Thursday, May 2, 2013

WWJD? What would Jesus Do?

     What would Jesus do?  WWJD?  That was the question a few years back.   As a practicing Jew, which Jesus was, He would have obeyed the law-as long as He did not violate the law of God by obeying the law of man.  He is said to have been perfect(whole or complete) in all His thoughts and actions.  The only law available for Jesus to obey was the one handed to man via Moses-what we would call the Old Testament.   The New Testament was not written until after Jesus had lived His life here on earth as a mortal man who was also fully God.
     I here state my belief from what I see in Scripture.  Jesus fulfilled the whole law-He obeyed the whole law of God.  If God said it, He believed it and practiced it in His life.  That would include all the dietary laws; the prohibition of wearing linen and wool together; the prohibition of tatoos; all of the Ten Commandments.  Anything God had said would have been obeyed by a Jewish Jesus in the way that God would have had it obeyed.  To do anything less would eliminate Him from contention as the Messiah and Saviour of mankind.
     It is not required that one be a believer of Jesus' Messiahship; however if you are-then it would seem, you should adhere to the tenets of Christianity.  I accept grace-no, I embrace grace.  But Jesus, in His perfection, did not need grace.  He had completely fulfilled the law.  Everything He did-every thought, every action, had to be perfect and in complete compliance to the total law; anything less, and He is NOT the Messiah.
     Grace itself cannot abrogate the law.  To do so mars the perfection of the law.  Grace must work within the parameters of the law-man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was made for man.
      However, the Sabbath was to be obeyed, and a Jewish Jesus would have done so.  Not the laws of the Sabbath added by mankind, but the spirit of what the Sabbath was about.  Now, under grace, I can regard all days as the same or I can especially observe the Sabbath or I can observe some other day as particularly sacred-but is that violating one of the Ten Commandments?  I can see a Jewish Jesus as especially observing the Sabbath, but can I conceive of one who would have held another day, such as Sunday, as the primary day of observation of the proverbial "day of rest"?
     Enough said.  This was not to be a rant about Sabbath observance.  I believe that God can be worshiped any day of the week.  But it would appear that if you are observing only one day a week that the Biblical standard is Saturday, not Sunday.
   

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