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1 | ten commandments are they valid today | Bible general Archive 4 | Not I, but Christ | 202198 | ||
Please read Acts 15:1-11, paying special attention to verses 5, and 11. To put it in short, certain men came from Judaea, and were telling the gentiles that they were to be circumcised AND to follow the law, in order to be saved. Sounds familiar? Like many churches today, they dealt with a false doctrine that attempted to replace God's grace with works, as the means to salvation. Well in verse 2 you read how they had no small dissension and disputation with those. The end was that we are saved by grace, and not by works, because we cannot save ourselves. Grace means undeserved favor. The bible tells us that the law was a "tutor" in order to lead us to Christ. In Galatians 3:22-25 we see this great truth. It says: 22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. You might want to also look at Hebrews 8:7-13. Here the author of Hebrews mentions how a much better covenant than the law was created, and how the law was written into the hearts of every believer because of Christ. How this new covenant was so much better than the old, and that if the old was faultless, there would be no need for a new one. Since its inception, no one has been able to follow the law, and it was put there as a shadow of something much better, in order to show the guilt of man, and how no flesh in justified by any works. The law was there to condemn men, and point to the only answer for man's sin: Jesus Christ. He is the reason for our salvation, and he fulfilled the law when we could not, in order to bridge the gap between God and man. He satisfied both the law, and God's judgment, thus making peace. As Christ said, "It is Finished!" |
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2 | What was different about Berean | Acts | Not I, but Christ | 202131 | ||
The lesson of the Berean is one of how we view subjectivity and objectivity. You read in Act 17 verse 11 how they received the scriptures with readiness of mind, and they SEARCHED the scriptures to see if these things were so. What is so important about that? Today in many churches, it is experiences that guide truth, when that is a clear mistake. The Word of God should ALWAYS be the guide. That is being objective. Objectivity should always guide any sort of subjectivity(feelings, emotions, experiences). Since the Beareans were written about doing this, it really shows how important it is to follow the Word, in shaping our doctrine, and not through some experience. That is not to take away from subjectivity. Subjectively I received the gospel with great joy, after all, when one realizes that he is in right standing with God, that is a great thing. But we need to always make sure to guide our feeling, thoughts experience with truth, and not by itself, lest we fall for some sort of deception. That should be a fundamental truth in every church. | ||||||