit of convincing power to a weak and ignorant mind which they are trying to ensnare. These modern false Jews love to claim Jewish heritage and they have none. There is nothing new about the agenda of the demonic powers behind these Hebrew Roots cults and Name cults. They have this common trait of satisfying a smitten conscience with another sacrifice than that which is provided for sin which is Jesus Christ. They want to do a certain easy to keep legal practice such as church on Saturday and celebrating feast day and addressing God as G-d when they write so that their conscience is appeased and they feel a sense of righteousness. Now this is exposed as flesh because the emphasis is on the flesh impulse to be an elite sort of "christian" that has an inside revelation and that is special to God in that they are the keepers of the special laws when others are not. This is all flesh. It is not faith in God. It is dangerous because it has to deny the teachings of Paul which God chose to lay down so many fundamental doctrinal truths for the christian to live by. It is also dangerous because the spiritual elitism it produces is not the Love of Christ as taught by Paul and they find themselves spending more energy trying to convert Christians to their group than they do the lost to Christ which is always a tell tale sign of a cult. God Bless you ALL |