The Remember Commandment.

 It's okay to murder. 

Are you shocked to hear me say such a thing? Surely I can't believe that it's okay to murder. And, you're right. I don't believe it's okay to murder. 

So, why did I make the statement, stating that it's okay to murder? Because when you read it -immediately you were taken aback, wondering how in the world I could say that. You didn't believe I could say that. It's safe to say you were a bit shocked to read such a thing. We all know it's not okay to murder, there's nothing okay about murder, and there's nothing okay about failing to keep the other nine commandments either.

We like to rate the ten commandments according to our own standards- it's okay to steal as long as it's just the occasional pen, and or extra jelly pack at the restaurant, or maybe take a few extra straws, or napkins. It's okay to covet that new car your neighbor bought, yours is old and run down, and shouldn't you want a new one? Okay, so my mind wandered a bit while looking at that **other** guy, no harm done, right? WRONG! All ten of the commandments are equally meant to be obeyed. They aren't a group of commandments we get to pick and choose from. They all have to do with obeying God out of LOVE.

Do you know anyone personally who has been murdered? I do. My grandfather was murdered when I was young, but not so young I don't remember it in vivid detail.

We all agree murder is wrong. 

We all agree stealing is wrong.

We all agree adultery is wrong. 

We all agree lying is wrong.

We all agree …

Are you shaking your head in disagreement? There are quite a few who would argue against some of the above being wrong, believing that under certain circumstances some of those things are just fine and it's the system that is broken.

What is my point here, you know I have to have one.

The point is- God gave us ten commandments that encompass loving Him and loving others. 

Let's look at one of those Ten Commandments - that we must keep - as we keep ALL of them by the grace of God and Christ's righteousness.

He told us to REMEMBER in only one of those commandments.

Why didn't He tell us to remember to honor our father and mother, remember not to steal, remember don't covet, remember don't lie, remember don't take God's name in vain, remember not to have any other gods before Him, remember don't commit adultery, remember don't murder, remember worship no graven images? Aren't they all worth remembering? 

Yes, they are. 

When only one of the ten commandments comes with a note to REMEMBER shouldn't we pay particular attention to that commandment?  We have to realize there would be a reason for doing so. That reason is because this commandment contains the seal of God- it has ALL the components of a legal seal.  

Name, territory, authority.

God, heaven and earth, Creator.

The reason to remember is because this particular law would be changed and this particular law has to do with time- a day.  An evil power would think to change times and laws. The evil power would be so overwhelmingly deceptive it would deceive all but the very elect, and when Christ comes it's going to be hard for Him to find faith on earth. 

The righteousness of our Savior is throughout the entire ten commandments, including the Remember commandment.

Our Savior was PERSECUTED because of the perverted, twisted nature the Remember commandment had become. 

While our Savior sought to correct the meaning of the Remember commandment, He was wanted by the leaders of the day to be put to death for doing so. The importance of the Remember commandment was marked by Jesus' ministry as being one of the highest authority and we need to take heed and NOT overlook that commandment as being an unimportant. 

Over and over again the Jewish leaders used the Sabbath commandment against Jesus. We need to realize this as a FACT and NOT overlook this fact! 

How many people actually realize that Jesus was a wanted man because he was FALSELY accused of breaking the Sabbath - the Remember- Commandment?  They needed a legal reason to want Him dead and they grabbed a hold of His revealing Sabbath truths they did not want to keep, truths they did not want to know about, truths that revealed they'd twisted God's Sabbath commandment into something it was never intended to be.

We need to understand this and not think it's not important, Satan wants us to think it's not important, that we just continue on as we are, ignorantly following deceptions instead of His truth.

God help us! Please, Lord, help us, we need eyesalve so we can see Your truths!

All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever!!!!!!! Amen!

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Christ and the Pharisees -OR Christ's Faithfulness in Sabbath-Keeping.

BY A. T. JONES. 1894 [Religious Liberty Library, No. 18] [Cont.]

The next instance is in the seventh chapter of John. This follows on not a great while after the other. Beginning with the first verse:-

"After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him."

And why did they seek to kill him?-Because he kept the Sabbath of the Lord according to God's ideas and would not surrender to them, nor their ideas.

"Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world. For neither did his brethren believe in him. Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is alway ready. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come. When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews. Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught."

And as he was teaching in the temple, we have this, the 19th verse:- 

"Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil; who goeth about to kill thee? 

Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Mosey should not be broken; are ye angry at we, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day? Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

What is the controversy still?-The Sabbath. 

Read the 30th verse:-

"Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done? The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him." 

But when the officers got there, they heard him speaking, and they stood there charmed, listening to his words. And when Jesus ceased speaking, they turned and went buck without him to the Sanhedrim whence they were sent.

Now beginning with the 43rd verse:-

"So there was a division among the people because of him. And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knoweth not

the law are cursed. Nicodemus saith unto them (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them), Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look; for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. And every man went unto his own house." John 7:43-53.

And in their angry zeal they were about to judge and condemn him right there, without any hearing, and without his presence even, but Nicodemus put a check upon the proceedings by the inquiry, "Doth our law judge any man before it hear him, and know what he doeth?" The assembly broke up and every man went unto his own house. But Jesus went unto the "Mount of Olives," John 8:1. 

While they went on with their wicked plotting against him, he himself went to the Mount of Olives to pray, and to pray for them. Ps. 31:13-15; 69:11-13

Psa 31:13  For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. 

Psa 31:14  But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. 

Psa 31:15  My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 

 

Psa 69:11  I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 

Psa 69:12  They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 

Psa 69:13  But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 

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