Post by AndrewPost by Stephen KorsmanPost by AndrewWhen you surrender your heart and life to the Savior, the legalistic mindset
will evaporate in the sunlight of His love and mercy. Then His law will have
its rightful place in your understanding, because it will be seen from the light
of Jesus Christ..who IS the Lawgiver (Isaiah 33:22).
He replaced that law with a greater law.
He showed that His law was not legalism but love codified, and that we must
be born again, thus having the law written on our hearts according to the new
covenant promise.
"I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will
be their God and they shall be my people." Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10.
A new law.
Post by AndrewTo say that He "replaced" the Decalogue, which was His law of love codified,
would be to say that His law was *imperfect.*
That is what the Bible says. The perfect law that was summarised by the
Decalogue is now in our hearts.
2Co 3:7-9 KJV But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in
stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly
behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was
to be done away: (8) How shall not the ministration of the spirit be
rather glorious? (9) For if the ministration of condemnation be glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Heb 8:6-7 KJV But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how
much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established
upon better promises. (7) For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then should no place have been sought for the second.
Post by AndrewBut we are specifically told that
His law of love codified (the Decalogue) IS perfect. "The law of the LORD is
perfect, converting the soul." Ps 19:7.
That text doesn't say Decalogue. The perfect law that was summarised by the
Decalogue is now in our hearts.
Post by AndrewNo, God did not change His mind and replace His law.
He didn't change his mind - it was his plan all along.
Post by AndrewHe did exactly as was
prophesied that He would. He magnified it and made it honorable, as should
we if we love Him.
"The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; He will
magnify the law, and make it honorable." Isa 42:21.
That's exactly what He did throughout His life and in all of His teachings.
Therefore let us not war against His law, for then we would be fighting
against Him who is our Maker and our Redeemer.
We're not fighting against his law. We just don't keep yours.
Please answer this, Andrew, if you can:
You are studying with preconceived notions about the law, thinking it is
divided up into commandments and ordinanances etc. Yet the 10 commandments
are also called ordinances, and the Mosaic law is referred to as
commandments.
Lev 27:34 KJV These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses
for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
This refers to the law of Moses.
Deu 5:1 KJV And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O
Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that
ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
This is right before the 10 Commandments.
Eze 20:18-21 KJV But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye
not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor
defile yourselves with their idols: (19) I am the LORD your God; walk in
my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; (20) And hallow my
sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that
I am the LORD your God. (21) Notwithstanding the children rebelled against
me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths:
then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger
against them in the wilderness.
The Sabbath is an ordinance?
Lev 19:37 KJV Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Includes commands from the 10 Commandments AND the rest, lumping them all
together into statutes and judgements.
Deu 6:24-25 KJV And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear
the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as
it is at this day. (25) And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe
to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded
us.
"These commandments" are "these statutes" and God commanded them.
Animal sacrifices - are they the law of Moses, or the law of God?
Luk 2:23 KJV (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that
openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
2Ch 31:3 KJV He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the
burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and
the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set
feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
"Honour your father and your mother" - the law of Moses, or the law of God?
Mar 7:10 KJV For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso
curseth father or mother, let him die the death
Can you explain these to me? Surely these passages have got their terms
mixed up?
And is the Torah the book of the law of Moses, or the book of the law of
God?
Neh 8:1 KJV And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into
the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the
scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded
to Israel.
Neh 8:18 KJV Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read
in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on
the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
God bless,
Stephen
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Stephen Korsman
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