Quoting Deuteronomy

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Isaiah 56 refers to a gentile proselyte to Judaism or at least a gentile who has chosen to live among the Jews.

This is Christ directly speaking and I am pretty sure doing justice and righteousness was not only for Jews considering its the foundation of God's Throne Psalm 89:14

Isa 56:1 Thus says the Lord:

“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant

This is Christ speaking of a covenant relationship with the Gentiles- joining themselves to the Lord, to love His name (His character) to serve Him which He relates to Sabbath-keeping, made for man Mark 2:27 and everyone Isa 56:6

Now, if you look to Hebrews:

Heb 7:11 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law)...

The parenthetical statement for under it the people received the law, meaning that under the Levitical priesthood the people received the law -the "law for righteousness", Romans 9:31, 10:4. It was under the Levitical priesthood that the trappings of the Levitical were given. It is more or less a myth that Moses gave the entirety of the law at Sinai.

And again, the basis for saying that the sabbath was given to the Jews at Sinai is Judaism itself. If you can find a reputable source saying that the sabbath was given to gentiles I'll gladly listen but a simple assertion on your part isn't quite good enough.

Paul made the same example in several different places, in slightly different ways of saying it, but all means the same thing. That our righteousness comes from faith and not the law. Does that mean Paul is teaching one to sin Rom 7:7 and dishonor God Rom 2:21-23 and to be an enmity to God Rom 8:7-8 of course not. Faith establishes the law Rom 3:31 but we are not made righteous by keeping the law, we are made righteous by faith through Christ. We have all sinned and broke the law, so therefore our righteousness can't be by law-keeping although Paul is not teaching to not keep God's law as many misunderstand and not harmonize all of Paul's teachings or the teachings of Jesus. John 14:15 Mat 15:3-14 Mark 7:7-13 Mat 5:19-30 We are only saved by the blood of Christ, we keep the law not to be saved or made righteousness, its kept because Jesus has changed us from the inside and we want to keep God's law through faith and love Rom 3:31 John 14:15 1 John 5:3 keeping God's law is a consequence of salvation not a means to it. Rev 14:12

Rom 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin (breaking God's law 1 John 3:4) leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

Psa 119:172 My tongue shall speak of Your word,
For all Your commandments are righteousness.

Rom 7:12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

1 Peter 1:16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

We should abide in Him and follow what Jesus lived and taught John 15:10 1 John 2:6

For the record, the law in Heb 7:11 is referring to the book of the law placed outside or beside the ark which contained the priesthood laws and all the animal sacrifices under the priesthood,

Deut 31:24 So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished, 25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 26 “Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness against you;

Not the Ten Commandments that God alone wrote and spoke, His Testimony Exo 31:18 that was inside the ark of the Covenant that is God's eternal law. Exo 34:28 Deut 4:13 Psa 89:34 Mat 5:18 Rev 11:19

 

[DamianWarS]

Christ quoted from Deuteronomy three times in order to defeat the temptations from Satan, which included saying that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God, so he affirmed Deuteronomy and every word that has come from the mouth of God as being authoritative, which included what God spoke in Deuteronomy 5:31-33 in regard to the laws of the Torah. In Deuteronomy 12:32, it prohibits adding to or subtracting from the Torah. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God instructed His people to determine that someone is a false prophet who is not speaking for Him is if they teach against obeying the Torah.

So how does it make sense for someone to interpret Jesus as being against following anything in Deuteronomy or that has come from the mouth of God? About 1/3 of the verses in the NT contain quotes or allusions to the OT, which its authors did thousands of times in order to support what they were saying, so how does it make sense for someone to consider those quotes to be authoritative while rejecting the Torah that the authors of those quotes considered to be authoritative? If someone thinks the authors of the NT did spoke against obeying the Torah, then they should either conclude that they were false prophets or conclude that they must have misinterpreted them.

There's a fundamental perspective difference. Where you may see "teaching against" I see the same focus under new revelation. Clearly, we do not value the sacrificial laws yet we do not look at these laws as thrown away, rejected or teaching against either. They point to Christ and their values can still be found through Christ as he fulfills them, yet the law itself never explicitly states "until the one who will come and fulfill" Even still, we approach it with no compromise in this outlook. The law values the sacrifice and we continue to value it just seen made complete through Christ.

How then can we not approach all law this way? If our outlook of the sacrifice has been fundamentally changed through Christ why can't our outlook of circumcision be the same, again the same values and without compromise just seen made complete through Christ? What about Sabbath? The same values, without compromise but seen made complete through Christ? What about dietary laws... et cetera..

Fundamentally the law exposes an imperfect system that needs to be repeated. It makes anything with repetitive requirement innately ceremonial and imperfect and points to a construct higher than itself that can complete it if it is worthy. Even if only an abstract idea this is what all repetitive ceremony in any system points to.

For example, Christ tells us it is lawful to do good on the sabbath (Mat 12:12) This reveals that goodness itself is above the ceremony or the letter of law and if all our actions were good, then all our actions are also lawful regardless of what day they are conducted on. It also shows us that if one were to come who was of a substance of pure goodness then their acts would always be lawful and could never be unlawful. A practitioner of this goodness would be able to freely move without consequence even if in conflict of the letter. It's not that they are unaccountable or lawless, it's that the goodness fulfills the legal requirements so provided their actions measure to this construct of goodness Jesus identifies then their actions are also lawful. Abstractly, this would absolve the person from the letter of the law as their goodness would cover their actions, in practice however, their actions may still come under scrutiny by those driven by legalism over goodness but the legalism has no power over it even with the scrutiny. If this practitioner of goodness was one with authority, then their actions would not just be localized but may also cover all that they have authority over. Of course, we know no one is good but God (Mark 10:18) so by human means this standard is not possible and so all are bound by law, but since Christ offers himself freely we may share in his goodness which is pure and worthy through our faith in Christ. Our actions need not be measured by law anymore but measured by Christ. Thus we are not under law, we are under Christ. This is the gospel message unpacked.

So what you see as an injustice to the Torah I see as an injustice to the power of Christ and hypocrisy because you very happily do away with Torah and very explicitly teach NOT TO DO, what the Torah teaches TO DO yet have no issue with this. We agree regarding the sacrifice but when I apply the same logic to something like Sabbath, dietary laws or circumcision, I'm accused of rejecting Torah and calling the apostles and even Christ himself false prophets. How can I not be offended by such remarks? My faith is in Christ, not in law, so your legalistic scrutiny has no merit under Christ.