Even the sun and the tides of the ocean obey God's laws, I don't think your efforts to get rid of the law will ever succeed.
The Lord promised way back in Leviticus we are to have salvation through the blood and Christ fulfilled that promise. So fleshly men say OK, thanks Lord, now the law is taken care of, I'll cancel the whole law!! The Lord tells us to give our sin to Christ with repentance and it will be wiped out, the Lord didn't say you can hold on to your sin and I'll just overlook it.
blik blik how are you??
Wanted to contribute to your accurate commentary. Here's just another way of looking at it. I agree that too many 'believers in Christ' fail to realize that work is required. Faith without works is dead. That work entails, as you said, recognizing, confessing, and correcting our sins. i.e. - repentance. To identify sin, we must know how God defines sin. His perfect Word tells us that sin is the (get this)
"transgression of the law".
If the Law is canceled then there's no longer any such thing as sin.
So if you could ask the average mainstream Christian how they determine, when on their knees seeking forgiveness from the Intercessor, exactly what is the sin that is present in their lives that day, I wonder what they would say? Because to me, my list of things I need to plead for mercy over is the myriad ways I violated the Ten Commandments. Did I lie to anyone at any time even if I was only fudging the truth a little? Did I say something about someone that was untrue or unsubstantiated gossip? Did I find myself eyeballing the heels that the lady at the next table was sporting and wishing I had me a pair? That is sin.
That's what I work to eradicate from my life, actions and character every day of my walk with the Lord, to be more like Him and to be transformed by the power of the Spirit of the Holy One, to slowly but surely be able to walk away from the temptations I face. Is our goal not to be more and more like Jesus? Did Jesus keep the Law? Did Jesus keep the Sabbath? Did Jesus keep the Feasts and other Holy Days? Yes.
pléroó: to make full, to complete
the greek word used for "fulfill". Christ did not, as He said in plain Aramaic, come to abolish the Law and He is not a liar.
He fulfilled it by completely living it to the T every day of His life in human form. The man Jesus was God in the flesh yes?
He is the Word, that was from the beginning, was with God and was God. One of the earliest appearances of the Word on earth, was at Sinai. God sent the Word then. Just not in the flesh. So the Word coming in the flesh was the completion of the work that the Word needed to accomplish. By coming in the flesh and becoming the final sacrifice, our Passover Lamb, He fulfilled and completed what the Father sent the Word to do. The Word is Torah.
The only thing besides our Messiah that was nailed to the cross is the 'letter' 'decree' 'ordinance' that the Law brought.
That is, the death penalty judgment. The decree of death that was on our heads is now covered by the blood and able to be forgiven.
If anyone thinks the Ten Commandments are canceled, then murder is okay now. If murder is a sin, so is not honoring the Sabbath of the Lord.
And for those who want to abbreviate the Law into a handy, easy to remember slogan or bumper sticker "love God love others" then I would submit that the way that God teaches us to love Him and love others is found in (get this) the TEN Commandments!
Wanna know how to love God? He tells us in 1-4.
Wanna know how to love others? He tells us in 5-10.
I have some other things to share with you Blik but will close here for now.
Be blessed.