wow super big stretch to claim that Christ is only referring to the decalogue in Matthew 5:17-19
super false super unsupported claim.
i think we all know why you didn't include verse 31 in your little citation there, yes?
i mean personally i am stupid but even i see that.
Lets bring in the context........
Matthew 5:17 “
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.
I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
This is a prophecy fulfilled
Isaiah 42:21 but fulfilled in
Matthew 5:17 . Jesus did not give the law for Him so He could keep, and we can profane.
HE is our example to follow and He led by example 1 John 2:6 Hebrews 4:15 John 15:10
Not everything in the law or prophets have been fulfilled like writings of Prophet Isaiah Ezekiel and Jeremiah to name a few and ignore
2 Timothy 3:16 because not everything these Prophets prophesized has been fulfilled so therefore the next verse still applies...
Matthew 5:18 For assuredly, I say to you, t
ill heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
So does that mean we can covet, vain God's holy name, worship other gods, break His holy Sabbath day, not if we are to believe Jesus and His teachings- not one jot or one tittle will by NO MEANS pass from the law. Jesus has not come yet, nor have many of the prophecy's in the law and prophets been fulfilled yet so not one change can be made to God's law.
Therefore:
Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches
them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Again, I do not believe least in heaven means one will be there because this clearly shows, not a love for the truth from the very Words of Jesus Christ and instead of trusting and believing
His teachings just the way
He speaks adding our words to His, is not an example of doing this. Jesus said something similar in Matthew 15 over the same topic that when one teaches/obeys their traditions over the commandments of God and again gives an example directly from the Ten Commandments, says it is the blind leading the blind and both teacher and student ends up in a ditch.
This is a very important principle Jesus is applying to the 10 commandments and gave two as an example and it is how we are to live by the Spirit, not the letter,
which is greater than the letter, not lesser.
Jesus is applying the Ten Commandments to our thoughts and feelings as this is where sin (
Rom 7:7) starts, and He gives an example of two of them directly quoting from the Ten.
This is an example of living the law written in our hearts and minds (NC) giving an example from two commandments but says
not to break or teach others to break the least of these commandments, which means we are to keep all and apply this teaching/principle to all
Mat 5:19. 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ 22
But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire. 23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. 26 Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.
27 “
You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to [
k]sin, cut it off and cast
it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
What Jesus is teaching here, that we need to change our thoughts before they turn into actions. If we change our thoughts and feelings of contempt and anger toward our neighbor to love and compassion, thou shalt not murder would automatically be kept. Jesus is magnifying the law what He came to do Isa 42:21 Jesus is not ending the Ten Commandments clearly if we trust His teachings. The Sabbath commandment is all throughout the NT kept by God's faithful until the end of time. It's something the carnal mind can't understand according to Paul.
Rom 8:7-8.
Regarding verse 31:
Furthermore means in addition to but notice how Jesus connects divorce to adultery... the Ten are much greater than what was stated
31
“Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except [
l]sexual immorality
causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.
This is just one of many powerful teachings of Jesus teaching from the Ten Commandments, telling us not to break the "least of " these commandments, so whatever you think is a least commandment, don't break it, and not sure how professed Christians can profess faith, but ignore the plain teachings of Jesus Christ.