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For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
It is interesting that James speaks of the whole law, without exceptions to reflect any changes to the seventh-day Sabbath of the fourth commandment. He is saying that if we covet we have broken the whole of God's law, if we commit adultery we have broken the whole of God's law. Therefore, it is logical to conclude that if we break the Sabbath we have broken the whole of God's law. We cannot keep 9 and break 1, without being considered sinners in the eyes of God.
Thou art become a transgressor of the law. James 2:11, last part. |
The law and the Sabbath remain intact.
John, the writer of the Book of Revelation, wrote in his first letter |
Sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4
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| This is the only place in the Bible where sin is defined. It is sin that makes necessary a Saviour. It is the story of sin, redemption and restoration, that is the theme of the entire Bible. John, the beloved apostle, tells us clearly that sin is transgressing the law. He says very strongly in 1 John 3:8: |
He that committeth sin is of the devil.
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| It is the devil who tempts us into sin, who encourages us to sin, who wants us to sin. Why? If we sin, then the wages of sin is death. We shall be destroyed. This is his ultimate purpose for human beings. He knows we were made in the image of God, and wishes to destroy that image, just as he himself knows that he will be destroyed. |
He knoweth that he hath but a short time,
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| as John wrote in Revelation 12:12. The devil is happy to foster false teachings so that we are deceived into sin , because he knows it will mean our death, like his. John, well into apostolic times, |
| continues to uphold the Ten Commandments in his letters and these Ten Commandments still contain an unchanged seventh-day Sabbath. The law and the Sabbath remain intact. It would be expected that at least one of the Apostles, as the early church called those were sent out with the message of the Gospel, would have mentioned changes of the Sabbath or given examples in story or letter. For the first Christians, it would have been a very important point |
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