Posted by Steve (Billy Steven Crider) on May 3, 2008, 11:25 am, in reply to "Happy Sabbath..."
Last Night, as Wendi and I read from Proverbs, a passage of scripture stood outand we had a discussion of it. I would like to share the same with you now. It is a statement, a counsel, a warning and a prophecy all inclusive.
PROVERBS 28:9
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
"EVEN HIS PRAYER SHALL BE ABOMINATION"
WOW...that, is a strong statement.
Consider that tommorrow, all across this world, many will celebrate a God whom the do not actually know, and reject by thier practice of "Sunday keeping," which forsakes the Sabbath and tries to reinstitute Sunday as it's replacement.
The keypoint of the law concerning Sabbath, was to "REMEMBER THE SABBATH," an event which is forsaken by celebrating Sunday as being such.
Look up the word in Webster's Dictionary, be sure read the passage titled "ORDER OF SENSES" in the section: "The Rules of Usage" in the front of the book, so that you fully understand what those numbers beside each possible defintion of the word actually imply.
The Point here is those who turn away thier ear "from hearing the law."
I recounted to Wendi a case in which a ministerial student debated with me on the subject of Sabbath, resorting to the age old controversy of Dispensations.
The doctrine of Dispensations teaches one to believe that there were different ages...the old testament times prior to Chirst being crucified were "the age of Law" and the timeframe since to be "the age of Grace."
Those who hold to such argue that we are no longer under the Law, this is so completely false.
Law and Grace have ALWAYS co-existed. When Mankind fell in Eden, the were told the prophecy of the son of man, to bruise the head of the serpent...this would be the Christ Slain from the Foundation of the World...before the creation of Man. When Man fell, there was one commandment...LAW. When he was judged...he found mercy in the prophecy of THE LORD GOD...of the coming of his seed to bruise the head of the serpent....pardon...GRACE.
When Christ spoke of the Law he stated that he was not sent to destroy the law...but to fullfill it. Those holding to the doctrine of dispensations argue that he "completed the law." as if to render it no longer in effect.
During my debate with the ministerial student...I pointed to him, that if the law was no longer of any effect...then he should allow me to sleep with his wife. I mean if we are getting rid of one commandment...why not another?
I went on to suggest that if this did not set well with him, he could sneak up on us in the act and slay me.
The fact is that man often adopts those aspects of God which fit his agenda and are appealing or support the same, And disregards other aspects.
When Christ spoke on the law...he didn't say he was completing the law...he said he was fulfilling the law...he was telling those pharisee's of his day that they didn't understand the law at all.
I fulfill the law of the land nearly everytime I come to a Stop light (Nearly 
) but the law doesn't go away. It still remains.
The truth of dispensationalism, is not to our obligations...it is to our history and our sins.
Christ came at a time when they were so out of whack on the law...that GRACE had to be emphasized. This doesn't mean that Grace replaced the law in existance...but in EMPHASIS!
David Koresh, by the report of David Thibodeau in his book "A Place Called Waco" reported having a vision, in which he saw "The LAW."
This event in an age when people are so out of whack on Grace, that they forsake the law altogether...discounting it...embracing whatever feels Good as righteousness...this is a load of crap!
David had to direct the world back to the Law. Just as in the Days of Yeshua Ben Yosef, this generation, is a generation of vipers and hypocrites...they preach tolerance and grace, but they slay women and children for the beliefs of thier fathers.
They speak of religious freedom, but they remove children from their parents, when the same parents do not exercise the good prudence to see to it that they use their freedom insuring their doctrine line up as appriately accepted by the mainstream who issued such "freedom" in the first place.
And if I were to Visit a local church tommorrow and mention Sabbath openly, I would no doubt be reprimanded, and told "We are not under the law" as they would then appeal to God almighty to bless whatever rhetoric they were about to spew as "truth" and I say:
PROVERBS 28:9
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
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