The law the Lord gave is not an unrighteous one, but a righteous law. Jesus of course came not to destroy Gods law, but He came to fulfill it. No part of the law, not one jot, not one tittle passes away from the law. If one of the least commandments of the law is broken, we are the least, and if we do not do righteousness, we do not enter the kingdom of Heaven ever.
1 Now instead of killing your brother and being guilty, we are guilty for being angry with our brother.
2 Now instead of being guilty for commiting adultery, we are guilty for looking lustfully on a woman and it is adultery as in the law, already..
3 Now we cannot divorce for uncleanness. Now we do more, we make ourself a eunuch for the Kingdom of Heavens sake.
4 Now we make vows without swearing by Heaven or earth, now we keep what we vow, Jesus came against those who swear falsely, not to stop vows at all.
5 Now we do not return eye for eye, we return blessing, and that blessing returns to us, this is the increased way of the law to overcome evil, with good...
6 It was said to hate our enemy, it was also said to help your enemy, feeding our enemy heaps coals of fire of judgement on his head, the magnified law Christ set in the world...
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 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.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Matthew 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Mathew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Romans 14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Malachi 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
propjetic wrote:
"Paul did approve of 4 unbelieving Jews to take a **VOW** in Acts 21:23 but this took place **BEFORE** The book of Matthew was written about AD 65 where Jesus condemned taking vows in the NT Covenant as per Matthew 5:33-37: "
All false information from propjetic. The Jews were BELIEVERS...
Acts 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, THOU SEEST, BROTHER, HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF JEWS THERE ARE WHICH BELIEVE; and they are all zealous of the law:
21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Paul did a vow himself, because we can do vows, just not swear, because all belongs to the Lord. Paul received the Gospel directly from Christ, after Christ had lived and preached the Gospel and all things brought to remembrance of Matthew. To say Paul did against Christ and did not know about the Gospel of Christ, is and false and desperate...
Galatians 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Acts 18:18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Matthew 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the donkey of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
No part of the law is diminished, the righteousness of the testimonies of the law of God are everlasting, who can show otherwise, when it is so simple and straightforward to see..
Psalms 119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
"THE LAW WAS GIVEN THROUGH MOSES BUT GRACE AND TRUTH CAME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST!"
Leviticus 26:7,8: God said to Israel, "You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the SWORD before you. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the SWORD before you!" Numbers 25:16,17" The Lord said to Moses, "Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them!" etc etc
HOWEVER IN THE NEW COVENANT, JESUS SAYS, "ALL WHO DRAW THE SWORD WILL DIE BY THE SWORD!"
Matthew 26:30-34: They seized Jesus and arrested Him. With that, one of Jesus' companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "For *ALL* who draw the sword will die by the sword...But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?"
Jesus said to Pilate, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If it were, My servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But **NOW** My Kingdom is from another place!"
Former OT commands in Exodus 21:23-25 "If there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
This was changed by these NT commands by Jesus:
Matthew 5:38,39: Jesus commands, "You have heard that it was said {In Exodus 21:23-25 above}, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also!"
Luke 6:27-29: Jesus commands, "LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you. do not demand it back!"
When you join the military and become a professional killer you must make a **VOW** that you will obey all the commands of your commanding officer. And so if He commands you to drop an Atomic Bomb that will kill about 100,000 civilians including about 25,000 innocent children you must obey this command!!!
What is the OT command concerning *VOWS* and *OATHS*?? Numbers 30:2: Moses said, "This is what the Lord commands: When a man makes a *VOW* to the Lord or takes an *OATH* to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said!"
What did Jesus command concerning making *VOWS* and **OATHS*??
Matthew 5:33-37: Jesus says, "You have heard that it was said to your people long ago {Numbers 30:2 above}, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' BUT I tell you, Do not swear at all....Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No, 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one!!"
Leviticus 20:1,10: The Lord said to Moses.... "Both the adulterer and the adulteress **MUST BE PUT TO DEATH**"
Was this law changed by Jesus??
John 8:3-11: The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in the act of adultery. They said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?".. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with His finger. When they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, "If anyone of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." At this those who heard began to go away one at a time until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" "No one, sir," she said. "**THEN NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU," Jesus declared!!
