We are created to hear God.
We are created to see God in creation.
The only recorded commands given in the garden before the fall were with respect to the tree of knowledge and to be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth.
There is no record of the ten commandments being given.
The reason was that God was communicating daily with Adam and eve.
And so it is today.
Jesus in us wants to communicate daily and bring insights into what is righteousness in our world.
This is a dynamic word from Him in us that 'The Ten' could never bring.
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Who committed the first sin? Lucifer and the 1/3 of the angels ... in heaven. Yes ... law in heaven as well.
We have a just God. His law shows us His just character. We also have a loving and merciful God .... He sent His son to pay our sin debt. That doesn't do away with the law .... it satisfies (fulfills) the law. We are not condemned by the law as we are covered by the blood of Jesus but that does not in any way do away with the law. We are justified through Him by the life He lived, His sacrifice and His resurrection. This is a free gift that is available to those who choose Him and follow Him.
When we receive Jesus as our Lord and savior ... then ... the process of sanctification happens, His work (through the Holy Spirit) in the believer .... doing what .... helping us to overcome sin. We are sanctified through Him and this is a earth life-long process.
There is nothing wrong with His law .... the wrong is within mankind, we are unable to keep the law without Him.
What is it that defines what righteousness (morally right) is ? His law!
Jesus taught from the OT .... He was the one that gave the written law on Mt. Sinai ... did He then just throw those laws in the trash? No.
It's all about Him and what He did for us (mankind).
The law is still written .... written on our hearts/mind.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Above .... is the writing of the law in the heart just for the Jews? No.
Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
There is no record of the ten commandments being given.
The record ... or evidence that people have always known about the law is by their actions .... what is sin? Transgression of the Law. In my previous post were some examples of this .... before Mt. Sinai
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.
19 So 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.
Romans 7
English Standard Version
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means!
Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Obviously referring back to the decalog.
The 10 are laws of love ... defines how we are to treat one another 5-10 and 1-4 our relationship with the Lord and are summed up in the greatest.
The Greatest Commandment
(
Deuteronomy 6:1–19;
Mark 12:28–34)
Matthew 22
34And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
36“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?37 Jesus declared, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38This is the first and greatest commandment. (1 thru 4 of the decalog)
39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ (5 thru 10 of the decalog)
40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
All the teachings of Jesus are based on the 10 one way or another. He magnified the law ... we are given much much more details about what the law (the 10) encompasses.
Back to the 7th day Sabbath .... like it or not ... it falls under our relationship with the Lord and it wasn't just for the Jews ... again we are to pattern ourselves after Jesus ... He kept the 7th day Sabbath and declares He is Lord of it and that He created it for us and made it holy (set apart) .... set apart from what? From all other days.
He states clearly not one jot or tittle of the law will change until heaven and earth pass away.
