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Nailed To the Cross?

Posted by Darrell in Christian on May 9, 2010

The 10 Big Ones

“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man” Luke 17:26. Only eight people were saved from the flood and “as it was then” so shall it be at His coming.

Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”. Matthew 7:21-23

Jesus dealt with the Pharisees over and over again because of legalism.

If you get nothing at all from this post other
than this one fact, please let this sink in!

Because He highly condemned salvation by works, people have assumed that Jesus considered obedience unimportant. Please note the beautiful balance in Christ’s doctrine of faith and works. Jesus taught that obeying in order to be saved is the worst kind of legalism, but obeying because we are saved is a true religious experience. Obedience follows true faith just as surely as day follows night.

The word “legalist” has been thrown around just
like the word "awesome". In my humble opinion only God
is awesome, anything else just doesn't compare.

I believe that many sincere Christians have been accused of legalism just because their love for Christ has led them to be more partial in obeying God than their accusers.

A legalist is one who believes that he can be saved by his works.

The person who keeps the commandments because he doesn’t want to displease the God he loves is not a legalist at all.

Religious activity is useless if we are not doing the
will of God! Willing disobeying God after knowing the truth
cuts off the relationship, drives away the Holy Spirit by which
we are sealed, and effectively removes us from the position of
grace.

People are being taught today that the Ten Commandments have been abolished and that God and His Son Jesus Christ are responsible for them being “Nailed” to the Cross. Other people say that the Ten Commandments are still in force except the 4th. It was disobedience that nailed our Savior Jesus Christ to the cross.

Jesus said Himself that He did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. Note: The word fulfill here means to keep it or fill full. No one can be saved by keeping the law. Salvation comes only through grace, as a free gift from Jesus Christ, and we receive this gift by faith, not by works. The law serves only as a mirror to point out sin in our lives. Cleansing and forgiveness from that sin come only through Christ.

Paid in Full For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:3, 4.

This means that through Jesus Christ and what He did for us at the Cross, we are changed so we can measure up to that law.

Our Father’s Commandments actually reflect the very character of God Himself. To love God with all our heart, all our soul, all mind and all our strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves is the purpose of our existence. God wrote His law in stone! It’s absolutely true that violating any part of God’s law always brings negative consequences. As our world is being overrun by evil and crime, doesn’t it make sense that for peace and safety we need to obey the laws of the land? Well, the same holds true with God’s law in our own lives!

Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are they that do his Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

Wages of sin is death That first sin was was caused by disobedience. Let’s not follow in their footsteps, but instead desire to eat from the tree of life by keeping God’s Commands. Below are one hundred questions to ask yourself and think carefully about in regards to God and His Law. If the Ten Commandments have been abolished, how many verses in your Bible are meaningless and should be left out? As you ask yourself the following one hundred questions, please remember that your Bible says that God is Holy, Righteous, Perfect, Unchangeable, Just, Kind and Good.

100 Questions»

The Sabbath Command is in the center of His Law.
The Sabbath is God’s Mark or Sign of His Power and authority as the Creator. Exodus 20:8-11.
The Sabbath has always been God’s test of obedience. Exodus 16:4-31.
God’s Law is in His Heart. May we never wound His heart of love and insult His Grace.
If God has abolished His Law then hundreds of texts in your Bible become meaningless and should be left out!

Here are some examples:

1. All the texts that speak of repentance.

2. All the texts that mention or refer to the Law.

3. All the texts that mention the Commandments of God.

4. All the texts that speak of obedience.

5. All the texts that speak of transgression.

6. All the texts that speak of SIN. (Sin is the transgression of the Law. 1 John 3:4).

7. All the texts that speak of Jesus as the Savior from sin. etc, etc.

If God has abolished any part of His Law then every Bible text that
speaks of the Law as Perfect, Holy, Just and Unchangeable etc.,
become meaningless. “Not one tittle of the Law shall fall.” If we
offend in one point of the Ten Commandments we are guilty of all.

See James 2:10-12 and Matthew 5:17-19.

Proof That the 10 Commandments Weren't Nailed To The Cross»

Please understand that I prayed diligently for wisdom and Bible truth.

Adoption I believe that if we had no opportunity to learn a certain Bible truth, God won’t hold us accountable. In some places on earth, information is hard to come by. That’s not the case in the U.S., even with no money a Bible is always accessible. It was my responsibility to hunt diligently for the truth.

The Bible teaches that I am responsible to God for all the light (knowledge of right) I have and all I can have! People who refuse or neglect to study, seek, learn, and listen (Place God above all else) will be destroyed because they have “rejected knowledge.”

“If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.” John 9:41. “To him that knoweth to do good,and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” James 4:17. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee.” Hosea 4:6. “Seek, and ye shall find.” Matthew 7:7.

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100 Questions

1. How could and why would a perfect God (Matthew 5:48) abolish a perfect Law? Psalms 19:7.

2. How could and why would a Righteous God (Psalms 145:17) abolish a Righteous Law? Psalms 119:172.

3. How could and why would God who is unchangeable (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8) change or abolish a Law that is unchangeable? Matthew 5:17-19; Psalms 111:7-8.

4. How could and why would a God of Truth (John 14:6) do away with a Law that is the Truth? Psalms 119:142, 151.

5. How could and why would a God who is Just (Acts 3:14; Deuteronomy 32:4) do away with a just Law? Romans 7:12.

6. How could and why would a Holy God (Isaiah 6:3) abolish a Holy Law? Romans 7:12.

7. How could and why would a God who is Good (Psalms 34:8) do away with a Law that is good? Romans 7:12.

8. How could and why would a Spiritual God (John 4:24) abolish a spiritual Law? Romans 7:14.

9. How could and why would God abolish the Law that tells what sin is? 1 John 3:4; Romans 4:15; Romans 7:7.

10. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that Christ came to magnify and make honorable? Isaiah 42:21.

11. How could and why would God do away with a Law which He wrote on stone? Exodus 31:18. The fact that He wrote it on stone indicates that it was to last forever.

12. How could and why would God abolish the Law which tells what His will is? Romans 2:18; Matthew 7:21; Psalms 40:8.

13. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that He commanded to be sealed among His disciples? Isaiah 8:16.

14. How could and why would God abolish a Law that is “pure” and that “enlightens the eyes?” Psalms 19:8.

15. How could and why would God do away with the Law that is not made void, but by the Christian’s Faith? Romans 3:31.

16. How could and why would God do away with the Law that He told His people to remember and teach to their children and their children’s children? Psalms 78:1-7.

17. How could and why would God abolish the Law that the Christian should “meditate in day and night.” Psalms 1:1-3.

18. How could and why would God do away with His holy Law that the wicked have turned away from and made void? Psalms 119:126, 150.

19. How could and why would God abolish His Law which must be fulfilled in the life of the Christian who is led by the Spirit of God? Romans 8:3-4.

20. How could and why would God abolish His Law after promising a “woe” upon them that “cast away the Law of the Lord” and “call evil good, and good evil?” Isaiah 5:20-24.

21. How could and why would God do away with a Law that enters into the very heart of an individual and condemns the secret sins of his life which he must in the judgment? Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

22. How could and why would God abolish His Law that makes people happy when they keep it? Proverbs 29:18.

23. How could a God of Peace destroy a Law that brings peace to troubled hearts? Psalms 119:165.

24. How could and why would God do away with the very Law that Jesus has in His heart? Psalms 40:8.

25. How could and why would God do away with His Law which is to be the standard by which men and women will be judged? Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

26. How could and why would God abolish His Law which is to “stand fast forever?” Psalms 111:7-8.

27. How could and why would God abolish His Law after He said His people have forgotten His Law and are destroyed for lack of knowledge? Hosea 4:6-7.

