“I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfil it” (to do it!) said Jesus! In other words we no longer have to die for our sins as Christ did paid the penalty of sin – death for us. So now we are under grace – i.e we no longer must be stoned for adultery or personally sacrifice one of our own lambs for our sins (that’s how it was done with the Israelites – you would think twice about sin if you had to slaughter an innocent lamb every time you broke one the the ten commandments).
We can now be forgiven for not keeping the ten commandments – God’s simple and beautiful laws – summarised in two when the man looking for loopholes (as men always do myself included) in the laws tried to catch Jesus out by asking him; “which was the most important?” Jesus wasn’t about t0 play games.
No longer under the condemnation of the law (ie no longer need to pay the price for breaking it) – but still under the law!
What criminal having been pardoned by the judge for a terrible crime (as has happened) is no longer under the law? Is he free to go out and start breaking it because the judge says he no longer has to pay the price – a hefty prison sentence? Come on people – it’s time to get real. In Revelation, it does not say; “and the Dragon made war against those who were under grace.” The Dragon is mad and angry and makes war with those that; “kept the commandments of God!” What does that tell us we must do if the Devil is anti-Christ and we are to be Christ-like?
Keeping God’s law is not bondage as modern Christians constantly bang on – eager to find loopholes and ways to fit their lifestyle to The Bible and not The Bible to their lifestyle. I mean which of the ten commandments is too hard for us to keep at least some of the time? Didn’t God say; “my yolk is easy – my burden light”? – was he not telling the truth? How hard is it not to steal?.. to honour ones parents, to not steal another man’s wife? I wager not that hard at all though I’m perfectly willing to admit I have broken them at times and likely still will.
And since when has not doing something evil been a good ‘work’? Keeping the commands of God is not doing a good work – it’s keeping God’s commandments period! Now – helping an old lady across the road or giving a thirsty person a drink – those are good works and by these we cannot be saved according The Bible rightly so lest any man should boast – but it is by these works that we will be rewarded in heaven! But keep the commandments of God?.. that should just be mandatory and standard procedure for a Christian. Thanks goodness when we break them we are not under the covenant of the Israelites who had to carry out the penalty for breaking them and there is forgiveness! Praise God for His son dying in our place!
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