Ok now that I have your attention I want to put a challenge to every user of CC. It feels to me as if I say the following verses at least once a day:
Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
My challenge to you is where in the Bible do we find a verse stating that we have salvation through keeping the law? It would be really interesting to see if somebody can show me that? What I did find was that YHWH and Yeshua said that if we love them we will keep their commandments (Because God is the same……) but surely this can’t be right?! What about Abraham, Moses and all these Old Testament heroes? They were saved by keeping the Law? Let the Word of God explain the word of God.
Hebrews 11 is called by some people the book of faith and by reading Hebrews 11 we see something interesting:
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Heb 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Not once did I read by keeping the law Abraham did this or by keeping the law Moses did that. Guys we are missing the plot completely. We are so caught up in this discussion between law and grace that we are missing God and the simplicity of His Word.
Salvation was always by faith and relationship. God called Moses His friend, when the angel speaked to Daniel he said to him that God loves him. How do you love somebody? Through relationship. Moses knew Yeshua, David knew Yeshua, Jeremiah an Isaiah knew Yeshua. What does Yeshua mean? Salvation. They understood salvation.
What a blessing to know God is the same since the beginning of time. We serve an awesome God and He has never changed.