28. How could and why would God do away with His Law after accusing the religious leaders of hardening their hearts against His Law, and deceiving the people? Malachi 2:7-9.

29. How could and why would God do away with His Bible Ten Commandments when Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to those who would keep them? John 14:16-17, 26; Acts 5:32.

30. How could and why would God have abolished His Law at Christ’s death, and then later be with Stephen as he was stoned for having told his murderers that they had not kept God’s Law? Acts 7:53-56.

31. How could and why would God abolish the same Law that is to be the standard by which we measure the teachings of every teacher, and every preacher, and every church? Isaiah 8:20, Compare 1 Peter 4:11 and Acts 7:38.

32. How could and why would God do away with the Law when Jesus suffered and died to redeem us from the curse of the Law? Galatians 3:13. Jesus came to redeem them that were under the Law. Galatians 4:4-5.

33. How could and why would God do away with His Law when the Bible says “Where no Law is, there is no transgression?” Romans 4:15; Romans 5:13.

34. How could and why would God abolish His Law when His followers delight in it? Psalms 1:1-3; Psalms 119:70, 77, 92, 174.

35. How could and why would God have the Bible Ten Commandments abolished at the cross when Jesus told His disciples to pray that they might be able to keep the Sabbath command forty years after the crucifixion? Matthew 24:20.

36. How could and why would God do away with the Commandment that says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” when Jesus said that He Himself was Lord of the Sabbath, and that it was made for man? Mark 2:27-28.

37. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that helps in converting the soul? Psalms 19:7.

38. How could and why would God do away with the Law that helps a sinner to realize his need? When a sinner realizes that death is the penalty for transgression, and in sorrow he comes to God for forgiveness, he receives a pardon through Jesus. That pardon is Grace. Would God abolish the very Law that Christ died for to make it possible to give grace to the sinner? If God abolished His Law there would be no transgression and therefore no need of forgiveness or grace. Grace is not something apart from the Law; it is necessary. Paul said to the Christians: “you are not under the law but under grace.” Romans 6:14. Then he said, “shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid.” Verse 15. In Galatians 3:21 Paul says “the law is not against the promises of God.” How could God abolish His Law and thus do away with Grace too?

39. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when Jesus said He Himself was Lord of the Sabbath? Mark 2:27-28. And Jesus Himself made the Sabbath. John 1:1-3; Mark 2:27. And it was Christ’s custom to keep it. Luke 4:16.

40. How could Christ do away with His Law and the Sabbath that He made and not say a single word about it to His closest followers? At the same time of His death they kept the Sabbath according to the Commandment. Luke 23:55-56. Compare Matthew 24:20.

41. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath when Jesus said: “It is easier for Heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the Law to fail?” Luke 16:17.

42. How could and why would God forsake His Law when that is the very thing that the Bible says the wicked have done? Psalms 119:53.

43. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments when Jesus said that those who worship in vain have the commandments of men? Mark 7:7, 9. The worship which is accepted of God must be where the Bible Ten Commandments of God are taught and obeyed. John 14:21.

44. How could and why would God abolish His Law when the Bible says, “The way of transgressors is hard?” Proverbs 13:15. Where there is no law there is no transgression. Romans 4:15.

45. How could and why would God abolish His Law when the Bible says, “He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination?” Proverbs 28:9.

46. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments when the Bible says, “The whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His Commandments.” Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

47. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments after He promised to show mercy to all who would keep them? Psalms 103:18.

48. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments that the angels keep? Psalms 103:20.

49. How could and why would God abolish His Law which is so perfect and high that it points the believer to Christ as the end for righteousness-the very highest standard of a perfect sinless life? Romans 10:4. Compare Isaiah 51:7 and James 5:11.

50. How could and why would God abolish His Law which gives wisdom and understanding? Psalms 119:98, 100.

51. How could and why would God do away with His Law which gives comfort in affliction and trial? Psalms 119:92

52. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that the Righteous, who inherit the New Earth, will have in their hearts? Psalms 37:29-31.

53. How could and why would God abolish the Law that Jesus said was more enduring than the earth itself? Matthew 5:17-19; Luke 16:17.

54. How could and why would God abolish the Law that forbids murder and adultery? James 2:10-12.

55. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments that Jesus kept? John 15:10.

56. How could and why would God do away with a Law which is so perfect and wonderful that even if you break any part of it, you are guilty of all? James 2:10-12.

57. How could and why would God do away with the Law that Jesus referred to when He said: “Whosoever shall break one of these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom?” Matthew 5:19.

58. How could and why would God do away with His Commandment in order to make room for Tradition-the commandments of men? Matthew 15:3, 6, 9.

59. How could and why would God do away with His Law which gives His people liberty when they obey it? James 2:10-12. It is the lawbreaker who is put in Jail and who is in bondage.

60. How could and why would God abolish the Law that helps a poor sinner to realise his condition? Romans 3:20; Romans 3:9, 23.

61. How could and why would God abolish the Law that “stops every mouth” and makes “all the world guilty before God?” Romans 3:19. Compare Romans 3:9, 23.

62. How could and why would God abolish the Law that tells what sin is when the Bible says: “If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous?” 1 John 3:4 and 1 John 2:1. Why have an advocate if the law is gone?

63. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments, or Moral Law, at the same time that He abolished the ceremonial law which had to do with the offerings and sacrifices? Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14-17. The Hand writing of Ordinances are not the Bible Ten Commandments. See Colossians 2:16.

The ceremonial law was instituted to show the people what to do when they broke the Moral Law. By their sacrifices they could show their faith in the great sacrifice which was to be offered on Calvary. All the Sacrifices and offerings pointed forward to Christ. When Jesus died the veil in the temple was torn signifying that the sacrificial or Ceremonial law had ended.

Many people confuse the Ceremonial and Moral laws.

64. How could and why would God do away with the Law that has the Sabbath command in it when God Himself ceased from labor and rested on the seventh day, and your Bible says that all who have entered into rest (spiritual rest too) with Him, have ceased from their own works as God did from His? Hebrews 4:4, 9-10. Study those 2 verses prayerfully and carefully.

65. How could and why would God do away with the very Law that His people are to keep in order to have works to show their faith? James 2:18. Read carefully James 2:10-12. The “works” here referred to are works of obedience as the verses plainly indicate. Paul says: “Do we make void the Law through faith? God forbid, we establish the Law.” Romans 3:31.

66. How could and why would God abolish the Bible Ten Commandments that Jesus referred to when He said “whosoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Matthew 5:19.

67. How could and why would God do away with the same Law that He promised to write in the heart of every Christian who is really under the New Covenant? Jeremiah 31:31; Hebrews 8:10.

68. How could and why would God do away with the Law that the carnal of sinful mind refuses to obey? Romans 8:7.

69. How could and why would God do away with His Law when only those who keep it can have justification? Romans 2:13.

70. How could and why would God destroy the very same Law that Jesus said He came not to destroy? Matthew 5:17-19.

71. How could and why would God abolish the Ten Bible Commandments, the same Ten Commandments that Jesus said hung on the two Great Commandments of Love to God and Love to Man? Matthew 22:35-40. The first four Commandments show our relation to God; the last six show our relation to Man. Thus they all hang on the two principles of love to God and to man. See the greatest Bible Commandment.

