Hello Musicmaster;
I blue-lighted your post and believe Christ fulfilled them but I need your help breaking this down a little further for me.
I agree with your other points and God's appointment to Moses delivering His message to the people and living by them.
I choose to stand by the 1st four Commandments in my relationship directly to God. I live by the last 6 Commandments in my relationship directly with my wife and all people.
I also failed to keep them all. In the 7th Commandment for years I failed to abstain from looking at beautiful women with lust, and allowing it to fester in me.
Jesus stated He came not to abolish the Law (10 Commandments) but to fulfill them with the Love Commandments as well as thanking Him each day for the cross. I have to repent daily for my sins, whether the Law or the Love Commandments, it doesn't matter. I don't categorize my sins. I fall short and ask God to forgive me daily in the name of Jesus.
I'm forgiven, redeemed and saved by salvation. Praise His Wonderful Name!
I don't know if what I share is in align with your points but I'm open to discussing, learning and will be the first one to confess if my doctrine is incorrect. Regardless, I have all the faith we can learn from everyone here.
God bless you, MM, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my convictions.
Thanks, Bob, for your feedback and thoughts.
Fulfillment, as I had pointed out in other posts concerning the very word of Jesus where He said:
Matthew 5:17 Think not that
I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
That one word is the very one that goes almost completely misunderstood by most. Thayer's Greek Lexicon has this to say about the meaning of that word, within its grammatical and contextual construct:
γ. universally and absolutely, to fulfil, i. e. "
to cause God's will (as made known in the law) to be obeyed as it should be, and God's promises (given through the prophets) to receive fulfilment":
Matthew 5:17
How are they obeyed today? By way of Christ's fulfillment of them, and:
Romans 2:12-16
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For
not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Some would assume that works of the Law are therefore the means by which we live the Law of God. Not so, and the scriptures continue:
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which
shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
There's the key. Dare we try to live the law by way of what we read with our eyes on tablets of stone, parchment, papyri or paper, we fail miserably. The Law of God has been internalized, written by the Finger of the Spirit of the Lord within us. Reading it is head knowledge, but what the Lord writes in our Hearts, THAT is the power unto obedience. For those who trust in their abilities to read and understand what they read, I leave that to them to try it, but they will fail miserably...time after time after time.
The Lord, who indwells us, He is the One who lives His perfect obedience to the Law through us by having written His Law upon or within our hearts.
In other words, when I fail at something I read with my eyes, and tried to obey on that basis, I am guilty of it ALL. Do we fail at the things He wrote in our Hearts. Yes, but it is the power of what He writes in our hearts that does the greatest work within, that we grow through the sanctifying power of His inner work within us.
So, those who read it to try and obey it by their own strength, versus those who have it written in their hearts by the powerful, glorious Finger of the Almighty, the contrast in abilities is quite striking.
MM