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Are you still employed/working or are you retired/obsolete?
I don't see a 10 in that verse.
It seems to me that every time you see "commandments" you automatically assume a 10 is missing, and then you go ahead and stick a 10 in there
, even though the verse does not say 10.
How convenient.
Now why would Jesus go and make life more difficult for us?
Wasn't the 10 commandments hard enough already?
So it is your view that we are still under the letter of the old covenant and also under the Spirit of the new covenant.
Fortunately, scriptures say otherwise:
"He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant — not of the letter but of the Spirit"..."By calling this covenant "new," He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear." -- (
2 Corinthians 3:6-8, Hebrews 8:13).
But Christians do not rely on common sense:
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths." -- (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Walking in the letter is to live by the 10 commandments.
Walking in the Spirit is to live by faith in Christ, who is the Spirit:
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." -- (2 Corinthians 3:17).
To walk in the Spirit is to be free from walking in the letter.
If it is harder to keep, then it is less honorable, since Jesus said that our burdens would be lighter and easier:
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest....For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." -- (Matthew 11:28-30).
Magnifying God's law isn't merely expanding 10 commandments to a spiritual level.
God's law is eternal. The law of 10 commandment is not God's eternal law.
God's eternal law is the law that God Himself lived by even before the universe was created.
God's eternal law is the law that God Himself lived by from eternity, an eternity in which only God existed.
To magnify God's law is to exalt and observe God's law in its eternal state, the state in which it was before time began.
The 10 commandment law has no relevance in an eternity in which only God existed.
The Sabbath day law has no relevance in an eternity in which days did not exist.
The law against adultery has no relevance in an eternity in which marriage did not exist.
The 10 commandment law required behavior that was only a reflection of God's eternal law, but was not the fulfillment of God's eternal law:
“The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” -- (Romans 13:9-10).
The fulfillment of God's eternal law is Love.
Love is the eternal law that God Himself lived by from eternity, because God Himself is Love:
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." -- (1 John 4:7-8).
Under the old covenant, the law of the letter commanded behavior that was only a reflection of God's eternal law.
Under the new covenant, the law of the Spirit inspires the Love that is the fulfillment of God's eternal law.
"The acts of the sinful nature are obvious...But the fruit of the Spirit is love..." -- (Galatians 5:19-23).