72. How could and why would God abolish the same Commandments that Jesus told the young ruler to keep if he wanted to enter into life and be saved? Matthew 19:17. Compare Revelation 22:14.

73. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments when they give a good understanding to all who keep them? Psalms 111:10.

74. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments which are the foundation of sound doctrine? Proverbs 4:2.

75. How could and why would God make void His Law when Jesus condemned the Scribes and Pharisees for making void the Law of God by their tradition? Matthew 15:3, 6, 9.

76. How could and why would God have abolished His Law when the curse of God rests upon the world because the inhabitants have transgressed His Law? Isaiah 24:3-6.

77. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments when Jesus told His disciples to keep them if they loved Him? John 14:15. How much do we love Him?

78. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He pronounced a blessing upon the man who would keep the Sabbath? Isaiah 56:2, 6.

79. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He said that all who would take their foot off of the Sabbath, would be blessed in many ways, and would help to raise the foundations of generations, and be called to repairer of the breach? Isaiah 58:12-14.

80. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when Jesus said that He Himself was LORD of the Sabbath? Matthew 12:8.

81. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He said the Sabbath was a sign of sanctification? Ezekiel 20:12. Should not a sanctified Sabbath and a sanctified person he in harmony?

82. How could and why would God turn away from His Law and abolish it when He has always been hurt when His people turned away from it? Jeremiah 16:10-11, 16; Isaiah 58:1, 12-14.

83. How could and why would God do away with the very Law that He says He has implanted in the hearts of those who “know Righteousness?” Isaiah 51:7.

84. How could and why would God reject His Law and abolish it when He said He would bring evil upon those who rejected it? Jeremiah 6:19. Compare Jeremiah 6:4-5.

85. How could and why would God do away with His Law that some people “will not hear” and even tell their ministers not to preach? Isaiah 30:8-10. God calls them rebellious children.

86. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments after promising peace and righteousness in abundance to those who “listened to His Commandments?” Isaiah 48:18.

87. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He gave the Sabbath to be a sign that He is our God? Ezekiel 20:20; Exodus 31:16-17. The New Covenant was made with the children of Israel which if we be Christ’s then we are. Hebrews 8:10. He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and so if we are God’s children then we are Abraham’s seed and therefore children of Israel and heirs according to the promise. Romans 2:28-29; Galatians 3:28-29.

88. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments which are called righteousness, Psalms 119:172 and also, “My Righteousness shall not be abolished?” Isaiah 51:6. He also said, “Listen unto me you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law.” Isaiah 51:7.

89. How could and why would God do away with His Law after making the statement that some of the people would stop their ears and make their hearts like stone so they would not hear His Law? Zechariah 7:11-12.

90. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments which are the test by which we know that we know God? 1 John 2:3.

91. How could and why would God abolish His Law after making the statement that the people have trespassed against His Law, and have “sown the wind and shall reap the whirlwind?” Hosea 8:1-7.

92. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and then later have John write that the man who claims to know God and does not keep God’s Commandments, is a liar? 1 John 2:4.

93. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments, when Jesus kept them and we are told “to walk even as He walked?” 1 John 2:6.

94. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and also promise to hear the prayers of those who keep His Commandments? 1 John 3:22.

95. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and later have John write that those who love God and keep His Commandments will love the children of God? 1 John 5:2.

96. How could and why would God have His Commandments abolished when it “is the love of God that we keep, His Commandments?” 1 John 5:3. Compare 2 John 1:6, and John 14:15.

97. How could and why would God do away with His Law and the Sabbath after He says the “Priests have violated His Law and have hid their eyes from His Sabbath, and have showed no difference between the holy and the profane?” Ezekiel 22:26.

98. How could anyone accuse God of changing or abolishing His own perfect Law when the Prophet saw a PERSECUTING POWER that would think to change it? Daniel 7:25. Read about the four beasts and the little “horn.” Daniel 7:1-8. Read verse 23-fourth kingdom (Rome). Little horn represents a religious power that started in Rome and in 321AD they changed God’s Sabbath to Sunday. A fact unknown by many Christians today. Now read verse 25 again.

99. How could and why would God have abolished His Commandments when it says that the last or remnant people of God will be keeping the Bible Ten Commandments just before Jesus comes to gather the harvest of the earth? Read carefully Revelation 12:17 and Revelation 14:12-16.

100. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and also promise that in the New Earth His People will be keeping the Sabbath? Isaiah 66:22-23.

Proof

Probably the greatest distortion of truth has resulted from the idea that the Ten Commandment law was the Old Covenant and that it has now been done away with. Friends, this just simply isn’t true. The facts are that the Old Covenant was an agreement between God and His people regarding the keeping of the Ten Commandments. You read that very specifically in the Bible. Now here is the proof that the law was not the Old Covenant.

According to the eighth chapter of Hebrews, the Old Covenant waxed old and vanished away. It also had poor promises in it, and it was described as faulty. Who can believe that this describes the Ten Commandments? Nowhere are they called faulty, in fact, the Bible says, “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” Neither has anyone ever been able to point out a poor promise in the decalogue. And Paul clearly declares that the Ten Commandment law is established by faith. It has not vanished away in any sense of the word.

Briefly stated, the Old Covenant was the agreement of the people at Mt. Sinai to keep the law of God in their own strength and through their own efforts. That agreement was faulty because those poor promises of the people were almost immediately broken, rupturing the covenant. In Hebrews 8 God said He would make a new covenant based upon better promises, and then, He proceeded to make the promises which formed the basis of that new agreement. Those promises involved Christ living in the heart, regenerating and empowering the individual to obey the Ten Commandments through love. Now we shall go on to consider another phase of the two covenants that has often been misunderstood, that is, the ordinances or ceremonies connected with the covenants. These were added because of sin.

“Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary… which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience: which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.” Hebrews 9:1,9,10.

The Bible is perfectly plain on the fact that the ceremonies of the Old Covenant would remain in force only until the time of reformation, when Jesus died. Other passages make it plain that the time of reformation spoken of here was the time when the New Covenant was ratified. Thus we read in Colossians 2:14-17: “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross:… Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”

What does Paul say was blotted out at the cross? Those things which were a shadow of things to come. The types and symbols which pointed forward to Christ, the Lamb of God. This included the offering of lambs, the meat offerings and drink offerings, which were a part of the ordinances, not the Ten Commandments. There is not even a suggestion in the above passage that any of the Ten Commandments were blotted out at the cross. The sabbath days and holy days affected were only those 6 yearly feast sabbaths:

1. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Passover, Leviticus 23:5

2. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:6

3. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Pentecost, Leviticus 23:20

4. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Trumpets, Leviticus 23:24

5. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Atonement, Leviticus 23.27

6. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Tabernacles, Leviticus 23:34

These yearly feast sabbaths with their meat and drink offerings were the ones “which were shadows of things to come.” The Sabbath of the Ten Commandments is not a type or a shadow. It was given to man in the Garden of Eden before Adam sinned, before there were types and shadows. The types and shadows were added after man sinned.

The things that were blotted out were “against us.” 1 John 3:4. The Ten Commandments were given for our good to tell us what sin is.

One of the ordinances of the Old Covenant was circumcision. But under the New Covenant “circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: obedience to God’s Commandments is everything.” 1 Corinthians 7:19(Weymouth).

