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Law of God - Is it still valid?

Illustration” Law without No Penalty

5719 Law With No Penalty

When the State of Washington first passed a law taxing the retail sales of gasoline, the legislature slipped up on one very important detail: they forgot to attach a penalty to a violation of the law.

At first dealers began collecting and paying the tax, a very small one comparatively, but when they discovered the error in the law they refused to comply.

The legislature then had to be called back into special session in order to attach a penalty to a violation of the tax law and make it retroactive.

Is there a fault in Gods law?

When dealing with Gods law, there are those who suggest that Gods law was not perfect.

Was there an error in the Old Law?

When dealing with Gods law, there are those who suggest that Gods law is not perfect.

That there was also an error in Gods law.

The Law is perfect

The Law is pure

Psalms 19:7-9

The law qualifies to bring people back

Answer: The law of God is perfect.

But didn’t Jesus abolish the law?

Exegesis: Don’t even “believe” that I “arrived” to “demolish; break-up or put down the law, to make invalid” the “Torah” and the “Prophets”, I did not arrive here to do that, I arrived to bring it’s truest and “proper meaning, Provide the real significance”

Answer: No, Jesus came to full-fill it.

Aren’t we under the New Covenant now?

A better one?

Doesn’t that mean we are no longer under the law?

Hebrews 8:

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Answer: Christ is that better

Which suggest and affirms that the Law of God is still perfect,

The imperfection came from the people.

Link: How we walk as Christians effects how the Law is received.

There is neither Jew nor Greek

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: After Jesus had died and Christianity started to spread and as the Greeks drifted from the Jewish roots they started to develop these misconceptions.

The law was starting to become negative, especially to the Romans.

The battle between the law and not keeping the law

There is neither Conservative or Liberal.

One pushes the Law strongly

The other wants to do away with it.

TO BE A CONSERVATIVE OR A LIBERAL IS NOTHING OF WHICH TO BE PROUD.

IT’S A MANIFESTATION OF OUR BENT, UNBALANCED, SINFUL HUMAN NATURE.-

Ty Gibson

“There is in human nature a tendency to run to extremes and from one extreme to another entirely opposite.

Many are fanatics.

They are consumed by a fiery zeal which is mistaken for religion, but character is the true test of discipleship.

Have they the meekness of Christ?

Have they His humility and sweet benevolence?

Is the soul-temple emptied of pride, arrogance, selfishness, and censoriousness?

If not, they know not what manner of spirit they are of.

They do not realize that true Christianity consists in bearing much fruit to the glory of God” (Ellen White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, pp.

305-306).

TO BE A CONSERVATIVE OR A LIBERAL IS NOTHING OF WHICH TO BE PROUD.

IT’S A MANIFESTATION OF OUR BENT, UNBALANCED, SINFUL HUMAN NATURE.-

Ty Gibson

Be weary of extreme theologies because it leads to a distortion of the Ways of God.

Two Extremes in School

6097 Two Extremes in School Page 1365

At one extreme is the popular writer who said recently that the only thing he learned at Yale was how to sleep sitting up.

At the other extreme would be Harvard’s famous Chauceran scholar, George Lyman Kittridge.

When asked why he did not study for a Ph.D., he replied, “There was no one around who knew enough to examine me.”

They both come out being foolish in character.

Point: The law was perfect, but the people were and are not.

Just have look at the person next to you.

How will you know that you are not extreme in your beliefs?

So what is the law?

To the Hebrew mind, the primary purpose of the Torah is to teach humanity how to hit the mark in life, as opposed to committing sin, to miss the mark.

The Character of Christ is seen in you.

Is it the 10 Commandments?

Answer: Yes but deeper and further back to just

Look back at the Law in (Sabbath) (Not loving and obeying God) (Not loving neighbour) ( Cain Covetous of Able) (Able Murdered)

etc So element of the 10 Commandments existed before before Mt Sinai.

Deeper

Jesus reduces the 10 to 2

Matthew 22:

Jesus reduces the 10 to 2

Paul and James agree with Jesus but point to a further reduction to 1

Romans

Jesus would also agree that it is love.

Existed even before the fall

George Knight quotes mrs Ellen White and says;

I’m going to repeat Ellen White’s quotation: “The principles of the ten commandments existed before the fall, and were of a character suited to the condition of a holy order of beings.

After the fall, the principles of those precepts were not changed, but additional precepts were given to meet man in his fallen state.”3

Again she wrote, “The law of God existed before man was created.

It was adapted to the condition of holy beings; even angels were governed by it.

After the Fall, the principles of righteousness were unchanged.”4

But, Mrs. White penned in another connection, after Adam’s transgression the principles of the law “were definitely arranged and expressed to meet man in his fallen condition.”5

Even more astounding is the fact that the LAW is especially neglected by those who tend to emphasize the laws of God.

I have found that those who have the most to say about the laws of God are all too often the ones most prone to neglect the LAW of God.

Had the people struggled with something else then they had the Law would have been there as a teacher to teach them how to in harmony with God.

The Law in words and rules may change, however, the principle of the Law is eternal.

How is it more than the 10 Commandments?

How did He full-fill the law?

What is the principle of the Law?

Matthew

By writing it now in peoples hearts Jesus hopes to internalise it so that people will love it.

What does this mean?

God saved a group of people and gave them the laws to live out.

They failed understand them because they created 613 laws out of the 10.

So Christ came to earth to

Halakah = Principle

Show how to live it out.

Write it on their hearts (Love) and mind (Truth).

Halakah = Principle = Love

Jesus Christ Challenges the religious leaders to think about principle of the Law and not rules.

To make it a heart thing rather than a head thing.