And that Yeshua said (
Matthew 5:18) that not one jot or tittle (the fine details) of the law will pass away until heaven and earth pass away and all be fulfilled. Take a look out your window. Has heaven and earth passed away?
Christ Came to Fulfill the Law (Subtitle from eSword)
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you,
Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
(Heaven and earth would not pass away "till" it was fulfilled at Calvary.)
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach
them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Gal 3:17 And this I say,
that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ,
the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
(Above Paul reveals that the Sinai Covenant came 430 years "after" the promise made to Abraham.)
Gal 3:18 For if the inheritance
be of the law,
it is no more of promise: but God gave
it to Abraham by promise.
Gal 3:19 Wherefore then
serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;
and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
(Here Paul reveals the temporary nature of the Sinai Covenant. It was put in place "till" the "seed" (Christ) could come to whom the promise was made.)
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are
the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
(Paul compares the Sinai covenant to "bondage".)
Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
(Again, Paul compares Sinai to bondage.)
Gal 4:26 But
Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
(This Jerusalem is found in Hebrews 11:16.)
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice,
thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him
that was born after the Spirit, even so
it is now.
Gal 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
(Paul compelled the Galatians believers to "cast out" the Sinai covenant.)
Gal 4:31 So then,
brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
This is confirmed by Hebrews 12:18-24.
We are not come to the mountain that burns with fire, but instead to the New Covenant of Mount Zion and heavenly Jerusalem.
The battle between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant began in Acts chapter 15.
Peter said the Law of Moses was a "yoke" they had not been able to bear.
Act 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Peter could not have been talking about circumcision, because it was something they did bear.
The Judaisers could not let go of the Old Covenant, as Paul instructed in Galatians chapter 4.
Sadly, for most of the history of the Church the Judaisers have won the day.
There are two different sets of commandments in the verse below.
Joh 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
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