In the OT we our commanded to love our brother as we love ourselves. Did Jesus change this command??
John 13:34,35: Jesus says, "A **NEW COMMAND** I give you. Love one another. As I have loved you, so you **MUST** love one anther. By this all men will know that you are My disciples!!"
John 15:13,14" Jesus says, "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends **IF** you do what I command!!"
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!" He then said: "What comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from **INSIDE** and make a man **UNCLEAN!!"
I Corinthians 9:21: I am under **CHRIST'S LAW**!!
Matthew 28:18-20: Jesus says, "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... teaching them to obey **EVERYTHING** I have commanded you!!"
I John 2:3-5 We know that we have come to know Him if we obey **HIS COMMANDS**. The man who says, "I know Him," but does not do what **HE COMMANDS** is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys His word, God's love is truly made complete in him!!
John 14:23,24: Jesus says, "If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me will not obey My teaching!"
Colossians 2:16,17: Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you **EAT** or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a **SABBATH DAY**. These are a **SHADOW** of the things that were to come, the reality, however, **IS FOUND IN CHRIST**!!
Romans 3:22-25,27,28: This righteousness from God comes through **FAITH** in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God promised Him as a sacrifice of atonement , through **FAITH** in His blood!!....Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded . On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but that of **FAITH**! For we maintain that a man is justified by **FAITH** **APART FROM OBSERVING THE LAW**!
Galatians 2:14-16: Paul said, When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because by observing the law no one will be justified.!"
Galatians 2:20,21: The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
Galatians 3:10-13: "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." Christ redeemed us from the **CURSE OF THE LAW** by becoming a curse for us!
Galatians 3:23-25: "Before faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, *WE* ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!"
And so the **FULLFILLMENT OF THE OT LAW WAS COMPLETELY ACCOMPLISHED** AND WE ARE NOW UNDER **CHRIST'S LAW** when the last book of Revelation was written around AD 96!!
And anyone who tells you we are now under the **SUPERVISION OF THE OT LAW** is contradicting the sacred Words of God!!
"And so the **FULLFIlLMENT OF THE LAW WAS COMPLETELY ACCOMPLISHED** when the last book of Revelation was written around AD 96!!"
Jesus speaks clear for the people, who were worried He had come to destroy the law. He showed He came to FULFILL. Christ spoke truly and sincerely for us, UNTIL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, NO PART OF THE LAW PASSES, UNTIL ALL BE FULFILLED...
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18 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.
THE LAW, and the prophets were until John, then Christ takes over preaching the Kingdom of Heaven. ONE TINY PART OF THE LAW CANNOT FAIL, Heaven and earth pass before that. Christ THEN CONFIRMS THE LAW...
Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
The last days are here, scoffers deny the signs of Christs coming, they try to say all is fulfilled already..
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
These end days are WHEN ALL THAT IS WRITTEN MAY BE FULFILLED. The times of the gentiles needs to be fulfilled first, (Israel returned to the Jews from the Gentiles 1947) all the signs COMING TO PASS, and THEN our redemption draws near. When we see these things COME TO PASS(FULFILLED), then the kingdom of Heaven is near. This generation does not pass, UNTIL ALL BE FULFILLED. HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, BUT HIS WORDS DO NOT PASS AWAY. PRAY ALWAYS TO BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY.
Luke 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suckle, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
When is the sign when ALL THESE THINGS BE FULFILLED? DON'T BE DECEIVED, MANY come in the name of Christ saying they are Christ, (of Christ) and deceive MANY. Wars and such things must needs be, (to be fulfilled) but the end is not yet. There shall be great affliction, (or tribulation) don't believe the signs and wonders of the deceivers, Christ has foretold us all things, ( TO BE FULFILLED) This generation shall not pass, until ALL THESE THINGS BE DONE, ( ALL THESE THINGS BE FULFILLED) HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS BUT HIS WORDS DO NOT PASS AWAY..
