Theological question was asked: “Can someone please explain Matthew 5:17?”

Jesus said,

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”  Matthew 5:17 

Brief exegesis of Matthew 5:17, 

The Law, both the Spiritual (Romans 2:14-15) and the Written Code (Sinai – Law of Moses) only define our sin but provide no form of atonement or hope for humanity concerning establishing covenant relationship with the Father (Romans 3:20; 1 Timothy 1:8-9); therefore, anyone who seeks to please the Father through vain attempts to keep the Law is cursed (Galatians 3:10) and their works of self-righteousness are interpreted by the Father as a “filthy rag” (Isaiah 64:6); this, because the Law demands absolute perfection in obedience if one is to attain righteousness (a right standing) with the Father by law-keeping (James 2:10); but the problem is this, all of humanity is under the condemnation of sin (Romans 3:23) as children of Adam (Romans 5:12); therefore, all of humanity is condemned by the Law; fortunately, the Father did not leave us in our hopeless condition but ordained the Son, Jesus Christ, to destroy death, Hell, the grave, (the works of the Law and of Satan) via the Gospel which was ordained “before Time began” (1 John 3:8b; 2 Timothy 2:8-10; Romans 8:1-6).  

Jesus entered the Realm of Time born of the virgin seed via the Holy Spirit (Luke 1) and thereby circumvented the sin-nature of Adam passed to all of humanity genomically (Romans 5:12); Jesus, being fully Elohim (God) and fully man (Philippians 2:5-11), walked this Earth for 33.5-years in sinless perfection (John 8:46) by keeping every jot and tittle of the Law in perfection and thereby became our Spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World through His blood atonement provided at Golgotha and thereby fulfilled the mandates of Leviticus 17:11 for us, once and forever (John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:19; Hebrews 8 – 10).  

The Father, by New Covenant promise, acknowledges the work of Jesus Christ at Golgotha on our behalf and agrees to forgive our sin, past-present-future (Hebrews 8:12), when we believe-trust in Jesus Christ by faith as Lord-Messiah-Redeemer who died for us (John 3).  

This redemption is ultimately made complete by New Covenant promise in that the Father agrees to impute-gift the sinless perfection/righteousness of Jesus over the life of the one who believes Jesus is Messiah who died for them (2 Corinthians 5:17; Genesis 3:21); this, in exchange for our sin; plus, the Father imparts-infuses His Holy Spirit into the life of the one who has believed in Jesus as Lord and the Holy Spirit is the Seal and Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14); in addition, the Holy Spirit enters the life of the faithful in Jesus and begins a good work within them by employing the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) of the faithful and combines that with the enlivened Spiritual Law written upon our heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15) and the Spirit produces “fruits of righteousness” in the life of the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that pleases the Father and validates our saving faith as authentic (Galatians 5; Matthew 7:15-20); this, as the Holy Spirit prepares the faithful in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem.

Those who engage the Atheist…you’re engaging the demonic, be forewarned…

Atheism does not exist in reality and anyone who suggests they’re an “atheist” is a deceiver and the truth is not in them.

Anyone possessing at least a modicum of cognitive acuity sufficient to discern the supernatural World around them will come to the conclusion that unfathomable design, beyond human comprehension, is in-play and therefore an omnipotent Designer is mandated and Creation is for cause, not happen-chance. 

These obfuscating, morally compromised, men and women may not know the Designer’s Name or His eschatological purposes for having created Time, this Universe, our Earth and the complex human genome but they know that with which they interact daily is not present by happen-chance nor did these things find their genesis in the goo to the zoo to you.

Atheism’s prevalence in the World today?

The most successful progenitor of Atheism employed by Satan is the infusion of “Darwinian Evolutionary Theory” into the educational system masquerading as a “biological science.” Evolutionary Theory is the foundation for Progressivism-Communism-Mass Confusion in Group Think-Diversity-Equity-Sexual, Gender, confusion and unconscionable, unsustainable, perversion of the human mind. Darwin’s idiocy in the educational system directly attacks the Genesis Creation Narrative and instills doubt in the pliable minds of youth. If my Lord tarries, Evolutionary “Theory” will be seen and accurately interpreted by honest historians as the deadliest progenitor of Atheism, Secular Humanism, ever employed by the enemy of mankind’s soul, Satan. 

Finally,   

Atheism is moral obfuscation; this, generally relevant to a life lived in sexual perversion, addiction, moral compromise via obfuscation-rationalization, rejection, of the natural law of conscience (Romans 2:14-15). When a man or woman seeks to deceive you by professing atheism as their ideological perspective, framework and motive in life, walk away…that vessel belongs to Satan, it is void substantive truth and the conversation will proceed only to glorify Satan’s agenda…extreme caution if you engage, eschew evil that crouches at the door of Atheistic deception.

