16-Questions Regarding God's Law - RSV

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 first _commandment_. [39] And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as _yourself_. [40] On these two _commandment_s depend all the law and the _prophets_."

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

Leviticus 19:18 You shall not take _vengeance_ or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as _yourself_: 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. I have loved you with an _everlasting_ love; therefore I have continued my _faithfulness_ to you.

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 first _commandment_. [39] And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as _yourself_. [40] On these two _commandment_s depend all the law and the _prophets_."

5. Did Jesus Come to Destroy the Law?
Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the _prophets_; I have come not to abolish them but to _fulfil_ them.

6. Jesus Came to Magnify the Meaning of the Law.
Isaiah 42:21 The LORD was pleased, for his _righteousness_' sake, to magnify his law and make it _glorious_.

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

8. Love and Keeping the Commandments Go Together.
John 14:15 "If you love me, you will _keep_ my _commandments_.

9. Paul States in No Uncertain Terms That the Law Is Not Made Void Through Faith.
Romans 3:31 Do we then _overthrow_ the law by this faith? By no means! On the _contrary_, we uphold the law.

Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to _continue_ in sin that grace may abound? [2] By no means! How can we who died to sin _still_ live in it?

Romans 6:14-15 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. [15] What then? Are we to sin _because_ we are not under law but under grace? By no _means_!

10. God Does Not Have Two Methods of Salvation.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has _appeared_ for the _salvation_ of 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 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife _garments_ of skins, and _clothed_ them.

Genesis 22:9-13 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. [10] Then Abraham put forth 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 am I." [12] He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do _anything_ to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not _withheld_ your son, your only son, from me." [13] And Abraham lifted up his eyes and _looked_, and _behold_, _behind_ him was a ram, _caught_ in a _thicket_ by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt _offering_ _instead_ 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 _salvation_ in no one else, for there is no other name under _heaven_ 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 This is the _covenant_ that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their _hearts_, and I will be their God, and they shall be my _people_.

Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart I will give you, and a new _spirit_ I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of _stone_ and give you a heart of flesh.

Psalms 40:8 I delight to do thy _will_, O my God; thy law is within my _heart_."

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

Exodus 24:3 Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the _ordinances_; 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 _covenant_, 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 _obedient_."

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 Since all have _sinned_ and fall short of the _glory_ of God,

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is _eternal_ life in _Christ_ 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 to all who received him, who _believed_ in his name, he gave power to become _children_ of God;

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new _creation_; the old has passed away, _behold_, the new has come.

Romans 8:1 There is _therefore_ now no _condemnation_ for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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