In Exodus 20:6, God wanted His people to love Him and obey His commandments, so obedience to God has always been a matter of the heart. If obedience to God's law were about having an outward performance, then God would not have disdained it when His people honored Him with their lips while their hearts were far from Him (Isaiah 29:13).
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the condition of thier heart is what shaped the law itself
“And he answered and said unto them,
What did Moses command you? And they said,
Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And
Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.”
Mark 10:3-5 KJV
“But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for
all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.”
Ezekiel 3:7 KJV
It’s why the law is like it is because of transgression in n mens minds and hearts
“Wherefore then serveth
the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and
it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”
Galatians 3:19 KJV
It says what it says
because of the people it was given to
“And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people:”
Exodus 32:9 KJV
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.”
Deuteronomy 31:16 KJV
The law is coming from his foreknowledge of the people it’s given to
It reads like it does because of the condition of thier hearts
“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
the gospel is different it doesn’t begin condemning the people that will not obey on the future so it reads from the opposite perspective to Gods beloved children who have thier sins atoned for and remitted by the lord himself they are “ born again “ of Gods promises for his children regarding his eternal kingdom the doctrine itself is different because it’s being spoken to the new person and not the old rebellious heart but the heart that was softened by Christs suffering on thier behalf fornthier transgressions to save them
to break the hard hearts we were given the most touching and important sacrifice ever known or declared by mankind He loves us enough to suffer and die to save us from our own sins against him
this should change hearts of those who believe and then they need the doctrine that comes with it teaching then of the father that loves them the spirit within them and the son who died and rose for them
the things the lord taught when he was here and said to believe and we’ll be saved but the law doesn’t teach any of those things it doesn’t mention Jesus name his sacrifice his resurrection the father in heaven or son made flesh nor the spirit within us it doesn’t teach the same things Jesus taught no mercy for sinners v forgivness for sinners
condemnation for sinners v repentance and salvation for sinners
death v life