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I pretty much agree with all you said and what little I don't, it doesn't really matter. The only thing I will throw out for consideration right now is this... the law was written on stone, it is being moved to the heart. Same law... Jesus didn't create a new law, he revealed the spirit the letter of the law was based on. Thus, adultery is STILL sin but we know now that to even lust in the heart for another is also sin. Murder is a sin, but hatred from which murder would emanate, is also sin. If anything, the depths of loving God and neighbor (two OT commandments, by the way) is harder than just the letter but it also reveals the need for messiah because we CAN'T do it on our own.hi Ken, great stuff thanks for sharpening and being sharpened. Again I agree that the entire Mosaic system pointed to the Lord as well as being that which revealed and condemned sin in men. There is no one thing, hundreds of things probably trillions of things that could in and of themselves reveal the Lord. Even with the amount He has made Himself known to us we still can't grasp the true magnitude of all He is or all He has done.
It is a very popular teaching about the spring feasts being fulfilled and the rest waiting fulfillment. But consider this from the 70 Week of Years. The decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple was given on Passover and 7 weeks of years later on Passover the work was done. From that Passover another 62 Weeks of Years was to finished when Messiah came to Jerusalem was as we know on Passover. With these 69 Weeks of years at an end with His crucifixion when He was cut off and had nothing. This leaves one Week of Years, 7 years the length of the tribulation that will also begin on Passover and come to a close 7 years later on Passover with the Return of the Passover Lamb. The Feasts in their order may yet be revealed to hold more but Passover is distinctly and uniquely the Day of the Lord.
I believe the Lord spoke of a number of things as being finished. Yes He looked to see if anything had been left out under the criteria of the Law and when He saw He had done all that was to be done on His first coming He spoke the words "It is finished." One thing we have failed to understand is the Lord was also speaking of the Written Law that Scripture tells us we died to the Law through the Law. God designed His Law to accomplish certain things when the Passover Lamb of God lay down His life the Law had been fulfilled and His people are to live not under the Written Law but the Royal Law of Love or more accurately Love in action or Grace.
Again though, sin is defined by the law, if there is no law then we don't need grace because there isn't sin any more. We are raised in an anti-law culture because of the (false) perception that the OT was based on works until salvation.... or really better as far as the context is concerned...works unto becoming a part of the family of God. It wasn't God's commandments that Jesus, or even Paul we speaking again. It was the man made additions to the law, which combined back then (and even today) were all called "law" by the Jews... and thus we end up with a view of God's law that isn't exactly in line with reality. What was repeatedly rebuked was JEWISH law, i.e. what we would call today, "rabbinic law." And rabbinic law is God's law with additions. We don't need THEM, but we do need God's instructions. In fact, they are what is being written on our hearts.
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