Bible Questions Answered: Sabbath Or Sunday Part II

Bible Questions Answered:
We are to keep the Sabbath! The Ten Commandments state- Exodus 8:20 “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy”-Read I John 2:3,4 if you dare post this! And Saturday was the Sabbath!
Helen/ Friendswood, Texas

Bible Answers:

Text: I John 2:3,4 KJV
3 And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments*.
4 He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

* Commandments-Greek-Entole (En-tol-ay): An authoritative prescription; commandment, precept.
(All translations-Abingdon's Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.)

Notice something?
In I John 2:3,4 it did not say “Decalogue,” but “An authoritative prescription; commandment, precept.”

But doesn't the word Commandments, mean Decalogue?
No, here in the New Testament, it does “not.”
Case in point....

John 13:34 KJV
A new commandment* I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

* Commandments-Greek-Entole (En-tol-ay): An authoritative prescription; commandment, precept.

John 15:12 KJV
This is My commandment*, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

* Commandments-Greek-Entole (En-tol-ay): An authoritative prescription; commandment, precept.

I John 3:21-24 KJV
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments*, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
23 And this is His commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
24 And he that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, and He in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit which He hath given us.

* Commandments-Greek-Entole (En-tol-ay): An authoritative prescription; commandment, precept.

I John 3:21-24 NLT
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.
22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

In both I John 2:3,4 and in I John 3:21-24 the same word is used, and what does the word commandment mean....it tells us!

I John 3:23 NLT
And this is His (Jesus Christ's) commandment: that we should
1) believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and
2) love one another, as He gave us commandment.

The words Christ spoke are the Christians Commandments!

For a deeper study into this subject see the posting.....

Sabbath Or Sunday

Oh, how very careful we must be when we interpret the Word of the Lord!
And how careful we must be when choosing a church to attend, that it is indeed a Bible teaching, and believing church!