The Cross Abolished all Legalism of the Jewish Religious system along with mans traditions associated with it.
During Jesus' ministry to Israel the Sadducees and then the Pharisee's tested Jesus, but the Pharisees in the passages I will look at used a lawyer to do their bidding (in Matthew 22, Mark 12, Luke 10, that is how Paul in Romans 8:7 could states the carnal mind is enmity toward God, it has not set itself to obedience to love with all its being) because they did not want to be held as being lower then their counter parts the Sadducees. (These two factions were in a constand battle about the interpretation and meaning of scriptures and in the eyes of the populace the Pharisees held the greatest respect as an authority.) They wanted to entrap Jesus in some kind of heresy against the Law of Moses not knowing that He was its author and the origin of all that spoke of Him and His coming, which they did NOT see. Why did they not see or understand because they had NO Vision as one of their prophets has already stated. This lawyer asked Him what was in His opinion the greatest commandment to which Jesus replied that all the Law and the Prophets were based on this One Commandment, "Hear O'Israel, the LORD your God is One and that they we're to love Him with all their might and strength, and that the next is like onto it, too Love your neighbor as you love yourself." To which the lawyer had NO come back. What Israel and indeed all of the world does not do is to set our mind upon Jesus, to make Him our focus as the hub of the wheel within the wheel or as Paul states the Head of the Church, Body and Family of God. This Paul describes in Romans 12:1-3 as being our daily duty of being a living sacrifice and our reasonable worship due God. Because this is the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 6:3-7, when it is understood as it is meant to be. This is why Paul states what is said in our next passage.
Colossians 2:16a
"Let
no man therefore judge you…"
We
had a fellow say the other day that he was getting involved with a
group that wanted to put him under the Saturday Sabbath, and the next
thing they wanted him to do was quit eating pork. To it I said can’t
you see their putting you under the Law? And we’re not under Law,
we’re under Grace. Now here it is. Don’t let anyone tell you what
you can or can not do. In Christ we are the triumphant, but to return
to the old ways is to deny Christ and that is the devils way. In
which we will loose both His Redemption and our hope of Salvation. These are the
warnings when they are heard clearly and understood.
As
stated above their mindset has not been submitted to God and they are
therefore violating the Word and Law through their actions and
words.
"Let
no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, (you’re
free from all of that. We’re going to let the Holy Spirit help us
decide what’s good for us and what’s not. We’re not under a set
of rules like the Law of Moses demanded, and this is what Paul is
talking about) or in respect of an holyday,…"
We’ve
got to know definitions, so what’s the definition for holy? Well it
isn’t something supernatural, perfect and righteous, but rather holy
meant "set aside for God’s purposes." So these
holy days were simply days in Judaism and the Jewish economy that
were indeed set apart for God’s purposes. They all were intended to get the Hebrew mind focused on their God and not the meaninglessness of earthy things which preoccupied their thinking. They had the
Passover, and all the other Feast days, but in this Age of Grace
we’re not under any of that, as they only pointed to the better thing,
that was to come. Hebrews author states that the Better thing has
already come in chapter 1 verse 4, after discribing Christ Jesus in
the first three verses. We don’t have days set aside for special
treatment. All that was tied up in the scroll and laid aside until
the day of the Lord. For us its the day of Christ when He as Christ
removes His Body before the tribulation period. After that we will
see His fulness as those Old Testament days revealed Him. This will
happen before the Marriage Feast of the Lamb as the consummation for
the betrothal feast which is what the Passover/Last Supper
was. Because you see we've already gone through the wrath and judgment
of sin on the cross in Christ Jesus. In the anointing that resides
within us in 1John 2:27-29 which reads as follows: “The
anointing (inaugral
consecration) which you have received of Him
abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: As the same
anointing teachs you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and
even as He has taught you, you shall abide in Him. And
now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we
may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If
you know that He is righteous, you know that every one that does
righteousness is born (to
convert someone to His side, as God made Christ His Son, God makes us
His Sons in the same fashion) of
Him.”
This again is what Jeremiah 31:33-34 tells us God is about to do in the vision which Jeremiah shares there as a Prophet of God. Then what I have stated elsewhere is also seen in verses 20-21 above, this states: “You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.” Where does this unction have its root, in our mind, as the seat of our opinions, emotions, intellect. When our mind has not been subjected to loving a person place or thing we will never love as we were created to. Our mind like Israel's will remain earthy, carnal, and worldly caught by the desires and lusts for the things desinged to pass away with age and using. What are the things that never change? God, Blood, His Word, Light, Truth, Grace, Love, Life and His character as seen in Christ and for us of the circumcision our vision of Him.
From
this I can state that if we keep our same perspicacity of mind then
we are unstable in all our nature to the point of being doubleminded,
filled and governed by our emotions as they at times can be quite
fickle and change with every new wave thing. This is best seen in
James chapter 1:8 and then 4:8. These passages have these links
attached to them, 1Kings 18:21, 2Kings 17:33, 41, Isaiah 29:13, Hosea
7:8-11, 10:2; Matthew 6:22, 24, 2Peter 2:14 in fact the whole of this
chapter and then 3:16 where Peter speaks of the vision or revelation
that Paul has received and publishes. We all need how to allow our
past to stay in our past, forget it, release it and then move onward in the LORD.
Colossians
2:16b
"…or
of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:"
See
where Paul puts Sabbath days? It’s frivolous, it has no use for us
whatsoever, and don’t let anybody try to tell you "that you’re
going to hell because you don’t keep the Saturday Sabbath." We
hear that all the time from the people who live in our area of the
country because of the town and college it contains located just a
few miles down the road. "Oh the preacher said today, 'That if
we don’t keep the Saturday Sabbath we’re going to go to hell.'"
How awful when you have verses like this that contradicts that
completely. Don’t you let anybody tell you what day you have to
worship God. Now those things were valid, they did have a purpose in
the Old Testament economy because they were a shadow of that which
was to come, “the better thing.” What was their purpose, they
were to show in shadowy form something that was coming. Now even
Israel didn’t understand what they were, but God knew. It was He
Who was showing it dimly, keeping it veiled. Now let me show you
another verse in Hebrews that says basically the same thing. Oh I can
hardly wait till we get into the Epistle of Hebrews even though it
was written to Jewish believers and not necessarily the Body of
Christ, nevertheless there is so much wealth in it that we can learn
from this Epistle, and here is one of them. Paul is reviewing all of
the aspects of the Temple worship, or the Tabernacle out in the
wilderness or whatever. Footnote I have already posted the Epistle of
Hebrews in this blog by now, it started in Feburary of 2012.
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