yes! we teach our children, we tell our employees , the world is run by rules. ecept when we become christians and go to church and read God's word then we throw his rules out!
Paul told us that we battle in our minds
yes!
living by the spirit is the word of God.
soundcard put thiis verse to what you just said here above and below
Jn 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
it is God's way of showing man the path to righteousness!
notice I did not say man way. GOD'S WAY!
This is always qouted Soundcard
but the person or preacher NEVER tell you HOW to love thy neighbour
should I walk around always saying I love you neighbour, yet as soon as he turn his back I'm backbiting him.
Truth be told, I'm still learning this. I had a few roadblocks in my way before I could start seeing the truth, I admit I was blinded by past hurt and was reluctant to let it go, but praise be to our Lord Jesus He opened my eyes to it and I'm now moving past them.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Paul gives us an understanding of the nature of love. Just so, he also gives us an understanding of the nature of sin.
Colossians 3:5-10 NIV
5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[
b] 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Just for the record here, I don't think anyone here is trying to justify sin. I know I'm not. It's an evil, evil wretched thing.
FINALLY a correct answer, It is harder now under the New Covenant.
Because A God came down to die for our sins. ONLY ONCE!
under the old covenant a person who broke the law could alswys get another bull to sacrifice for the same sin. If I had 10 bulls I could sin 10 times! which is wilfully sinning.
under the New the blood of Jesus
Paul said Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
I cannot go out here and commit 10 adulteries under the blood of Jesus.
can I ?
Though, this sets an interesting conundrum. We're flat out told something about the blood of bulls and such. It's ironic, that the answer lies in Hebrews 10 as well.
Hebrews 10:1-4 NIV
1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are comingnot the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
The blood spilled by them
covered the sins, but it did not take them away, only one could do that, and that is Christ.
WHAT LAW?
sacrifice or the commandments?
are you condemn for keeping the commandments or the law of animal sacrifice?
Souncard the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin. so who was condemned?
are we prisoners of the commandments?
or the old covenant which we the blood of bulls and goats.
now if the blood of animal could never take awy sin, what bondage or prisoners where the people under before Jesus came?
I know you know now confess it!!!!
This is going to be difficult for you to understand, because as to now you have yet to realize this. So let me tell you plainly.
Jesus Christ Himself is our fulfillment of the law, because, we join not ONLY in His death, we also join with Him in His life!
He spent some 33 odd years doing what exactly? LIVING SINLESSLY under that which condemns sin! That's the good news here! All the requirements that we could never meet, all the laws we could not fulfill, all the statutes that required obedience, HE could obey! HE alone could do this! It's why HE is our rock and our salvation! In HIM is the fulfillment of it, because HE alone could live it! We who are sinners are condemned by
that which condemns sin, and what condemns sin? The law and the commandments!!
Matthew 5:17-20 NIV
17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
The only one who could do the works of the law and still be considered righteous was He who was, is, and will be righteousness itself, the living God, Jesus Christ!
Essentially, the 10 commandments were the rules of love explained to an unrighteous and unbelieving Israel.
Do not covet, do not steal, do not lie, do not murder, do not commit idolatry, do not create idols, do not blaspheme, keep the Sabbath holy, honor thy mother and father, ALL are summed up in one word!
Love.
Romans 13:8-10 NIV
8Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet,"[
a] and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[
b] 10Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
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if we remain under the blood of Jesus. what if we turn back the bible speak on that?
the sins that are past are remmitted when we come under the blood
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God
but if you sin WILFULLY after you come under the knowledge of the truth
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
then what?
Ah, we have good news then from our brother in Christ, John.
1 John 1:8-10 NIV
8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
1 John 2:1-2 NIV
1My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defenseJesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for[
a] the sins of the whole world.
However, yes, we should obey His commands, but you must understand, I really, really must emphasize, the commands of the NEW COVENANT. They contain the law and the prophets in the commands to love your neighbor, to love God more than anything else in your life. Every action in your life will stem forth from that.
The point of this whole debate, I think I finally understand is... if one goes back to the old covenant to 'save them', they're saying that love is not enough for them, when God Himself is described as BEING love. To walk out on the New Covenant is to fall from grace, because only IN grace can one truly love God, only in faith can one love God, only in faith can one PLEASE God. Our works, our deeds, they were prepared for us in advance! And think about this, honestly, think, how different is each individual? Not to say that God's character isn't consistent, but does not each have their own gifts, talents, etc? Who's to say WHAT that work will be? What will the deed be which pleases God today? What is the work set out for you by the Father Himself? Who can tell us this but His Spirit? To turn your back on love, by saying it isn't enough, is to have no place in our hearts for His Spirit, and He is grieved I dare say. We have scripture which flat out tells you the law cannot save you, that it clearly condemns you, and only, ONLY,
ONLY in Jesus Christ do we find atonement, sanctity, truth, righteousness, and that which consumes and blossoms, and originates, and breathes life into all the former, love. Only in God's beloved and Holy Son, Jesus Christ, is the love of God made fully manifest.
Where there is commandment, there is condemnation. Where there is condemnation, there is fear, where there is fear, there is no place for love. For as it says:
1 John 4:18 NIV
18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Love perfects, love sanctifies, and it was love that saved me. It was love that God showed to His people on that cross, it was Love that lead Him to that cross, it was love that resurrected Him that we might be justified, it is THE LOVE OF GOD HIMSELF that I should be made righteous by His son's sacrifice, and I can only pray I can learn to love as Jesus did, for I myself am a sinner, and my nature is contrary to that of love. It seeks only for itself, not for its neighbor, but our Lord gave us a new spirit that we too might partake in that Heavenly love that our Father showed to us, that we might become the family He desires. Let His love be known to all of us, that we too may be made perfect in it.
God bless.