So when it comes to this issue of the Sabbath day,
in the New Testament, we do not observe
the seventh day Sabbath day.
We don't observe that in the New Testament, why?
Because the Bible's clear in the New Testament
that that is not enforced.
Go to Colossians chapter two, Colossians chapter two.
This Sabbath has been fulfilled.
This is one of the carnal ordinances
that we do not observe.
The meats, the drinks, the divers, washings,
the carnal ordinances.
In the New Testament, we do not observe the Sabbath days.
We do not observe the seventh day Sabbath,
nor do we observe the new moons or the feast days
or the holy days of the Old Testament.
And in fact, when people observed these things
in Paul's day in Galatia, he said,
"You observe times and months and days and years."
He said, "I'm afraid of you."
He was even doubting whether they're even saved
because they'd been so Judaized
and they were getting circumcised
and they're observing all these holidays
and they thought that they had to do those things
and he was really worried about them.
And a lot of them were actually even trusting
those things for salvation.
And he's saying, "Look, Christ has become of no effect
unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law,
you've fallen from grace.
We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness,
which is by faith.
In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
availeth anything, but faith which worketh by love."
So in Colossians chapter two,
they had the same problem in Colossi.
Same issue, why?
Because the Jews were scattered
into every nation under heaven.
Why?
Because everywhere the early church went,
even into foreign lands of Greece and Macedonia and Asia,
Jews would always be following after them
and persecuting them.
Even following them into strange cities.
Remember Saul followed them into strange cities
before he became Paul.
And all throughout the book of Acts,
you see the Jews are everywhere.
Synagogues are everywhere.
There's a synagogue in every town.
You know, somebody brought up to me recently,
they said, "Hey, you know,
there's no way this scripture in Colossians
could be talking about the Judaizers
'cause Colossi's a thousand miles from Jerusalem."
But what you gotta understand is that if you read Acts,
there's a synagogue in all these places.
And if you understand that Jews have been scattered
into all nations under heaven,
and when you realize that in Acts,
the Jews persecute the Christians in all places, okay?
Look at what Colossians says.
It's similar to what Galatians says.
It says in verse 14,
"And blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us,
and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross,
and having spoiled principalities and powers,
he made a show of them openly triumphing over the minute.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat,
or in drink, or in respect of an holy day,
or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days,
which are a shadow of things to come,
but the body is of Christ."
That's the same language as in Hebrews 9
when it talks about the law
having a shadow of good things to come,
but not the very image of those things,
could never make the comers they're unto perfect,
and it talks about the carnal ordinances,
the meats, drinks, divers, washings,
were only imposed on them until the time of Reformation,
which is defined as the coming of Christ
in Hebrews 9, verses 10 and 11.
So here we see the same type of language as Hebrews 9,
saying that the ordinances were nailed to the cross
with Christ, therefore--
and look what it says in verse 16, let no man therefore.
When you see a therefore, always figure out what it's therefore.
The word therefore is tying it to what was just said.
He's saying because of verses 14 and 15, therefore, verse 16.
So because of the fact that the ordinances were
nailed to the cross with Christ, the carnal ordinances,
if we compare with Hebrews 9 and 10,
because the ordinances were nailed to the cross,
therefore, let no man judge you in meat.
That means when you eat that pork sandwich,
don't let anybody tell you that that's sin.
Don't let anybody judge your carnitas burrito.
Don't let anybody judge your chorizo breakfast burrito.
Don't let anyone judge you for your surf and turf and lobster
and shrimp if you can afford it, right?
But don't let them judge you in meat or in drink.
And that's not saying, don't let him judge and drink.
Obviously, the Bible teaches against drunkenness.
But this is talking about along the lines
of a drink offering.
He says, "Meat or drink, or in respect of an holy day,"
also known as holiday, that's where we get that word,
"or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days,
which are a shadow of things to come,
but the body is of Christ."
Therefore, we don't observe the Sabbath.
We don't observe the new moon.
We don't blow the trumpet in the new moon.
Those things have symbolic meanings,
but we do not observe these things
carnally in the New Testament.
Now, I've heard an interpretation out there
from these Hebrew roots types
who just don't want to let go of this stuff.
They want to be brought back into bondage.
They are the spiritual children of Hagar
that want to Judaize and circumcise
and teach the Torah, observing type of Christianity,
and they usually want to get people to speak Hebrew,
even though they don't even speak Hebrew.
I encourage everybody just to learn a couple sentences in Hebrew.
Just a couple sentences.
Just so that when somebody comes up to you
with all their Torah observing,
you can just walk up to them
and just basically start talking a little Hebrew to them,
and then they get really embarrassed really fast
because they don't speak the language.
But they pretend like they know everything.
They desire to be teachers of the law.
And all Torah means is just law.
It's just Hebrew for law.
There's your first Hebrew word.
Desiring to be teachers of the law,
understanding neither what they say nor whereof, they affirm.
They can't even order a bagel with cream cheese in Hebrew.
But they act like they went deep and they
know all the gematria in the Hebrew and all this stuff.
But I've heard them respond to this
because this passage is clear, crystal clear.
Here's how they respond to this.
No, no, no, no.
This verse is saying the opposite of what
it appears to be saying.
It's telling you, don't let anybody judge you
because you're doing the new moon,
and because you're doing the Sabbath,
and because you're doing the holidays,
because you're doing the meets.
But that's just crazy because verse 14 says,
blotting out the handwriting of ordinances,
therefore, don't let them judge.
So why would he say blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances, which was against us,
nailing it to his cross?
