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Monday Oct 02, 2023
What Role Does The Law Of Moses Play In A Christian’s Life?
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
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What role does The Law of Moses play in a
Christian’s day-to-day life?
- None!
- There is no place for a direct practical application of the Law of Moses to the daily life of a Christian. Remember, it's an all-or-nothing proposition. We don't get to pick and choose which laws we want to obey if we want to live under the Law of Moses.
- Are there things we can learn from the Law? Yes, many things. But our practical daily lives, nor our ongoing New Covenant relationship with God, are governed by the Law of Moses.
- To whom was The Law of Moses given? The Children of Israel.
- We Gentiles were never given access to nor included in the giving or receiving of the Law. It was not meant for any group other than Israel.
- (Eph. 2:11-22)
- At one time, you were:
- Called the Uncircumcision
- separated from God
- alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel
- strangers to the covenants of promise
- having no hope and without God in the world.
- But now, in Christ Jesus:
- You who were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
- He Himself is our peace,
- He has made the two of us [Jew & Gentile] both one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility
- By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances,
- So that He might create for Himself one new man in place of the two, thereby making peace.
- And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
- For the first several decades of the Church’s history, the majority of Christians were Jews who were raised under The Law of Moses, and it was intricately involved in their culture.
- The Hebrew Scripture was the only Bible the Primitive Church had, and they mostly used the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures). Greek was the common trade language and was familiar to most people.
- The Hebrew Scriptures are a record of God calling to Himself a people (Israel) through whom He would bring the Son of redemption (Jesus) into the world for the benefit of all peoples.
- The New Covenant Scriptures were written over several decades as the Church grew. They were passed around and began developing a wide range of acceptance, but were not completely codified for several hundred years.
- The Hebrew Scriptures were embraced as authoritative by the first-century believers, most of whom for the first few decades, were Jewish, and had been raised with them as their Bible.
- It’s interesting, however, that the new Gentile Christians were never told or encouraged to adopt the detailed religious structure and practice laid out in the Old Covenant Scriptures, except by the Judaizers which Paul strongly opposed in his letter to the Galatian churches.
- If The Law of Moses is not a guide for how I should live my day-to-day life, what will be? (and let’s be clear about this question, NO ONE LIVES THEIR LIVES WITH THE LAW OF MOSES AS A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE. Because it requires sacrifices offered in a specific way at a specific place and that can’t be accomplished.
- Jesus points us toward living a life that is fueled by Love and guided by the Spirit.
- If we’re going to successfully navigate life on this side of the cross, we need to learn to live lives fueled by Love and guided by the Spirit.
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