{"id":10662,"date":"2019-04-25T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2019-04-25T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:39:32","slug":"passover-or-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10662\/passover-or-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Passover or Easter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you keep the Biblical Feast of Passover, or Easter Sunday???<\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony S.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi, Anthony,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for writing, and for your question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As for Passover and Easter, we observe neither of them; nor do we observe any other day as holy. We believe that Jesus fulfilled the shadows of the law so that we may now walk in the holiness, power, and wisdom of the Spirit, free from sin. To continue in the law after the Son of God has come and fulfilled it is to hang on to the wrapper after the candy has been taken out of it. The candy, once in hand, makes the wrapper trash. This is what Paul was teaching in 2Corinthians 3:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“7. Now, if the ministry of death by letters engraved on stones came with glory, so that the children of Israel were not able to gaze at Moses\u2019 face because of the glory on his face (which ministry is being brought to an end),<\/em><\/span>
\n8. how shall the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?<\/em><\/span>
\n9. For if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness overflow with glory.<\/em><\/span>
\n10. Indeed, that which was once made glorious has been made not glorious in this regard, on account of the surpassing glory.<\/em><\/span>
\n11. And certainly, if that which is being done away with was glorious, much more glorious is that which lasts.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The law was the wrapper, in which the Son of God was hidden until he was revealed in Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If we were to keep any rituals and holy days, we would keep those of the law that God gave Moses. Christian holy days such as easter were never of God to start with. However, walking in the Spirit and living in the righteousness of God, we have no need of the ceremonies which foretold of this grace.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope that helps you understand our position on what Paul called, \u201cworks of the law\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Please feel free to respond. May God richly bless you and yours.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Your servant in Christ,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you keep the Biblical Feast of Passover, or Easter Sunday??? Anthony S. ======== Hi, Anthony, Thank you for writing, and for your question. As for Passover and Easter, we observe neither of them; nor do we observe any other day as holy. We believe that Jesus fulfilled the shadows of the law so that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}