If Jesus fulfilled the law, can I keep the sabbath by helping my nieghbor mow his yard?

Yes, you would be serving the Lord by serving your neighbor. By all means, do so.

Help your neighbor by all means but not by doing physical work on the Sabbath.

Jesus saying the Sabbath was made for man does not magically end the Commandment. Jesus was telling the Pharisees that the Sabbath was made to be a BLESSING to man and not a set of legalistic rules that they were trying to turn it into. The Sabbath was made for man at creation when no one can dispute it was a kept Commandment. So what has changed? Nothing!

ALL the Commandments were made for man! Can we pick and choose the others also? No! Why would anyone think Jesus saying the Sabbath is made to be a blessing to man end what He wrote in stone, and when He said His law is NOT changing by so much as a comma? http://www.the-ten-commandments.org/the_sabbath_wa...

Jesus is NOT the Sabbath and no scripture says so. Jesus is not a day and Jesus does not and cannot give us physical rest. We get that by keeping the Commandment as God intended. And why would you have to be concerned about PHYSICALLY fleeing on the Sabbath day 40 years after the cross if Jesus was the Sabbath? (Matthew 24:20) Hebrews 4:9 uses the Greek word “sabbatismos.” Its literal translation is “Sabbath observance” and “The Scriptures” translated by The Institute for Scripture Research render it as such while the Thayer dictionary and the Bible in Basic English give the equally literal phrase “Sabbath keeping.” So it means to be literally keeping the Sabbath and does not say Jesus is the Sabbath. This is lie to cover the true meaning of this passage. http://www.the-ten-commandments.org/is_jesus_our_s...

So the book of Hebrew does NOT clearly say the Sabbath has ended as some very deceived person said. The passage clearly says a Literal Sabbath keeping remains for the children of God.

And who but someone trying to avoid spending quality time with God on His day would think Romans 14:5 is referring to the fourth Commandment of God? The word “Sabbath” is NOT found anywhere in the ENTIRE chapter. Henceforth it is an assumption and a very bad one as EVERY single Bible commentary such as Gills and Barnes and Matthew Henry say NO, it is not talking about the Sabbath at all but meat sacrificed to idols and the feast days that existed because of sin and ended, but some felt they still had to keep these days such as Passover and Paul is saying not to judge them and condemn them. The Bible NEVER flippantly refers to the Sabbath of the Lord thy God as just a day. It is ALWAYS called “The Sabbath” or the “Sabbath Day” Also, the word “ALIKE” was added by the translators and conveys an idea that Paul never intended. Hence it really says. “One man esteemeth one [feast] day above another: another esteemeth every [feast] day.” http://www.colossians-2-16.com/romans-14-5.html

Ask him to Church with you and offer to help him mow his lawn another day.

Beware of Hogie.

He devotes his life here just to telling other not to obey the Ten Commandments.

Why?

Because he is to proud and deceived to realize he was in a CULT for 25 years that followed the Herbert Armstrong movement that kept all the feasts days that Paul said were abolished at the cross.

His most common attack on the law of God is stating that we are not party to the Old Covenant. And yet this proud fool in his deception never mentions that God wrote His Ten Commandment law in the hearts and minds of His people. He likes to twist scripture to try and prove a lie while accusing others of doing what he is guilty of and hence is a hypocrite and he is too far gone to know it. He works for Satan now and does not know it.

This can be directly answered from an ancient text (not part of our bibles) but inserted into an ancient bible called the Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis.

In Luke 6:5 Bezae contains an interpolation:

"On that same day, seeing someone working on the Sabbath, he (Jesus) said to him, 'Man, if you know what you do, blessed are you; but if you do not know, you are cursed and a transgressor of the law.'"

I think this apocryphal interpolation is valid and perfectly within the theology that Jesus taught, and well within the teachings of Paul too, who said that anyone who eats meat believing it to be unclean is in sin as the meat is unclean to him but he who eats meat sacrificed to idols with a clear conscious knowing full well that idols don't exist and have no power are not sinning against God and that on the matter of holy days everyone should be fully convinced in his own mind cf Rom 14.

The book of Hebrews teaches clearly that Sabbath laws are obsolete and anyone knowing this truth can shop or work on the Sabbath with spiritual impunity cf Heb 8:13. Those who believe the Sabbath laws are still in force would be bringing punishment on their own heads if they worked on the Sabbath as their actions are disrespectful to God, in choosing to do something thinking it is against God's law even if it isn't, Since that person has made the moral decision that doing this thing is more important than God.

This is why a Seventh Day Adventist and, say, a Jehovah's Witness could both be in the same store on Saturday buying the same products at the same time, one in sin the other blameless.

the Lord only worked the sabbath because he HAD to. Not because he WANTED to. Plus, even when he worked the sabbath, the word of the Most High was on his lips, in his heart, and on his mind, every second of that special day. And, he did his work by healing God's people. That's ok. This is y the Lord countered by asking, would u not save an ox(?), on a sabbath if u saw it drowning in the river? They replied yes, because it has to work for us on the next day. The Lord healed people so they would possibly go on the road to Salvation...NOT, so they can provide an income to church people.

