Mat 5:16-19 KJV Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (17) Think not
that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfil. (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. (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 19:16-19 KJV And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good
thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? (17) And he said unto
him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is,
God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. (18) He
saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt
not commit adultery ...
Yes, we are not saved by those laws; but,
if we are truly saved by grace, we would know that those laws are good
laws, we would approve (think well) of what God has commanded us, and we
would walk in His commandments too.
2Jn 1:6 KJV And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
(All His commandments are good because there is Love. Hence, we do not
just walk in one commandment; we walk in all His commandments.)
Many preachers interpret Mat 19:16-19
wrongly by saying that "Jesus did not really mean it; but He said it
with the intention to make it difficult for the young man to keep any
law and to make him depart".
I will ask them, Did you read the Bible
with 'shortsightedness'. No, Jesus did not tell the young man to reject
the laws. On the contrary, Jesus told him lovingly that (he had done the
right things) but one more thing he still lacked, i.e. to sell
everything and follow Him. Hence, the tone of the Lord's words in those
Bible verses show that 1.) obeying the commandments of God, and 2.)
following Him, are both the right things for the young man to do.
Mar 10:17-21
KJV .. (20) And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I
observed from my youth. (21) Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest:
go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow
me.
However, many preachers twisted it and say, "No, Jesus did
not say it lovingly to the young man; He said it sarcastically and asked
him to sell everything so that he became so condemned that he would
depart without keeping any law from then on .."
I will tell them, Why
would Jesus want to do that? To make him feel condemned and depart? No.
Jesus would never do that. Jesus invited him to join Him (by selling
everything), and this privilege or invitation was extended only to him,
besides the twelve which He had chosen. Of course, selling everything
and following Jesus was possible only when He was still physically
around. Today we do not do it to follow Him physically; but taking up
our cross is still spiritually applicable and it is still a commandment
of the Lord for all men ('whosoever' believes in Him) to take up their
cross and follow Him spiritually.
When the laws of God are in our hearts,
there will be many good things for us to do.
Heb 10:16-17
KJV This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,
saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds
will I write them; (17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more.
God has changed our hearts; not His commandments. Yes, God
has changed his covenant too; but not His commandments. He found fault
with 'the law' which was the old law or the old covenant; but not all
His GOOD laws which he has set from the beginning and the foundation the
earth. (Now let's ask ourselves, are the Ten Commandments good laws? If
they are good, they are still His laws in our hearts and minds)
We
rejected His laws; but now we approve of His laws. We had no heart (and
no mind) for His laws; but now we love and think of His laws. That has
become the unique signature of God in all His people.
Many will still
argue, "No, we do not keep the laws by doing and teaching them. Jesus
had kept all the laws for us. So, when we keep Jesus in our hearts, we
are actually keeping the laws in our hearts."
I will tell them, The
hearts that truly keep Jesus and God's laws are not the hearts that will
just hide or keep His laws somewhere'; but do and teach them:
Eze 36:26-28
KJV A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I
will give you an heart of flesh. (27) And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (28) And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
This explains perfectly how we keep His laws under the New Covenant based on Heb 8:10 and 10:16 too. We do not just 'keep'; we do and walk in them.
Many will still argue, "But
how about the Sabbath law? Isn't it one of the Ten Commandments? Why
don't you keep it by stopping doing anything on Sunday or Saturday? How
about the law against the sin of adultery? Don't you watch pretty women
and have the lusts? .. So, it is ridiculous to tell us we, the believers
or sinners, to still keep the laws of God. Don't you know that Jesus
has abolished whatever that is a burden to us? Why do you still keep
teaching about the laws of God? They are the hard sayings which we do
not have to obey .. we can't take it anymore .. please leave us alone
.."
I think this is the common response from most of the sinners
in the world. But when the preachers would join them and question the
churches for doing, teaching, keeping, and loving the laws of God, you
know the spirit of lawlessness has already started to work in many
churches. Many preachers have corrupted the believers and taught lawless
doctrine to churches as prophesied in the Bible:
2Th 2:5-12 LITV Do
you not remember that I told you these things, I yet being with you?
(6) And now you know the thing holding back, for him to be revealed in
his time. (7) For the mystery of lawlessness already is working, only
he is holding back now, until it comes out of the midst. (8) And then
"the Lawless One" will be revealed, "whom" "the Lord" "will consume" "by
the spirit of His mouth," and will bring to nought by the brightness of
His presence. .. (10) and in all deceit of unrighteousness in those
being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth in order
for them to be saved ..
I will tell them, Do you know that there are preachers who follow your lawless doctrine and argue, "The
commandment not to kill is also obsolete. It is because we still kill
the animals for food and the babies for medical purposes. It is hard to
keep the law. All the laws are hard sayings. They are hard to follow,
especially the Ten Commandments which are fully of do's and don'ts.
Hence, God has to abolish them so that we do not need to keep them
anymore"?
When the preachers start to question and preach like this, you know they are not from God. They are from the Lawless One!
I
will tell them, Of course, we do not keep the law of Sabbath
legalistically, the law of not to kill everything, or the law of
covering ourselves (like the Old Testament Jews from head to toes to
avoid adulteries). But we still do the law of God in Christ and the laws
in the Spirit:
1.) to have both physical rest (after a hard day's work or 6 days of works) and spiritual rest,
2.) to love the animals and stop insane killing of all lives, and
3.) to keep the sanity of our minds (or keep ourselves from addiction to pornography).
Keeping
all these may be more difficult than keeping the Ten Commandments (for
some people). But it does not mean that all the laws of the Spirit are
obsolete too just because no one can keep them.
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