Mark 13:4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
When is the sign of the end of the world and when these things shall be, ( SHALL BE FULFILLED)? Take heed no man deceives you, many come in His name saying they are Christ and deceive many, we hear of wars , for ALL THESE THINGS MUST COME TO PASS, (BE FULFILLED) Great tribulation that there never was, so that nobody can survive the deceiving, but this generation shall not pass, UNTIL ALL BE FULFILLED, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY"
Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Then comes the end, when He shall have put down all rule, WHEN ALL IS FULFILLED....
1 Corinthians 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
The righteousness of the law needs to be FULFILLED IN US, Christ returns when our OBEDIENCE IS FULFILLED, until all servants of God ARE FULFILLED, by being killed for the word of God, by the evil doers who GOD HAS PUT IN THEIR HEART TO FULFILL HIS WILL, UNTIL THE WORDS OF GOD SHALL BE FULFILLED.......
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
2 Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Revelation 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Revelation 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
prophetic wrote:
"HOWEVER IN THE NEW COVENANT, JESUS SAYS, "ALL WHO DRAW THE SWORD WILL DIE BY THE SWORD!"
Now it is Christs sword....
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
prophetic wrote:
"This was changed by these NT commands by Jesus:
Matthew 5:38,39: Jesus commands, "You have heard that it was said {In Exodus 21:23-25 above}, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also!"
Jesus said to not resist evil, but to overcome evil with good..
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
prophetic wrote:
"What did Jesus command concerning making *VOWS* and **OATHS*??
Matthew 5:33-37: Jesus says, "You have heard that it was said to your people long ago {Numbers 30:2 above}, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' BUT I tell you, Do not swear at all....Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No, 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one!!"
Do not swear, let your vow be yes, Paul who received the Gospel directly from Christ cannot be doing evil, or be an evil example, Paul did a simple vow..
Acts 18:18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
prophetic wrote:
"Leviticus 20:1,10: The Lord said to Moses.... "Both the adulterer and the adulteress **MUST BE PUT TO DEATH**"
Was this law changed by Jesus??"
The adulterers will still be put to death , whom the Lord now judges.
John 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whooremongers and adulterers God will judge.
prophetic wrote:
"In the OT we our commanded to love our brother as we love ourselves. Did Jesus change this command??"
As Jesus loved us. To lay His life down for us. That is how we now understand what the love of God is. We had this commandment from the beginning, to love one anoher, but we never saw what it meant until Christ, then it became a new commandmentand explanation. The true light now shines, to enlighten all the righteous commandments in the law for us to see..
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
2 John 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
1 John 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
prophetic wrote:
"Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!"
Is God speaking about animals, or speaking about us? No doubt about us. For our hope, we were made clean, but some men remain unclean..
1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
Acts 11:7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whooremonger, NOR UNCLEAN PERSON, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, HATH ANY INHERITANCE in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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"Colossians 2:16,17: Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you **EAT** or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a **SABBATH DAY**. These are a **SHADOW** of the things that were to come, the reality, however, **IS FOUND IN CHRIST**!!
Romans 3:22-25,27,28: This righteousness from God comes through **FAITH** in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God promised Him as a sacrifice of atonement , through **FAITH** in His blood!!....Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded . On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but that of **FAITH**! For we maintain that a man is justified by **FAITH** **APART FROM OBSERVING THE LAW**!"
We cannot be judged by what we eat or drink, or sabbaths or holy day, we do not need to observe the law, WE DO NOT HAVE THE LAW, BUT, we do by NATURE, THE THINGS CONTAINED IN THE LAW. Showing God wrote the LAW IN OUR HEART...
Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Romans 3:22-25,27,28: This righteousness from God comes through **FAITH** in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God promised Him as a sacrifice of atonement , through **FAITH** in His blood!!....Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded . On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but that of **FAITH**! For we maintain that a man is justified by **FAITH** **APART FROM OBSERVING THE LAW**! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 2:14-16: Paul said, When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because by observing the law no one will be justified.!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 2:20,21: The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" [ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 3:10-13: "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." Christ redeemed us from the **CURSE OF THE LAW** by becoming a curse for us! [ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 3:23-25: "Before faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, *WE* ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!" He then said: "What comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from **INSIDE** and make a man **UNCLEAN!!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Acts 10:9-16: Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by the four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a Voice told him, "Get up, Peter, kill and **EAT**!" "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The Voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that **GOD HAS MADE CLEAN**!"{As per Mark 7:19 above) This happened **THREE TIMES**!, and the sheet was taken back to heaven! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
I Timothy 4:1-5: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through **HYPOCRITICAL LIARS**, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them **TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS**, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and **NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED** if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
I Corinthians 10:25: Eat **ANYTHING** sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Colossians 2:15,16: Therefore do not let anyone judge you by **WHAT YOU EAT** or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a **SABBATH DAY**. These are a **SHADOW** of the things that were to come, the reality, however, is found in Christ!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
There are 613 commandments or laws of Moses. About 50 of the laws are about sacrificing thousands of animals on the temple altar for the forgiveness of sins since without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sins. When Jesus was sacrificed for the forgiveness of sins these OT laws for the sacrificing of thousands of animals was **FULFILLED** and **THEN** these sacrificial laws of Moses were completely eliminated!!
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices {According to the laws of Moses}, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven, there is **NO LONGER ANY SACRIFICE FOR SIN**!! [ADAM7777 disagrees with theses inspired words of God!!}
Isaiah 53:5,6: But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed. We all like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all!!
And so Jesus completely **FULFILLED** the Law for the sacrifices for sin!!
Ephesians 1:5-8: In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding!
"THERE IS NO LONGER ANY SACRIFICE FOR SIN!!!" HEBREWS 10:18!!
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven , there is **NO LONGER ANY SACRIFICE FOR SIN**!!
Ephesians 1:5-8: In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding!
Ephesians 2:4-10: Because of His great love for us, God,, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is **BY GRACE** you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is **BY GRACE** you have been saved, through faith-- and this **NOT FROM YOURSELVES**, it is the **GIFT** of God--**NOT BY WORKS**, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do!
Hebrews 9:25-28: Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now He has appeared **ONCE FOR ALL** at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Just as man is destined to die once , and after that to face judgment, so Christ was **SACRIFICED ONCE TO TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF MANY PEOPLE**!!
Hebrews 7:27: Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for His own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He **SACRIFICED FOR THEIR SINS ONCE FOR ALL** when He offered Himself!!
Hebrews 10:8-10: First He said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire although the Law required them to be made. Then He said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He set aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the **SACRIFICE OF THE BODY OF JESUS ONCE FOR ALL**!!
"Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!" He then said: "What comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from **INSIDE** and make a man **UNCLEAN!!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}"
prophetic, many false prophets come to deceive many. Matthew 24:11. All you quote for the cleaning of food is from Paul's epistles, and for sure you wrest them to your own destruction because they are testified to be too hard for you to understand them which you keep showing is true for you. 2 Peter 3:16.
Mark 7 says different to your private interpretations.Your words say Jesus declared all foods clean. Jesus says..
Mark 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
The question is to eat with dirty hands. Jesus shows when we eat, then all is released into the draught. He never spoke a single word about what we eat being clean or not. That is why not eating blood continues, because life is in the blood, not because it damages us. Matthew 15 confirms more, Jesus sums up, to eat with unwashen hands does not defile, us, as THAT IS WHAT HE WAS ASKED ABOUT.
Matthew 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
In the end times now, proud people come with questions and strifes of words, with perverse disputing, they suppose gain is goldliness, they speak about rewards, Jude 1:11, they show they know nothing and show they are destitute of the truth. They strive about the law, and just vanity.
1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
So the come along and teach the law is all gone away, but Jesus says opposite of course, He did not come to do away wit the law, He instead came to fulfill that same law. Until Heaven and earth pass, not one part fails of the law. In Revelation10 we see when the mystery of God should be finished, tat is only when all things are fulfilled, and then Heaven and earth pass and the LORD CREATES NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 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.
Revelation 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Paul it is testified, spoke things disputers come using, and cannot understand what they are saying. Cursed if we do not continue in all the words of the law to do them. Christ became the curse for us. The law is still righteous. The Lord magnified His same law to make it honourable. Gods testimonies are everlasting, as is His righteousness, His righteous judgement endure forever. Nothing is testified opposite to this in scripture. All God does is forever, nothing can be taken away, and nothing can be put to it. What came at the time of Christ already was, the Spirit was given, the law was written in the heart.
