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NASB	Matthew 5:17 ¶ "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Matthew 5:17 ¶ "Do not think that I came to do away with or undo the Law [of Moses] or the [writings of the] Prophets; I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

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Bible Question: Hi Doc,

I think without realising it the subject matter has been changed and we are out of focussed.Instead of focussing on the 10 Commandments my personality has been made the subject for dicussion.May be my leading questions
have caused it. If so, I tender my apology. IN which case,I would reconstruct my questions and re
submit it as a simple open question.
"WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS?"
I hope we can stay focussed this time.

I am looking forward to receiving your expert comments and comments by other helpful respondents will also be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Bible Answer: Greetings,
The Ten Commandments could be likened in this day and age to one who has just fallen out of an air plane and since he is blind he doesn’t know what his problem is. The Commandments are screaming in his ear that he headed for the ground and there is nothing anyone can do to save him, with the exception of God and he better start calling for Him to help before it’s too late. When one finally realizes that God sent Jesus to be our help in time of need, i.e. the one who paid our price and He can provide a soft landing, “IF” we will call on and depend on Him; then the Commandments have done what the were intended to accomplish.

Romans 7:7-25
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." 8But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. 9And I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died; 10and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11for sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. 14For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16But if I do the very thing I do not wish to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good. 17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which indwells me. 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish. 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wishes to do good. 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

The object of the Commandments is to show us “we are helpless” and to bring us to Jesus for salvation; the Commandments were the law that is to direct us to Christ.
Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Notice it’s only the end for those that fully trust in Jesus Christ, God’s appointed one!
CDBJ