What kind of “brotherhood” congregates around illegally equipped, illegally LOUD, motorcycles that emit in multiples (logarithmic) the legal, safe, respectable, compliant, 80dB(A) as restricted by the US EPA via the quiet factory-installed muffler then proceeds out onto a public roadway and uses that illegal, dangerously intrusive, noise while dressed like thugs in leather to audibly abuse children, the elderly, our handicapped, our families, destroy the daily quality of life of millions; this, with intent motivated by narcissism, hedonism, selfishness, arrogance, thuggery?

This is not representative of “men” of honor but “thugs” of disgrace, a mentality of gang terrorism; this, while America’s pathetically WOKE law enforcement community does absolutely NOTHING to arrest these noise abusive thugs and impound the offending vehicles.

Why did Elohim give Moses/Israel’s children the Sinai Commandments?

Elohim gave Israel’s children the Decalogue etched in stone because He had sanctified them, set them apart, for His eschatological purposes concerning restoring order to His Kingdom by destroying the works of the Devil through Messiah via the Gospel (1 John 3:8b), a Gospel ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10); Messiah who would enter Time via the Tribe of Judah; therefore, Elohim’s concerns relevant to the holiness and sanctification of the Tribes was in response to the paganism that inundated Jacob’s children and servitude to pagan gods practiced by pagan tribes inundating the lands traversed by the Hebrew Tribes; paganism that would have drawn the Hebrew Tribes from Elohim and into the hands of Satan; therefore, the Decalogue specifically addresses behaviors concerning Israel’s relationship with Elohim (1-4) and their relationship among themselves and their fellowman (5-10)…those interpersonal behaviors regularly defiled by the pagans among them; pagan behavior Elohim interpreted as most unconscionable and destructive.

Same Law – Different Format (Sinai/written code v. Spiritual Law)

The Decalogue/Sinai’s written code is NOTHING new or novel but much like the Code of Hammurabi, the Decalogue given at Sinai through Moses simply codified the Spiritual Law (Romans 2:14-15) that is written upon the heart of humanity at conception; a Spiritual Law that was infused within the human genome on Day-6 by Elohim as He created human kind in His spiritual image having imparted certain divine communicable attributes into the human genome for His eschatological purposes going forward; specifically, as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism that would inevitably result in societal extinction; a Spiritual Law infused into human kind that is the same law that has governed the free will of the angels subsequent their creation in Eternity and currently judges the thoughts and intent of the heart of mankind via a “conscience.”

It is this same Spiritual Law that judged Satan of covetousness and under girded his extrication from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18); it is that same Spiritual Law that judged both the Adamic and Noahic generations of unconscionable defilement where all but eight perished in water subsequent Elohim’s judgment of death; it is that same Spiritual Law that under girded the Code of Hammurabi, the Sinai Decalogue, as well as the Law used by the indwelling Holy Spirit to produce fruits of righteousness (Galatians 5) within the redeemed in Jesus via a New Covenant established in the blood of Messiah at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28; Galatians 5:16).

Sinai v. Golgotha

Israelite’s, Jews, certain sects, cults, religions, will insist that Sinai’s Commandments are the Holy Law, the Eternal Law, but the truth is, the Holy Law, the Eternal Law, is the Spiritual Law written upon our heart at conception and enlivened by the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant, an Eternal Law that was in place governing behavior an eternity before Sinai and that same Spiritual Law will be relevant in Eternity, the New Jerusalem, as free will remains extant in Eternity as well; this by necessity concerning love and intimacy with our Creator.

Choose whom you will serve,

Israel worships at Mount Sinai in futility via self-righteousness (Romans 10); Christianity worships at the Mount of Golgotha by faith and in this Holy Place there is life eternal. (John 14:6).

Theological question was asked: “Regarding the Great commission [provided in] Matthew 28:18-20, how do you view that as part of the New covenant?”

Christian response,

Jacob’s children were foreordained to be ministers of the New Covenant’s “Great Commission” (Matthew 28) as this would fulfill Elohim’s promise to Abraham concerning his seed becoming “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b) and Messiah came specifically to the “lost sheep of Israel” (Matthew 15:24) to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel of Grace, a Gospel ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10) specifically as Elohim’s battle strategy “to destroy the works of the Devil” through Messiah (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15); this, as the New Covenant was promised through the prophets Ezekiel (Chapter 36) and Jeremiah (Chapter 31); unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected Messiah, rejected the New Covenant Gospel established in the blood of Yeshua (Matthew 26:28) and ultimately Israel’s children murdered their Messiah upon a tree while exclaiming that His blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, Elohim, for essential eschatological purposes concerning His Kingdom and defeat of the Devil, defaulted, pivoted, and gave the New Covenant Gospel to the Gentiles (Romans 11:25) and the Great Commission was given them as the conveyance of Elohim’s “Good News” to the entire Earth (salvation by grace through faith); this, while Israel has been placed under Judgment in unbelief and therefore only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); this “remnant” comprised primarily of those proselytized by the 144,000 Jewish witnesses through the Tribulation Era prefacing Messiah’s Millennial Reign.

