Love:
Before, During and After the Law
(Mosaic Law Can't Nullify God's Word)
Compiled by Brother L. Harrell
| Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NLT) Here is my
final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is the duty
of every person. |
Before the Law, God created and
blessed man. Man is to be loved.
Genesis 1:27-28 (KJV) So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Before the Law, man returned
first fruit to God.
Man was to love God wholeheartedly. (Man was
required to obey the voice of God.)
Genesis 4:4 (KJV) And Abel, he
also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And
the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Genesis 26:5 (NLT) I
will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my
requirements, commands, regulations, and laws.
Before the Law, the seventh-day
was blessed and
reserved to commemorate loving God wholeheartedly. (See
Genesis 2:3)
Before, during, and after the
Law, the spirit of
keeping the Law was a requirement: Man was always
to love his brother and love God. This is what the
commandments and the words of the prophets [the voice of God made
manifest] are based upon.
Galatians 5:14 (Weymouth New
Testament) For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept
the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow man
equally with yourself."
Matthew 22:40 (Weymouth New
Testament) The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these
two Commandments."
Romans 13:8 (Weymouth New
Testament) Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that
loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
This love for God and our
neighbor, being required
even from the beginning is still manifested by our paying first fruits
through tithes and Sabbath observance. This was
before, during and after the Law. We can not merely
verbalize that we love God, we must confirm
/ prove those words through actions of obedience.
Deuteronomy 19:15b (NLT) The facts of
the case must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How Much Love We Must Have For Each Other:
Jesus loves us so much He gave
his life for us.
(See Ephesians 5:25b & 1 John 3:16) We are commanded to
love each other that much [love each other enough to lay down our lives
for each other]. (See John 13:34 & John 15:12)
1 John
3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid
down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren.
John
13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one
another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Ephesians
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved
the church, and gave himself for it;
John
15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as
I have loved you.
1 John
2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so
to walk, even as he walked.
Those that can’t
and won’t put away
stumbling blocks that help lead others to death (away from Jesus) are
not commandment keepers. [His commandments are not
burdensome.] (See 1 John 5:3)
Matthew 18:7 (NLT)
How terrible it will be for anyone who causes others to sin. Temptation
to do wrong is inevitable, but how terrible it will be for the person
who does the tempting.
Romans 14:21
(NLT) Don't eat meat or drink wine or do anything else if it might
cause another Christian to stumble.
Psalm 89:31-32
(NLT) if they do not obey my decrees and fail to keep my commands, then
I will punish their sin with the rod, and their disobedience with
beating.
Jesus walked in His Father's will. The
Lord Jesus did not impose a new week day
of commemoration. The Son of Man did not
rescind [and make void] His Father’s Word. The Spirit that
blessed the seventh day is the same Spirit that created all things (See
Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:11 & John 1:1-3). It is Jesus
Himself that
sanctified the Sabbath in the beginning
(He is not
double minded).
John 5:30 I can of mine own self
do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek
not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my
word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it.
John 1:3 All things were
made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Isaiah 58:13(a) If thou turn
away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day
Mark 2:28 Therefore the Son
of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
There is not a single command given by
Jesus [or anyone
else] that has power to nullify what He declared in Genesis 2:3. There
is no authorization issued to warrant redemption of God's possession,
His Holy Day. Assuming something consecrated is no longer
consecrated is dangerous action. (Just like it is not wise to assume my
wallet, money and credit cards don't belong to me, and are yours for
the taking). There
are no biblical examples of the
Apostles, Prophets or the Lord Jesus Himself annulling the day that was
committed eternally to God by Himself (See Mark 2:28
above). The Lord’s necessitation of rest
is recorded in Genesis 2:3 and is corroborated by Exodus 16:22-30,
Exodus 20:8,
Exodus 31:15-17, Isaiah 66:23, Matthew 24:20, Hebrews 4:4, etc.
Mosaic Law could not invalidate the
Promise of Inheritance
made to Abraham. If it did God’s Word
would be broken. God can not lie. God’s Word can not return void.
God is truth.
Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the
covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which
was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it
should make the promise of none effect.
1 John 5:6(b) the Spirit is truth
Just as the Mosaic Law had no power
over the Promise that
preceded it, likewise the Law had no power over the Sabbath that
predates it. (God’s Word will not be
broken).
If Jesus, whom was under the Law
[before He was glorified],
had been guilty of transgressing the Law [by making the Sabbath of none
effect], He would have been a sinner, and would have been unworthy to
redeem
the Church. Jesus Christ, the Lord of
the Sabbath, as [Son of] man was bound by the Mosaic Law, and under
such, did
not break the Law. Even some of the
Pharisees realized Jesus could not have been breaking the Sabbath.
Galatians
4:4-5 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent
forth his Son, made
of a woman, made under the
law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons.
John
9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of
God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?
And there was a division among them.
Matthew 12:5-6 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath
days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
God has not changed His mind
concerning the seventh day. He will not be
changing His mind (He is not a
man). Because the Law was based on love,
Jesus was not against the Law (Jesus is Love). The
Lord
Jesus satisfied the Law of Love, redeeming the Church.
He did not render the Example of Love useless.
Romans 3:31 (NLT) Well then, if we
emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of
course not! In fact, only
when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.
John 15:13 Greater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 13:10 Love worketh no
ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
The Lord's acceptance of us does not equate to Him
surrendering His dominion (such as His Holy Day).
The
one that
needs to surrender is us.
Revised: 02/18/06
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