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"I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day"
(Rev.1:10).
1. Palm Sunday of Holy Week Jesus rides into Jerusalem (Mat.21:1-11; Mk.11:1-11; Lk.19:28-44; Jn.12:12-19).
3. Pentecost Sunday/Whit Sunday (Whitsuntide)—Jewish Feast of Weeks/Feast of Harvest: the fiftieth day after Passover (a Sunday), prophetically marking the "birth" of the Church of Christ. On this day, 3,000 people were baptized in the name of Jesus. Church tradition teaches that those baptized wore white. Thus, "White Sunday/Whit Sunday/Whitsuntide" (Exo.34:21-22; Deut.16:9-12; Num.28:26-31; Acts 2:1-4).
5. Guiding Principles: Sunday was sanctified by God as a day of worship from the Old Testament Law (Lev.23:15-22). On the first 50th day which Israel calls Shavuot, the Heavenly Father gave His Word, the Ten Commandments. The same 50th day, which Christians call Pentecost, GOD gave His Holy Spirit to Jewish believers in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, as promised and prophesied in scripture (Joel 2:28-29; Acts 15:1-29; Rom.14; 1 Cor.10; 2 Cor.3; Gal.3; Eph.2; Phil.3; Col.2; 1 Thess.4; 2 Thess. 2; 1 Tim.4; 2 Tim.3; Titus 3; Heb.Chps.7-9;11;13:8-9; Jm.2; 1 Pet.2; 2 Pet.2; 1 Jn.5; 2 Jn.).
6. Free from condemnation: Sunday —
Romans 14: 1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
Colossians 2: 13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Hebrews 4: 1
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be
careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. 4 For
somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh
day God rested from all his works” (ref. Gen. 2:2). 6 Therefore
since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who
formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, 7 God again set a certain day,
calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David,
as in the passage already quoted:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. 11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
"God's new Way (the New Covenant of Christ) in conflict with orthodox rabbinic Judaism — the Old Covenant is fulfilled in the New Covenant"
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
(John 1)
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
(Hebrews 3)
3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
(Hebrews 7)
11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also. 13 He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar. 14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 15 And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, 16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared:
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”
18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, 21 but
he became a priest with an oath when God said to him:
“The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind:
‘You are a priest forever.’”
22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.
23 Now there have been many of those
priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him,
because he always lives to intercede for them.
26 Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himseil. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
(Hebrews 8)
6 But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that
first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But
God found fault with the people and said:
“The days are coming, declares
the Lord,
when I
will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.
10 This is the covenant I will
establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made
the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon
disappear.
11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. 15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”
19 Therefore,
brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy
Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the
curtain, that is, his body, 21 and
since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let
us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that
faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty
conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let
us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is
faithful. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died
without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How
much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has
trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the
covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the
Spirit of grace? 35 So do not throw away
your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 39 But
we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19 to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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1) John 5
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life. 45 “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”
2)
John
6
29 Jesus
answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has
sent.”
3)
John
7
2 But when the
Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, 17 Anyone
who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes
from God or whether I speak on my own. 19 Has not Moses
given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to
kill me?” 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though
actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you
circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 23 Now if a boy
can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken,
why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? 24 Stop
judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.” 45 Finally
the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked
them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?” 48 “Have any of the
rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 No!
But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”
4)
John
8
17 In your own Law
it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. 18 I
am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.” 31 To
the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my
disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the
truth will set you free.” 33 They answered him,
“We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How
can you say that we shall be set free?”
5)
John
9
13 They brought to
the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14 Now
the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 16 Some
of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others asked,
“How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided. 28 Then
they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are
disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God spoke to
Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.” 30 The
man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet
he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not
listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. 32 Nobody
has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If
this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
6)
John
12
37 Even after Jesus
had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not
believe in him. 42 Yet at the same time many even among
the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would
not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the
synagogue; 43 for they loved human praise more
than praise from God. 46 I have come into the world as a
light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. 47 “If
anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I
did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There
is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very
words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For
I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say
all that I have spoken. 50 I know that his command
leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told
me to say.”
7)
John
13
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As
I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By
this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
8)
John
14
9 Jesus
answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you
such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you
say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe
that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to
you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living
in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I
say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works
themselves. 15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the
Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees
him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in
you. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in
my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever
has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves
me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to
them.”
9)
John
15
10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
10)
John
16
“All this I have told you so that you
will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the
synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will
think they are offering a service to God. 3 They
will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 13 But
when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the
truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and
he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will
glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known
to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make
known to you.”
11)
John
19
7 The Jewish leaders
insisted, “We have a law, and
according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son
of God.” 12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus
free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no
friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.” 15 But
they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall
I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief
priests answered. 31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and
the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left
on the crosses during the Sabbath,
they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. 35 The
man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He
knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 38 Later,
Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With
Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.
12)
John
20
