CharismaticLady
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This is why the true gospel is about not sinning rather than the counterfeit gospel which tells everyone they can sin with impunity. Those who truly detest their sin don't want to hear anyone tell them that they can continue to sin with impunity.
That misses the true point.
Old vs. New covenants is Law/letter by man's knowledge and own willpower vs. Spirit/power of God in us creating a new divine nature that is free from sin.
Those who are born again do not sin. They cannot when they abide in Christ. Sinning is not in the new nature.
The letter of the law kills, but the Spirit of the law of life in Christ brings life. So how do you instinctively keep the Spirit of the Sabbath from your heart, without keeping it by the letter that kills from your mind? I'll tell you how. By being baptized in the Holy Spirit of God, that's how. Jesus, the Creator of everything, abides inside the born again, and we cannot sin because we have the seed of the Father inside of us. I'm only speaking of "Christians" that have been born again and keep the Spirit of the law, with the laws of God's love written on our hearts and in our minds. To love God with all our strength, mind and heart, and love our neighbor as ourselves. Abiding in Jesus and He in me is how to keep the Spirit of the Sabbath, by keeping the Creator, the substance of the Sabbath day, inside me. He is the Spirit of Christ. And the Spirit of the LAW. With the God of the universe in me, I can do anything through Christ who strengthens me. That includes being righteous and holy.
I still refer to the Old Testament in regards to remarriage, and incestuous marriage between close relatives and sorcery, etc. just as Paul repeated in the New Covenant sins of the flesh lists in Galatians 5:19-21. But not the actual covenant commandments, Exodus 34:28. The New Covenant actually takes away our sin nature. That is the difference. Not the morality of the commandments, but the power to keep moral from our Spirit-filled conscience. 1 John 3:21-24. Also, the Sabbath was the sign of the old covenant, fashioned to only be kept by the letter of the law, therefore will end and not brought forward to the New Covenant, whereas the blood of Jesus represented in the Cup of the New Testament is the NEW sign of the covenant. That blood is what took away our sin nature - where sin dwelt, and the need for the laws to be kept or die. And the fruit of the Spirit is what will keep us pure.
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