he New Testament Names  Some of the Ten Commandments, therefore all are bound today?

      The above reasoning is really too slick and slippery for Sabbatarians to stand on; it allows more than they will accept. Sabbatarians do not want the whole law; their main contention is to keep the Ten Commandments today and especially the Sabbath. Yet they most certainly deny the following line of reasoning. Paul referred to the law, “For it is written in the law of Moses, ‘You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.’ Is it oxen that God is concerned about?” (1 Cor. 9:9). What if we should contend that since Paul quoted from the Law of Moses that all the Law of Moses was binding upon Christians today? Sabbatarians would oppose such, yet this has been brought forth by their camp regarding the Ten Commandments. However, we must either accept their logic until its end or reject it all. If it is true regarding the Ten Commandments, then it must also be true regarding the whole law. The Law of Moses is not binding upon Christians today. It cannot be kept perfectly by man; it doesn’t give life but gives condemnation; it identifies and clarifies sin but doesn’t give full release and forgiveness from it.  Peter spoke of those who tried to bind it upon disciples of Christ saying, “. . .why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?” (Acts 15:10). Paul penned, “You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. . .this persuasion does not come from Him who calls you” (Gal. 5:4, 8). And again, “. . . you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ . . . But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by. . .” (Rom. 6:4, 6). What law was Paul speaking of? He identifies it in verse 7 as the Ten Commandment Law, “I would not have know sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, ‘You shall not covet.’” This was the tenth commandment (Exod. 20:17). 

      Simply because there are some similarities between the Law of Moses and the Law of Christ doesn’t mean that Moses’ law is binding on Christians today. The Australian constitution cites words of the first amendment of the United States of America. Though it has incorporated elements of the US constitution, it would be absurd to suggest that Australians must be accountable to US law. The state of Washington has the same maximum speed limit law as California, but California law doesn’t apply in Washington and vice versa. Neither do we obey the speed limit in Washington because of California’s speed limit.

      The New Testament does incorporate nine of the Ten Commandments. It forbids having other gods, idolatry, cursing, murder, adultery, stealing, lying covetousness (1 Cor. 8:4; Acts 19:26; Col. 3:8; Rom. 13:8-10; 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Eph. 4:10; Col. 3:9; Eph. 5:3). We are bound to these laws, not because they are in the Old Testament Decalogue, but rather because they are Christ’s. It also tells us to honor our parents (Eph. 6:1). But regarding Sabbath keeping, it says “Therefore let no one acts as your judge in regard to food or drink or . . . a Sabbath day—things which are a mere shadow of what is to come. . .” (Col 2:16, 17, NASB).