The significance of Christ keeping the Law
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But you avoid the Law, even while you preach it.
The Law of Moses / Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy
Christians are not under the Law of Moses, period.
Galatians 3:10 (NKJV)
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
The Law of Moses / Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy
Christians are not under the Law of Moses, period.
Galatians 3:10 (NKJV)
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
The definition of sin is not just breaking the Law. The rich young ruler was law abiding, but Lord Jesus laid a condition on him that is not in the law and that the young ruler would not obey. The true definition of sin is whatever is not of faith. You don't need faith to keep the law. The rich ruler demonstrated that he did not have saving faith because he could not see that to give all he had was better than dying with great riches.
Rubbish. Obeying Christ is not just obeying rules and regulations. Muslims do that. Whatever is not of faith is sin. Obeying the law does not make you righteous. You don't need faith to obey rules, that's why the law appeals to so many. They can boast in their self righteousness. It is such people who shut themselves out of God's kingdom. The self righteous boast about what they have done. When I face Lord Jesus, my boast will be only in what He has done.
You quote the Bible but you do not know God's word. Otherwise you would know that those who are born again have a new nature and it is that which is of heaven. The law is the shadow, as the rich young ruler discovered. Lord Jesus said, as He says to all who seek to follow Him fully, "Sell all you have....." Luke 18:22
This is not talking about money only. It is everything that you hold dear, everything that you cling to as more important than God's kingdom. Those who are willing to forsake everything for the sake of the Kingdom will receive the greatest rewards in heaven. God won't have to force his people to be obedient in heaven. Everything that hinders obedience will be stripped away before we enter heaven. How much better to lose it in this life than to be stripped of it in the next.
You quote the Bible but you do not know God's word. Otherwise you would know that those who are born again have a new nature and it is that which is of heaven. The law is the shadow, as the rich young ruler discovered. Lord Jesus said, as He says to all who seek to follow Him fully, "Sell all you have....." Luke 18:22
This is not talking about money only. It is everything that you hold dear, everything that you cling to as more important than God's kingdom. Those who are willing to forsake everything for the sake of the Kingdom will receive the greatest rewards in heaven. God won't have to force his people to be obedient in heaven. Everything that hinders obedience will be stripped away before we enter heaven. How much better to lose it in this life than to be stripped of it in the next.
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The condition that Jesus laid upon him was indeed in the law...
"love thy neighbor as thyself"
Jesus just specified more clearly what that would mean for the rich young ruler if he were really going to carry it out in a practical manner.
Also, for us who know the gospel, the demand that Jesus made on the rich young ruler was something that Jesus told him because he was trusting in his own personal merits / works/ law-keeping for salvation.
If the rich young ruler would have simply trusted in Jesus and believed in Him for eternal life, the requirement would not have been required of him any more; because he would have not been any longer trusting in the law to save him. He would have been saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
Who knows? Such a faith might have led him to give up all he had and give to the poor...
"love thy neighbor as thyself"
Jesus just specified more clearly what that would mean for the rich young ruler if he were really going to carry it out in a practical manner.
Also, for us who know the gospel, the demand that Jesus made on the rich young ruler was something that Jesus told him because he was trusting in his own personal merits / works/ law-keeping for salvation.
If the rich young ruler would have simply trusted in Jesus and believed in Him for eternal life, the requirement would not have been required of him any more; because he would have not been any longer trusting in the law to save him. He would have been saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
Who knows? Such a faith might have led him to give up all he had and give to the poor...
You could look at this another way. Which commandments did Jesus not mention, and how do they have a bearing on this matter? These are the only commandments Jesus mentioned:
VI. Thou shalt do no murder,
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery,
VIII. Thou shalt not steal,
IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness,
So Christ did not refer to commandments I-V and also X. This man was covetous and had made his wealth his god. So he had broken the six commandments not mentioned. And even had he obeyed all Ten Commandments perfectly, that would not have earned him salvation. So this was really a test, and he failed the test. Instead of Jesus saying "You cannot inherit or earn eternal life" he tested this man's integrity.
VI. Thou shalt do no murder,
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery,
VIII. Thou shalt not steal,
IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness,
So Christ did not refer to commandments I-V and also X. This man was covetous and had made his wealth his god. So he had broken the six commandments not mentioned. And even had he obeyed all Ten Commandments perfectly, that would not have earned him salvation. So this was really a test, and he failed the test. Instead of Jesus saying "You cannot inherit or earn eternal life" he tested this man's integrity.
Yes, it is a curse on those who are attempting to be justified by it.
For those who know that they know that they know that they have been justified through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, and that their performance has nothing to do with their righteousness,
It becomes a blessing to be able to look into the perfect law of liberty and to continue in it (James 1:25)...not a curse, therefore, to be obedient to the law...only a curse if you are attempting to be justified thereby.
Those who are justified through the blood of Jesus have been set free to obey the Lord...
They are no longer slaves of sin but of righteousness (Romans 6, John 8:31-36).
For those who know that they know that they know that they have been justified through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, and that their performance has nothing to do with their righteousness,
It becomes a blessing to be able to look into the perfect law of liberty and to continue in it (James 1:25)...not a curse, therefore, to be obedient to the law...only a curse if you are attempting to be justified thereby.
Those who are justified through the blood of Jesus have been set free to obey the Lord...
They are no longer slaves of sin but of righteousness (Romans 6, John 8:31-36).
No, it is not what I do. I obey the commandments of Jesus because I love Him (John 14:15, 15:10); because He has saved me from the certain penalty of death as the wages of sin.
There is a difference between that and seeking to obey the law in order to save yourself by proving yourself worthy of everlasting life.
In one instance, you have already been saved and are obedient out of sheer thankfulness for what the Lord has done for you.
In the other, a person who is not saved is seeking to save themselves by what they do for God; thinking that God will somehow owe them everlasting life if they do this or that for Him.
But God will not owe any man any thing (Romans 4:4); He offers salvation to all generously as a free gift (Romans 5:15-17).
It is the Old Covenant that is obsolete; not the law.
For the law is written on the hearts and minds of believers under the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:8-10).
Heb 8:8, For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9, Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10, For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
There is a difference between that and seeking to obey the law in order to save yourself by proving yourself worthy of everlasting life.
In one instance, you have already been saved and are obedient out of sheer thankfulness for what the Lord has done for you.
In the other, a person who is not saved is seeking to save themselves by what they do for God; thinking that God will somehow owe them everlasting life if they do this or that for Him.
But God will not owe any man any thing (Romans 4:4); He offers salvation to all generously as a free gift (Romans 5:15-17).
It is the Old Covenant that is obsolete; not the law.
For the law is written on the hearts and minds of believers under the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:8-10).
Heb 8:8, For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9, Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10, For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
