The Primacy of the Law

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"Just as Jesus was faithful in order to guarantee the blessing, so his followers must be faithful in order to inherit the blessing." 2

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke: The English Text with Introduction, Exposition and Notes Parable of the Good Samaritan (10:25–37)

26–8 In reply to Jesus’ counter-question the lawyer declares that according to the Law the requirements for inheriting eternal life are perfect love towards God and perfect love towards one’s neighbour. Jesus thereupon replies that he has answered correctly and that if he observes these requirements faithfully, he will live—in the fullest sense of the word, for time and eternity alike.

Luke 9:51–24:53 iii. The Lawyer’s Reply: The Great Commandment—Love God and Neighbor (10:27)

The lawyer answers the question about receiving life in the future in concrete terms of love and devotion

Devotion to God and Devotion to Man

10:38-42

11:1-13

Answer

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV

5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV

18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

The Law of Love - Love and obeying the commandments are not seperate but connected - obediese is heartfelt (my heart is not in it)

the elements of a person - Total

Wrong Views

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke: The English Text with Introduction, Exposition and Notes Parable of the Good Samaritan (10:25–37)

26–8 In reply to Jesus’ counter-question the lawyer declares that according to the Law the requirements for inheriting eternal life are perfect love towards God and perfect love towards one’s neighbour. Jesus thereupon replies that he has answered correctly and that if he observes these requirements faithfully, he will live—in the fullest sense of the word, for time and eternity alike.

“The Heart of the Jewish Religion” - It can also be called what is first revealed by God and never changed

Adam in the Garden

Israel in the land

Exodus 19:5–6 ESV

5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

Song of Moses

Deuteronomy 32:44–47 ESV

44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 45 And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. 47 For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

Jeremiah 7:21–26 ESV

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 22 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. 25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

1 Samuel 15:22–24 ESV

22 And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.” 24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

Psalm 40:6–8 ESV

6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: 8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

​ Deut 28.15

Deuteronomy 28:15 ESV

15 “But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.

It is the Rightous who should be justified

After the Fall - Eternal life by Obedience is not possible

Galatians 3:21 ESV

21 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

Romans 2:12 ESV

12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

Romans 3:20 ESV

20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke: The English Text with Introduction, Exposition and Notes Parable of the Good Samaritan (10:25–37)

The irrevocable word of God still remains valid, that he who observes the law perfectly will live. He who always loves God and his fellow-man will inherit eternal life. But alas, no man has ever been able to observe this law perfectly, nor can anyone do so. And because no imperfect observance of the law, however excellent it may be, can be accepted; and because the judgment of God that the soul that sins (even if only on a single occasion) shall die, is just as irrevocable, we know that no man can ever inherit eternal life on the grounds of his own merit. But God be praised that Christ Jesus as Man lived a life of complete love towards God and men and, as the entirely Innocent One, endured death for us on the cross, forsaken by God, so that by faith we are absolved from the death we deserve, and inherit eternal life. This, however, does not remove the obligation to obey Jesus’ words: “Go, and do thou likewise.” But the difference is as follows: the Law has said: “Do this and thou shalt live”, while Christ says: “I have given you eternal life through grace, and this new life in you will enable you to have real love towards God and your fellow-men and to carry it out in practice; so go forth and live a life of true love to God and to your fellow-men, through the power I give you.”

How then Shall I live

Guild Grace Gratitude

NOT Love - Inhertiance

Adam - Loved - Love - Inherit

Loved - Co-inhertior - Love