Posted on 11/24/2025 9:21:27 AM PST by vespa300
“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.” (Matthew 5:18)
It has been said that he who understands the two covenants is a theologian, and this is, no doubt, true. I may also say that the man who knows the relative positions of the Law and the Gospel has the keys of the situation in the matter of doctrine. The relationship of the Law to myself, and how it condemns me; the relationship of the Gospel to myself, and how if I be a believer it justifies me--these are two points which every Christian man should clearly understand. He should not “see men as trees walking” in this department, or else he may cause himself great sorrow, and fall into errors which will be grievous to his heart and injurious to his life. To form a mingle-mangle of law and gospel is to teach that which is neither law or gospel, but the opposite of both. May the Spirit of God be our teacher, and the Word of God be our lesson-book, and then we shall not err.
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Jesus did not come to change the law, but he came to explain it, and that very fact shows that it remains, for there is no need to explain that which is abrogated. Upon one particular point in which there happened to be a little ceremonialism involved, namely, the keeping of the Sabbath, our Lord enlarged, and showed that the Jewish idea was not the true one. The Pharisees forbade even the doing of works of necessity and mercy, such as rubbing ears of corn to satisfy hunger, and healing the sick. Our Lord Jesus showed that it was not at all according to the mind of God to forbid these things. In straining over the letter, and carrying an outward observance to excess, they had missed the spirit of the Sabbath law, which suggested works of piety such as truly hallow the day. He showed that Sabbatic rest was not mere inaction, and he said, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” He pointed to the priests who labored hard at offering sacrifices, and said of them, “the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless.” They were doing divine service, and were within the law. To meet the popular error he took care to do some of his grandest miracles upon the Sabbath-day; and though this excited great wrath against him, as though he were a law-breaker, yet he did it on purpose that they might see that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath, and that it is meant to be a day for doing that which honors God and blesses men. O that men knew how to keep the spiritual Sabbath by a easing from all servile work, and from all work done for self, The rest of faith is the true Sabbath, and the service of God is the most acceptable hallowing of the day. Oh that the day were wholly spent in serving God and doing good! The sum of our Lord’s teaching was that works of necessity, works of mercy, and works of piety are lawful on the Sabbath. He did explain the law in that point and in others, yet that explanation did not alter the command, but only removed the rust of tradition which had settled upon it. By thus explaining the law he confirmed it; he could not have meant to abolish it or he would not have needed to expound it.
Exactly how Ellen White phrased it.
Jesus knew full well what he was doing by performing miracles on the Sabbath. He knew it would upset the pharisees who turned a blessed day into a day of dread and bondage.
And what a statement by Spurgeon about our Lord.
“By explaining the law (the sabbath) he CONFIRMED IT!!”
Brilliant. Spurgeon was a sunday keeping man of God. Wrong day....right way.
Just think for a minute of this brilliant logic Spurgeon makes about the Sabbath ..how Jesus explained it to the pharisees and what it means to so many today who have abandoned the weekly day of rest...
This is wisdom and brilliant logic by Spurgeon.
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By thus explaining the law he confirmed it; he could not have meant to abolish it or he would not have needed to expound it.
Booyah!!! Why would Jesus go out of his way to explain and exalt..something he would later abolish! that’s whacky.
Excellent Spurgeon message.
Thanks!
Amen.....we LOVE Spurgeon!
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For truly 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.Matt. 5:17-18.
Jesus fulfilled the law we could NEVER keep.
Why the law then?
[T]he law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.Gal. 3:24.
For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.Ephesians 2:8-9.
[T]o him that does not work, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.Rom. 4:5.
[I]f by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.Rom. 11:6.
For if that first covenant [of the law] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. In that he says, A new covenant [of grace through faith], he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.Hebrews 8:7, 13.
So it’s ok to sin?
They asked Paul the same question.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?Romans 6:1
His answer:
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?Romans 6:2
God's answer is that in Christ we have died to sin. Paul goes on to describe that in Christ, we died and rose with Christ.
Man's answer is to keep the law which is impossible or else Jesus didn't need to die. Only one man has ever lived who did not sin and kept the law and that is the Author of and Deliverer from the law, Jesus Christ.
There are only two things that deliver us from sin: grace and death.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.Romans 6:14.
Later in Romans Chapter 7, Paul describes the conflict between the new inner man which is fully redeemed and this body of flesh in which sin dwells against the will of our new, born-again man (verses 22-24).
And later in Romans Chapter 8, we are told that the Spirit of Christ (NOT self effort) gives us victory over the sinful deeds of the body.
The key to our victory in Christ is NO CONDEMNATION (Romans 8:1).
___For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.___
Sin is defined as “transgression of the law” 1 John 3:4.
You sound very confused. You sound like because you are under grace, we will not repent, We will keep committing adultery, keep stealing, keep killing, keep lying, keep worshiping other Gods, keep coveting, keep shopping on the Sabbath day.....
Those are the law.