And so therefore, don't let pagans judge you
for being a Jew.
But that's what they try to turn this thing around.
Who's heard that interpretation of this?
Yeah, a couple people.
I've heard it, believe me, many times.
I think the first time I heard it was probably six or seven years ago, when the Hebrew roots
thing started really blowing up, and I've heard it a lot since.
It's false.
Same thing with Galatians.
It's mind-blowing.
I know I'm spending a lot of time on this, but a lot of the chapter was about the Sabbath,
and I want to cover this real quick.
Go to Galatians chapter number three, and you find something similar to this.
They try to do the same thing with this verse.
I'm sorry, it's in chapter four, verse nine.
He says, or let's start in verse eight to get some context here.
How be it then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them, which by nature are
no gods.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again
to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Ye observe days and months and times and years, I'm afraid of you, lest I bestow upon you
labor and vain.
Here's what the Hebrew roots crowd will do with this verse.
They'll say, "Oh, he's talking about they're worried about their horoscope.
They're worried about pagan dates.
They're looking at the Scorpio and the Leo and the Taurus and the Aries and all that."
You know, it's not the Jewish calendar that we should all be observing.
That's what they say.
Because they say, well, because in verse nine it talks about how they, or verse eight talks
about them worshiping other gods.
Here's what he's saying, friend.
And this goes back to taking the Bible in context.
Because guess what Galatians chapter one is about?
How the Jews' religion is a false religion.
Guess what chapter two's about?
How the Jews' religion is a false religion.
Guess what chapter three is about?
How the Jews are not God's chosen people, but we are.
Guess what chapter four's about?
About how the Jews are Hagar and we're, you know, the children of Sarah, the children of
Isaac.
Guess what chapter five's about?
Verse one, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Behold I, Paul, say unto you that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing."
What's the bondage?
Going back under all this Jewish stuff.
Well that, guess what?
That's the same bondage in verse nine of chapter three, or four.
Look at chapter four verse nine, "At the end, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage,
you observe days and months and times and years."
That's what chapter six is about.
Hey, the circumcision doesn't avail anything.
Chapter five says it's not about being circumcised.
You're a debtor to do the whole law.
You can't keep the whole Torah.
It's not going to happen.
It's faith in Christ.
We're justified by faith.
We're God's chosen people by faith.
It's not the Jews.
Chapter one, two, three, four, five and six, they all hammer that same truth, all of them.
It's the whole book of Galatians.
Every chapter, and then somebody just says, "Oh, well here he's just worried about them
checking their horoscope."
Now look, I'm against checking your horoscope, amen?
That's not what this is about.
This is about observing days and months and times and year like when you're following
the Jewish calendar.
Like when you're observing Sabbath days, feast days, holy days, and you're circumcising and
going under the law and so forth.
We should be not circumcising our children.
We should not be abstaining from meats and drinks and the carnal ordinances.
We are to observe the New Testament.
And this is very clear.
And of course the Hebrew roots will just crowd.
They'll take this just so out of context.
It's mind numbing how they could get that out of chapter four verse 10.
It's like they're just isolating it all by itself.
They forgot about the other six chapters that are surrounding it.
It's a classic example of that.
And so Colossians 2, there's no way around it.
Galatians 4, there's no way around it.
Romans chapter 14 verse 5 says, "One man esteemeth one day above another.
Another esteemeth every day alike.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."
Therefore, if we had to observe the Sabbath and these holidays, then why would he say
you could esteem every day alike and be 100% right with God?
You can celebrate no holidays.
You can treat all 365 days identical to each other and be right with God.
Right?
Look, you don't have to celebrate any holiday.
You don't have to celebrate Christmas.
You don't have to celebrate Thanksgiving.
You don't have to celebrate Memorial Day.
You don't have to celebrate the 4th of July.
You don't have to celebrate Valentine's Day.
You don't have to celebrate New Year's Day or St. Patrick's Day or Valentine's Day or
any of that.
You don't have to celebrate Easter.
You don't have to celebrate anything.
There is no commandment in the Bible that commands you to observe any holiday.
Now I don't believe that holidays are bad.
I think that holidays are good, except for the Jewish holidays, because I don't want
the Apostle Paul to be up in heaven getting scared about me.
I don't want Paul to be like, "Man, I'm afraid of Stephen Anderson."
When I see him with that shofar blowing the trumpet on the new moon, I'm afraid of him.
I don't want him to be afraid.
I want him to rest in peace about them.
And a lot of them were actually even trusting those things for salvation.
And he's saying, "Look, Christ has become of no effect unto you.
Whosoever of you are justified by the law, you've fallen from grace.
We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness, which is by faith.
In Christ Jesus neither circumcised.
He said, "You observe times and months and days and years."
He said, "I'm afraid of you."
He was even doubting whether they're even saved, because they'd been so Judaized and
they were getting circumcised and they're observing all these holidays and they thought
that they had to do those things and he was really worried.
Colossians chapter 2.
This Sabbath has been fulfilled.
This is one of the carnal ordinances that we do not observe.
The meats, the drinks, the divers, washings, the carnal ordinances.
In the New Testament we do not observe the Sabbath days.
We do not observe the seventh day Sabbath nor do we observe the new moons or the feast
days or the holy days of the Old Testament.
And in fact when people observe these things in Paul's day in Galatia, so when it comes
to this issue of the Sabbath day in the New Testament we do not observe the seventh day
Sabbath day.
We don't observe that in the New Testament.
Why?
Because the Bible is clear in the New Testament that that is not enforced.
go to Colossians chapter two.