Originally posted by raphe
That is why Jesus accepted worship - in answer to Claudia's steam on the 4th commandment. How many scriptures does it take to show that all was fulfilled In Jesus? Truthseeker, you dodged my comment on narrow view of faith and went on to tell me about broad is the way to distruction. Earlier you amened to John R7's quip about how faith was not labor.......yet it is tied to labor as I showed in James.
The ten commandments cannot be broken if the two new and great commandments given by Jesus are applied in faith.
Ro 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Mt 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matt 5:17-18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle of the law shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 ¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
No, the commandments are not destroyed, but fulfilled in Jesus, who is even better than a day, but God, Himself, made flesh and manifested among us. Deny Him worship and the 4th commandment fulfilled in "Love God with all our hearts mind souls and strength", is broken - yes. He is the rest God promised to come and we are to strive to enter into that rest with our obedience to the new laws of love and better covenant that cannot break any of the ten commandments - I've already posted these scriptures ignored.
Why do you think Jesus told the Pharisees He was Lord of the sabbath?
Why would He point to Himself as the one who would give rest to those weary and heavily burdened?
Why invite us to abide in Him? We in Him and He in us is the only way. He covers and keeps us and to hold any work up to Him on that day will be in vain whether it is casting out demons or going to church on Sunday or Saturday...........What does He ask about when He returns? Is it about saturday or Sunday? No. Denying Jesus His glory and preeminence is something I think the Father may frown on since every knee shall bow and tongue confess. In Him (Christ) we have our perfection and He is all sufficient.
2 Cor. 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2Pet. 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
He in us and us in Him........who is our High priest now? Where is His temple? From the moment of salvation, each believer is in Christ (2Cor. 5:17) and Christ is in the believer (1Cor. 1:27). The Holy Spirit abides within, as well (Rom. 8:9) - the Christian is His temple (1Cor. 6:19). "Of His fulness we have received, and grace upon grace" (John 1:16) There is nothing more but Jesus - "HIs divine power has granted us everything pertaining to life and godliness throught the true knowledge of Him who called us" (again - 2Pet. 1:3)
Satan has always tried to beguile Christians away from the purity and simplicity of an all-sufficient Christ (2Cor. 11:3):
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
Is it Christ plus anything or Him alone that salvation comes?
Christ plus legalism is exactly what Paul addressed to the Colossians in 2:16-17:
"16 ¶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."
Paul also said "We are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh" (Phil.3:3). What did these verses mean? verses 4-9 answer:
" ¶ though I also have cause of trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;
5 circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!
6 according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!
7 But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;
8 yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
9 ¶ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christthe righteousness that is of God by the faith,"
Would the following be plainer? "For sin shall not have dominion over you: FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, but under GRACE." Romans 6:14
I wonder if we might turn this around. I've given you many scriptural verses and passages, all of them saying in one way or another that the law was fulfilled in Christ (Matt 5:17-18), that the law and prophets "....prophesied until John" (Matt 11:13), that the law "....was added because of transgressions, TILL THE SEED SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE WAS MADE" Gal 3:19, that this seed is Christ, "And to thy seed, which is Christ" Gal 3:16.
I've pointed out that in the matter of covenants, as the Old Testament is called the first covenant, while the New Testament is called the new or another covenant, "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second" Heb 8:7, and in finding fault with that first covenant, which is the covenant we know as the ten commandments, for it was given to Israel while they wondered in the deserts after fleeing Egypt, "NOT according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt..." Heb 8:9
And finding fault with that first covenant, he found it necessary to, "....take (th) away the first, that he might establish the second" Heb 10:9
I've pointed out that the law is called the 'ministration of death', the 'ministration of condemnation', the 'handwriting of ordinances which was against us', the 'enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances', the law of sin and death. And that Jesus abolished it, nailed it to His cross, took it out of the way, in order to establish the second....
Everything we need is in Him that was promised, our new covenant and better covenant - mediator and Saviour - our everything. What praise and glory should be ascribed to His name can only be expressed by a plea for a thousand tongues. The Pharisees continually came back at Paul and the disciples again and again with faithless rules and laws to diminish or detract from God's final work through Christ.
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle of the law shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt 5:17-18
till all be fulfilled............. Jesus!