You have said so much, its hard to reply to each point...
I'll try.
Moses didn't give the 10 commandments, God did. God spoke them and wrote them down.
God gave moses the cerimonial laws and moses wrote them down.
Because of the hardness of their hearts God set it up that way. But we are told that the laws that were ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, would end with Christ.
I totally agree. But that is not every law in the old testament.
Is it a sin to steal today?
Can i lie and believe its okay?
I agree with you and the bible verses about faith being our righteousness not works of the law.
Because the law reveals our sin we are all lost when it comes to working our way to Heaven. But Jesus obeyed it perfectly and wants to give us the perfect robe of righteousness. So by faith and faith alone we can be perfect.
Do you stop here...? Many stop at this point.
The bible tells me that as a child of Christ i should act like one.
I shouldn't sin because of grace, not break the law because of faith, not act selfishly and disobediently because Jesus has paid the price.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Rom 6:13, 14,
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Love for Jesus will motivate a desire to obey.
You'll not obey if you don't know what is right or wrong.
If the law is thrown away what defines good and bad?
Jesus... yes and Jesus obeyed the law, He kept the sabbath perfectly, He never lied, He obeyed the Spirit. Jesus is the perfect example of obeying the law.
There is a difference between keeping the moral law to be saved, and keeping it because you are saved.
“we are told that the laws that were ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, would end with Christ.”
Yeah it worked like this
“And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”
Genesis 4:8 KJV
Man commits the first murder well before the Ten Commandments we’re given at Sinai.
so later God then adds this because of that sin committed by mankind he then needs to make this law
“And surely your blood of
your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”
Genesis 9:5-6 KJV
thats where this commandment came in hundreds of years later
“
Thou shalt not kill.”
Exodus 20:13 KJV
that commandment came because man started killing each other.
at he first commandment “have no other Gods make no heaven images “
That came because they spent 400 years in the most idolatrous nation on earth at the time ancient Egypt who worshipped things from cats , to alligators , tonthe sun tonthe stars to pharoah a man and made grace. Images everywhere so God delivered them out that and commanded them “ don’t make any images of God I’m the only God worship only me “
she wouldn’t have ever had to say that if idolatry wasn’t in the world can you understand what I’m saying ?
as mankind became wicked like this
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”
Genesis 6:5-6 KJV
At here came a need for God to tell those kind of people
what not to do
a don’t make any other Gods is his response to worshipping of false gods , don’t kill is his response to man killing each other , don’t commit adultery is his response to men conmiting adultery , don’t cover is a response to man lusting by thier flesh for the evil things , don’t lie his response to mankind lying and deceiving one another , ect
a you cannot seperate what’s written in Moses book it’s one law founded on those anti commandments “ don’t do this evil thing “ “ don’t do this evil thing “ ect
If no one ever killed anyone the commandment Thou shalt not kill would never have been spoken it is a response to sin, Gods answer to wicked mankind in other words the law is for these people
“knowing this, that
the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”
1 Timothy 1:9-10 KJV
Why is it for those people and not righteous people ? Because it’s a response tonthe wickedness of mankind and our evil deeds we did before the law was ever given from Sinai to those people who didn’t have atonement
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Wherefore then serveth the law?It was added because of transgression,
( man killed so , thou shalt not kill is added in man coveted so thou shalt not covet is added in ect)
till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; ( Jesus is the promised seed see v 16 so until Jesus came )
and
it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now a
mediator is not a mediator of one,
but
God is one.”
Galatians 3:19-20 KJV
“and
it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”
see that part ?
“This is that
Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with
the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
…And
they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices By the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Yea,
ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And
the star of your god Remphan,
Figures which ye made to worship them: And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
who have
received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.”
Acts 7:37-38, 41-43, 53 KJV
ordination and disposition of angels authority
“
Behold, I send an Angel before thee,
to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for
my name is in him.”
Exodus 23:20-21 KJV
“And
the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Exodus 3:2 KJV
and
it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”
moses was the mediator in case you didn’t get that part when they refused to hear it because they said they would die if God said anything else they chose Moses to go hear the law and come tell them
airs also Moses that interceded for them and not Jesus who interceded for us to save us like this pattern of Moses and the children of israel
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.”
Exodus 32:7-11, 14, 31-32
a they even had a different intercessor who saved them by laying his life on the line a pattern of what Jesus would do later
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