That word obedience is to some people a most hated word. They want to tell you what God has to say about grace and forgiveness, but never do they reveal that God has quite a bit to say about obedience also. Obedience, of course, isn’t the means of justification, but it is an evidence of justification and salvation. To get a full picture of the subject let us read what Paul has to say. He explains in Romans 8:3,4, that it is the very purpose of the New Covenant to bring us into harmony with God’s law. Now do you see why the keeping of the Commandments of God is everything under the New Covenant? Paul also says in Romans that we know God’s will as we are instructed out of the law. Romans 2:18 “And knowest His will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.” So the man who wants to do away with the Ten Commandments doesn’t want to know God’s will. But remember the law never saves. Only the grace of Jesus saves. The purpose of the law is to tell us right from wrong. To reveal God’s will to us.

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The Dead Know Nothing

Posted by Darrell in Christian on May 8, 2010

Are the dead really dead?

Can a relative that has died and believed to have gone to Heaven see you when you’re taking a shower?

Not many people talk about this question but I’m sure it has crossed many a mind! The answer is a no! The truth that’s taught in the Bible is very clear on this subject, but most people, even professed Christians ignore the correct Biblical answer.

The Bible says that the dead know nothing! Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 “The dead praise not the Lord.” Psalms 115:17.

Jesus called death a “sleep” John 11:11-14. Before I read the Bible for myself and studied this particular subject in great depth, I found it mysterious or strange that we go to Heaven or hell before we are even judged!

If this would be the case, then God would not be a righteous judge! Someone who died a thousand years ago or more, and went to hell would suffer torment a lot longer than someone who would die and go to hell right at the end of the world. Think about that for a minute! I have good news, that’s not the case.

The dead sleep in the grave until Jesus returns at the end of the world. In death, humans are totally unconscious with no activity or knowledge of any kind. Time has no meaning, therefore, to you, just as soon as you die (in the twinkling of an eye) Jesus will be here. The man that died a thousand years ago (depending on if he is saved or not) and you will rise at the same moment. To each of you though, it will seem as though no time has gone by since you kicked the bucket!

Most people hang on to a very few cloudy verses that they say points towards an immortal soul that pops out of the body at the moment of death and flies away at death, but that idea is not at all biblical. There are hundreds of verses that proves that the dead are dead, and stay dead until Jesus returns. If you would like to learn more about this truth for yourself pray about it and then do a detailed Bible study on this topic.

“The body without the spirit is dead.” James 2:26. “The spirit of God is in my nostrils.” Job 27:3.

The spirit that returns to God when we die is the breath of life. Nowhere in all of the Bible does the “spirit” have any life, wisdom, or feeling after a person dies. It is the “breath of life” and nothing more.

“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more.” Job 14:12. “The day of the Lord will come … in the which the heavens shall pass away.”
2 Peter 3:10.

If the dead are really dead and can’t communicate with the living, how can the mediums and psychics talk to my dead relative.

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The truth is that they can’t. They may be communicating with something, but it ain’t your peeps! It’s actually the fallen angels (demons) that got thrown out of Heaven along with Satan! It’s in the Bible, and God plainly warns us about it.

The Bible Says that after death a person: returns to dust (Psalms 104:29), knows nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5), possesses no mental powers (Psalms 146:4), has nothing to do with anything on earth (Ecclesiastes 9:6), does not live (2 Kings 20:1), waits in the grave (Job 17:13), and continues not (Job 14:1, 2).

The belief that we don’t really die when we die began when Satan lied to Eve at the very beginning. “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.” Genesis 3:4. “That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan.” Revelation 12:9.

Does it really matter one way or the other what we believe happens when we die? Yes, it does. Misunderstanding this subject will almost certainly allow you to be deceived by Satan about this and other subjects including the Battle of Armageddon in the last days. If you know for certain that the dead are actually dead, the Devil and his demons will have a hard time making you believe that you are being visited or led by one of your dead relatives.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that the unsaved go straight to hell and the righteous go straight to Heaven at death! The Bible couldn’t be any clearer, that the unsaved don’t go to hell as soon as they die, but are reserved in the grave until the day of judgment to be punished. Jesus taught this truth in the well-known parable of the Wheat and Tares. But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’ Matthew 13:29, 30.

Now follow the words of Christ as He explains the meaning of the parable: “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:37-42.

Isn’t what Jesus said plain and simple? It is so clear that a child can understand it. He said the tares represented the wicked people, and that they would be cast into the fire “at the end of the world.”It was in the harvest.

The harvest is the end of the world that the separation would take place, and He plainly stated, “.” How can anyone twist these words of Jesus? The whole idea of the wicked going to hell at the time of death contradicts our Lord’s specific teaching that they would be cast into the fire at the end of the world.

Since the judgment also takes place after Christ comes we can see how impossible it would be for anyone to be punished before that time. Justice demands that a person be brought into judgment before being punished. Peter declared, “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.” 2 Peter 2:9. That certainly makes sense, doesn’t it?

Read more about this interesting Bible topic here.

The truth from the Bible says something totally different than what the majority is teaching and believing!

Unbelievable!

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Can Satan Read Your Thoughts?

Posted by Darrell in Christian on April 30, 2010

Satan has been around for a long time; longer than 6000 years, he tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:1).

A few facts:

Satan is not omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing) or omnipresent (can be in more then one place at a time).

Satan is an Angel, a fallen Angel. (Isaiah 14:12-14)

Satan was thrown from Heaven because his pride led him to rebel against God. (Ezekiel 28:12-17)

Satan deceived and took with him one third of all angels in Heaven. (Revelation 12:7-9)
He can only be in one place at a time, so he needs his demons to help him and report back to him. If Satan could read our thoughts or if he were “all knowing” (omniscient) he wouldn’t need any help from demons.

Satan does know exactly how people think though, and he knows the weakness of humans.

This is how he’s able to tempt us; otherwise, he would not have wasted his time tempting Job. Job 1:6-12, or Jesus. Matthew 4:1-11. Satan certainly did not know what Job would do. He had not read Job’s mind; he had simply made a guess based on his observations (his walking to and fro, and up and down in the earth) and he was certainly wrong.

Satan has had a lot of time to practice. He knows exactly how to influence man. You better believe that the enemy knows the Bible better than any human being does.

Satan has the power to deceive those who do not follow,
or have God's Word in them. If you are not full of God's
Word, that leaves "room" for the Devil's minions to come in.

“The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil,
or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth,
and his angels with him.” (Revelation 12:9, NIV)

Satan was brought under the power and authority of Jesus when He died for
our sins and established His Kingdom and His church. Satan no longer has
power over us and by this, we can be sure that the devil, Satan, cannot
read our thoughts. Revelation 12:7-17

Only God and his Son Jesus Christ can read the minds and the hearts of mankind.

This is the four Bible definitions of sin.

1) “Sin is the transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:4

2) “Sin is anything that is unrighteous, not like Christ.” 1 John 5:17

3) “Sin is failure to follow the things we know to be right.” James 4:17

4) “Sin is lack of faith in God and His Word.” Romans 14:23

The "in" thing today is talking to the dead. 

Psychics and mediums actually believe that they are communicating
with the dead. The truth is that a supernatural world indeed does
exist, and people miss the familiar voices of loved ones, but they
are sadly mistaken about mediums communicating with spirits of the
dead.
A thorough Bible study into this interesting topic will prove without
a doubt that the dead know nothing, they are dead and cannot speak.

These mediums are really communicating with demons that’s posing as ghosts and dead relatives. The last book in the Bible has this warning, “For they are spirits of demons, performing signs…..” Revelation 16:14

The Bible clearly says, “For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.

Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Study God’s Word and it’s easy to see that we aren’t immortal, not until the last day. That’s not the last day of our life, but the day that Jesus returns! Don’t give in to the same lie that was told to Eve, “Ye shall not surely die” Genesis 3:4

There is a difference between being able to plant a thought in someone’s mind and being able to read a person’s mind. When someone writes a book or speaks a word they are able to stimulate thoughts in people’s mind, but they cannot see what is happening beneath the surface. The only one that the Bible ever speaks of as being able to read the thoughts is the Lord. (1 Chronicles 28:9; Psalm 94:11; Psalm 139:23; Matthew 12:25; Luke 6:8) This is one of the very strong evidences that Jesus was the Son of God.

Though Satan is able to guess at our thoughts through observing, and suggest thoughts through circumstances and stimuli, there is no indication in the Bible that he can actually read our thoughts.

Keep looking up – Jesus is coming back!

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Babylon the Great

Posted by Darrell in Christian on April 7, 2010

Most of my family and friends are either Catholic or part of a Protestant religion. This article isn’t intended to offend or condemn anyone, it’s just presenting the facts of history and of things to come.

Amazingly, some of the most prominent doctrines of Protestantism today are not found in the Bible at all. They have been brought into the Protestant churches by the mother church of Rome, who received them from paganism. A few of these false teachings are that: Jesus symbolizes Babylon as a harlot dressed in red and purple. She is seated upon a scarlet-colored beast, which has seven heads and 10 horns and sits on many waters. Revelation 17:1-6. On her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.” Revelation 17:1, 3-5

Mystery,

Babylon the Great

Mother of Harlots

Abominations of the Earth

In the Bible an impure woman represents an impure, or fallen, church which is unfaithful to Jesus (James 4:4) just as a pure woman symbolizes a pure church which is faithful to Jesus. There is only one church which claims to be the mother church–the great Roman Catholic Church.

A. She persecuted the saints Revelation 17:6

B. She was dressed in purple and scarlet Revelation 17:4 The popes often wear the royal color of purple at important functions, and red is the color of the robes of Catholic cardinals.

C. The seven heads of the beast Revelation17:3 upon which the woman is seated are seven mountains. Revelation 17:9 It is well known that Rome, the world headquarters of the papacy, is built upon seven hills or mountains.

D. The beast is guilty of blasphemy Revelation17:3, a point which also clearly fits the papacy. Rome

E. She ruled “over the kings of the earth.” Revelation17:18 Alexander Flick says that by the 13th century, the pope was “at least in theory and claim … the ruler of the whole world in temporal and spiritual affairs.” ² This point could fit no other earthly kingdom or government. The papacy is described in Revelation 17 too clearly for doubt. Note: Some leaders of the Protestant Reformation (Huss, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Melanchthon, Cranmer, Tyndale, Latimer, Ridley, and others) taught that the papacy is the power here involved. Mother Babylon Riding on the Beast Jesus portrays the papacy as a combination of church and state. Revelation 13:1-10 In Revelation chapter 17, Jesus shows the the harlot (church) and the beast (state) as separate entities, but related. The woman is riding the beast, which states that the church is in control of the state.

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This topic is shocking, controversial, and sure to ruffle feathers. Nevertheless it must be presented faithfully, fairly, and without compromise.

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From the 1200s to the 1800s, Papal leaders openly condemned the reading of the Bible in the vernacular (the language of the common people) and even persecuted those caught with copies of the Scriptures in their possession. Because Bible Societies (beginning in the 1800’s) won the war and have spread God’s Word around the world, Rome has backed off of its previously public position. Yet the Vatican has not changed. Papal Rome’s opposition to pure Bible truth remains to this day.

More information and issues about the Catholic religion can be found here.

The daughters of the harlot

The daughters of the harlot (Mother Babylon) in Revelation 17:5 are some of the Protestant churches which originally protested the false teachings of mother Babylon and left her during the great Protestant Reformation. Later, they began to adapt to the principles and traditions of the mother and became fallen themselves. No woman is born a harlot. Neither were the symbolic Protestant daughter churches born fallen. Any church or organization that teaches and follows Babylon’s false doctrines and practices could become a fallen church or daughter. So Babylon is a family name which embraces both the mother church and those of her daughters, who are also fallen. I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” Revelation 16:13, 14 The dragon in Revelation chapter 12 represents Satan working through pagan Rome. In these last days it includes religions like Buddhism, Shintoism, Hinduism, the New Age, secular humanism, etc. The false prophet represents apostate Protestantism centered in America, which will take the lead urging and influencing worldwide worship of the beast. The beast is the papacy. Non-Christian religions and apostate Protestantism will join the papacy as allies in the final war against God and His followers. These three powers: Non-Christian religions and governments, Roman Catholicism, and apostate Protestantism will become allies in Armageddon–the final war against God, His law, and His loyal followers. This group is called “Babylon the great” by Jesus in Revelation 18:2. These groups have different backgrounds but will be able to effectively join together “These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” Revelation 17:13. Revelation 16:13, 14 says “unclean spirits like frogs” which are “spirits of devils” will unite them through the miracles they will work. Spiritism–the belief that the dead are alive and can contact the living–will be the tenet which will weld all together. Satan and his angels–posing as the spirits of dead loved ones, prophets of old, angels of heaven (2 Corinthians 11:13, 14), and even Christ Himself (Matthew 24:24)–will convince the world that their cause is guided from heaven itself (see Study Guide 10). Incidentally, all three entities believe that the dead are alive: Catholics worship Mary and the dead saints and they believe these saints bless them and perform miracles. Non-Christian religions worship spirits of the dead. New Age teaches “channeling” or talking to spirits of the dead. jesuits_massacre Apostate Protestantism believes that the dead are not dead but, rather, alive in heaven or hell. They are will be easily deceived by demons who pose as spirits of dead friends and relatives among others. Many Protestant teachings today are not found anywhere in the Bible. They have been brought into the Protestant churches by the mother church of Rome, who adapted them from paganism. A few of these false teachings are:

The Church has the power to amend God’s Laws. Luke 16:17

We are born with immortal souls. There are 1,700 times the Bible mentions the words “soul” and “spirit”. Never is either mentioned as immortal. People are mortal (Job 4:17), and none receive immortality until Jesus’ second coming. 1 Corinthians 15:51-54

Souls of the lost will suffer forever in hell. The Bible teaches that sinners will be consumed, totally annihilated, both soul and body. Matthew 10:28.

That baptism by immersion is not necessary.
Sunday is God’s holy day.

Many churches unknowingly teach these unbiblical ideas and partake in the wine of Babylon. Those who receive the Seal of God and refuse the teachings of Babylon are known for:

Their love for Jesus 1 John 5:2, 3
Their loyalty to and faith in Him Revelation 14:12
Their obedience to His Word and commandments Revelation 12:17; John 8:31, 32

Satan and his demons will pose as holy angels and Christian clergymen 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. What he presents as evidence for his side will seem so righteous, spiritual, and Jesus-like that nearly everybody on earth will be deceived and follow him Matthew 24:24. He will surely use the Bible, just like he did when he tempted Jesus. Matthew 4:1, 11.

Satan is at least 10 times smarter than any man.

He tricked one-third of the angels in heaven, Adam and Eve, and (at the time of the Flood) everybody on earth except eight people.

Jesus says, “Come out of her (Babylon), my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:4, 5.

Jesus also states, “Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” John 10:16, 27.

Are you in Babylon?

Jesus is urging to come out of her!

