16-Questions Regarding God's Law - NIV

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 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' [38] This is the first and greatest ___________________. [39] And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' [40] All the Law and the ______________ hang on these two ___________________s."

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

Leviticus 19:18 " 'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your ______________ as ______________. I am the LORD.

3. The God of the Old Testament Was a God of Everlasting Love.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD ______________ to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an ___________________ love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

4. Jesus Declared, "On These Two Commandments (Love for God and Fellow Man) Hang All the Laws and the Prophets. ".".
Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' [38] This is the first and greatest ___________________. [39] And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' [40] All the Law and the ______________ hang on these two ___________________s."

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

6. Jesus Came to Magnify the Meaning of the Law.
Isaiah 42:21 It pleased the LORD for the sake of his _______________________ to make his law great and ______________.

7. Jesus Reveals Love's Purpose.
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to its ______________. Therefore love is the ___________________ of the law.

8. Love and Keeping the Commandments Go Together.
John 14:15 "If you love me, you will obey _______ I ____________.

9. Paul States in No Uncertain Terms That the Law Is Not Made Void Through Faith.
Romans 3:31 Do we, then, ____________ the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we __________ the law.

Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? [2] By no _________! We died to sin; how can we live in it any __________?

Romans 6:14-15 For sin shall not be your __________, because you are not under law, but under grace. [15] What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no _________!

10. God Does Not Have Two Methods of Salvation.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings ________________ has ______________ 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 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and ______________ the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. [10] Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. [11] But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he ____________. [12] "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do ______________ to him. Now I know that you fear God, ____________ you have not ______________ from me your son, your only son." [13] Abraham looked up and there in a ____________ he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and __________________ it as a burnt offering ____________ of his son.

12. In the New Testament Men and Women Are Saved by the Christ Who Has Come.
Acts 4:12 ________________ is found in no one else, for there is no other name under __________ given to 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 ______________ I will make with the house of Israel after that time, ______________ the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new __________ in you; I will __________ from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Psalms 40:8 I desire 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 The people all ________________ together, "We will do __________________ the LORD has said." So Moses brought their answer back to the LORD.

Exodus 24:3 When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, they ________________ with one voice, "__________________ the LORD has said we will do."

Exodus 24:7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They ________________, "We will do __________________ the LORD has said; we will obey."

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 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 Yet to all who received him, to those who ______________ in his name, he gave the right to become ______________ of God--

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in __________, he is a new ______________; the old has gone, the new has come!

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

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