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Psalms 119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalms 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Isaiah 51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
The uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the law, the law without the Spirit meant all commited sins and then received death. Followers of Christ walk in the Spirit, not the flesh as the first covenant, the law of righteousness is Christ.
Romans 2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Leviticus 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Believing in our heart to righteousness Romans 10:10, confessing Christ as Lord, and departing from iniquity, 2 Timothy 2, iniquity is ungodliness, ungodliness is unrighteousness, all unrighteousness is sin..sin is the transgression of the LAW.
1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
The real sacrifices of God. Never to stop. Our heart and spirit. These are the sacrifices of righteousness. Then we offer on His altar.
Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
It is important to recognise, the law of the Lord always was perfect. The law made nothing perfect, yet the law of the Lord is perfect. The law made nothing perfect, as it was weak through the flesh as told before. Now the law makes us perfect through faith in Christ and receiving of is Holy Spirit which is the law written in our heart and mind in righteousness. All endures forever and all gives light. We then continue in the same perfect law of liberty.
Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
We see the law of God in the heart of Christ. Christ after all came to do the will of God, and this is the law of God. The first covenant is taken away, and we continue with the same law and sacrifices, but now we offer ourselves as the sacrifices and the law is in righteousness in us.
Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
1 Peter 2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
If we break the law of God, now the Lord chastens us so we repent and keep the righteousness. The Lords judgements are the same, they last forever as testified.
Psalms 89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
When they come along to take away from the Lord law, this is the time the Lord affirms His law. All the precepts the Lord gave are right and wonderful, how can they be taken away..
Psalms 119:126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
The law of God is the truth, it did not become a lie just because an empty man claims it. The law is light, it is man that is darkness, the law is light and always will be, the commandments also are a lamp and do continue..
Psalms 119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
We are justified without the deeds of the law in faith to Christ. This is the establishing of the law. To have faith in Christ is to do all righteously, as that is what Christ did, all the righteousness of the law of God and being meek lowly and giving is life in love. The law always was good and holy, and was a shadow to show the full image coming, not a lesser law, or the law gone away, the law increased in every way, nobody can show a single tiny part to have been taken away, just as Jesus said.
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
There is no more offering for sins, because it is done once for all through Christ. But believers still need Christ offering for sin of Himself, being the offering, propitiation for our sins. But if we sin wilfully, then we see the judgement under Moses,and our judgement is the same and much worse for despising grace...
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
29 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
30 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
"WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!" GALATIANS 3:25
Hebrews 7:18,19: The former regulation is SET ASIDE because it was weak and useless; for the **LAW MADE NOTHING PERFECT**, and a **BETTER HOPE** is introduced, by which we draw near to God.! {Adam disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Hebrews 8:8,9,13: "The time is coming." says the Lord, "when I will make a **NEW COVENANT** with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah".... By calling this Covenant "NEW", He has made the first one OBSOLETE; and what is OBSOLETE and aging will **SOON DISAPPEAR**" {In AD 96??}{ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
NOTE: Hebrews was written about AD 65 and the last inspired book of the New Covenant or Revelation was inspired by God in AD 96 by which time all the other 26 books of the New Covenant were distributed among the churches.
Hebrews 8:6: But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is Mediator is SUPERIOR TO THE OLD ONE, and it is founded on better promises. {Adam disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Galatians 6:15: Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, what counts is a **NEW CREATION**!
Galatians 5:6: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is **FAITH EXPRESSING ITSELF THROUGH LOVE**! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!}
Colossians 2:16,17: Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you **EAT** or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a **SABBATH DAY**. These are a *SHADOW* of the things that were to come, the reality, however, is found in Christ!!!
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body!" By saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!! He went on "What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. For from within , out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God and tries to explain it away by saying it only has to do with unclean hands {???}which was mentioned earlier in Mark 7}
Galatians 2:14-16: Paul said, When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because by observing the law no one will be justified.!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 2:20,21: The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" [ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 3:10-13: "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." Christ redeemed us from the **CURSE OF THE LAW** by becoming a curse for us! [ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Galatians 3:23-25: "Before faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, *WE* ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
Jesus said the opposite to ending the law, that no part fails until all is fulfilled.
