Carl Emerson
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And He is the one telling us that the Law of God known to Jeremiah and his reader's is what is written on "heart and mind" under the New Covenant.
So then we do not need to make up whatever feels ok as our "New Covenant" but rather the Holy Spirit tells us what that New Covenant is outright.
Jer 31:31-34
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Instead of "I will delete my own Commandments regarding not taking My name in vain".
Paul says the TEN include the command to "honor your father and mother" as "the first commandment with a promise" Eph 6:1-2 -- and still apply.
In that statement he is appealing directly to its written form.
1 Cor 7:19 "what matters is KEEPING the COMMANDMENTs of God"
This is no war between the Holy Spirit and the Word of God - - as it turns out.
Bob, I think the point that is being missed is expressed here...
Romans 8
8 Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
The Law was weak through the flesh.
We are now to walk according to the Spirit.
In so doing we fulfill the Law.
Are you OK with that so far ???
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