Do you find it strange that Jesus didn't make the 10th leper go to the priest? Yes, he told them to go, as it had been written in the Law of Moses. But when the 10th leper came back and thanked Jesus, what did Jesus tell him? Why did Jesus tell him that he didn't need to go to the Priest? Do you think Jesus was in violation of the Law of Moses when He said this? Is Jesus not in us? Why does Paul say that accepting circumcision is denying Jesus? Why didn't Jesus have the "adulterer" and the one she committed adultery with, stoned to death? Why does Jesus take the Law out of the letter and place it in the heart? Why does the NT tell us that the Temple is no longer a structure/building, but it the body of Jesus Christ - and that we are all a part of it? Why are we all called priests and saints - and Jesus is our high priest? Why did Jesus have to die in the flesh? Dying to the Law of Moses?
1 Corinthians 3
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
[SUP]2 [/SUP]You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; [SUP]
3 [/SUP]being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us,
written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.[SUP]
4 [/SUP]Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. [SUP]
5 [/SUP]
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, [SUP]
6 [/SUP]who
also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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7 [/SUP]But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading
as it was, [SUP]
8 [/SUP]how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? [SUP]
9 [/SUP]For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. [SUP]
10 [/SUP]For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses
it. [SUP]
11 [/SUP]For if that which fades away
was with glory, much more that which remains
is in glory.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in
our speech, [SUP]
13 [/SUP]and
are not like Moses,
who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of
Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. [SUP]
14 [/SUP]But their minds were hardened;
for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. [SUP]
15 [/SUP]But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;
[SUP]16 [/SUP]but
whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
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18 [/SUP]But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Romans 7
Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that
the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? [SUP]
2 [/SUP]For the married woman
(the married woman would be God's wife -Jeremiah 3:8 - at the bottom of this post) is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband
(this would be God / Jesus Christ) dies, she is released from the law
(this would be the Law of Moses - from God) concerning the husband. [SUP]
3 [/SUP]So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress
(how many times in the OT did God call Israel/Judah a harlot) ; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law (again this is the Law of Moses), so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man
(This would be the resurrected Jesus, which is explained below with actual scripture, instead of my humble words).
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4 [/SUP]Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. [SUP]
5 [/SUP]For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were
aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. [SUP]
6 [/SUP]But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]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.” [SUP]
8 [/SUP]But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin
is dead. [SUP]
9 [/SUP]I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; [SUP]
10 [/SUP]and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; [SUP]
11 [/SUP]for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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13 [/SUP]Therefore 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, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
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14 [/SUP]For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. [SUP]
15 [/SUP]For what 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. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]But if I do the very thing I do not want
to do, I agree with the Law,
confessing that the Law is good. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. [SUP]
18 [/SUP]For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good
is not. [SUP]
19 [/SUP]For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. [SUP]
20 [/SUP]But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
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21 [/SUP]I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. [SUP]
22 [/SUP]For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, [SUP]
23 [/SUP]but 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. [SUP]
24 [/SUP]Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
[SUP]25 [/SUP]Thanks 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.
We see in verses 7-13 that the Law was not bad, but man is incapable of keeping it. We are not perfect, in the flesh, but are made perfect in the spirit, through Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
Israel was restored as the Church. But, anyone that was a bloodline descendant of Jacob was not excluded if they accepted/accept Jesus. Jesus was the first fruit. And we, if we continue in Him, produce the same fruit - although it is not us, but Christ in us.