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To: Salvation
Christ came to fulfill the law.

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I always hate it when people say this. Yes it is true as far as you understand it, it does not do away with the Ten Commandments. The Law of Moses was not the Ten Commandments but the laws of daily life as outlined mostly in the last 3 books of Moses.

The Ten Commandments are still in force, are still the law of God. Breaking them has consequences, consequences that can be overturned by the Grace of Jesus Christ but not before we have paid a price, a heavy price of a broken heart and attempted to make restitution and begged forgiveness.

I hear people saying all the time that working on the Sabbath is OK now because the law has been fulfilled, hog wash. The same is true of adultery, many talk of how little a deal it is to break this and other of the Ten Commandments, THEY ARE WRONG!

33 posted on 12/02/2014 9:24:42 AM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JAKraig

Just follow Christ’s(the high priest of Melchizidek) example as to how he observed the Sabbath and we should be doing just fine.

The priestly line of Aaron......the LAW OF GOD....the priestly line of Melchizidek. The Law stands apart. Aaron condemns and prescribes punishment under the law....Melchizidek seeks to redeem us from the bondage of sin caused by the breaking of the laws.
This concept of the fulfillment of the Law thru Christ bodily may be best understood by reading John 1:14”and the WORD became flesh and dwelt amongst us!”

Who was Christ but God in Flesh; the very God from whom comes his laws and statutes, his love, grace and mercy!. Christ was God’s love gift to the world. If we want to know how we are supposed to act or live, we can read of how Christ lived. Christ received a lot of criticisms for not living or speaking the way “cultured religious folks were supposed to live or speak”...but he lived the way God lives, for he was and still is indeed God!

Aaron’s way would have had the prostitute stoned....Melchizidek’s way was to forgive and redeem the prostitute and tell her...”Go and sin no more!” Christ did not set the law at naught, but used his authority as sinless savior to forgive and redeem(but with a warning Go and sin no more!). Christ healed on the Sabbath...he was accused of ‘working’ on the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath and we are expected to use some brains...if we see a need to be a blessing on the Sabbath as Christ saw a need for healing, we might indeed act to be a blessing!

We are to love God with the whole of ourselves as we are able to muster and we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves;...when we seek to master those two commandments as the holy Spirit makes us able, then we will by nature follow all of the law the way Christ followed the law. We will also have the wisdom to rightly divide what laws to follow at the time and what other laws are subordinate. Love will dictate how we are to live. For his law will be written in our inward parts....our “operating systems” if you will!


39 posted on 12/02/2014 10:01:25 AM PST by mdmathis6
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