When Jesus gave us the "Two Greatest Commandments," He was quoting the law:
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thine soul and with all thy might.: Deut 6:5
"...thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord." Lev 19:18.
These two are a summation of the Ten. If you love the Lord, supremely, you will not worship or bow down to other gods, take His name in vain, or, profane His holy day.
If you love your neighbour as yourself, you will honor your parents, do no murder, nor commit adultery, steal, bear false witness or covet.
Jesus amplified the commandments. That is why He said, that, if a man looks upon a woman to lust, he has, already, committed adultery with her in his heart. If we are angry with our brother, without cause, we are guilty of murder. He took the commandments to the thoughts and intents of the heart - which, is where He writes the New Covenant. Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:10.
To think, that, you can worship and bow down to other gods, take His name in vain, profane His holy day, murder, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness, covet and walk with a holy God is grave error.
There is a disctinction in the law. The ceremonial law pointed to the sacrifice of Jesus and was nailed to the cross:
Ceremonial Law:
1. Is called, "the law contained in ordinances." Eph 2:15
2. Was spoken by Moses. Lev 1:1-3
3. Was written by Moses in a book. 11 chron 35:12
4. Was placed in the side of The Ark. Deut 31:24-26
5. Was nailed to the cross. Col 2:14
6. Was abolished by Christ. Eph 2:15
Ten Commandments:
1. Is called, the "royal law." Ja 2:8
2. Was spoken by God. Deut 4:12,13
3. Was written with the finger of God. Ex 31:18
4. Was placed inside The Ark. Ex 40:20; Heb 9:4
5. Is to "stand forever and ever." Ps 111:7.8
6. Was not destroyed by Christ. Matt 5:17,18.
Col 2 deals with the ceremonial law: Sabbath feast days: Passover: Jesus, our Passover Lamb; Unleavened Bread: Jesus was without sin; Tabernacles: He "tabernacled among us."
Circumcision is now, the circumcision of the heart.
Clean/unclean: Jesus was clean, became unclean, so that we might be clean
Washings: Is now water baptism...
The Ten Commandments reveal God's character in contrast to ours. The Holy Spirit uses them in our on-going walk of sanctification.
Acts 20:7 says in the Greek: "And the one of the Sabbaths, having been assembled the disciples to break bread, Paul reasoned to them, being about to depart on the morrow..."
They met on the Sabbath, Paul preached past sundown into the first day of the week.
They did not meet on Sunday.
PRESBYTERIAN: "The Christian Sabbath (Sunday) is not in the Scripture, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath."- Dwight's theology, vol.4, p.401
CONGREGATIONAL: "There is no command in the Bible requiring us to observe the first day of the week as the Christian Sabbath." - Fowler, Mode and Subjects of Baptism.
LUTHERAN: "The observance of the Lord's day (Sunday) is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church."-"Augsburg Confession of Faith," quoted in Cox's Sabbath Manual, p. 287.
EPISCOPALIAN: "The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect, far from them and from the apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday."-Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church, p. 186.
METHODIST: "It is true there is no positivie command for infant baptism...Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week."-Rev. Amos Binney, Theological Compend, pp. 180,181, 1902 ed.
BAPTIST: Dr, Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual, at a New York Ministers' Conference, Nov 13, 1893 said,
"There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week, with all it's duties, privileges, and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament, absolutely not. There is no Scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week.
"Of course," he continues, "I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from early Christian fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of Paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned from the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!"
Our Creator instituted the Sabbath at Creation. He made keeping the Sabbath a commandment. He never abolished, or, changed it.
Jesus prophesied the Sabbath, still, being kept during the Great Tribulation:
"But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day: For then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, NOR EVER SHALL BE..." Matt 24:20,21.
And we are not there, yet.
Commandments, are not requests. If we choose which commandments, that, we want to obey, then, who is Lord?