Romans 4:4-5: “He who works is not credited with his reward as a favor, but as with what is due to him. But for the one who does not work, but believes in the one who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited with justice. Wherever you look in the scriptures, look to Jesus. Each passage is meant to tell you something about His Father and His Spirit and therefore about Himself. Make it your goal to see and appreciate Christ more in all your use of the scriptures. Embark on a treasure hunt to satisfy your soul more and more. In this way, the Spirit of Christ will work to transform you into His image. The purpose of the law will be more and more fulfilled in your life. And you will magnify Christ in your lives until He comes to complete the work He has begun. Read the laws in their ancient cultural context in conversation with their legal texts. Jon: But there`s something about the way we exist now. That you give us fuel and we cannot use it for what it is used for. We will use it to burn things.
This seems to be Paul`s point here, that fuel is not bad, but that our way of existence cannot handle it. Some casual readers of Scripture often mistakenly assume that the Law of Moses and the Ten Commandments are identical works of law. Tim: Yes. In the Gospel of John, this is a major motif. Jesus is that he listens to the Father, he does what his Father says. God becomes the first person who truly lives by God`s voice and will. Biblical history, man. So amazing. You`re welcome. Romans 3:20-22: “By the works of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; For by the law comes the knowledge of sin. But now, beside the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, which is testified by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe; because there is no difference.
First, when the fulfillment of the law is called the “law of liberty,” it means that we Christians seek love in the freedom of law-keeping as the basis of our justification or the power of our sanctification. Instead, we pursue it through the “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:2). We look to the Spirit of Christ for transformation, so that love flows through the power of within, not through pressure from without. The law of liberty is the direction of the Spirit, and “where the Spirit is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:17). What do you mean? Think that in the history of the Old Testament, laws are meant to give people a very clear indicator of the path of life. Listen to the voice. Jon: It won`t work. It will not work. But what sin does is it is even more twisted. It takes that, and then it turns it into a burn to take you in a different direction. “The smallest letter—the letter that the King James version calls the jot—was the Hebrew letter yod. In form, it was like an apostrophe —`—; Not even a letter not much bigger than a dot should pass.
The smallest part of the letter – what the King James version calls the Tittle – is what we call the serif, the small protruding part at the bottom of a letter. Jesus seems to maintain that the law is so holy that not a single detail will ever pass. Think about the plot, he chooses a family of nations. And then the point after the exodus is that these people, more than any other people on the planet, should be able to have the motivation to follow the laws of the Torah. He has just hammered Egypt before their eyes, but yet they repeat the same human error. It is as if Israel has been chosen to become the microcosm, to expose sin and self-deception for what it really is. This is what he means when he says that sin can be shown as sin. U.S. courts have often ruled against the publication of the Ten Commandments on government property.
They conclude that the Ten Commandments are derived from Judeo-Christian religions, to the exclusion of others: the statement “Thou shalt have no other gods beside me” excludes non-monotheistic religions such as Hinduism. Whether or not the Constitution prohibits the publication of commandments, there are other political and civil rights issues regarding the publication of what is interpreted as religious doctrine. The exclusion of religions that have not accepted the Ten Commandments gives the appearance of impropriety. However, courts have tended to accept narratives that place the Ten Commandments in a broader historical context of the development of law. 15 and remained there until Herod`s death. It was to fulfill what the Lord had said of the prophet: “I have called my son out of Egypt.” Verse 4 says that the purpose is “that the requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us,” and this does not mean that the law must be fulfilled for us. That`s true, I would say, according to Romans 5:19. But that is not the point. And then he focuses specifically on our walk, that is, on our lives, as the way of fulfillment: “so that the requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us that we walk. according to the Spirit.
Tim: You`re right. It is the relationship with the other that creates the possibility that things will go horribly wrong. This is a dual role, good laws that point to the path of life also warn you of what happens if you don`t – the way of death. The articles of the Church of England, revised and amended by the Assembly of the Divine at Westminster in 1643, state that “no Christian is free to obey the commandments which are called moral. By moral law, we mean all the Ten Commandments in all their extent. [88] The Westminster Confession, observed by the Presbyterian churches, states that the moral law contained in the Ten Commandments “binds all, as justified as others, to their obedience.” [89] Tim: The last perspective. It is perhaps the shortest. Laws are a source of wisdom for all generations.
Jesus also fulfilled the law by teaching both the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. By the 1930s, historians who accepted the basic premises of multiple fatherhood had come to reject the idea of an orderly development of the Israelite religion. Instead, critics began to assume that law and ritual could be of equal importance at different times, while taking different forms. This means that there is no longer any a priori reason to believe that Exodus 20:2-17 and Exodus 34:10-28 were written at different stages of Israelite history. For example, critical historian John Bright also dates Yahwi texts to the tenth century BC. AD, but believes that they express a theology that “had already been normalized in the time of the judges” (i.e., the tribal alliance). [128] He agrees with the importance of the Decalogue as “the central element of the covenant that united Israel as a people.” [129] but sees parallels between Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, along with other evidence, as a reason to believe that it is relatively close to its original form and mosaic origin. [130] Tim: That`s right. Good. Therefore, a legal code in itself is never enough.
It`s about creating people who are wise, who can know what God`s will is. Know God`s will. That is the crux of the matter. People who are completely in harmony with God through Jesus and the Spirit, who know how to listen to His voice and do His will, and all the expected futures that are yet to come. Proverbs 15:3–4: “The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, observing evil and good. A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but the perversion it contains crushes the mind. Tim notices that wisdom is the way to accomplish the Shema. Here`s what`s crazy about orders in human nature.
Here he cites the history of Israel, the Ten Commandments. “Sin, seize the opportunity by the commandment.” So he uses a word introduced into the account of Cain and Abel – to sin like an animal crouching before Cain. And Genesis 4 the self and the development of the serpent`s role in Genesis 3. So he has the serpent and sin here in mind. With this narrative framework, Piotrowski explains how formulas of fulfillment connect the themes of Christ, salvation, and redeemed persons. 1. Blood sacrifices ceased because Christ accomplished all that they indicated. He was the last irreplaceable sacrifice for sins. Hebrews 9:12: “He entered once and for all into the holy places, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. The Samaritan Pentateuch varies in the passages of the Ten Commandments, both in that the Samaritan Deuteronomic version is much closer to the passage of the Exodus: and in this the Samaritans count as nine commandments, which others count as ten. The Samaritan`s tenth commandment refers to the holiness of Mount Gerizim.
First, my imperfect love is nevertheless truly a God-dependent, spiritual, Christ-exalting love, based on my justification and not a means of doing so. And that`s why this is the new direction the law aimed for and what the new alliance promised. In short, love, as the fruit of the faith that exalts Christ, is what the law has sought. This idea of advancing toward a goal is found in verse 17, verse 17, as “the law or the prophets.” The Old Testament is to a large extent a prophecy and a prediction. He is therefore moving towards a goal to be achieved in history. It is, in the language of 2 Peter 1:19, “a word of prophecy.” Second, this sense of accomplishment or purpose coincides with the idea of a movement toward a goal actually proposed in Matthew 5:17-18. In my quote from Jeff Smith, you heard him say that the idea of movement is accomplished in the Word. Before reading his notes, I had thought of the exact word to describe the vision of Scripture presented here. This is what I think the passage suggests in terms of the connotation of this word.
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