Jesus said He came to fulfill the law.
Jesus did not leave it to evil mouths to say when this is.
Jesus shows the end of all, the signs for the ending of the world, how His words will never pass away, but the Heaven and earth will pass away.
Jesus said not one tiny part passes from the law, and for Heaven and earth to pass, it is easier.
All is fulfilled when the law is written in the heart of His sheep, when we are ready to b presented to the Lord, when all ends is when all is fulfilled.
Nothing says different to those testimonies, it is all man made words otherwise.
We heard it was said to hate our enemies, it was also said to help our enemy. Hating the enemy was because the enemy worshipped devils, and was the enemy of Gods righteousness. If it was personal hate, somebody ou did not like, God commanded to help them, because the law of God was preparing for all right ways of Christ....
Psalms 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the donkey of him that hateth thee lying under his BURDEN, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's BURDENS, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
God testified nothing can be put to His ways, it is what has already been. It is new because it has light shon on it now, how to love with the SPIRIT of love shed into our hearts....
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and THAT WHICH IS TO BE HATH ALREADY BEEN; and God requireth that which is past.
2 John 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, BUT THAT WHICH WE HAD FROM THE BEGINNING, that we love one another.
6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
1 John 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, A NEW COMMANDMENT I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: BECAUSE the darkness is past, and THE TRUE LIGHT NOW SHINETH.
Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Those in darkness consider this to be a new commandment. The commandment has always been told, now we can understand how God loves us. Continuing in the commandments of God, continuing in the love of God, giving our lives instead of keeping them..
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
The last times the mockers come along, they have no fear of God, as the fear of God and the law is not written in their heart, they cast off the law of God. They cannot continue in the love of God, because the love of God was already in His righteous laws.
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
"WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!" GALATIANS 3:25
Understanding Matthew 5:17,18 is very complex;. since it seems to imply that all the Laws of Moses and the OT Prophets will be in effect until heaven and earth pass away. Whereas there are dozens of places in the NT which clearly say that the NT saints are no longer under all the {613) Laws of Moses.
Almost all conservative NT theologians agree that the first coming of Jesus fulfilled about 300 OT prophecies and that Jesus will **FULFILL** about 50 OT prophecies during the 1260-day Great Tribulation followed by His 2nd coming when heaven and earth will pass away. These are mainly found in the OT book of Daniel 'who was one of the OT prophets of Matthew 5:17.
One of these 613 commands of Moses is found in Deuteronomy 18:17-19: The Lord said to Moses, "I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among your brothers. I will put My words in His mouth, and He will tell them everything I command Him. If anyone does not listen to My words that the Prophet speaks in My name, I Myself will call him to account!!"
In the NT in John 14:,23,24 Jesus says, "If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me will not obey My teaching. These words you hear are not My own, they belong to the Father who sent Me!" {You will note that the OT teaching is not even mentioned here!!}
According to the OT Prophets in Isaiah 65:17 and Isaiah 66:22 {See also Daniel 7:27 & Daniel 12:2,3 & Daniel 2:44} God promised a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH and the OT saints were looking forward to this according to Hebrew 11:13-16. And the NT saints were also looking forward to this according to Revelation 21:1-5 and 2 Peter 3:10-13.
2 Peter 3:10-13: But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. the heavens will **DIISAPPEAR** with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth and everything in it will be burned up.. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with His promise {In Isaiah 65:17 and Isaiah 66:22} we are looking forward to a **NEW HEAVEN** and a **NEW EARTH**, the home of righteousness!!
And so all of the OT prophecies will not be **FULFILLED**until we get a **NEW HEAVENS** and **NEW EARTH**!!
Matthew 5:17,18: Jesus says, " Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the **PROPHETS**. I have not come to abolish them {The Law & the PROPHETS}but to **FULFILL THEM**! I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke, will by any means disappear from the Law :{and the Prophets} **UNTIL EVERYTHING IS ACCOMPLISHED!!"
