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How are the Sinai Commandments honored in the New Covenant?

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How are the Sinai Commandments honored in the New Covenant?

Jesus commanded that we love Elohim above all else and love our neighbor as our self…these are the fulfillment of all the codified commandments from Sinai forward, including Moses’ civil-ceremonial edicts (Matthew 22:36-40). Concerning “commandment keeping,” Jesus was speaking to an audience who was under the law covenant given Israel’s children (Galatians 4:4) but a radically New Covenant was being ushered in through the Gospel.

Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the New Covenant,

Jesus ushered in the New Covenant that was established in His own blood (Matthew 26:26-29; 1 Peter 1:18-19). The New Covenant is focused upon intimate relationship with Elohim through faith in the Son, Jesus our Messiah (John 3), and the “Law” that is relevant, applicable, in the New Covenant is NOT those which have been codified in stone and scratched upon parchment as given Israel’s children for sanctification-eschatological purposes but the relevant “Law” in the New Covenant is the Spiritual Law as written upon the human heart on Day-6 of creation (Romans 6:14; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 7:6). In the New Covenant, the redeemed in Jesus by faith receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14; Ezekiel 36:27; John 14:16-17).

Honoring the Father in the New Covenant?

If one desires to honor the Father through obedience in the New Covenant, it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who employs the spiritual catalyst of a renewed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17 – a new creation) mated with the Spiritual Law (written upon the human heart) and the Spirit forms a “new creation” within the redeemed as the Holy Spirit arbitrates moral decisions and moral discernment by making the human conscience divinely sensitive to the Father’s will in EVERY moral decision encountered during daily Christian sanctification and consequently the Spirit fulfills all Law through the redeemed via the production of divine “fruit” against which “there is no Law” (Galatians 5:16-23).

Spiritual Fruit v. Sinai and Moses,

It is the divine fruit produced by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) through the redeemed in Jesus that fulfills the “Commandments” and actually honors the Father and this divine “fruit” substantiates and validates the redeemed as “disciples” of Jesus (John 15:8). Christians don’t seek obedience to Sinai or Moses in order to attain righteousness with the Father (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:21) as that right standing with the Father has already manifest via the imputed-gifted righteousness of Jesus over the life of the one who believes Jesus is Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21); therefore, Christians don’t seek codified Laws or the obedience to same for righteousness but Christians walk in imputed-gifted righteousness through faith and their behavior – obedience is the product of the divine work of the indwelling Holy Spirit, not self-righteousness in striving after letters that only condemn and curse (Romans 7:6; Romans 8:2; Galatians 3:10).

Purpose of Law?

Christians are to understand that the “Law” was given for the lawless, those who live in the desires of the flesh having no intention or desire to honor the Father or His divine will (1 Timothy 1:9); therefore, the Christian is not under Law but under grace (Romans 6:14); this, through the indwelling Holy Spirit given the redeemed in Jesus by faith (Romans 7:6; Ephesians 1:13-14).

Impotency of Codified Law?

The codified laws exemplified by Sinai and Moses’ civil/ceremonial edicts were but a mere fragment of the comprehensive Spiritual Law as written upon the human heart; therefore, these codified laws could never adequately address every moral decision encountered on a daily basis nor could they engender intimate covenant with the Elohim as the codified laws are weakened and nullified as an instrument of righteousness (a right standing with Elohim) due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12), a sin-nature that could never comply perfectly with codification; therefore, Sinai and Moses’ edicts are properly labeled “the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-4; James 2:10) as they only define sin, they only condemned and cursed (Galatians 3:10) but provided no form of atonement or hope (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16); this, as the “letter kills but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:4-6); therefore, if you desire to honor the Father through obedience, this divine obedience that actually pleases the Father is ONLY possible through faith in Jesus as Messiah and a daily walk in Christian sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16). Codified Law is subject to obfuscation, justification, rationalization, by the sin-nature; not so with the Spiritual Law that is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

In closing,

Honoring the “Commandments” is ONLY possible through obedience to the Father’s will (John 6:29) and a daily walk in Christian sanctification meticulously guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Arbiter of the Spiritual Law and the redeemed human conscience (Galatians 5:16).