The DEMONIC Lie of “Christian Perfectionism” or “Sinless Christianity”…

I see another demon in these forums working through the sincerely deceived skirting about the pages seeking the attention of the naïve and immature in order to infuse within them doubt, fear, discouragement, an absence of peace, by emphatically stating that when one is “born again” by faith in Jesus Christ they receive a new-nature and consequently the old sin-nature is eradicated; therefore, the Christian never sins again falsely suggesting they are not only “positionally right” with the Father through the imputation-gifting of Messiah’s righteousness by faith but they are now perfectly righteous in reality and they no longer sin in mind, body or spirit. THIS IS THE DEVIL’S LIE – don’t believe it!

The Apostle Paul touched on this subject in Romans 7 as he explains the old nature in Adam that remains ever-present in the life of the redeemed in Jesus and Paul explains by example in his own life the struggle, the war, between the new-nature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) and the old-nature in Adam (Romans 5:12), the ever-present struggle between the mind, body, spirit, of mankind.

When one is born-again by faith in Jesus and they receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) they most certainly do become a “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) but the sinful flesh remains and integral with that flesh is Adam’s genome and the curse of sin that incrementally kills the body, daily, second-by-second (Romans 5:12); therefore, the redeemed in Jesus possess two-natures, a new-nature in Jesus (the second-Adam) and the old-nature passed genomically through the first-Adam.

Culpability concerning the “thought life” via mens rea,

Jesus, during His 3.5-year ministry upon this Earth, enhanced culpability concerning the Law (Spiritual and Written Code) and its applicability over our lives. Jesus enhanced the culpability of Law through the addition of mens rea or the “thought life-the guilty mind;” that is, Jesus taught in Matthew 5 that no longer must a man or woman physiologically commit a sin in order to be culpable before the Father but the mere “thought” of the sin was culpability; this, with an emphasis on the sin of murder and adultery. In the New Covenant, sin is possible through the mind, body and spirit; therefore, when John writes in his epistle (1 John 2) that Christians do not sin, John is NOT promulgating the demonic lie of Christian Perfectionism but John is speaking of living, existing, in willful, unrepentant, sin that mirrors the defiled lives of those who compromise daily with the perverse affections of the World.

Anyone who professes Messiah Jesus as Lord yet lives in willful, unrepentant, sin does not nor did they ever belong to the Father by faith in the Son nor do they possess the indwelling Holy Spirit who methodically works through the redeemed conscience, minute-by-minute, to produce fruit of righteousness honoring the Father that naturally eschews sin and deceit (Galatians 5; Matthew 7:15-20).

The Devil’s lie exposed,

Satan would like nothing more than to defeat a new Christian or an immature Christian with the false doctrine of Christian Perfectionism or Sinless Christianity. Christianity is a life-long process where we learn, daily, in sanctification through the Holy Spirit to ready ourselves for service in the New Jerusalem. Jesus does not call the perfect to repentance but He calls those who possess a heart that is willing to love Him, to love the Father and honor the Holy Spirit by seeking a divine righteousness that only the Holy Spirit can impart in the life of the redeemed; again, this is a daily work through the redeemed conscience and the Christian relents to the flesh now and then, the Christian does sin now and then; in fact, we all do…but by the Father’s grace we, the redeemed in Jesus, have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself to pay our sin-debt owed the Father and in addition, the Son has gifted us HIS righteousness and made us “positionally right” with the Father, this by grace and covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12); therefore, we are secure in our Lord, forever (John 10:28-30; 2 Corinthians 5:21) and though we sin in word, thought, deed, we are not forsaken but we stand forgiven by eternal grace; therefore, persevere in victory won for you by our Messiah, Jesus Christ, at Golgotha and walk daily in His peace (Romans 5:1). Do not listen to the Devil or his advocates.

Do not be deceived by the Judaizers, Cults, Religionists…

Matthew 7:21-23 is often misunderstood by Jews-Israelite’s-Cults-Religionists as they naively believe Messiah is rejecting these because of lawlessness when what Jesus is teaching is the truism that these who were rejected had never established covenant with the Father by faith in the Son; therefore, neither the Son or the Father knew them as children of the Living God; therefore, their “wonderful works” were interpreted as a “filthy garment” (Isaiah 64:6) (Hebrew – literally a blood soaked menstrual cloth) because those “wonderful works” had been performed in self-righteousness in the flesh and NOT by the Holy Spirit via sanctification (Ephesians 2:8-9).

