16-Questions Regarding God's Law - NAS

1. Didn't Jesus Come to Do Away with the Ten Commandments and Establish a New Commandment of Love? Didn't He Say Just to Love God and Our Neighbors?
Matthew 22:37-40 And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' [38] "This is the great and foremost ___________________. [39] "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS ______________.' [40] "On these two ___________________s depend the whole Law and the ______________."

2. It May Surprise You to Discover That Jesus Was Summarizing the Law As Given in the Old Testament.
Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your _________ and with all your soul and with all your _________.

Leviticus 19:18 'You shall not take ________________, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as ______________; I am the LORD.

3. The God of the Old Testament Was a God of Everlasting Love.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to him from afar, saying, "I have loved you with an ___________________ love; Therefore I have drawn you with _________________________.

4. Jesus Declared, "On These Two Commandments (Love for God and Fellow Man) Hang All the Laws and the Prophets. ".".
Matthew 22:37-40 And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' [38] "This is the great and foremost ___________________. [39] "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS ______________.' [40] "On these two ___________________s depend the whole Law and the ______________."

5. Did Jesus Come to Destroy the Law?
Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the ______________; I did not come to abolish but to ____________.

6. Jesus Came to Magnify the Meaning of the Law.
Isaiah 42:21 The LORD was pleased for His _______________________' sake To make the law great and ______________.

7. Jesus Reveals Love's Purpose.
Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to a ______________; therefore love is the ___________________ of the law.

8. Love and Keeping the Commandments Go Together.
John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will _______ My _____________________.

9. Paul States in No Uncertain Terms That the Law Is Not Made Void Through Faith.
Romans 3:31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the ______________, we ________________ the Law.

Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? [2] May it _________ be! How shall we who died to sin _________ live in it?

Romans 6:14-15 For sin shall not be __________ over you, for you are not under law but under grace. [15] What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it _________ be!

10. God Does Not Have Two Methods of Salvation.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, ______________ ________________ to all men,

11. In the Old Testament Men and Women Were Saved by the Christ That Was to Come. Each Lamb Sacrificed Pointed Forward to the Coming Messiah.
Genesis 3:21 The LORD God made ______________ of skin for Adam and his wife, and ____________ them.

Genesis 22:9-13 Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and ______________ the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. [10] Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. [11] But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." [12] He said, "Do not stretch out your hand ____________ the lad, and do ____________ to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not ______________ your son, your only son, from Me." [13] Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and __________, __________ him a ram __________ in the ____________ by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt ______________ in the place of his son.

12. In the New Testament Men and Women Are Saved by the Christ Who Has Come.
Acts 4:12 "And there is ________________ in no one else; for there is no other name under __________ that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

13. With Jesus, There Is a New Power in a Person's Life.
Hebrews 8:10 "FOR THIS IS THE ______________ THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS, AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR __________. AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY __________.

Ezekiel 36:26 "______________, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will __________ the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Psalms 40:8 I delight to do Your _______, O my God; Your Law is within my _________."

14. Under the Old Covenant, Israel Promised to Obey God's Commandments in Their Own Strength.
Exodus 19:8 All the people ______________ together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do!" And Moses ____________ back the words of the people to the LORD.

Exodus 24:3 Then Moses came and ________________ to the people all the words of the LORD and all the __________________; and all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do!"

Exodus 24:7 Then he took the book of the ______________ and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be ______________!"

15. All Attempts at External Conformity to God's Law Lead to Frustration and Defeat. The Law Which We Cannot Keep in Our Own Strength Condemns Us.
Romans 3:23 For all have __________ and fall short of the _________ of God,

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is ____________ life in __________ Jesus our Lord.

16. Under the New Covenant, We Belong to a New Master-Jesus Christ. We Have a New Heart and a New Understanding Before God.
John 1:12 But as many as ______________ Him, to them He gave the right to become ______________ of God, even to those who believe in His name,

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new ______________; the old things passed away; __________, new things have come.

Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no _____________________ for those who are in __________ Jesus.

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