Again, a nicely woven argument that may pass even for doctrine, until the interested and faithful go to the Master's teaching and Example and then he knows how the law is fulfilled and how the prophets are also. Now from Jesus Christ we know how to approach all of the law.
That depends on how you are applying what He was saying in respect to the law in regards to our sinful state.
According to what you have just posted, Jesus Christ was lying when He told us not one jot or tiddle of the law will change, and when He teaches whoever teaches against the least of these laws will be least in heaven.
Jesus was not lying but you need His wisdom to understand what He is saying in context.
Matthew 5:[SUP]17 [/SUP]Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Jesus is talking about what HE is going to do; not you nor anyone else.[SUP]
18 [/SUP]For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
So what did Jesus do to fulfill the law? To pay the penalty for our sins which is death. Not you. He has done this.
The next verse is proof that it is not about YOU because those who break one of these least commandments and teach other so shall be called "least" BUT STILL in the kingdom of heaven. So here is proof that it is not about YOU when a saved believer can go astray in error and teach others BUT still be in the kingdom of heaven as the "least".
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
So the least are still in the kingdom of heaven because of what Jesus Christ has done.
That is why in 2 Timothy 2:18-21, if a believer errs from the truth and have his faith overthrown, even though he does not believe in Him any more, he still has His seal is is still called to depart from iniquity in order to be received by Him at the pre trib rapture event as a vessel unto honor in His House.
If they do not look to Him for help to lay aside every weight & sin to depart from iniquity before the Bridegroom comes, then they will become castaways as in left behind when cast into the bed of the great tribulation to suffer a physical death wherein after the great tribulation, they shall be resurrected & received as vessels unto "dishonour" in His House. These be the least in the kingdom of heaven.
So by what Jesus has done and all those who believe in Him, has that foundation laid by Christ Jesus and the works each individual believer builds upon that eternal foundation shall be judged as to whether to be received as a vessel unto honor when the Bridegroom comes or as vessels unto dishonor when the King of kings comes.
Matthew 5:[SUP]20 [/SUP]For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Note the contrast between verse 19 & verse 20. How can verse 20 be true and verse 19 still permits the person to be the least in the kingdom of heaven? How can breaking one of the least commandments and teach others so can even surpass the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees and still be in the kingdom of heaven to enter therein?
And so the contrast here is that no one else can exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, so the only way any sinner can is by what Jesus Christ has done so that by believing in Him is how we enter into the kingdom of heaven.
First you must learn the law under grace from Jesus Christ, for we are invited by Him to learn of Him.
Learning of Him in the scripture and His promises to us in how we are to believe in Him for everything is not the same thing as learning the law and putting your hopes on yourself in doing the best you can to obtain that righteousness.
John 5:[SUP]39 [/SUP]Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.[SUP] 40 [/SUP]And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
You are to come & to believe in Jesus Christ to get life. Not to the law in the scriptures, but to learn literally of Jesus Christ.
Yes believe Jesus Christ is teh Son of god and you will be saved, but believe anyone is doing what they teach you....you have not learned of the Lamb it appears. Yes we are to love our enemies as Jesus teaches and the Holy Spirit within witnesses.
Anyone who thinks the Ten Commandments are cumbersome does not have the love of God yet fulfilled in him, for he would know they are a delight , wisdom and instruction to children.
The Book of Acts as in Acts 15:5-30 addressed the issues about the law of Moses whether any believer should follow them or not, and the disciples admitted to this one thing to confirm what Jesus had said earlier.
John 7:[SUP]19[/SUP]
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
Acts 15:[SUP]5 [/SUP]But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and
to command them to keep the law of Moses.[SUP]6 [/SUP]And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.[SUP] 7 [/SUP]And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.[SUP] 8 [/SUP]And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;[SUP] 9 [/SUP]And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.[SUP]
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Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?[SUP]11 [/SUP]But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
I am sorry you only get your instruction from the Epistles and not from the Lamb. May God bless your understaniding.
Did the Lamb said in John 7:18 that no one was keeping the law and did His disciples not confirm that in Acts 15:10 above?
Please do not teach against obedience at any level when it is obedience of God for we are children of obedience towards Him.
The obedience is to believe the gospel.
1 Peter 4:[SUP]17 [/SUP]For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?[SUP] 18 [/SUP]And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?[SUP]19 [/SUP]Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
To believe in Him that what He has done on the cross is sufficient to enter us into the kingdom of heaven.
John 7:[SUP]38 [/SUP]He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.[SUP] 39 [/SUP](But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Colossians 1:[SUP]20 [/SUP]And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.[SUP] 21 [/SUP]And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled[SUP] 22 [/SUP]In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:[SUP] 23 [/SUP]If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
The deeds of the law does not save and neither do works that follow Him saves since the works on that foundation which was laid by Jesus Christ shall be judged, but there are rewards for those works by His hand as the fruits of the Spirit are from Jesus Christ & His workmanship for why the just shall live by faith in Him as their Good Shepherd in order to trust Him to help them to follow Him as His disciples... is profitable unto men..but works are not to be done for salvation when He has done it.
So believers run that race as already saved believers, by looking to the author & finisher of our faith to do those things that He has taught that are HIGHER than the works of the law as of under the Old Covenant... as per example.. to love our enemies ....to
not seek vengeance as it was permitted under the Old Covenant.
Matthew 5:[SUP]38 [/SUP]Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:[SUP] 39 [/SUP]But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.[SUP] 40 [/SUP]And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.[SUP] 41 [/SUP]And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.[SUP] 42 [/SUP]Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. [SUP]43 [/SUP]Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; [SUP]45 [/SUP]That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. [SUP]46 [/SUP]For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? [SUP]47 [/SUP]And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? [SUP]48 [/SUP]Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
So those under the law of Moses .... would never do that as taught above and so how does one surpass the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees to enter into the kingdom of heaven ( that also mean surpassing the laws of Moses which the scribes & the Pharisees were not keeping in actuality ) ? By believing in Jesus Christ because it is by receiving Him.. at our salvation is how any believer has power to live as sons of God in abiding in His words surpassing the law of Moses as the Old Covenant vanishes in face of the New Covenant in following Jesus.
To be anything other would be still in darkeness.
Since Jesus has fulfilled the law for each one of us, then to walk in the light is to walk by faith in Jesus Christ in Him as our Saviour that we are saved simply by believing in Him and to abide in Him is by faith in Jesus Christ as our Good Shepherd to walk in the light as He has done by which He is Lord of the sabbath to allow His servants to pick ears of corn in profaning the sabbath day to be guiltless because He was with them as Matthew 12:1-8 testifies.
So what are the commandments for abiding in Him again?
1 John 3:[SUP]22 [/SUP]And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.[SUP] 23 [/SUP]And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.[SUP]24 [/SUP]And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
The penalty for our sins has been paid for as the blood of the Lamb is over us for death to pass over us. Believe Him. Place all your hopes in Him for abiding in Him and His words which surpasses the law of Moses to be set free.
John 8:[SUP]30 [/SUP]As he spake these words, many believed on him.[SUP] 31 [/SUP]Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;[SUP] 32 [/SUP]And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.[SUP]33 [/SUP]They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?[SUP] 34 [/SUP]Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.[SUP] 35 [/SUP]And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.[SUP]36 [/SUP]If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Learn of Jesus Christ and place your hopes all on Him for living that reconciled relationship with God through Jesus Christ.