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The ten commands and the law were an external set of rules, kept out of fear of punishment, and it was deliberately harsh and meant to be bondage, to contrast between the new covenant of grace, and the old covenant of trying to work to earn righteousness.
The new covenant is spiritual, it’s Gods law written on our heart, the law of love, that supersedes the old covenant completely.
The law of Moses is not meant for a righteous person, but for the ungodly, for sinners, for murderers, etc.: because it exists to show the unsaved what sin IS.
1Ti 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a RIGHTEOUS man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for THE UNGODLY and for SINNERS , for UNHOLY and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1Ti 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Christians are not ungodly anymore, but are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, thus we’ve died to the law.
Rom 7:4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have DIED TO THE LAW through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Rom 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, AROUSED BY THE LAW, were at work in our members to bear fruit for DEATH.
Rom 7:6 But now we are RELEASED from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the NEW way of the SPIRIT and not in the OLD way of the written code.
For Christians only, (not the ungodly) Jesus nailed the law of Moses to His cross and took it out of our way:
Eph 2:15 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;
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
And the law of Moses was temporary until Christ came:
Gal 3:19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made (Jesus Christ), and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Gal 3:23 But BEFORE faith came, we were KEPT UNDER THE LAW, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Wherefore THE LAW was our SCHOOLMASTER to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But AFTER that faith is come, we are NO LONGER under a schoolmaster.
Christians have the fruit of the spirit, instead of the letter of the law, which is why for us THERE IS NO LAW, of Moses for us:
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such THERE IS NO LAW.
The law of Moses is in effect for the unrighteous, the ungodly, the unholy - but not in effect for Christians who have Gods law, the law of love stated by the two love commands, in their hearts.
Still wrong about what exactly? No dear friend as shown through the scriptures earlier in post # 45 linked it is you who is wrong. According to the scriptures Love is not separated from God's law it works through it. Scriptures have already been provided in post # 45 linked sent in love only as a help to you but it seems you do not believe them, yet these are Gods Words not mine and they do indeed show why your claims to God's 10 commandments being abolished are in error.
Now which one of the scriptures that you have posted above say that love is separated from God's Law? Which one of the scriptures that you have provided above teach that any one of God's 10 commandments are abolished? Yep if your honest you will see not one. Yet this is the interpretation your trying to read into the scriptures that is not there or biblical. A teaching of men designed to lead away from the Word of God we are warned about in 1 John 2:3-4 and in the very words of JESUS in Matthew 5:17-28. Whosoever is born of God dear friend does not practice sin according to the scriptures. This is the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil *1 John 3:6-10.
No one loves God by breaking his commandments in fact the scriptures teach the opposite *John 14:15; 1 John 2:3-4; 1 John 3:4-9; Hebrews 10:26-31. Love is simply God's new covenant promise to those who believe and follow God's Word not to those who do not believe and do not follow *Hebrews 8:10-12; John 10:26-27.
If God's law is for the unrighteous then who is it not for? Are we righteous without JESUS? It is JESUS that answers this question when he says "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. It seems many do not know the meaning and purpose of Gods' law when JESUS says but go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.*Matthew 9:12-13. Who dear friend stands righteous before God without God's mercy and forgiveness for sin *Romans 3:10 and who has not sinned *Romans 3:23?
Yet it is God's Word not mine that defines what sin is. Sin according to the scriptures is breaking anyone of God's 10 commandments *James 2:10-11 and not believing and following Gods' Word *Romans 14:23. According to the scriptures it is God's 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL; SIN and RIGHTEOUSNESS in the new covenant scriptures *Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4; Psalms 119:172.
Yes dear friend God's 4th commandment is one of God's 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken and just like any one of God's 10 commandments if we knowingly break any one of them we stand guilty before God of sin *James 2:10-11. According to the scriptures no one is "UNDER THE LAW" unless we stand before God guilty of knowingly breaking the law *Romans 3:19. It is this very law you deny that leads us to Christ that we might be forgiven through faith *Galatians 3:22-25 and born again to be made free to walk in his Spirit to love *John 3:3-7; Romans 8:1-4; Hebrews 8:10-12; 1 John 3:3-9; Galatians 5:16.
Lets be careful dear friend not to read into the scripture what the scriptures do not say and teach. This is only written in love and correction as a help and blessing to you.
May you receive Gods Word and be blessed. Ignoring it does not make it disappear.
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