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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).

Hebrew Roots fanaticism and the New Covenant

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Hebrew Roots fanaticism and the New Covenant…

Elohim is not honored by Torah observance in the New Covenant but by faith in Jesus as one’s Messiah (John 6:29). Jesus entered the Realm of Time under Law…He came to those under Law to proselytize them in the Gospel of Grace as per a New Covenant based on faith, not codified laws, not Torah (Galatians 4:4-5).

If you desire to devote your time and efforts to a bygone covenant or the elements of that covenant, that is your business and there is absolutely nothing “wrong” with Hebrew Roots motives as long as you’re fully aware that it is by faith, not works of the law, that one establishes New Covenant promises with the Father and receives eternal life through the forgiveness of sin via the shed blood of Jesus at Golgotha; this, by faith in Jesus as your Messiah, NOT Torah observance (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:2-21).

If Christians are not obligated to Sinai – is murder OK in the New Covenant?

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If Christians are not obligated to Sinai-the Law Covenant (Romans 6:14; 2 Corinthians 3), is it permissible to murder in the New Covenant?

Discussion,

No…murder has been prohibited from Day-6 of Creation forward concerning humanity; this, via the spiritual law written upon the heart by Elohim (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2) as humanity is created in the spiritual image of Elohim possessing certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim; this, for His eschatological purposes going forward (Genesis 1:26-28). The spiritual law written upon the heart has been an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels and Jesus reiterated murder as prohibited conduct in His New Covenant ministry and Jesus added mens rea (the thought life) as enhanced culpability (Matthew 5:21-22).

Sinai is nothing but a fragmented reiteration of the comprehensive spiritual law and Sinai was given specifically to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes going forward; primarily, to thwart Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech which would have stymied Israel’s ordination as progenitors of the Messiah, the Gospel, the Great Commission; Sinai was Elohim’s attempt to prevent a repeat of the failures of the Adamic/Noahic generations who rejected their divine ordination via a compromise with the demonic (Genesis 6:5).

Sinai, Torah, Moses, are elements of a bygone covenant that Israel broke, rejected, failed (Hebrews 8:7).

Christians are NOT under the old Law Covenant (Romans 6:14) but they live by the Spirit and the Spirit produces divine fruit through them via daily sanctification; divine fruit that fulfills all law as the Father is glorified by that fruit (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:9). Different covenants, vastly different implementation of law and obedience. It’s past time that Christians understand their place in the New Covenant and STOP compromising their faith by an alliance with the old (2 Corinthians 3:6).

Did Jesus’ death atone for only past sins or all sin? What law is relevant in the New Covenant concerning sin?

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Did Jesus’ death only atone for past sins or all sin, past-present-future? What law is relevant in the New Covenant defining sin and Elohim’s expectations concerning obedience?

Discussion,

Jesus died for all sin, past-present-future (Hebrews 8-10; 1 John 2:2); otherwise, Jesus would be subject to repeated crucifixion as the bygone Law Covenant required repetitive blood sacrifices for the sins of Israel’s children; this, because the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:1-4).

Concerning Sinai and Moses, their purposes and the temporary, inferior, nature of codification…

The Ten-Commandments are but a mere fraction of Elohim’s comprehensive spiritual law; therefore, Sinai and Moses are wholly inadequate sources concerning righteousness with the Father. Sinai and Moses were given specifically to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes in order to thwart Israel’s compromise with paganism; specifically, compromise with Baal and Molech; this, as Elohim did not desire a repeat of the demonically based failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations, two-generations who were governed solely by the spiritual law written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15) void the Holy Spirit as a relevant arbiter, a spiritual law that was negated, made impotent, by a seared conscience of a people group sold into demonic slavery and defilement via spiritual compromise (Romans 1:18-32).

Sinai was not given the Gentile lest same sought inclusion into Israel’s theocracy. Sinai was fragmented, codified, temporal, instructions to a people group through whom Elohim would endeavor to introduce His Messiah and His Gospel into the World to fulfill His promise to Abraham relevant to “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b). Sinai’s intent was sanctification (a setting apart) of Israel’s children for Elohim’s eschatological purposes (“you shall be holy as I AM holy”) and Sinai was temporary, inadequate, as a purveyor of true righteousness as neither Sinai or Moses as codified laws could adequately address the totality of moral deterrence concerning human and angelic behavior required for true holiness and righteousness; hence, the eternal superiority of the Spiritual Law arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit via a New Covenant.

Therefore,

The New Covenant is NOT regulated by Sinai or Moses or Days or Diets or Traditions or codified laws, but the man or woman who trusts in Messiah Jesus as LORD is redeemed by an imputed-gifted righteousness not their own (2 Corinthians 5:21; Genesis 3:21); that is, a divinely gifted righteousness earned for us by Messiah Jesus and fulfilled at Golgotha via blood atonement (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19); therefore, the Christian is not enslaved to letters, laws, diets, days, traditions of a bygone Covenant of Law (Romans 6:14; 7:6; Hebrews 8:7), but the Christian serves through the tutelage of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; Galatians 5:16) and the enlivened Spiritual Law written upon the heart (Hebrews 10:16), a Spiritual Law which is arbitrated by a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) producing fruits of righteousness (Galatians 5:22-23) against which there is no law as these divine fruits fulfill all law, both codified and spiritual (Galatians 5:16-23).