The Template for Restored Unity and peace amongst our various peoples starts first in our churches!

self | 7/17/16 | Michael Mathis

[editor-surveyor]

Its not a matter of conscience, but obedience.

Torah is absolutely mandatory, and we need not worry about failing, as he writes his Torah on our hearts.

Paul praised the Colossians for keeping the appointed times, and chastised the Galatians for mixing in the Pharisees’ false commandments of men.

Saturday is not the Sabbath, Yehova’s days are from sunset to sunset. The days of the Roman calendar are all men’s days. Those that keep man’s commandments depend upon man for salvation. Those that keep Yehova’s commandments are saved by his grace through the faith he bestows upon us by writing Torah on our hearts.

[mdmathis6]

“Romans 14:4Who are you that judge another man’s servant? to his own master he stands or falls. Yea, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.

5One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

6He that regards the day, regards it unto the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.

7For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.

8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

9For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

10But why do you judge your brother? or why do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”

Since Obedience to Christ is mandatory...then Obey Romans 14 AND STOP JUDGING YOUR BROTHERS FOR WORSHIPING ON SUNDAYS WHEN YOU WORSHIP ON A SATURADAY. PAUL SAYS THE DAY ISN’T IMPORTANT, IT IS THE HEART RELATIONSHIP! You don’t want to stand before Christ and have to explain why you keep violating Romans 14,...well...do you?

[editor-surveyor]

Was Paul judging his brothers, or teaching them?

How is one to know without the teaching?

He who is persuaded in error in his own mind will suffer the penalty of the sin that results, and he who looks away from his brother's error is a part of that sin.

You "wrest" with the word.

2Peter 3:

[14] Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
[15] And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
[16] As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the scriptures, unto their own destruction.

[cloudmountain]

And yet through all the dust and the vehemence of history and through all the tumults that the gaits of hell throw up against the catholic(small “C”, not Rome!) body of believers that exist across dimension and time, religious practice and denominations, those alive in the flesh and those dead in the grave but alive in Christ(since God is a God of the Living not the dead),.....through all that God still finds his own who will worship him in Spirit and in Truth! He finds them and like stones uncut by metal utensils he fits them, these living stones, into his Church! Not a protestant church, not a Catholic church, not an Orthodox church...but the Bride of Christ! Peace to you!

Pax tibi!