Love is the Christian law, my friend.
Love
Love
2Cor3:7-11 The ministry of death (10 commandments) came with glory faded and replaced with the glory of the Holy Spirit.
10 commandments, Israel's guide
Holy Spirit, Christian's guide
Amen!
See 2Cor3:7-11
1Jn319-24
19 Here is how we will know that we are from the truth and will set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 if our hearts know something against us, God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts know nothing against us, we have confidence in approaching God; 22 then, whatever we ask for, we receive from him; because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.
23 This is his command: that we are to trust in the person and power of his Son Yeshua the Messiah and to keep loving one another, just as he commanded us. 24 Those who obey his commands remain united with him and he with them.
Please notice John was not referring to the 10 commandments in 1Jn 2. In 1Jn3 he explains what the commandments Christians are under
Notice that there is no 10 to identify "His commandments". Anyone who tries to add 10 to any of the verses that have the commandments are adding to scripture. When you refer that the verses with commandments are the 10 commandments like you are doing deceives those who read your post.
The commands of love
There is absolutely nothing in the 10 commandments about love. Those commands were totally about the duty of the Israelites. If an Israelite loved God he/she would keep all of those commands. But the fact is they all of them could be kept out of duty. I ask that you read them and then tell me thy are about love.
Amen! Remember that command from Jesus is not from the first of the 10 commandments;
Again, you are referring to the 10 commandments and the scripture from the New Testament makes it very clear the transgressing the law is not the 10 commandments. I believe Paul makes that very clear in Gal 5:19 And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency; 20 involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue 21 and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!
Those are just a few of the many ways we can hurt God, our selves and our fellow man, Moral laws are eternal. The 9 commands of the 10 deal with morality. The Law of Loves deals with every law concerning morality.
Strange how people carve out the 7th day Sabbath that is right in the heart of of law.
Strange how people think the 10 commandments are just for the Jews ... or that 9 of them are for everybody, just not the 4th
Strange how people don't see the 10 commandments as the broad view ... and that what Jesus taught didn't change those laws ... He provided much more detail about them .... magnified them.
Strange how people have the Holy Spirit who through Him working in the believer helps us to keep the Law ... we can't do it without Christs's holy Sprit in us.
Strange how sin is defined as transgression of the law, and when one transgresses the law, the Holy Spirit leads one to repentance and through the work of the Holy Spirt helps one fight against and overcome sin (which is transgression of the law)
So what then .... when we are convicted by the Holy Spirit that we have transgressed the law are we to ignore it? Do we not respond to the Holy Spirit teaching us that we have transgressed the law? Do we not ask for forgiveness and repent (turn away from sin)?
Through Christ's great sacrifice those who receive Him are not condemned to eternal death and that is His free gift ... but one has to choose to receive that gift.
I am the Lord they God, I change not.
He does not change ... but He does provide more detail.
Matthew 5
The Fulfillment of the Law
17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Are these just for the Jews
Proverbs 4:4
Then he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments and live;
Leviticus 18:5
'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Matthew 19:17
And He said to him, "Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Deuteronomy 4:2
You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.
Galatians 3:12
However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, "HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM."
Galatians 3:21
Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.
God does not change.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Psalm 119:89
Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
It is not legalistic to keep any of the commandments of God because it is God working in the believer ... doing what? Being conformed to His image (His character) becoming more Christ like.
Christ's work in the believer IS helping them to keep the law. Christ's work in the believer is helping them to understand the far reaching depth and details of the law.
Romans 2:13
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Romans 3:31
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Keeping the law .... it's NOT our work .... it's His work.
and because we love him we respond to HIS work.
Did Jesus keep the Sabbath because He was a Jew ... or because He was/is God and it is in His commandments He gave on mount Sinai?
Again ... nothing new ...... many more details given about the depth of the law through Christ's ministry on earth.