Sunday, November 29, 2009

The moral law is for all time.........(???????????)

Oh really??? Is it? But isn't Christ the end of the law? Some would say, 'well yes for salvation'.  Is that even in the Bible? Sounds made up to me. But it also sounds sad to me as if salvation is just one glorious moment in time and then we go back to the Old Covenant method of seeking perfection through attaining our own righteousness, which isn't even possible in the first place. 
C'mon people don't you even understand what the purpose of the law was? To seduce you to sin! Yup! To stir up the sin in you. That is the whole dang point of the law. So you are telling me that the moral law is for the 'believer' the born again Christian who now has a new nature and doesn't want to sin anymore, you are saying that the moral law is for them to follow. How ludicrous is that? Have you read your bible? (try reading Col. 2:14) Hello - what part of 'end' don't you understand? 
Once the law does it's job and brings you to the point where you know you need a Saviour cause there ain't no way on earth you could ever possibly measure up to the law's demands, then the law has had it's way with you and you no longer need it! Now you have come to Jesus and accepted His complete work, part of that being that He fulfilled the law so you don't have to!! How great is that! But yet you want to revert back to those cold stone tablets of the law as if they have one single thing to offer you. Nope! The law cannot save you, nor can it make you holy or righteous. 
So if you are suggesting to me that I am to follow the moral law, which by the way when you are dealing with the law you are dealing with it as a whole. You can't divide it up and pick and choose here people. God's law is God's law. So you want to hold on to that moral law, well let's see what that really means. How about the command to 'remember the sabbath'? It says on that day you shall do NO work. NONE! How many of us get up on the quote on quote Sabbath day and literally do NO work? Hmmmmmm. Is this subjective? Do we get to decide what no work is? Do we get to say well the times have changed? No, God's law is God's law. If you want to follow it - freakin' take it seriously!!! Perhaps a study of Jewish culture would do you some good. 
Okay so yes I am a bit miffed - but here's the thing, Jesus paid the price for you and for me to go free. To be dead to the law and to sin, and alive to Christ. Are we suggesting the law was better? Are we suggesting by wanting the law still that Jesus wasn't enough? Hmmmmmm. Enough said.............

8 comments:

sparrow girl said...

Preach it, sis! This post is great! Somebody has gotten their feathers ruffled, and for good reason! He He..

Isn't it true that Law is just Old Covenant... We say we are in the New Covenant, then we let ourselves fall back under something that is part of the Old! Something obsolete, something that is not in effect anymore! It drives me crazy when I catch myself still doing that...aaargh!

lydia said...

Ruffled indeed! :D

Obsolete, yes!!! I find it pretty clear in Scripture, don't you - oy vey! We all do it to one degree or another, but the more we renew our minds with the truth the more we will be set free from what Jesus put an end to!!!!! Peace to you!!!

sparrow girl said...

Hey, Lydia, one more thing - this may be a really dumb question, and perhaps I'm not thinking straight, but is the Old Covenant and law passed away for the whole world - unbelievers too? I mean, Jesus died to bring in a New Covenant and God calls all to accept that. He has forgiven all of sin and nailed the law that was against us to the cross.

Jews had been under Mosaic law but Gentiles had the law of their conscience I guess, so now is it more like they choose by not believing in Jesus to keep living in this law-place that has really already become obsolete? Or are they still under law? Are they choosing to be under it even though it's passed away? I know how it is for believers, but what about unbelievers? Any thoughts? Am I making any sense here?

The Lewis Family said...

Take this into consideration: Why do you call them unbelievers if there is no law?

:) B

sparrow girl said...

Please explain! The only law now is believe the gospel (the new commandment)?

lydia said...

'Not one jot or tittle of the law will pass away' Yet, Jesus cancelled the written code that was against us. I think the law is still out there doing what it does best, thundering condemnation at people to show them they need a Saviour. So while Christ is the end of the law, and we have died to the law, people still have a choice. They can choose grace, or they can choose to think that somehow they can be righteous by laws, rules and regulations. But once one finally comes to Jesus and realizes that the law is not for them, they are recognizing what happened at the Cross -that they too have died with Christ (died to law, to sin) and now live by the law of liberty in Christ! Does that help?

lydia said...

and notice that the law was nailed to the cross.........one must come to the cross and realized what happened there to see that the law was cancelled..........'It is finished!' He took care of it all.

sparrow girl said...

Thank you Lydia! that does help..hope you have a great day with your boys!