Study His Word very closely on this subject.

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Daniel 12:4

The Lord says He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that all repent and be saved.

But whats even more important though is the question:

Will you be saved?
Will your family be saved?
Are you sure?

If there was even a hint of doubt I would spend my time making sure.

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The Big Ten

Posted by Darrell in Christian on March 21, 2010

Big Ten

People are confused between the law of God and the law of Moses, although they were recorded and preserved in different ways. God “wrote them (the Ten Commandments) upon two tables of stone” (Deuteronomy 4:13). Compare that with Exodus 31:18, “two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.”

No one can confuse this writing with the way the mosaic law was produced. “And Moses wrote this law … And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee” (Deuteronomy 31:9, 24-26).

This book of statutes and judgments which Moses wrote in a book was placed in a pocket on the side of the ark. The law that was written by God Himself on tables of stone was placed inside the ark of the covenant. “And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee” (Exodus 25:16).
Here we notice several distinctions in the two laws. They had different authors, were written on different material, were placed in different locations and had totally different content.

The Eternal moral code which existed from the very beginning of human history, although not written down until Mount Sinai, the Ten Commandments were understood and honored by the earliest patriarchs. Even Cain knew that it was a sin to kill, because God told him that “sin lieth at the door” (Genesis 4:7) after he murdered his brother.
It is impossible for sin to exist where there is no law. The Bible teaches, “for where no law is, there is no transgression” (Romans 4:15).
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Some people have mentioned that this is the Jewish Law and does not apply to Christians in general. After creating the first man and woman, Adam and Eve kept the Sabbath holy. Adam and Eve were not Jewish. Do you think that God was only applying the Ten Commandments to one certain group of people or to all people?

In Genesis that when God created the earth, He created something on every day and then on the seventh day, He created the Sabbath. Also found that Jesus worshiped on His Sabbath day. His disciples worshiped on the Sabbath day. John 14:15 says “If you love me, keep my commandments”. Revelation 14:12 says, “Here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus”. It seems to me that these two texts, which both are found in the New Testament, point back to the law, the Ten Commandments, which God gave to the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai. God did not just give these Ten Commandments to the Jews, but to the whole world.

I understand that Jesus was raised from the grave on the first day of the week. This event, in itself, is very important and has great meaning to the salvation of mankind, but nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus changed the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day because of His resurrection.

It should be noted that there really is only ONE passage we need to know that demonstrates the unchanging, eternal nature of ALL the Ten Commandments.

Matthew 5:17, 18 says “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled”.

“The wages of sin is death.” Romans 6:23. “He shall destroy the sinners.” Isaiah 13:9. “Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” James 2:10.

It is the ceremonial law, the law of Old Testament sacrifices, which ended at the cross.

The only thing abolished at the cross was the ceremonial law, contained in ordinances. They were the sacrificial laws. After Christ’s death, it was no longer necessary to sacrifice lambs at the Temple, for Christ, our Lamb, had died. But, after the death of Christ, we were still obligated to keep the moral law.

Daniel 9:26-27 predicted that, at His death, Christ would cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease. And the Apostle Paul tells us that this is exactly what happened. When Christ died, the ceremonial ordinances were blotted out. The sacrificial services in the Temple no longer had meaning in the eyes of God.

Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out
of the way, nailing it to His cross.

Ephesians 2:15-16 Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.

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The Meaning and Purpose of the Big Ten

Those unfortunate Christians that have been led astray by the ruler of this world have only one response to attempt to nullify this verse, which is that Jesus fulfilling the law brings an end to the law. If the fulfilling of the law brings an end to the law, then Righteousness, God’s Word, Obedience, Joy and other things eternal in nature are also gone. This of course is obviously not so, and so neither are the Ten Commandments abolished. Not only that but who could ever think that Jesus was abolishing the law after instructing us that we should not only obey the law but teach it as well. Put simply, unless Jesus is contradicting His Word, and Heaven and Earth are still here, then All Ten Commandments have to remain including the fourth Commandment. It is that simple!
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i-am-the-lord Isaiah 42:21 says “The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.” In the remainder of Matthew chapter five we see how Jesus has indeed magnified the law. We note the following; Matthew 5:19 from not only obeying the law but teaching it also, 5:21-22 from do not kill to not being angry with your brother without cause, 5:27-28 from do not commit adultery to being guilty if you look at a woman lustfully, 5:31 from divorcing by a letter to any man who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality, causes her or anyone who marries a divorced woman to commit adultery, 5:33-37 from not breaking oaths made to the Lord to do not swear at all, either by heaven or earth or by Jerusalem. And do not swear by your head, let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No, 5:38-42 from an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth to turning the other cheek and if someone sues you for your coat, give them your cloak also, 5:43-45 from love your neighbour and hate your enemy to love your enemies and bless them that curse you and pray for those that are spiteful and use you. Does it sound like Jesus is destroying the law? Certainly not!

The Ten Commands

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

1. The First Commandment is about Loyalty.
The Creator of the universe declares He is our God and our deliverer and asks us to demonstrate our love for Him by having no other God’s. The First Commandment is the first of a series of four that define our relationship with our Heavenly Father. Establishing, developing and maintaining that personal relationship with the true and living God is the most important commitment we can ever make. That is the primary focus of the first of the Ten Commandments, You shall have no other gods before Me. We should love, honour and respect Him so much that He alone is the supreme authority and model in our lives. He alone is God. We should allow nothing to prevent us from serving and obeying Him.

2. The Second Commandment is about Worship.
The one and only true God loves us so much that He is jealous of our love and does not want to share our love by us bowing down to meaningless idols. The Second Commandment goes to the heart of our relationship with our Creator. It deals with several crucial questions. How do we perceive God? How do we explain Him to ourselves and to others? Above all, what is the proper way to worship the only true God? The Second Commandment is a constant reminder that only we, of all created things, are made in the image of God. Only we can be transformed into the spiritual image of Christ, who of course came in the flesh as the perfect spiritual image of our heavenly Father. This Commandment protects our special relationship with our Creator, who made us in His likeness and is still moulding us into His spiritual image.

3. The Third Commandment is about Reverence.
God asks us to respect His Holy name and not to use it in vain. The Third Commandment focuses on showing respect. It addresses the way we communicate our feelings about God to others and to Him. It encompasses our attitudes, speech and behaviour. Respect is the cornerstone of good relationships. The quality of our relationship with God depends on the love and regard we have for Him. It also depends on the way we express respect for Him in the presence of others. We are expected always to honour who and what He is. Conversely, the use of God’s name in a flippant, degrading or in any way disrespectful manner, dishonours the relationship we are supposed to have with Him. This can vary from careless disregard to hostility and antagonism. It covers misusing God’s name in any way. The Hebrew name for “vain” is “shaw” and means vanity, falsehood, iniquity and emptiness. Simply summed up, “shaw” means showing disrespect and this is what we do when we take God’s name in vain.

4. The Fourth Commandment is about Sanctification and Relationship.
God starts off the fourth Commandment with the word “Remember”. This is because He knew we would forget it. God asks that we keep it set apart for Holy purposes so we can draw nearer to Him. The Fourth Commandment to remember the Sabbath concludes the section of the Ten Commandments that specifically helps define a proper relationship with God, how we are to love, worship and relate to Him. It explains why and when we need to take special time to draw closer to our Creator. It is also a special sign between us and God forever, that it is Him that sanctifies us Him alone we belong to and worship. The Sabbath, the seventh day of the week was set apart by God as a time of rest and spiritual rejuvenation. So why is this Commandment so frequently ignored, attacked and explained away by so many? Could it be because the challenges to the Sabbath Commandment are views generated by the ruler of this present evil world? After all, this being wants us to accept these views because he hates God’s law. He does all he can to influence us to ignore, avoid and reason our way around it. On our calendar the Sabbath day begins at sunset Friday evening and ends at sunset Saturday evening.

