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NASB | Leviticus 1:1 Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, |
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Subject: Unclean food for the Christian? |
Bible Note: Brother Tim How does Matthew 5:17-18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. [KJV] fit in with what you are saying? Jesus seems to be telling us that the Law will stay in effect until the end of the age. I think that we as believers are not under the Law of sin and death but now are under a new Law, the law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2). Is it possible that when we try to do this "walk" by our own understanding and in our own effort that we place ourselves back under the Law that is still in effect for non-believers? The Law was the way to righteousness. A way that none of us could completely follow. A way of works. The purpose of the law was to show us that we, in our own effort, could not attain that which only Jesus was able to do, BE RIGHTEOUS. By our own inability to ovserve the Law in it entirety we learn how much sin is in control of our lives. We find that is is only through Jesus that we are able to attain the unattainable. Romans 3:21-28 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; [22] Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: [23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. [27] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. [28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. [KJV] So now I understand that we are no longer under the law of sin and death but have a new and better contract the law of the Spirit of life. Not that the law has been abolished but that it has been superceded. In Christ Jeff |