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To: DouglasKC
Are you saying that there were two standards of Christianity for those who came from a Jewish background and those who came from a gentile background?

Nope.

Jesus said He came for the lost sheep of Israel; NOT the Gentiles; did He not?

Therefore, one would assume that everything He did and said in the Scriptures would be appled to them.

94 posted on 10/12/2010 11:41:23 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Jesus said He came for the lost sheep of Israel; NOT the Gentiles; did He not?
Therefore, one would assume that everything He did and said in the Scriptures would be appled to them.

And to future Christians, those who follow Christ:

Mat 10:17 But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.
Mat 10:18 You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

Mat 12:15 But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.
Mat 12:16 Yet He warned them not to make Him known,
Mat 12:17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
Mat 12:18 "BEHOLD! MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN, MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL IS WELL PLEASED! I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM, AND HE WILL DECLARE JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES.

Mat 12:17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
Mat 12:18 "BEHOLD! MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN, MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL IS WELL PLEASED! I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM, AND HE WILL DECLARE JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES.
Mat 12:19 HE WILL NOT QUARREL NOR CRY OUT, NOR WILL ANYONE HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE STREETS.
Mat 12:20 A BRUISED REED HE WILL NOT BREAK, AND SMOKING FLAX HE WILL NOT QUENCH, TILL HE SENDS FORTH JUSTICE TO VICTORY;
Mat 12:21 AND IN HIS NAME GENTILES WILL TRUST."

Luk 2:29 "Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word;
Luk 2:30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation
Luk 2:31 Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples,
Luk 2:32 A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel."

Because he was sent to preach to Israel during his earthly incarnation doesn't mean that the gentiles, later preached to by Paul, wouldn't follow the commandments he created holy.

Paul himself said:

1Co 11:1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

Scripture shows clearly that Christ created and affirmed the 7th day sabbath as his, the Lord's sabbath:

Mat 12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

Paul kept the sabbath and taught gentiles to do the same since he was imitating Christ:

Act 13:42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

Since Christ created the sabbath it's only clear that he would keep the sabbath:

Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

97 posted on 10/12/2010 6:30:22 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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