We are not to walk in the ways of the Jewish Culture, as children of God born through Jesus Christ

Ezekiel 20:18-20

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“But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols. I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them; hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’” Ezekiel 20:18-20

Most of the Israelites who were brought out of Egypt refused to let go of the Egyptian ways, rejected the word of the Living God, and defiled the Sabbaths. God spoke to their children not to live by their parent’s false teachings, not to judge according to their parent’s false sense of justice, and not to live by their parent’s idols. God made known to the children that He is their God. As His children, they were to live by His word and keep the Ten Commandments that He gave to them and keep the Sabbaths Holy. Then they would always know that He is their God.

Today, the Jewish culture has the heritage of their ancestors who were brought out of Egypt, the same who rebelled against God and defiled the Sabbaths. God speaks to the Jewish culture of today, the children of rebellious ancestors. He says to them not to live by their ancestor’s false teaching, which is the teaching of the Old Testament without the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as quoted, “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.” Luke 16:16 The Jewish people of today are to keep the judgments given through Jesus Christ and not to follow the judgments without Jessus Christ. The Jewish people are to keep the Sabbaths dedicated to God through Jesus Christ who gives the Holy Spirit. By living according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and keeping the Sabbaths dedicated to Him, then they would always know that the Lord is their God.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are born into the family of God through the Jewish culture, as our Lord Jesus was an Israelite from the Tribe of Judah. “For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed... And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Romans 9:6-8, Galatians 3:29

As the adopted children of God, He speaks to us not to be like the Jewish people who rejected Jesus Christ. We are not to live by only the Old Testament alone, not to judge according to the Jewish customs, not to exclude Christ Jesus from the churches, and not to hold up the Jewish culture as an idol above Jesus Christ. Because we live for Jesus, the Lord is our God. We are to walk in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to judge according to the entire word of God with Jesus, and to keep Sundays a day of Holiness to the Lord. When Sunday Church embraces the testimony of Jesus Christ, then that is a place that will always make us know that God is our Lord through Jesus Christ.

I believe in Jesus
He is the Son of God
He died and rose to save my soul
I confess that He is Lord
(Church Song)

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11