In America, Christmas, a tradition of men, an unbiblical feast day, is observed by both believers in Christ and unbelievers, every year, without fail. Businesses close. People have a feast. They have a tree inside their house. They give each other gifts.
Yet most Americans dishonor the Christian Sabbath. They watch sports, go shopping, go out to eat, find time for recreation. Many go to Church, then get on with their weekend fun. Others don’t even bother to go to Church.
52 times per year they reject the 4th commandment.
These same people will sometimes arrogantly spout off about eschatology, being led astray by false teachers, and they often maintain that they are not subject to Biblical moral law, that they have license to sin because Christ paid for their sins.
They childishly and stubbornly refuse to admit that there is a difference between Old Testament moral laws, which are permanent and timeless, and Old Testament ceremonial laws, which all served to point to Christ, so, after Christ’s ministry, sacrificial death and resurrection, they are fulfilled and are pointless to carry on afterwards. In fact, it is an outright rejection of Christ to carry on in ceremonial laws which pointed to Christ.
God’s moral laws, on the other hand, are unchanging as God is unchanging. Murder was against God’s Law in Old Testament times, and it continues to be against God’s Law as Christ reigns over his Kingdom at the right hand of God the Father.
Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
In America, Christmas, a tradition of men, an unbiblical feast day, is observed by both believers in Christ and unbelievers, every year, without fail. Businesses close. People have a feast. They have a tree inside their house. They give each other gifts.
Jesus tells us what the two great commandments are and that if we keep them we have kept them all.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
To honor God in our hearts, souls and minds could be much more important than honoring God through ritual or physical doings.
If we believe that we can change the Sabbath to some day other than the day in which God rested we can hardly say we believe in him with all of our hearts, soul and minds.
The Sabbath is an event which happened, we can not change it.
So if the Sabbath means nothing, then neither do any of the other commandments such as thou shalt not kill which the Sunday Sabbath keepers hold so dear.
I believe the early Church held services on the first day of the week ( Sunday ) for two reasons, the first in honoring the Sabbath the second in honoring Christ.
The religious leaders obviously had made the Sabbath a day of ritual,
The early Christians knew that the seventh day was a day of rest, not a day of ritual, also in honor of the Sabbath Jesus was raised on Sunday so the Christians held services on that day in honor of him.
Yes, Christmas and the Sunday Sabbath are nothing but traditions of man and yet they will go on and on about false prophets and false doctrine.
I hardly believe that we can live the letter of the laws of
God, we couldn’t that is why God sent his son.
But i also think it is fruitless to try to change the laws of God and make up all sorts of laws in an attempt to hide our own short comings.
But it seems to be great for the bank accounts of many.