[SUP]3 [/SUP]For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
While the Pharisees and others were very involved with the Torah, keeping many of its outward commandments quite well, (Which Yeshua Himself told the people to follow their example, to do as Moses said.) they did not see beyond the "outer garment" of the Torah commandments to the "goal" which those commandments pointed to. If they had been following Torah in faith, if they were allowing God to circumcise their hearts ("to be born again"), they would have recognized Yeshua for Who He was -- the ultimate goal of the Torah, "God" tabernacled in a human form (in his people);
John 1
Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [SUP]2 [/SUP]The same was in the beginning with God. [SUP]3 [/SUP]All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. [SUP]4 [/SUP]In him was life; and the life was the light of men. [SUP]5 [/SUP]And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. [SUP]7 [/SUP]The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. [SUP]8 [/SUP]He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. [SUP]9 [/SUP]That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. [SUP]10 [/SUP]He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. [SUP]11 [/SUP]He came unto his own, and his own received him not. [SUP]12 [/SUP]But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: [SUP]13 [/SUP]which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. [SUP]14 [/SUP]And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
It is quite possible to follow the commandments and not see the "body beneath the garments". The letter of the Law was meant to attain to the Spirit of the Law in which God's instructions are written on our hearts, (circumcised hearts).
I relate this to:
[SUP]36 [/SUP]And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. [SUP]37 [/SUP]And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. [SUP]38 [/SUP]But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. [SUP]39 [/SUP]No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
So much could be said of this verse (Romans 10:3), it is rich with meaning. To liken it to a child following their father's rules without understanding why, in their hearts they do not want to, as they think it makes no sense, but may do so in order to stay out of trouble and not out of desire to please their dad. They may reject their dad's teaching thinking it obsolete, and they know better than dad. As they mature, hopefully they understand better that, dad's rules are good and right, and leads to all that is good and right, and they submit with gladness and deeper love for a dad who would love them enough to teach them wisdom.
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