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1 | Ten commandments should be obeyed . | 1 John 2:4 | reasnerm | 53697 | ||
The Ten Commandments have not been done away with, they have been added to. Have you not read that Jesus added anger to the command against murder, He added lust to the command against adultery. When Jesus said to keep His commands, He referred primarily to His personal choice for #1 and #2, love God and love your neighbor. We cannot love the Father if we do not know the Father, and it is in the old testament where the Father is fully revealed. Read about His relationship with Israel in good times and bad, and compare it to His relationship with the Christian church today. Read of His relationships with individuals, from Hagar to Moses, from Rahab to David, and learn how He will relate with us. Read the Psalms and learn about worship and praise(Psalm 145 is especially good). Read Isaiah just because it is so good. In it we learn of the holiness of God(Chpt 6), of His plan of salvation for both Israel(44) and all of mankind(53). We learn what the Father really wants in a godly lifestyle (58). So study the Old Testament to learn to know and to love God the Father. Read the New Testament to learn to love your neghbor, which cannot be done if we do not tell him about Jesus and the way of salvation. | ||||||
2 | Ten commandments should be obeyed . | 1 John 2:4 | In the Andes | 53718 | ||
I'm sorry, I must completely disagree with just about everything you said. Yes, the 10 have been set aside in favor of a new covenant. Please read, Romans, 2 Corinthians, Ephesians, Colossians, Galatians and Hebrews. Our NEW COVENANT, has but 1 commandment. That is the Commandment of love. Rom-Jude teach us how to live out that new covenant. It is NOT in the OT that the Father is revealed. But in the NEW. Jesus came and clearly showed us the Father. That was unheard of in the OT. He was God to them. Not Father. They were NOT born again. Read the gospel of John, YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL (john 8). Read 1 John. NOW WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD. All OT saints were servants, NOT Children. I enjoy seeing God's faithfulness to His people in the OT. It encourages me and blesses me. I learn from there mistakes. (1 Cor 10) But I do NOT go there to find His relationship with me. His Spirit is in me, He has written His laws in my heart and poured out fully His spirit and Love there. People who spend too much time in the OT are often overly critical, judgemental and eager to see God punish wickedness. See Jonah. Most often you hear them saying things like, "God is Judging America for her sin" Listen, God told Abraham He would spare Sodom and Gammorah if He could find 10 righteous people. Hey, you can find 10 righteous people in every church on every corner in every city in every state. |
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3 | Ten commandments should be obeyed . | 1 John 2:4 | reasnerm | 53777 | ||
To start at the end of your kind response, you imply that since the coming of Jesus, God no longer judges the nations. I'll give only two examples: in 70 AD, God destroyed the city of Jerusalem as punishment for her rejection of Jesus. Josephus speaks of the chariot of God visible circling the city and then departing. In our own lifetime we have seen the iron curtain shattered by the hand of God, most visibly in Romania. There, a gospel preacher refused to be silenced and the churches rallied around him, and then the people joined, and the government fell. God still judges nations. But Father God is unchanging we are taught, so what you hope to find in the New Testament you will find in the Old. Isaiah 58:6-7 reads:" Is this not the fast I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?" When I read the Old testament, I am amazed at His love for the Children of Israel. Many times they went into sin, and He would patiently call and call them to come back to Him. Eventually, when His patience wore thin, He would punish, always justly, but He would punish. I am amazed that you can only find one commandment in the New Testament when Jesus even spoke of two. The passage in 1 John that started this discussion even speaks of "commandments". As for your suggested reading, I have just completed them all in the past couple of months except Hebrews, as I just got to Titus tonight. Found several neat verses there, too. Titus1:15-16:" To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient and disqualified for every good work." Titus 3:8-9:" This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men. But, avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the Law; for they are unprofitable and useless." Hey, isn't God great. God bless you and Maranatha! | ||||||