Are we under the law for the Sabbath? Turn to Colossians chapter 2 with me. You have to think about what’s going on with the gospel spreading and what happened.
They have all these commands, by the way. The Pharisees were the experts of these 613 commands, and they wrote a lot of insights. They, the Pharisees, took the 613 commands and made a mountain out of them. They had all this legislation out of the 613, like about washing.
You had to wash. Your mom probably made you wash when you were little, but boy they really believed in washing. They believed that you had to wash with your hands up, your elbows down. You had to pour water, the water had to drip down like this, it had to go this way, you had to wipe with a cloth immediately after, and you couldn’t touch anything. It was almost like going into surgery. They went overboard on washing. They also went overboard on tithing. Then, they went overboard on the Sabbath and that’s where we get the Sabbath day journey.
The church is born from literature, all written by Jews, all the Bible’s written by Jewish people except for two little parts. Nebuchadnezzar a Babylonian wrote part, and he was not a Jew. Luke was a proselyte to Judaism, but we don’t believe that Luke was a Jew, he was writing along.
But all the rest of the Bible is written by Jews. All the apostles were Jewish. Jesus was Jewish. Naturally, the early Church was born into this maelstrom of Judaism. It was hard for the people to separate the words of the Bible. Those 613 commands are really in God’s word, but all this expansion on it. This is called the Mishna, the Talmud. These are commentaries, the Gemara. All of this was their enlargement of all the laws. Boy, did they enlarge the Sabbath day.
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