5. The Fifth Commandment is about Respect for Parental authority.
God instructs us to show love for our parents by honouring them. The Fifth Commandment introduces us to a series of Commandments that define proper relationships with other people. The fifth through to the 10th serve as the standards of conduct in areas of human behaviour that generate the most far reaching consequences on individuals, families, groups and society. Families are the building blocks of societies that build strong nations. When families are fractured and flawed, the sad results are tragic and reflected in newspaper headlines every day. Any individual or group, including whole nations that understand the importance of strong families reap the rewards of an improved relationship and blessings from God. The Fifth Commandment shows us from whom and how the fundamentals of respect and honour are most effectively learned. It guides us to know how to yield to others, how to properly submit to authority and how to accept the influence of mentors. That is why the apostle Paul wrote, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first Commandment with promise: that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth” Ephesians 6:2-3.

6. The Sixth Commandment is about Respect for Human life.
God asks us to demonstrate love and not hate towards others by not murdering. We must learn to control our tempers. Taking another person’s life is not our right to decide. That judgment is reserved for God alone. That is the thrust of this Commandment. God does not allow us to choose to wilfully or deliberately take another person’s life. The Sixth Commandment reminds us that God is the giver of life and He alone has the authority to take it or to grant permission to take it. God wants us to go far beyond avoiding murder. He requires that we not maliciously harm another human being in word or deed. This is why John wrote, “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him” 1 John 3:15. God desires that we treat even those who choose to hate us respectfully and do all within our power to live in peace and harmony with them. He wants us to be builders, not destroyers of good relationships. To accomplish this we must respect this wonderful gift of this precious possession, human life.

7. The Seventh Commandment is about Purity in Relationships.
God asks us to express and demonstrate our love for our partner by not committing adultery. Adultery is the violation of the marriage covenant by wilful participation in sexual activity with someone other than one’s spouse. Since God’s law sanctions sexual relationships only within a legitimate marriage, the command not to commit adultery covers in principle, all varieties of sexual immorality. No sexual relationship of any sort should occur outside of marriage. That is the crux of this Commandment. Most of us need the support and companionship of a loving spouse. We need someone special who can share our ups and downs, triumphs and failures. No one can fill this role like a mate who shares with us a deep love and commitment. Society suffers because we have lost the vision that God had for marriage from the beginning. Marriage is not a requirement for success in pleasing God. But it is a tremendous blessing to couples who treat each other as God intended. Most people desire and need the benefits that come from a stable marriage. To return to what God intended, we must give marriage the respect it deserves.

8. The Eighth Commandment is about Honesty.
God instructs us to show our love and respect for others by not stealing what belongs to them. The Eighth Commandment safeguards everyone’s right to legitimately acquire and own property. God wants that right honoured and protected. His approach to material wealth is balanced. He wants us to prosper and enjoy physical blessings. He also expects us to show wisdom in how we use what He provides us and He does not want possessions to be our primary pursuit in life. When we see material blessings as a means to achieve more-important objectives, God enjoys seeing us prosper. To Him it is important that generosity rather than greed motivate the choices we make. Because they are qualities of His own character, He asks that we, from the heart, put giving and serving ahead of lavishing possessions on ourselves.

9. The Ninth Commandment is about Truthfulness.
God says if we love others we should not deceive or lie to them. How important is truth? The Bible says that Jesus is “the way and the Truth” John 14:6. To fully appreciate the Ninth Commandment with its prohibition of lying, we must realize how important truth is to God. Jesus Christ said of God the Father, “Your word is truth” John 17:17. The Bible throughout teaches that “God is not a man, that He should lie” Numbers 23:19. As the source of truth, God requires that His servants always speak truthfully. Under God’s inspiration, King David wrote, “…LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbour no wrong and casts no slur on his fellow-man, who despises a vile man but honours those who fear the LORD, who keeps his oath even when it hurts” Psalms 15:1-3, NIV. God expects truth to permeate every facet of our lives. Everything in the life of a Christian is anchored to truth. God wants us as His children, to commit ourselves to truth and reflect it in everything we do.

10. The Tenth Commandment is about Contentment.
God instructs us not to covet because He knows it can entrap us into even greater sin. To covet means to crave or desire, especially in excessive or improper ways. The Tenth Commandment does not tell us that all of our desires are immoral. It tells us that some desires are wrong. Coveting is an immoral longing for something that is not rightfully ours. That is usually because the object of our desire already belongs to someone else. But coveting can also include our wanting far more than we would legitimately deserve or that would be our rightful share. The focus of the Tenth Commandment is that we are not to illicitly desire anything that already belongs to others. The opposite of coveting is a positive desire to help others preserve and protect their blessings from God. We should rejoice when other people are blessed. Our desire should be to contribute to the well being of others, to make our presence in their lives a blessing to them. The last of the Ten Commandments is aimed directly at the heart and mind of every human being. In prohibiting coveting, it defines not so much what we must do but how we should think. It asks us to look deep within ourselves to see what we are on the inside. As with each of the previous nine Commandments, it is directed toward our relationships. It specifically deals with the thoughts that threaten those relationships and can potentially hurt ourselves and our neighbours. Therefore, it is fitting that the formal listing of these Ten foundational commands, which define the love of God, should end by focusing on our hearts as the wellspring of our relationship problems. From within come the desires that tempt us and lead us astray.

Do you worship on the Bible Sabbath and keep it Holy? If not, I would like to ask why not and do you think that the Ten Commandments, God’s Law, are still prevalent today.

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

11:14-19 Before the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet, there is the usual demand of attention. The saints and angels in heaven know the right of our God and Saviour to rule over all the world. But the nations met God’s wrath with their own anger. It was a time in which he was beginning to reward his people’s faithful services, and sufferings; and their enemies fretted against God, and so increased their guilt, and hastened their destruction. By the opening the temple of God in heaven, may be meant, that there was a more free communication between heaven and earth; prayer and praises more freely and frequently going up, graces and blessings plentifully coming down. But it rather seems to refer to the church of God on earth. In the reign of antichrist, God’s law was laid aside, and made void by traditions and decrees; the Scriptures were locked up from the people, but now they are brought to the view of all. This, like the ark, is a token of the presence of God returned to his people, and his favour toward them in Jesus Christ, as the Propitiation for their sins. The great blessing of the Reformation was attended with very awful providences; as by terrible things in righteousness God answered the prayers presented in his holy temple now opened.

Old and New Testaments

The Ten Commandments are the guide we must use in finding our way to God and holy living. If we ignore even one of the commandments, we are neglecting part of the divine pattern, or blueprint. If only one link of a chain is broken, its entire purpose is undone. The Bible says that when we knowingly break any command of God, we are sinning (James 4:17), because we have refused His will for us. Only those who do His will can enter the kingdom of heaven. Sinners will be lost.
When God made the Sabbath on the seventh day, He blessed and hallowed it (to make holy). As I see in the Scriptures, nowhere does God bless and hallow the first day of the week because of His resurrection. As I can see, the disciples were meeting on the first day of the week sometimes just like we meet in church in the middle of the week for prayer meeting.

