If you understand the OP enough to be responding to it, then you know what, who, and anything else pertinent to your question. A reread is in order. I will spell this out for you though, Yeshua is our Example, He obeyed not only the law but also the Commandments. Yeshua teaches us to obey the commandments. His brother, John does the same in his letters, and in Revelation we are taught the importance of obeying the commandments where it speaks of the saints obeying them. Revelation even separates obeying the law from faith in Yeshua quite deliberately in order to emphasize the difference. Both are required to get through this Way given each of us by our Savior, and come the tribulation it will be very important.
Oh I do know what is pertinent to my question. What amazes me is so many who don't know this.
What is the stumbling block and who are the stumbling blocks here?
A re-read? Once was already too much.
You wrote down the whole law, said that you work at it and that it is a joy to you and then attempted to twist it and say it is not work at all. I don't think anyone can be more deceived than that.
The Lord Jesus gives us a new way.
Romans 9:29-30
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29 [/SUP]And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
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30 [/SUP]What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
If you don't understand this New Way that the Lord Jesus Christ has given us how can you presume to be so arrogant and defend your deception against Christianity? Why not just say you don't understand the New Way and try to learn what it is?
Hebrews 8:4-13
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4 [/SUP]For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
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5 [/SUP]Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
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6 [/SUP]But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
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7 [/SUP]For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
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8 [/SUP]For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
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9 [/SUP]Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
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10 [/SUP]For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
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11 [/SUP]And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
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12 [/SUP]For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
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13 [/SUP]In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
I don't know why I keep putting bible verses up for you. Do you understand any of it?
The reason why God made a better covenant is because hardly anyone could follow His Law by their own strength. Even David, a man after Gods Own Heart, stumbled.
So now we have a new covenant. One where we don't follow His Law by our own Strength. One where He writes His Law on our mind and in our heart. He gives us His Holy Spirit and a heart of flesh so that we can know what Love is and share it with others. We abide in Christ now and He grows the Holy Spirit inside us. All of this is by faith.
But if we go back to working at the law we have fallen from grace. If we go back to working at the Law we are effectively saying the same thing as the people in the wilderness, which is don't let us hear His voice, we can't take it, just tell us what God wants and we'll do it.
If that is what you want then no one is stopping you. But don't label it Christianity. That is deception. That is a stumbling block.
Matthew 18:3-6
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3 [/SUP]And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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4 [/SUP]Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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5 [/SUP]And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
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6 [/SUP]But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
