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phaneroo
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[James 2:8,10]; If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well...For whosoever keeps the Law [as a] whole but stumbles and offends in one [single instance] has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.
What makes Esau a fornicator when he has never engaged in anything that amounts to sexual perversion? All he did was sell his birthright.
The principle is that when you break one law, you are guilty of having broken all.
A man who steals has committed adultery, lied, practiced idolatry and committed murder. That is how God thinks. But why so? The reason is as Paul puts it, that every man that receives circumcision is a debtor to do the whole law. He is under obligation and bound to practice the whole of the law and its ordinances.
By his own admission, Peter, an apostle to the circumcised says that the law was a yoke that neither their fathers nor themselves were able to bear. Christ by his saving grace obliterated it, nailed it to his cross and left men with one commandment; love; the royal law.
James therefore presents the option of two extremes; the royal law of love as decreed by Christ following the fulfilment of the law of Moses in its entirety or the law of Moses, of which the transgression of one is counted as the transgression of all. The choice is yours, child of God.
Scripture Reference
Acts 15:10, Galatians 5:3, Colossians 2:14.
The principle is that when you break one law, you are guilty of having broken all.
What makes Esau a fornicator when he has never engaged in anything that amounts to sexual perversion? All he did was sell his birthright.
The principle is that when you break one law, you are guilty of having broken all.
A man who steals has committed adultery, lied, practiced idolatry and committed murder. That is how God thinks. But why so? The reason is as Paul puts it, that every man that receives circumcision is a debtor to do the whole law. He is under obligation and bound to practice the whole of the law and its ordinances.
By his own admission, Peter, an apostle to the circumcised says that the law was a yoke that neither their fathers nor themselves were able to bear. Christ by his saving grace obliterated it, nailed it to his cross and left men with one commandment; love; the royal law.
James therefore presents the option of two extremes; the royal law of love as decreed by Christ following the fulfilment of the law of Moses in its entirety or the law of Moses, of which the transgression of one is counted as the transgression of all. The choice is yours, child of God.
Scripture Reference
Acts 15:10, Galatians 5:3, Colossians 2:14.
The principle is that when you break one law, you are guilty of having broken all.
