He who says he knows Him, ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.
Or, to put it in more modern language; Shouldn't we, as Christians, be following the example of Christ? I ask this because I see a lot of professing Christians on here making statements like, "Christ abolished the law at the Cross with His death", and yet, none of them can adequately explain their belief that we are no longer to observe the law in light of Christ's own statement that He "did not come to destroy, but to fulfill." If we, as Christians, truly believe that Christ is our Master, then surely we should follow His example in keeping the Law. In fact, in the Sermon on the Mount, Christ Himself made the Law of even greater force by explaining that sin begins in the thoughts. I am also dismayed at the obvious anti-nomianism (against law) among professing Christians who continuously call the 7 annual Sabbaths the feasts of the Jews, when God Himself clearly calls them His feasts. Interestingly, the date that was chosen as the birthday of Christ 300 years after He and the Apostles lived is actually the date of the birth of Tammuz, son of Nimrod and Semiramis. God even condemned ancient Israel repeatedly for following Pagan practices instead of obeying His Law. Do we think we are better than they were and will not be judged as harshly for the same things? We know from the Scriptures that Christ and the early church all observed the weekly Sabbath as well as the annual Sabbaths even after Christ had died, risen and ascended. What professing Christians seem to either miss or choose to ignore is that Paul, as the Apostle to the Gentiles, taught those in the congregations he helped establish in the Gentile world to keep the weekly and annual Sabbaths, but with the focus on Christ. I believe that we should honor our Saviour and keep the same days He did, both weekly and annually, especially since we will be keeping them in the future Kingdom of God.
51-55, M
