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The Holy Spirit will never contradict God’s Word. God’s Word is forever. Still many will follow their feelings, even though those feelings don’t agree with the Bible.

“He that trusts in his own heart is a fool” (Proverbs 28:26)

I believe God’s Ten Commandments are:

1. Eternal, meaning they will not change or be erased. “All his commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever” (Psalm 89:34).

2. They are perfect as they are. “The law of the Lord is perfect” (Psalm 19). If they were perfect, would their function or purpose need to change?

3. We’ll die if we break them. “He poured out his life unto death … [bearing] the sin of many.” (Isaiah 13:9). Satan was first to convince a human otherwise.

4. It is our job to obey them. “Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man” (Ecclesiastes 12:13)

5. Breaking them is still wrong. “Sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4).

6. Humanity still needs them. “I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law said, Thou shall not covet” (Romans 7:7).
7. Obeying them is still a sign of loyalty. “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).

8. They are still eternal. “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail” (Luke 16:17). Jesus exalted them! God established the law with His own voice; might it need Jesus’ voice to do away with them? Yet He never does, before or after His death!

9. They are still perfect. “Think not that I come to destroy the law … but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17, 18). Jesus did not change any part of them, even if many people think He did. They are written in our hearts.

I believe Christians are a reflection of Christ and should follow the moral law just as Jesus followed them. This isn’t a burden, but a blessing. This world would be a totally different place if even only Christians obeyed.

Think about this, if we break a 10 Commandment we automatically break the greater commandments! (If you break the law that forbids lying, you have broken both of the greatest commandments. How? By lying, you cheat another human being. And you also show you have little faith that God can handle your crisis with truth.)

In this post, Two New Commandments, I speak about Jesus’ Two Greater Commandments and the 10 Commandments are really one in the same. What Jesus really did was hang more details onto the 10 Commandments.

You can find this in Deuteronomy 5:6 where the Ten Commandments are repeated. In the very next chapter, Deuteronomy 6:5 is the Scripture Jesus quoted as a NEW Command. The other passage that Jesus quoted is from Leviticus 19:18 “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”

This may not apply to you, but many Christians avoid the 10 Commandments & hide their disobedience behind these two great commandments. Men and women on their own define what it really means to commit adultery, what it really means to steal, what it really means to bear false witness, what it really means to honor the Sabbath, and what it really means to murder. Without the 10 specific Commandments, it is much easier for “God’s people” to do terrible things in His name.

Euthanasia, legalizing illegal drugs, homosexual marriage, and abortion are the results of people who have lost sight of God’s eternal principles. By doing away with the 10 Commandments the world has lost site of the standards of right and wrong. Because they rely on their feelings, and not God’s written law, to ensure morality.
God wrote His Commandments, which are called eternal, for a reason: that there would be no doubt in our minds and hearts what it meant to obey Him.

I left the Assemblies of God Church, as well as a non-denominational Church, and the Catholic Church because they were deviating from the Bible and teaching “traditions of men”. I will not hesitate to leave any Church and continue to study at home if I find the teaching of traditions instead of the plain teaching of the Bible.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe that there will be people of EVERY Christian denomination within the Kingdom as well as on the outside. Every person will be judged on the basis of revealed truth, and how he obeyed what he knew. I also believe that the more Biblical truth one has, the more he is held accountable to follow that truth. We are also accountable to seek that knowledge and truth.

God loves us and has mercy. I am aware of my sinful condition, but I’m sure that He is willing to forgive and that He will complete His work in me (Philippians 1:6). But I also believe He has a big problem with those who willfully break His Commandments and pick and choose the details they will follow. Can God allow someone into heaven who continues to recklessly defy Him? The Holy Spirit tries to work in everyone’s life, but if we keep pushing Him away during our whole lifetime, will result in committing the unpardonable sin. I think God would never want us to just say that we love Him so much that we won’t worry about keeping His eternal Commandments.

The Jews had the laws posted everywhere except in their hearts. If all Christians obeyed the 10 Commandments by their actions, it wouldn’t matter what the rest of the world did, because even unbelievers would be touched dramatically.

People mistakenly believe that God’s grace is a license to sin. Jesus said, “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21. Not what we say, but what we do will be the final test. I think they believe that the standard was lowered after Jesus came, but the standard is actually higher.

Every Christian may soon have to choose between God’s law (The Big Ten) and man’s law (A National Sunday Law). Even if this Sunday law is passed worldwide in the name of God, it will be in conflict with the same Commandments that we are talking about now. There’s not that many differences in the many Churches now except for small disagreements in doctrine.

That will change if the National Sunday law is ever forced. Christian leaders, TV evangelists, politicians, etc. are among the people focusing on this idea. In my opinion this won’t be an issue until after a major catastrophe happens worldwide. This will in turn cause the majority to turn to God and worship. That’s the kind of issues the Holy Spirit is opening to me.