This teaching moment by Messiah has nothing to do with the quality of the works performed but with the truism that in order for our behavior-our philanthropy-our law keeping-our obedience to be interpreted by the Father as honorable we must first establish New Covenant relationship with Him by faith in His Son (John 6:29; John 3), receive the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that covenant (Ephesians 1:13-14) and walk daily by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16) in sanctification – in obedience to Him via the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) producing “fruit” that honors the Father (Galatians 5:22-23) as noted by Jesus in Matthew 7:15-20.

Do not allow the religionist-the Judaizer-the cultist to deceive you through an alternative, self-righteous, interpretation of Matthew 7:21-23. Lawlessness-Law Keeping-Works of Righteousness are NOT the focal point in this divine discussion but an absence of faith, covenant, are the subject of relevance.

Sinai v. Golgotha: Death in Hell v. Life in Eternity (Which Mountain governs your Eternity?)

All the Law (Sinai and Spiritual) and the Prophets are summed upon in this: Love the Lord your God with your whole heart and love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:36-40). The entire law, both the Spiritual Law (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 8:2) and Written Code (Sinai), is fulfilled by the man, woman or child who has trusted in Jesus Christ as Messiah and received the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that New Covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14) and subsequently walks in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16) who employs the Spiritual Law written upon our heart at conception, infused within the human genome on Day-6, and the Spirit enlivens that Law via the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) and produces “fruits of righteousness” (Galatians 5) in the life of the Christian and that “fruit” fulfills every law, every jot and tittle of Scripture, commanded by the Father, Son and Spirit (Galatians 5).

Jesus said that “you will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20). The Christian is NOT under a written code given specifically to Israel for eschatological purposes concerning the Tribes and their affiliation with paganism (Romans 6:14) but the Christian lives by faith (Romans 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; Galatians 2:16) and walks by obedience to the Holy Spirit via the Spiritual Law and NOT a written code etched in stone or scratched upon parchment (Romans 7:6; Romans 8:1-6). If the Christian never heard of, read, studied, Torah Law, their New Covenant relationship with the Father would be undeterred as Sinai and Moses have no bearing on New Covenant relationship with the Father through faith in the Son and subsequently walking in obedience to the Holy Spirit via the Spiritual Law producing fruits of righteousness. Israel’s failures do not nullify Messiah’s work at Golgotha or the Spirit’s work subsequent Golgotha but Israel’s failures magnify the Father’s faithfulness, His holiness, His promises, His purposes in destroying the work of the Devil irrespective of the failures of man and angels (1 John 3:8b). Humanity possesses the free will choice to join the Father in victory through faith in Messiah Jesus and humanity has the choice to ally with the Devil and die in Hell…this is the simplicity of the Gospel.

The Spiritual Law is eternal law as its genesis is in Eternity in conjunction with the creation of the angels and the Spiritual Law will remain relevant in the New Jerusalem as an arbiter of free will because free will remains extant in Eternity by necessity. Sinai, the written code, finds its origin in the Spiritual Law and is therefore wholly reliant upon the eternal veracity of the Spiritual Law for its relevance concerning the Hebrew Tribes. The New Covenant has very little in common with Sinai, Moses, a Written Code, but the New Covenant’s relevance is manifest by Faith in Jesus-the Holy Spirit and covenant promise provided by the Father (Ezekiel 36; Jeremiah 31; Hebrews 8).

Sinai v. Golgotha,

If you pursue life with the Father via Sinai, you will perish in Hell in self-righteousness (Romans 3:20; Romans 10; Galatians 2:16) but if you pursue Covenant with the Father through Golgotha, you will live eternally (John 3; John 14:6). The mountain you choose to climb determines your future in Eternity.

Women in the Ministry…a contentious subject within the Body of Christ…

An alternative perspective,

This Scripture (1 Timothy 2:11-14) and Paul’s letters to the Corinthians commanding women to remain silent during services (1 Corinthians 14:34) should be taken and received in light of, consideration of, the pagan rituals that were transpiring in the Temple at Delphi adjacent to Corinth in the First-Century and the intoxicated babbling – “oracles of enlightenment” (Delphic Oracles) offered by the pagan priestess there that had obviously carried-over into the Corinthian Church where women in the congregation were mimicking the pagan practice during Church services; this unruly behavior causing confusion and disorganization among the congregation, much to the consternation of Paul; this, through babbling in unknown tongues of prophecy and spurious interpretation.

It is wise and discerning to understand the context and the society, customs, norms, in which these Biblical commands and edicts are given before ordaining them as ceremonial law for the entire Body of Christ. I do NOT believe a woman should have divine authority over a man but women have invaluable gifts and knowledge and experiences that edify the Body of Christ and to deny them a place of honor in the congregation and specialized ministry is unwise.