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To: BipolarBob

“Sure okay. God has divided Heaven into multiple denomination sections with different rules for each one. And disregard that ark over there that has the Ten Commandments in it.”

The New Covenant is not based on handwriting on paper or stone. It is written, without letters, on the hearts of those who believe in Christ for salvation.

2 Corinthians 3:3-6 NKJV
Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

The Sabbath applies to Gentile believers just like circumcision does. Circumcision is of the heart. So is the Sabbath according to Hebrews 3 and 4. Both circumcision and physical rest on the Sabbath were given by God to His earthly people as signs. Both apply spiritually to Gentile believers. Only Jewish and Israelites who are fleshly descendants of Abraham and Jacob are obligated to be circumcised in their flesh and physically rest on the Sabbath. These signs apply to them in both flesh and spirit.

Hebrews 3 talks about the heart God wants to replace: hard, rebellious, wandering, unbelieving, and stubborn. Hebrews 4 continues by explaining what the heart that God gives us (the one with His laws written on it) looks like: obedient. It honors the Sabbath by resting in Christ’s finished work. See 4:10.


46 posted on 06/20/2023 7:10:03 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: unlearner

I see a bunch of words but am having a hard time to see what point you are making. Tell me, is the Sabbath going to be observed in Heaven? Jesus kept it here on earth and He was sinless. He is our example. He is the Lord of the Sabbath. So will the rebellious ones who do not keep the Sabbath be in Heaven?


47 posted on 06/20/2023 7:15:51 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: unlearner
I think that even a publican can figger out just exactly what is NEEDED.


Luke 18:13 King James Version

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

79 posted on 06/20/2023 9:31:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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