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 ___________________. [39] And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as ______________. [40] On these two ___________________s depend all the 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 And 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 ________________ or bear any grudge against the sons of your own 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. I have loved you with an ___________________ love; therefore I have continued my _____________________ to you.

4. Jesus Declared, "On These Two Commandments (Love for God and Fellow Man) Hang All the Laws 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 ______________; I have come not to abolish them but to __________ them.

6. Jesus Came to Magnify the Meaning of the Law.

Isaiah 42:21 The LORD was pleased, for his _______________________' sake, to magnify his law and make it ______________.

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 ________________ the law by this faith? By no means! On the ______________, we uphold the law.

Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to ______________ in sin that grace may abound? [2] By no means! How can we who died to sin _________ 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 ____________ 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 has ______________ for the ________________ 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 ______________ of skins, and ____________ 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 ______________ to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not ______________ your son, your only son, from me." [13] And Abraham lifted up his eyes and __________, and __________, __________ him was a ram, __________ in a ____________ by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt ______________ ____________ 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 __________ 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 ______________ 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 __________, and I will be their God, and they shall be my __________.

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

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

14. Under the Old Covenant, Israel Promised to Obey God's Commandments in Their Own Strength.

Exodus 19:8 And all the people ______________ together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." And Moses ______________ 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 __________________; and all the people ______________ 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 Since 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 to all who received him, who ______________ in his name, he gave power to become ______________ of God;

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

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

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