I wonder how God would feel, if the same people who hate His Holy day and change the other 9 to fit their needs, follow this new man made law. They may even try and combine the many different Christian denominations to a “one size fits all”. They will say ” as long as we all have love towards one another. The government has no business in religious matters, that’s why this Country of the United States exists today.

I will always be afraid to stand with the majority. Remember this my friend, in religious matters, the majority was (usually) always wrong. So as it was in the day of Noah. So as it was in the days of Lot. So as it was in the day of Jesus. God’s people are promised that He will bring us through the times ahead. We can be sure that many of us will be treated like Jesus and His disciples.

“Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth into life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:14)
The plain truth is that more people won’t make it than will make it. It’s in the Bible. Many will be some of our own family and friends. I believe there will be many tears shed before God wipes them all away.
Either way, the wheat and the tares must grow together until the last day. It’s not our job to pull the tares out, Jesus will separate them.

The rest of the world is getting bad and America is no better. I’ve heard this said, “If God doesn’t judge America, He will need to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!”

In Christ,

Darrell B

Haha, actually, I’ve noticed the exact opposite as you. I was born and raised in the SDA church not far from the General Conference headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. I attended one of the largest Adventist churches on the east coast of America, something of a flagship church in the seat of the nation’s capitol. And yet I’ve seen countless affairs, lying, cheating, divorces, fighting, etc. etc. In contrast the “lifestyle” of Christians I’ve met in mainstream Christianity has been much, much better and more pure than in Adventism. With the added bonus that the Christians were a lot more happy and had a lot less pressure. Being under grace instead of law was teaching them not to sin day to day, in addition to saving them for eternity.

Of course, to be fair, I think there are going to be immoral and fake folks just about anywhere. What I’ve noticed, though, is that the stricter people bring out the law, the more people go into hiding. Having gone through years of Adventist schooling, well, *lol*, where do I begin to say all the stuff that went on at “academy”? In my graduating year, the fad that seemed to sweep the school was “sex” (school staff even discovered condoms in an igloo someone made after a blizzard in 1996). The previous year’s fad seemed to have been alcohol. And before that, drugs. Before that, smoking. And on and on and on, etc. At my previous academy, I knew of teachers who were cheating on their spouses (some of which were pastors). One of the surprising things that many former Adventists have found is that after they leave Adventism and go into Christian churches, they are often surprised by the integrity and honesty of the people they meet in Christian churches and schools. (They’re also surprised at the higher standard of academics that are demanded of their kids, even at public schools.)

But personal anecdotes aside, the lawbreaking in SDA is actually somewhat systematic. A pastor/professor at my old SDA university once told us how he had discovered a certain SDA high school teacher had been sleeping with a female student, pressuring her and just basically messing her up in every way. The pastor reported it to the school principle and the conference …and they moved the teacher to another SDA school in another state or location! Years later the pastor found out that the teacher had molested students at his second school, and had been moved from that one still to another school, and then another school, etc. Finally the police caught up with him and he was jailed.

What’s disturbing is that the pastor/professor who told this to the whole class was talking about the way the SDA system basically works, and he said it all with a smile on his face as if these kinds of kinks in the system were an irony we could just chuckle about. The pastor/professor is a well-known name in Adventist intelligensia.

Aside from that horror-anecdote, the systematized lawbreaking in SDA is also apparent from the practice of abortions at SDA hospitals. My ex-SDA Catholic friend Teresa mentioned that briefly here: http://arthurandteresabeem.blogspot.com/2010/07/remnant-who-keep-commandments.html and more extensively here: http://arthurandteresabeem.blogspot.com/2009/05/ten-commandments-and-abortion.html

This is a long way of saying that, sorry, SDA just doesn’t look any more righteous than any other church out there. If anything, less.

Consider the financial scandals that rocked SDA years ago.

Consider the problems with EGW’s plagiarism (she almost got sued by the authors of “Life of Paul” because she nearly plagiarized the whole book… no, it was *not* okay even back then!).

Consider that the White Estate air-brushed a picture of Ellen White to remove a pearl necklace from around her neck! (LOL)

Okay, I had better digress and go to bed.

I’ve already written about how “commandments” in John’s writings always refer to “love one another as I have loved you”, and are spelled out in detail in 1st John 3:23. I don’t know if you read the note I linked to earlier, but it hits on everything you just mentioned from Revelation: http://formeradventistjapan.blogspot.com/2010/07/identifying-true-church.html The “issue” at the end is not an obscure commandment from the Law of Moses. It’s simply Christ and His love. Displaying His grace was enough to get the religious authorities to call for His crucifixion. In the end it is the same: who Christ is and the radicalness of His call to love each other with His love will be enough to make the people of those days flaming angry, angry enough to persecute people filled with Christ and His love.

On a completely separate note, but yet connected to your original note above, here’s “Sabbath in Colossians 2″ for your reading enjoyment: http://formeradventistjapan.blogspot.com/2010/07/sabbath-in-colossians-2.html

Bless you in Jesus,
Ramone
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