Jesus prophesied that the Jewish Temple would be completely destroyed which took place in AD 70. About 200 of the 613 OT laws were then eliminated concerning the priests and temple ornaments, procedures and sacrifices. Actually Jesus **FULFILLED** and **ACCOMPLISHED** and put and end to all meaningful temple sacrifices for sin by the sacrifice of Himself in AD 33.
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices {According to the laws of Moses}, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven, there is **NO LONGER ANY SACRIFICE FOR SIN**
Before quoting Matthew 5:19,20 it should be noted that the Prophet God had promised in Deuteronomy 18:17-19 must be obeyed in everything Jesus had already made about 10 new commandments in Matthew 5:1-16 and was about to make many new commandments in the sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:21 to Matthew 7:27!!
For example: Matthew 5:11,12: Jesus says, "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you **BECAUSE OF ME**. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in Heaven!!"
Matthew 5:19.20: Jesus says, "Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments {In Matthew 5:1-16 and Matthew 5:21 to Matthew 7:27} 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. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the **TEACHERS OF THE LAW**{Like ADAM7777}, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven!!"
I John 2:3-5: We know that we have come to know Him **IF WE OBEY HIS COMMANDS**. The man who says, "I know Him," but does not do what **HE COMMANDS** is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone **OBEYS HIS WORD**, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him!! {You will note that the OT commands are not even mentioned here!!}
Matthew 28:18-20: Jesus says, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... teaching them to **OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED** you!!" {Again note that the OT commands are not even mentioned here!!}
John 14:21: Whoever has **MY COMMANDS AND OBEYS THEM**, he is the one who loves Me! He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.!!" {Again note that the OT commands are not even mentioned here!!}
Romans 3:22-25,27,28: This righteousness from God comes through **FAITH** in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God promised Him as a sacrifice of atonement , through **FAITH** in His blood!!....Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded . On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but that of **FAITH**! For we maintain that a man is justified by **FAITH** APART FROM OBSERVING THE LAW!
Galatians 2:14-16: Paul said, When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED!!"
Galatians 2:20,21: The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
Galatians 3:10-13: "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly NO ONE IS JUSTIFIED BEFORE GOD BY THE LAW, "The righteous will live by faith." The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us!
Galatians 3:23-25: "Before faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, *WE* ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LAW!!"
Hebrews 7:18,19: The former regulation is set aside because it was **WEAK AND USELESS**. For the law made nothing perfect, and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God!!
Hebrews 8:8,9,13: For if there had been nothing wrong with the first covenant, no place would have been sought for another But God found fault with the people and said, "The time is coming, declares the Lord. when I will make a **NEW COVENANT** with the house of Israel... By calling this covenant 'NEW', He has made the first one **OBSOLETE; and what is **OBSOLETE** and aging will soon **DISAPPEAR!!
"There are 613 commandments or laws of Moses. About 50 of the laws are about sacrificing thousands of animals on the temple altar for the forgiveness of sins since without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sins. When Jesus was sacrificed for the forgiveness of sins these OT laws for the sacrificing of thousands of animals was **FULFILLED** and **THEN** these sacrificial laws of Moses were completely eliminated!!"
Sacrificing animals was eliminated. It was replaced by the sacrifice of the Lamb of God. Christ continues to be the Lamb of God, on His throne in Heaven. Revelation 22:1. We also are sacrifices to God, tried by fire. Every sacrifice shall be salted with salt, we need to have good seasoning with each other. Christ the sweet smelling offering to God, and our offerings a sweet smelling sacrifice too. Christ is our advocate to be propitiation for sins. His sacrifice is continuing, He offered Himself once and for all for sins, and in Revelation we see Him still as the Lamb that is Slain. We continue to show the Lords body and blood, because is blood is still there to drink and is body there to still be eaten. The body of Christ is a living sacrifice, even our body is a living sacrifice too..
1 Corinthians 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
40 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Philippians 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
prophetics opinion..
