Reactions to Former Adventist Podcast “Reaction” Episode
You don’t need Ellen White or a genius-level intellect to understand God’s intent regarding the Sabbath.
The fact that He included it in the Ten Commandments—the moral law—and started the commandment with the word “Remember” clearly manifests God’s intention: it is permanent and unalterable. If He removed the sanctity of the Sabbath or, even worse, altered or abolished the Fourth Commandment, God would contradict His own claim of immutability.
Furthermore, to anyone who argues that the Ten Commandments were only for the Jews: why bother reading the Bible or basing your doctrines on it at all when, with the exception of Luke, every single author was Jewish?
In the Gospel of John, Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” Likewise, in the Book of Revelation, those who enter the Kingdom of Heaven are those who keep the commandments of God.
—VIA YOUTUBE
Response: The Bible never divides the law. It is a UNIT. There is no division between moral, civil, and ceremonial. The entire law stands or falls as a Unit. The Mosaic covenant is a unit, and the Ten Commandments were its central document (Ex 3;:27,28). We cannot take the Ten out and use them in a new covenant. The new covenant is a new law, and the change of priesthood MANDATES a change of the law! (Hebrews 7,11-12).
And just by the way, for Israel every single law, including not mixing linen and wool and not boiling a kid in its mother’s milk, was MORAL. James emphasizes that if one law was broken, the whole law was broken. But Jesus! He literally fulfilled the whole law in his own death, burial, and resurrection! Now those who trust his atonement for sin and repent of their sin receive the Holy Spirit—the author of the Law—and He indwells us and teaches us to trust Jesus and to apply Scripture to our lives. We don’t observe the Law any longer. We have God’s rest In us. We live by His righteous, eternal morality as we submit to His Spirit. He teaches us how to live by his word.
Are Believers Judged?
How do you explain that we are judged by our works? Jesus said, everyone will be rewarded according to their works.
—VIA YOUTUBE
Response by Jim Liley, online moderator: Believers being judged by their works is for receiving rewards. This is referred to as the Bema seat judgment. This judgment doesn’t determine whether one is saved or lost. Believers are saved securely when they believe and receive the Holy Spirit as their guarantee. The unbelievers will stand before the Great White Throne and will receive their judgment at that time.
Ten Commandments for All Generations To Come?
The sanctity of the seventh day that God instituted when He rested after completing His work can never be changed. The fact that God included it in the Ten Commandments, which He wrote on stone with His own hand, is sufficient to reveal His intentions. In a biblical context, stone signifies an enduring, permanent, and unalterable decree.
To argue otherwise—based on ambiguous texts that do not clearly state God abolished the sanctity of the seventh day—contradicts God’s claim of immutability. Anyone citing biblical passages to support a belief must always examine them in context. Regarding whether we should observe the seventh-day Sabbath, God made it clear: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” All Bible-believing Christians agree that the Ten Commandments are intended for all generations to follow.
—VIA YOUTUBE
Response: First, “all Bible-believing Christians” do not believe the Ten Commandments are for all generations to come. The cross of Christ marked the completion, the fulfillment of the Law, as Jesus said. He fulfilled the law—and those Ten Commandments were the actual words of the old covenant. (Ex 3:27,28).
Hebrews 7:11,12 states that when there is a change of the priesthood (Levitical priesthood is obsolete and Jesus is according to the order of Melchizedek) there is of necessity a change of the law. The ten commandments did not exist apart from the Levitical priesthood. They did not exist before Sinai.
Paul says in 1 Cor 9:20-23 that he was not under the law but under the law of Christ. He explains in detail in 2 Corinthians 3 that the law written on stone was a law of death; the new covenant of the Spirit brings life and glory. The old covenant and its law written in stone is over. The new covenant of the Spirit has come in Jesus’ blood!
The cross changes everything. Galatians explains that we can’t go back under the authority of the law. We are under the authority of God Himself.
And check 2 Corinthians 3 to see how “permanent” the law written on stone actually was. The commandments were a covenant of death and came with fading glory. The covenant of the Spirit is eternal and has ever-increasing glory! †
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