Galatians 4:10
"Ye observe
days, and months, and times, and years."
“Days … years”:
The
rituals, ceremonies and festivals of the Jewish religious calendar which God
had given, but were never required for the church.
Paul warns the
Galatians, as he did the Colossians
(see notes on Rom.
14:1-6; Col. 2:16-17),
against
legalistically observing them as if they were required by God or could earn
favor with Him.
The Galatians were
beginning to “observe” that part of the law least repugnant to them, the
calendar: “days”
(Sabbath, fast, and
feast days),
“months”
(new moons or feast
days beginning with each month);
“times”
(Passover,
Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles);
and
“years”
(sabbatical years,
and the Year of Jubilee).
This was very much a
part of the law.
This observance of
days had to do with the Sabbath and with the feast of the law.
There are some
religions today that are doing like these people in Galatia were doing.
On one hand, they
wanted the benefits of Christianity, but they were very much caught up in the
law.
This is one of the
reasons
the Christians celebrate Sunday
instead of Saturday
for their holy day.
The Christians are
celebrating the resurrection of Jesus.
The others are
living in the law.
Galatians 4:11
"I am afraid of
you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain."
1
Accept the one whose
faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.
2
One person's faith
allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only
vegetables.
3
The one who eats
everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who
does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted
them.
4
Who are you to judge
someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they
will stand, for the LORD is able to make them stand.
5
One person considers
one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of
them should be fully convinced in their own mind.
6
Whoever regards one
day as special does so to the LORD. Whoever eats meat does so to the LORD, for
they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the LORD and gives
thanks to God.
16
Therefore
do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a
religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
17
These
are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in
Christ.
Now we can
understand what Paul was referring to in Colossians when he wrote about meat
and drink and Sabbath days
which are shadows. There were certain prescribed offerings for each of those
yearly feast days, and they
were shadows pointing to the future sacrifice of Jesus.
The Resurrection of
Jesus - Bible Story.
When Jesus rose from the dead, he confirmed his identity
as the Son of God and his work of
atonement, redemption, reconciliation, and
salvation.
The resurrection
was
a real,
literal,
physical
raising of
Jesus’ body from the dead.
Jesus
was arrested,
tried
and
found guilty
of
claiming to be a king.