"Paul did approve of 4 unbelieving Jews to take a **VOW** in Acts 21:23 but this took place **BEFORE** The book of Matthew was written about AD 65 where Jesus condemned taking vows in the NT Covenant as per Matthew 5:33-37: "
Paul also taught us the same about the body and blood of the Lord, how the blood we drink brings us damnation if we are unworthy, because this blood is a living sacrifice, the blood continues to be available, unlike other sacrifices of animals that disappear. Prophetic sees as men see, that Paul must not know what he is talking about until the Gospels are written in 65 ad, but Paul taught all that was in the gospel before 65 ad. This confirms that Paul is correct that he did not receive the gospel after men, and never received it from any men, and Christ revealed all to him. Exactly as Christ said all would be brought to remembrance by the Holy Ghost, teaching Paul all things Christ spoke to the Apostles. 1 Corinthians 15:3-10. Paul records how believing Jews did vows, and Paul had a vow too. It gives clear understanding how vows are simple vows, to let it be a simple es vow,not a swearing vow...
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Galatians 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Acts 18:18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Acts 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Matthew 5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Circumcision again, yes it was finished. But so was the first covenant. He established the new. The new is all these laws in our heart. The new is circumcision not in the letter for the praise of men any longer, the new is circumcision of the heart, in the Spirit, whose praise is of God only. We are the circumcision, so therefore how can circumcision be finished ?
Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Recompensing evil for evil, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life. The Lord will repay,
and the Lord confirms our way to help the repayment, feed your enemy, and the Lord can repay all the evil everybody does, because of the good we did to them...
Proverbs 25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
We heard to love your neigbour and to hate thine enemy. The enemies of Israel were all the surrounding nations that worshipped devils. As the law was given only to Israel to worship the Lord. To fulfill the Law of Christ is to bear the burdens of others. The Lord already showed that way in the law, and Christ established it with the Holy Spirit, and now we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Philippians 4:13.....
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shalt surely bring it 5
If thou see the donkey of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Rewards sound great, but there are no rewards, there is no new law, it is the magnified law. The goods we have here are not enduring. The goods we receive in Heaven are enduring, are everlasting, and that is the difference, replaced by life from death. The law was weak, it had to be changed. The change came about by the Spirit, and the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us, not one jot or tittle fails from the law, until all is fulfilled in us, until the Lord receives the latter rain. James 5:7...
Hebrews 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
"Before quoting Matthew 5:19,20 it should be noted that the Prophet God had promised in Deuteronomy 18:17-19 must be obeyed in everything Jesus had already made about 10 new commandments in Matthew 5:1-16 and was about to make many new commandments in the sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:21 to Matthew 7:27!!
For example: Matthew 5:11,12: Jesus says, "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you **BECAUSE OF ME**. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in Heaven!!"
His example of a new commandment? BECAUSE OF ME, people insult you and persecute you and speak all evil againt you. But it was altready done this exact same way of course. Jeremiah spoke for the Lord, and he was reproached, and derided daily. The prophets all spoke in the mname of the Lord, the same Lord Jesus Christ as there is one Lord, they are an EXAMPLE, of suffering affliction for the sake of the Lord..
Ephesians 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Jeremiah 20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
James 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Prophetic writes:
Almost all conservative NT theologians agree that the first coming of Jesus fulfilled about 300 OT prophecies and that Jesus will **FULFILL** about 50 OT prophecies during the 1260-day Great Tribulation followed by His 2nd coming when heaven and earth will pass away. These are mainly found in the OT book of Daniel 'who was one of the OT prophets of Matthew 5:17.
The Lord has made us into a priesthood since 2000 years ago. Christ loved us and washed us in His blood, and made us Kings and priests unto God. Revelation 20:6 says there is no power of death, death already has no power, the sting of death is sin, and it's strength is the law, and Christ gave us the victory already. When we keep the saying of Christ, we never see death. A thousand years is one day with the Lord when passed. We reign with the Lord in life, we are redeemed to God and we reign on earth, not for a thousand years, but forever. GTe Lord does not reign for a thousand years, that is mans understanding and vain. The Lord we see confirmed everwhere, reigns over them in mount Zion forever. The one day is judgement day, life is given to us, we reign with Him in life forever...
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
John 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Micah 4:7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
Psalms 146:10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Luke 1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
is truly made complete in him!!