The Sabbath Was Saturday, Not Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt is true that you cannot keep portions of God’s laws that you like and skip the rest. Obedience requires keeping all of the laws. James brought this up because some thought treating rich brethren better than poor brethren was not a major problem (James 2:1-13). That is a common problem. We tend to rate commands and think that skipping commands we deem minor is fine with God. However, in this case, you have applied this to a command that was not given to Christians.<\/p>\n
In Matthew 5:19, Jesus told his audience that even though the Law of Moses was about to be replaced, the Law still had to be followed until it was actually finished. Encouraging other people not to keep a law is just as wrong as you not keeping the same law. This is not the situation in your case. You are not encouraging anyone not to keep God’s Law. What you have been doing is trying to apply a law to yourself that God hasn’t asked of you or any other Christian.<\/p>\n
What you need to do is learn more about what God has taught. You seem to have started well, but you need to dig a bit deeper. Don’t be hard on yourself. God is not looking for perfection. He is looking for people who sincerely try hard to please Him. We all mess up at times (I John 1:8-2:1), but when we realize we are off-track, we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and make changes in our behavior.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I’m kind of in a tough situation and I need some help with this. I have a bad sin. It’s the breaking of the Sabbath. “Whoever breaks one commandment is guilty of breaking them all. For the same one who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Even if you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-66073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-sabbath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18707,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/will-just-one-sin-such-as-adultery-keep-you-out-of-heaven\/","url_meta":{"origin":66073,"position":0},"title":"Will just one sin, such as adultery, keep you out of heaven?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: A lady with a Baptist background asked me if I thought one sin would keep her from Heaven. She said \"suppose a person was living in an adulterous marriage, but done everything else right such as attending church, studying the Bible, etc. Would this person go to Heaven?\" Could\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31561,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-james-mention-of-some-of-the-ten-commandments-mean-we-are-under-all-of-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":66073,"position":1},"title":"Does James’ mention of some of the Ten Commandments mean we are under all of them?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: My fiance is Seventh Day Adventist, and I am trying to convince him we are no longer required to observe a weekly sabbath. However, he is trying to convince me otherwise. This is putting a huge strain on our relationship. 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Answer: The difficulty in declaring that only a portion of the Mosaical Law was ended by Christ is in determining where to draw\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11823,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wasnt-it-just-the-special-sabbaths-that-were-done-away-with-in-the-new-testament\/","url_meta":{"origin":66073,"position":4},"title":"Wasn’t it just the special Sabbaths that were done away with in the New Testament?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Now I been going through your site and notice that your teaching on the Bible's teaching is mostly accurate. I have a Sabbath question: Regarding Galatians 4:10 and Colossians 2:14-17, I'm not going to lie, it seems like Jesus abolished or\u00a0nailed it to the cross because it was no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19063,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-disagree-with-your-stances-on-the-sabbath-and-on-masturbation\/","url_meta":{"origin":66073,"position":5},"title":"I disagree with your stances on the Sabbath and on masturbation","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I must disagree with you on two counts. 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