Man has no right to change God’s commandment’s to meet his/her needs or wants. God is infinite and eternal. Man is sinful and mortal. It seems like the Sabbath has been changed by man and not by God. Why should a God who “changes not” change His own commandments. Is it better to obey God or to obey man?

Why do most denominations worship on Sunday, the first day of the week, and not on Saturday, the seventh day of the week, which God has pointed out as the Sabbath? Satan helped place a substitute in place of the Sabbath God had commanded. God wrote His commandment’s in stone so that man would know that they do not change just as God Himself does not change. God meant what He said and He said what He meant.

Why does it seem like that the only commandment that people don’t keep is the one that starts with the word “Remember”?

I’ve seen other versions of the fourth commandment which only say, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy”. Man changes it to fit his needs. The full text is as above and was given by God Himself. The text points out that the seventh day is the Sabbath.

God made the seven day week and I believe that He has kept a meticulous eye on the days of the week and that Saturday, the seventh day, is the Sabbath.

Sabbath keeping Churches know that keeping the Sabbath day is a sign that it is God we love and worship and that we are His children. It is also a sign that it is God that sanctifies us and makes us Holy. These are wonderful signs and very much a blessing. What happens when we devote a full day to God because we love Him so? What is the result of spending quality time with anyone you love? This of course is not legalism by any means and applies to any of the Ten Commandments. It is something we do because we love God and our fellow man. Even though we cannot earn our way into the kingdom by keeping the Ten Commandments, we are still judged by them and will not make it into the kingdom by not trying to keep them all in love and obedience to God. Jesus said in John 14:15, “If you love me, keep my Commandments.” and in John 15:10, “If you keep my Commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s Commandments, and abide in his love.” Jesus obeyed the Fathers Commandments and He asks us to demonstrate our love for Him by doing the same. We also find in 1 John 2:4, “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” See also Matthew 7:21-23, Hebrews 10:26-29.

The Ten Commandments in the New Testament

THE LAW OF GOD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT	THE LAW OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
1. “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” Matthew 4:10.	1. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3.
2. “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” 1 John 5:21. “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.” Acts 17:29.	2. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20:4-6.
3. “That the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.” 1 Timothy 6:1.	3. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” Exodus 20:7.
4. “For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.” “There remaineth therefore a rest ["keeping of a sabbath," margin] to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” Hebrews 4:4, 9, 10.	4. “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8-11.
5. “Honour thy father and thy mother.” Matthew 19:19.	5. “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” Exodus 20:12.
6. “Thou shalt not kill.” Romans 13:9.	6. “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20:13.
7. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Matthew 19:18.	7. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Exodus 20:14.
8. “Thou shalt not steal.” Romans 13:9.	8. “Thou shalt not steal.” Exodus 20:15.
9. “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Romans 13:9.	9. “Thou shalt not bear false winess against thy neighbour.” Exodus 20:16.
10. “Thou shalt not covet.” Romans 7:7.	10. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.” Exodus 20:17.

The Truth

What are the consequences for deliberate sin?
This has already been partly answered in some of the above FAQs but let’s go into more detail using some more scripture. Here is one of the clearest scriptures of all.

Hebrews 10:26-29 “For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, … 28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”
1 John 2:4 “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” Since Jesus and the Word is truth, what does this verse mean exactly?
Galatians 5:21 “Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” There are many such scriptures as this one that can be quoted but I think we get the point.

There is no sacrifice to cover willful sin and it is to count the blood of the New Covenant as an unholy thing despite being under God’s grace. Jesus and the Word is not within you if you do not keep the Commandments, and Jesus also said He will deny knowing anyone that practices lawlessness, that is, deliberate and willful sin. He also says it does not matter what other good works they may have been doing. We could have being casting out demons in His name and healing people in His name but the response of Jesus will still be the same if we do not love Him enough to obey His Commandments. Some have misunderstood all this as meaning they cannot be forgiven if they have deliberately sinned. This is not so. If you have but then come to true genuine repentance afterwards, you will be forgiven. This is what God’s grace is all about, His unmerited, undeserved mercy.

Does the New Covenant abolish the Ten Commandments?
The Old Testament always informs us through the prophets what changes are coming in the future. Note the following scripture. Amos 3:7 “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”

So what did the Old Testament say about the New Covenant? Jeremiah 31:33 “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Note: The New Covenant is ONLY made with the “House of Israel.” But in the meanwhile know that the Bible tells us that if we are Christ’s then we are Abraham’s seed and “children of Israel” or the “House of Israel.” And so here is the fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:33 in regards to the New Covenant.

Hebrews 8:6-10 “But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:”

The Bible tells us that Christ came as the Mediator of a new covenant (verse 6). The belief that the New Covenant abolishes the Ten Commandments reflects a misunderstanding of both covenants. God tells us that He altered the original covenant and made “a better covenant, which was established upon better promises” (verse 6). But it was not established on different laws. The law stayed the same. There was however a weakness or fault in the original covenant. That fault was with the people, NOT with the law. “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:” (verse 8). It was “because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.” (verse 9).

In the Old Covenant God wrote His Ten Commandments on tablets of stone. It was external and not part of the thinking and motives of the people. It was in their literature but NOT in their hearts. In the New Covenant God writes His law “into their minds, and writes them in their hearts.” (verse 10).

To enable people to internalize His law, to love it and obey it eagerly and willingly, God makes this promise, Ezekiel 36:26-27 “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.”

Does loving God with all your heart and your neighbour abolish the Ten Commandments?
In Matthew 22:36-40 we find a lawyer trying to trap Jesus into saying which is the greatest of the Ten Commandments. Jesus of course outsmarts the lawyer by summing up the Ten Commandments in two commandments by quoting the Old Testament.Matthew 22:36-40 “Master, which is the great Commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto 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 first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang ALL the law and the prophets.”

Note carefully that Jesus said “ALL the law hang on these two Commandments.” Below are the two verses that Jesus quoted from, and the first verse is “right after” the second reading of the Ten Commandments. So did all the law hang on these two Commandments in the Old Testament? There can be absolutely no doubt. Since Deuteronomy 6:5 is right behind the second reading of the Ten Commandments, and loving God with all your heart covers the first four Commandments, this includes the fourth Commandment which no one can argue as the Sabbath Commandment had just been read. Did you get that? The fourth Commandment being the Sabbath IS a Love Commandment because Deuteronomy 6:5 says that LOVING God with all your heart, soul and might is to keep each and everyone of the Ten Commandments that had just been read 17 verses earlier. Love of course is eternal and why ALL Ten Commandments are also eternal.

Deuteronomy 6:5 “And you shall love the LORD your God with all thine heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.”
Leviticus 19:18 “You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.”

So what does this all prove? ALL the law which includes the Sabbath hung on these two Commandments in the Old Testament which no one can dispute, and while Jesus quotes from the Old Testament, He still says ALL the law hang on these two Commandments. So what has changed? Absolutely nothing! All Ten Commandments remain totally unchanged just as Jesus promised they would in Matthew 5:17-19.

Paul also shows that these two Commandments are just a means of summing up the law in the following verses. Romans 13:9-10 “For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other Commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this SAYING, namely, You shall love your neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”

If you love God with all your heart you are obeying the first four Commandments as proven by Deuteronomy 6:5 which is right after the Ten Commandments are given and if you love your neighbour as yourself you will be obeying the last six Commandments. Therefore love is fulfilling the law and if you love God with all your heart and your neighbour as yourself, then you will be obeying all Ten Commandments.

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