Hi bbbbbbb,
For some reason you seem more interested in studying me and what I may or may not do rather than adhering to Word of God. I wonder why that is?
Previously I wrote the following:
The Deuteronomy 11:1 text I quoted previously indicates four revealed and individually identified methods of how one is to show their love for God—
requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands. Here is how I view this:
Love
God & Man
Ten Commandments
Requirements, Decrees, Laws
Love is to be our primary focus, but how is this love to be revealed. Love is not left for us to decide how to express it. God then breaks down this love a little bit further by indicating that love is to be shown both for Him as well as our fellow humans. But again, it is not left for us to individually determine how love is to be expressed. The Ten Commandments come next and are God's perfect set of laws which provide a succinct description of how God wishes for us to reveal our love for Him (commands 1-4) and our neighbors (commands 5-10). Think of the Ten as similar to the Constitution of the United States. It is the primary law of the land. All the other "requirements, decrees and laws" are like statutes meant to provide further clarification of the Constitution/Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments are a set of laws which comprise—you guessed it—precisely ten commands. This set of ten laws is also identified as a covenant. Again, this covenant only contains these ten commands (see text below). The numeral attached to this covenant constrains the total. So it's not the nine commandments. Neither is it the 613 commandments. Just ten.
Exodus 34:28
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
The purpose of the law is to reveal sin. It was never meant as a method of salvation. The law merely reveals when we go against God's expressed will and then our need of a Savior. If there is no law then there is no sin:
Romans 7:7-12
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
Paul is certainly not saying that the only aspect of the law that revealed sin was the commandment against coveting. When he appeals to one from the set of ten then of necessity he appeals to the entire set. In verse 12 Paul—speaking in the present tense—says this commandment "
IS holy, righteous and good."
My referring you to the commandments doesn't indicate that you are to look to me as your example. Jesus is your Example and He says if you love Him you will obey Him.
I pray this helps.
But for the grace of God go I,cyspark
