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1 | Can you break the OT Law? | Matt 5:17 | Jagfire | 173166 | ||
In place of the Old Testament law, we are under the law of Christ which is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37-40). Technically, the Ten Commandments are not applicable to Christians.. HOWEVER, 9 of the Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God we won't be worshipping other gods or worshipping idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we won't be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. So, we are not under any of the requirements of the Old Testament law. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we do those two things faithfully, everything else will fall into place. |
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2 | Can you break the OT Law? | Matt 5:17 | Jagfire | 173182 | ||
When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:23-25; Ephesians 2:15). The key to understanding this issue is knowing that the Old Testament law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. Some of the laws were to make the Israelites know how to obey and please God (the Ten Commandments for example), some of them were to show them how to worship God (the sacrificial system), some of them were to simply make the Israelites different from other nations (the food and clothing rules). None of the Old Testament law applies to us today. If we do the two things I mentioned in my last post and referenced (Love God and love our neighbors), we will be fulfilling all that Christ wants for us to do, and as I said before everything else will fall into place. So it's said that if Jesus did not “abolish” the law (Matthew 5), then it must still be binding.. such components as the Sabbath day requirement must be operative still, along with perhaps numerous other elements of the OT Law. This assumption is grounded upon a misunderstanding of the words and intent of this passage... Christ did not suggest that the binding nature of the law of Moses would remain forever in effect. This view would contradict everything we learn from the balance of the New Testament record (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:23-25; Ephesians 2:15) - Stay with me.. The word “abolish” is translated Greek as “kataluo,” literally meaning to “loose down.” The word is found seventeen times in the New Testament. It is used of the destruction of the Jewish temple by the Romans (Matthew 26:61; Acts 6:14), and of the dissolving of the human body at death (2 Corinthians 5:1). The term can carry the meaning of “to overthrow,” or to “render vain, deprive of success.” In classical Greek, it was used with institutions, laws, etc., to convey the idea of “to invalidate.” Now.. note how the word is used in Matthew 5:17. In this context, “abolish” is set in opposition to “fulfill.” Christ came “...not to abolish, but to fulfill.” The meaning is this: Jesus did not come to this earth for the purpose of acting as an opponent of the law. His goal was not to prevent its fulfillment. Rather, he revered it, loved it, obeyed it, and brought it to fruition. He fulfilled the law’s prophetic utterances regarding himself (see Luke 24:44). Christ fulfilled the demands of the OT law, which called for perfect obedience, or else imposed a “curse” (see Galatians 3:10 and 3:13). In this sense, the law’s design will ever have an abiding effect. It will always accomplish the purpose for which it was given.. But if the law of Moses bears the same relationship to us today (binding) as it did before Christ came, then it was not fulfilled, and Jesus failed at what he came “to do.” On the other hand, if the Lord did accomplish what he came to accomplish, then the law was fulfilled, and it is not a binding legal institution today. Further, if the law of Moses was not fulfilled by Christ, and thus remains as a binding legal system for today, then it is not just partially binding. Rather, it is totally compelling system. Jesus plainly said that not one “jot or tittle” (representative of the smallest markings of the Hebrew script) would pass away until all was fulfilled. Consequently, nothing of the law was to fail until it had completely accomplished its purpose. Jesus fulfilled the law. Jesus fulfilled all of the law. We cannot say that Jesus fulfilled the sacrificial system, but did not fulfill the other aspects of the law. Jesus either fulfilled all of the law, or none of it. What Jesus' death means for the sacrificial system, it also means for the other aspects of the law. |
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3 | Can you break the OT Law? | Matt 5:17 | Wild Olive Shoot | 173191 | ||
“The moral law, in its purity and perfection, was written on the heart of Adam in his first creation; was sadly obliterated by his sin and fall; upon several accounts, and to answer various purposes, a system of laws was written on tables of stone for the use of the Israelites; and in regeneration the law is reinscribed on the hearts of God's people; and even among the Gentiles, and in their hearts, there are some remains of the old law and light of nature, which as by their outward conduct appears, so by the inward motions of their minds,” – John Gill Romans 2:11-16: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. So then to the Gentiles who had not the Law of the Jews, what Law was written upon their hearts? What laws are written upon the hearts of the regenerated? Christ fulfilled the Law. We are no longer enslaved by it, to be condemned by it because we can’t live to the letter of it. His own words tell us He did not come to abolish it, so why is it so many now feel the Law, the moral Law of God, is void? WOS |
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