Like with hospital workers vs fast food places. Hospitals have to run 24/7 to tend to the sick, but fast food places stay open because it's good for business...as many people go out to eat after church. Do u notice that hospitals are open ALL hours, even on sunday, but most businesses which operate on sunday usually open after noon. Y? Because before noon, business is dull, because most sleep in on sundays, and the first place they go after they rise is church...and only after that will they go to shop.

Jesus fulfilled the law like one fulfills the conditions of a "covenant" to purchase a house by meeting all the conditions of said covenant, like making all the payments. The sabbath was a law unique to the old covenant and categorized as a "work" of the law. You therefore do not need to keep the sabbath.

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Definitely ! And I interpret and discern this also as, "If I love God with all my heart, soul and mind than I know I can leave my "Sins" behind me. For me ( and this is only my discernment I interpret from God's Spirit mind you), there are sins that God needs for us to leave behind and some of those are sins such as fornication, porn, adultery, vanity, anger, pride, homosexuality and the like...There are many many more and I would have to believe that whatever the sin is in a Christian's life that God will allow his spirit to address it or them in THAT particular person....This is much the same as how God's Spirit does NOT address a non-christian as they are NOT able to know or comprehend the Word of God...

Don't know if the above made any sense to anyone else here but it's what I live by...I'm of no good to God and mankind if I"m going to try to understand and help them find God if I can't even follow God's commands to the best of my ability.

Part of saying that we LOVE God means doing what he asks and part of what he recommends and asks is for us to leave our sins and follow his commands...

Jesus fulfilled the Law but that did not do away with the Ten Commandments; keeping Sabbath is still part of a Christian life.

To help an elderly neighbor mow his lawn is a good thing to do, why not invite him to church with you also.

If your neighbor was old or crippled and it was an emergency, helping him/her would be no problem....but it is real hard to imagine an emergency that requires a lawn to be mowed. there are other days to do that.

Now, to address several misconceptions from the answers above:

When the Christ says He came to fulfill the Law, it means that He came to fulfill those things IN the Law that pointed to or promised His coming. Folks don't read. He said He did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill. Abolish and fulfill are different words with different meanings. Please, PLEASE read what He said!

Matthew 5:17-20 GNB "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to make their teachings come true. (18) Remember that as long as heaven and earth last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with---not until the end of all things. (19) So then, whoever disobeys even the least important of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven. (20) I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees in doing what God requires.

1.) He says He did not come to abolish the Law, most professing Christians teach that He did just that.

2.) He says He came to fulfill the Law, that I covered above.

3.) He says as long as Heaven and Earth exist, the smallest letter of the Law will remain, professing Christians teach that Heaven and Earth already ended, I sure don't know what planet they are living on!

4.) He says that those who do and keep the Law will be great in the Kingdom of God, professing Christians say that those kinds of people are legalists and are damned.

5.) He says that those who break and teach others to break the Law will have a lesser reward in the Kingdom of God, professing Christians glory in antinomianism.

6.) He tells us to be more faithful to the teachings of the Law than the religious leaders of the time He walked the Earth, professing Christians say "What Law"?? Who ME??

Now, to help you better understand the two great commandments....which most use for two great excuses, the opposite of what Messiah intended them to be for.

1 John 5:1-3 BBE Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child. (2) In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws. (3) For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

That should be self-expainatory.

1 John 2:1-6 GNB I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf---Jesus Christ, the righteous one. (2) And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone. (3) If we obey God's commands, then we are sure that we know him. (4) If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us. (5) But if we obey his word, we are the ones whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God: (6) if we say that we remain in union with God, we should live just as Jesus Christ did.

How did He live?

John 15:10 ESV If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Hebrews 4:14-15 ESV Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. (15) For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

What is sin?

1 John 3:4 KJV Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

So, contrary to the teachings of conventional Churchianity, the Messiah never broke God's Law, never broke the Sabbath, and lived a perfectly sinless life. If He HAD broken God's Law, or defiled God's Sabbath, then they would not have a Savior because sin would have disqualified Him.

Edit: Beware of people who ADD words, their own intrepetations to Romans 14. When Paul is talking about esteeming a day it is not about Sabbaths or Festivals or any type of holyday. Read carefully, it is about eating or not eating, ie; fasting or not fasting. It has NOTHING to do with Holy Days or Sabbaths! Please read and study that section for yourself very carefully!

you would be serving your neighbour more by asking him to join you and your family into going to church with you.beside how could you help him if he has a self riding mower, take turns lol also when one believes in Christ then one would uphold the law of God.

Depends on your heart attitude and you will answer to God for your deeds.

Jesus' fulfillment of the law is also not license for us to sin.