Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.RickD wrote:The Law
The Law is God's instructions concerning the moral, social, and spiritual behavior of his people found in the first five books of the Bible. The Law is the very reflection of the nature of God because God speaks out of the abundance of what is in him. Therefore, since God is pure, the Law is pure. Since God is holy, the Law is holy. The Law consists of the 10 commandments (Exodus 20), rules for social life (Exodus 21 - 23), and rules for the worship of God (Exodus 25 - 31). It was a covenant of works between God and man, and was (and is) unable to deliver us into eternal fellowship with the Lord because of man's inability to keep it. The Law is a difficult taskmaster because it requires that we maintain a perfect standard of moral behavior. And then when we fail, the Law condemns us to death. We deserve death even if we fail to keep just one point of the law: "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all," (James 2:10).
The law made nothing perfect (Heb. 7:19). That is why the Law has shown us our need for Jesus and the free gift we receive through Him (Gal. 3:24).
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Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
The Laws that are being refered to in Heb and Gal were those ones which the Jews felt made them perfect. And it was clearly shown that it did not make them perfect because they had to keep making the same offerings over and over and over and over.....
The law itself pointed to Christ because it required the repetitious sacrifices for the same sin continuously which meant the lawfull act of animal sacrifice never actually eliminated the sin.
Believing in Christ is the new commandment that replaces all the old commandments that specified animal sacrifices as a payment for sin and his sacrifice eliminated the need to keep sacrificing. Christ never eliminated the need to observe those commands based on the two royal laws because they are intended to show people how to love both God and man.
We as sinners are not be able of ourselves to follow the intent of the royal laws perfectly which is why we need the indwelling spirit to direct us into all of the proper understandings of their intent. However, once the spirit makes it clear that thou should not steal, then for us to steal after that point would be us knowingly disobeying the intent of Gods laws and the spirit will not remain within those who knowingly disobey once it has been clarified.
When Christ talks about what the intent of the law really means to us here;
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 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.
Mat 5:19 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.
Mat 5:20 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.
Mat 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
He hiimself clarified that killing is still wrong and against the commandment of the Father but its intent goes beyond just the physical act. Now we can more correctly understand that even though the physical act is still a sin you would also be guilty of this same commandment based on your very thoughts. If you hate someone in your mind without a cause then you are essentially breaking the intent of the command just as if you had actually performed the physical act.
We as unique beings should strive to be like our maker who knows that without his help we cannot succeed but, he does know the inward thoughts and he knows whether we are trying or not. If we don't make an effort on our part to controll our actions and thoughts why should he help us?
If you see with your eyes that someone is hurt and in need of help do you wait for God to direct you to help them or do you help them because you already understand the intent of Gods word and can perform as he intended that you should?
If you know that God honors a specific day as holy because you can read in his word where he explains why its important to him and you choose of your own free will to not honor it the way he does then isn't this the breaking of the greatest command to love God with all your heart and soul and mind?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
The law shown below was based on the one above since all the law hangs on those two.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
If we love God then honor what he honors the way he wants us to because we then show our love for him by following it.
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