Law in the New Covenant apart from Torah?

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Matthew 5:17-18 (KJV), Jesus said: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 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.”

How can you say that Torah Law-Sinai-Moses are not the focal point of New Covenant Law?

Discussion,

Jesus said that Torah Law, the codified law (jot-tittle) would not pass until all be fulfilled…Jesus fulfilled Torah perfectly via His sinless perfection (Matthew 5:17)…Torah has passed (Hebrews 8:7; 2 Corinthians 3), codified laws are subjective i.e., Sinai-Moses, rules, regulations, diets, days, could never engender righteousness with the Father…so what Law is relevant in the New Covenant and how is that New Covenant Law made applicable to the individual?

New Covenant “Law”

What is relevant in the New Covenant is the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart by our Creator (Romans 2:14-15) which is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant as the Spirit produces divine fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that glorifies the Father (John 15:8) and fulfills all law.

You can chase after Sinai, Moses, Torah, Days, Diets, Fabrics, Traditions, Religion, till your dying exhalation but if you’ve not established New Covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus, as your Messiah, you will die in Hell in the “second death” (Matthew 7:21-23; Galatians 2:16; Revelation 20:11-15).

Life in Time is NOT about subservience to rules and laws and ordinances but about personal, intimate, relationship with our Creator, Elohim, through faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 3) and our obedience then naturally manifests through adherence to the indwelling Spirit’s leadership gifted us by grace as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16-23); this, as the Spirit produces divine fruit through the redeemed that honors the Father (John 15:8); in fact, unless you have established New Covenant relationship with the Father first through faith in the Son, your works are interpreted by the Father as a “filthy rag” or a “bloody menstrual cloth” in the literal Hebrew (Isaiah 64:6).

In closing,

Chasing and clamoring for the Father’s approval by pursuing obedience to Sinai, Moses, Days, Diets, Traditions, Religious rules and edicts, is insulting to the Father as you have made the affirmative decision to earn your own righteousness and reject the ONLY righteousness that will pardon your sin and provide you life in Eternity, the perfect righteousness of Jesus earned for you through His perfect, sinless, life and His perfect, sinless, blood shed for you at Golgotha.

Your obedience to the Father’s will (John 6:29) will provide the foundation from which your faith will produce fruit via the indwelling Holy Spirit; divine fruit that glorifies the Father (John 15:8; Galatians 5:22-23). Faith and Covenant FIRST – obedience naturally follows from a pure heart via the Holy Spirit’s anointing (1 John 2:27).

18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

Law in the New Covenant?

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Law in the New Covenant?

Discussion,

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Jeremiah 31:33

“For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Hebrews 8:10

It is historically tragic but Israel rejected the New Covenant (Matthew 23:37); Israel rejected their Messiah sent to them specifically to proselytize them in the New Covenant as ministers of the Gospel and the Great Commission (Matthew 15:24); therefore, the Gentile has received the Commission – Ordination to preach the Gospel (Romans 11:25; Acts 13:46) but what “law” is now extant in the New Covenant subsequent the Law Covenant given Israel at Sinai through Moses?

Law in the New Covenant,

The free will/volition of the Gentile has always been arbitrated by the spiritual law written upon the human heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2; 7;6), infused within the human genome on Day-6 of Creation as human kind is created in the spiritual image of Elohim (Genesis 1:26-28) and possesses certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim; one such divine attribute is the spiritual law essential relevant to Elohim’s eschatological purposes going forward as the spiritual law also acts as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism that would inevitably culminate in societal implosion thus thwarting Messiah’s primary mission concerning “the destruction of the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15).

I find it interesting that Elohim employs that same spiritual law, written upon the heart, in His New Covenant (Hebrews 10:16; 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33) except that it has been enlivened/made applicable in the life of the Christian through the redeemed conscience/the “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and it is the Holy Spirit who employs the spiritual law and the redeemed conscience to produce divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:22-23) in the life of the Christian during daily sanctification and this divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) fulfills all law; after all, Jesus did say, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20).