Love:  Before, During and After the Law
(Mosaic Law Can't Nullify God's Word)

Before the Law, God created and blessed man.  Man is to be loved.

Genesis 1:27-28 (KJV)   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Before the Law, man returned first fruit to God.  Man was to love God wholeheartedly.  (Man was required to obey the voice of God.)

Genesis 4:4  (KJV) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

Genesis 26:5 (NLT)   I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, regulations, and laws.

Before the Law, the seventh-day was blessed and reserved to commemorate loving God wholeheartedly.  (See Genesis 2:3)

Before, during, and after the Law, the spirit of keeping the Law was a requirement:  Man was always to love his brother and love God.  This is what the commandments and the words of the prophets [the voice of God made manifest] are based upon. 

Galatians 5:14  (Weymouth New Testament)  For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow man equally with yourself."

Matthew 22:40 (Weymouth New Testament) The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."

Romans 13:8  (Weymouth New Testament) Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

This love for God and our neighbor, being required even from the beginning is still manifested by our paying first fruits through tithes and Sabbath observance.  This was before, during and after the Law.  We can not merely verbalize that we love God, we must confirm / prove those words through actions of obedience.

Deuteronomy 19:15b (NLT) The facts of the case must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Jesus loves us so much He gave his life for us.  (See Ephesians 5:25b & 1 John 3:16)  We are commanded to love each other that much [love each other enough to lay down our lives for each other].  (See John 13:34 & John 15:12)

Those that can’t and won’t put away stumbling blocks that help lead others to death (away from Jesus) are not commandment keepers.  [His commandments are not burdensome.]  (See 1 John 5:3)

Jesus walked in His Father's will.  The Lord Jesus did not impose a new week day of commemoration.  The Son of Man did not rescind [and make void] His Father’s Word.  The Spirit that blessed the seventh day is the same Spirit that created all things (See Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:11 & John 1:1-3).  It is Jesus Himself that sanctified the Sabbath in the beginning (He is not double minded).

John 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Isaiah 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

John 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Isaiah 58:13(a)  If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day

Mark 2:28  Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

There is not a single command given by Jesus [or anyone else] that has power to nullify what He declared in Genesis 2:3. There is no authorization issued to warrant redemption of God's possession, His Holy Day.  Assuming something consecrated is no longer consecrated is dangerous action. (Just like it is not wise to assume my wallet, money and credit cards don't belong to me, and are yours for the taking).  There are no biblical examples of the Apostles, Prophets or the Lord Jesus Himself annulling the day that was committed eternally to God by Himself (See Mark 2:28 above).  The Lord’s necessitation of rest is recorded in Genesis 2:3 and is corroborated by Exodus 16:22-30, Exodus 20:8, Exodus 31:15-17, Isaiah 66:23, Matthew 24:20, Hebrews 4:4, etc.

Mosaic Law could not invalidate the Promise of Inheritance made to Abraham.  If it did God’s Word would be broken.  God can not lie.  God’s Word can not return void.  God is truth.

Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

1 John 5:6(b) the Spirit is truth

Just as the Mosaic Law had no power over the Promise that preceded it, likewise the Law had no power over the Sabbath that predates it.  (God’s Word will not be broken).

If Jesus, whom was under the Law [before He was glorified], had been guilty of transgressing the Law [by making the Sabbath of none effect], He would have been a sinner, and would have been unworthy to redeem the Church.  Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath, as [Son of] man was bound by the Mosaic Law, and under such, did not break the Law.  Even some of the Pharisees realized Jesus could not have been breaking the Sabbath.

God has not changed His mind concerning the seventh day.  He will not be changing His mind (He is not a man).  Because the Law was based on love, Jesus was not against the Law (Jesus is Love).  The Lord Jesus satisfied the Law of Love, redeeming the Church.  He did not render the Example of Love useless.