What gives?
God condemned and fully judged ALL sin on the body of his Son, Jesus Christ, on the cross. You and I are completely forgiven from all sin.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.Acts 13:39.
You hold onto the law like it is your Savior. The law will never save you, only condemn you. In fact the law makes sin worse and STRENGTHENS sin (1 Cor. 15:56).
___You hold onto the law like it is your Savior. The law will never save you, only condemn you. In fact the law makes sin worse and STRENGTHENS sin (1 Cor. 15:56).___
Weird that your Bible doesn’t have this text:
John 14:15
King James Version
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
I hope I never year you say Abortion or homosexuality is a “sin” because apparently, you can’t obey God. If you can’t, don’t expect anyone too.
We can’t play picky choosy with God’s law. You just picked the Sabbath to disobey.....you are not kidding anyone.
Do you keep that law? Huh?
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.James 2:10.
How's that working for ya?
The law was crucified with Christ (Colossians 2:14).
Again, your argument isn't with me, it's with God who said the law is the ministry of death and condemnation (2 Cor. 3:7, 9) and is vanishing away (Heb. 8:13).
Look, I was trying to help you. I began this in good faith but you just want to argue. Not interested. You ignore scripture - the Gospel of the Grace of Christ laid out mostly in Romans but throughout the New Testament especially the epistles. You bring in "another gospel" which is twice cursed (Ga. 1:8-9).
I'll take the New Covenant of God's Word over your old and decayed words any day and twice on Sunday.
See ya and rots a ruck.
____Do you keep that law? Huh?
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
James 2:10.____
Uh, thank you. Exactly. When we break the 4th commandment, is no different then breaking any of the others.
But since your interpretation is that the Christian saved by grace no longer needs to obey God’s commandments....uh, Does your wife know you think it is not a sin to commit adultery?
The wingnuts certainly don't keep all the laws:
Still, through her books, articles, and letters to individuals, Ellen White did influence the general direction of the church’s practices regarding divorce and remarriage.(7) While consistently calling for high moral standards in marriage, and while condemning the sin of adultery, Ellen White often worked to rehabilitate those who had erred.(8) She saw no light in breaking up a second marriage, even though the circumstances that led to the marriage were not exemplary.(9) She expressed grace and compassion for those injured by divorce.
Just a bunch of lying hypocrites like their founder.
The post was about Spurgeon and his theology.
What a clown who can’t read.
The article was about the Perpetuity of the Law of God, something you wingnuts don’t obey when it comes to the perpetuity of marriage.
No idea what you are talking about. But rewarding the law, you believe a Christian saved by grace will do his best to obey God’s commandments? Or are you antinomian too?
As with the fallacious out-of-context attempt to turn Luther into a SDA, posted here and exposed a while ago my suspicion on seeing your attempt to enlist Spurgeon has also been vindicated, for while he considered the Sabbath to be a creation ordinance, yet he believed the observance of the Sabbath changed from the seventh day of the week to the first day due to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And thus the "spiritual Sabbath" referred to the first day of the week, which he considered a day of rest plus doing good deeds. And he preached at least four times a week: twice on Sundays and twice during the week.
Spurgeon wrote,
“The first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ, and following apostolical example, we have made the first day of the week to be our Sabbath.”[2] If Jesus had not risen from the dead, then Christians would have no hope of eternal life. The unsealed empty tomb sealed a believer’s redemption. Spurgeon affirmed this point. “We gather together on the first rather than upon the seventh day of the week, because redemption is even a greater work than creation, and more worthy of commemoration, and because the rest which followed creation is far outdone by that which ensues upon the completion of redemption.”[3] - https://founders.org/articles/spurgeon-and-the-sabbath-a-theological-conviction/
I am going very briefly to refer to these cures of Christ, in the fond hope that he will transfer from the seventh to the first day of the week the glory which he put upon his ancient Sabbath. I need not say in the “hope” that he will do it, as though it were a new thing, for he has done it all through the Christian era.
Certainly, this day, on which Christ rose from the grave, has been the time of the resurrection of ten thousand times ten thousand; and when we have met together, on this first day of the week, to sing hymns and to pray, in the name of Jesus, and to talk of his great love and of all that came of it, he has been specially present with us, and he has wrought wondrous miracles of mercy many and many a time. May he do so among us now! Sabbath-work, Charles Haddon Spurgeon February 18, 1883 Scripture: John 5:9 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 44
First, as I have already said, the law is fulfilled in the matchless sacrifice of Jesus Christ. ,,, Perfect holiness will never be reached by the works of the law, for works cannot change the nature, but by faith in Jesus, and the blessed work of his Holy Spirit, we shall have it, and then I believe it will be among our songs of glory that heaven and earth pass away, but the word of God and the law of God shall stand fast for ever and ever. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Amen. - The Perpetuity of the Law of God
Well, it's to be expected from those who call Jesus Himself a liar.
Phil, everyone’s at the playground and we miss you.
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