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NASB | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. |
Subject: Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath |
Bible Note: I understand what you are saying. I know exactly what you are saying when you say "You can not spread the gospel of Jesus Christ if you do not know it." I am a missionary (literally, not just because I am a christian, it is what I do for a living) and so I share with people daily from the Word. But it is more than just knowing his word, it is more than just living his word. It is feeling his word so that it dwells within you. I never meant to imply that God does not desire a relationship with us, quite the contrary. He loves us deeply and so desires us to be with him. However, while he does desire these things, he does not half to have them. There is a very real difference between the words need and want. God does not need, but he does want. I think we might be just touching the main point here in our conversation, and that real point is love. Faith and love in many instances are one in the same. Because we love God we have faith in him and our faith that God is who he is almost demands that we love him because of everything he has done for us. Remember James as he spoke about faith and works. He said that faith without works is dead (2:17) and a little further on he says that a person is justified by his works and not by faith alone. He talks about how faith produces action and that is why we do the things we do. Replace the word faith, with love and maybe you begin to see my point. It is not our faith alone that produce the works that we do. It is not our faith alone that causes us to study God's word, it is our love. I love God with all of my heart and I like to think of him as that father running toward his son and receiving him with open arms as we read in the story of the prodigal son. I don't do the things I do because I am ordained to do them. I don't do them because that is what God expects. I do them out of the pure love that I have for him. It stimulates my actions. Ain't no rock going to cry in my place, as long as I'm alive I will glorify his name. Not because he deserves it, not because I should do it, not because of any other reason, other than love. And that really was Jesus' message wasn't it? The greatest command is left up to our own will. Love the lord your God with all your heart. He can't make me do it, but then again he doesn't need to does he? |