In Luke 18:18-23 Matthew 19:16-30 Mark 10:17-31 Jesus is approached by a rich young ruler and in each of the three accounts additional information is provided that was not included in the other accounts therefore we must glean all relevant information from all three in order to understand what took place in the conversation between Jesus and this rich young ruler. Jesus told this young man that if he wanted to have everlasting life to keep the commandments, Jesus even specified several of the ten commandments to be clear.
The rich young man said he kept all the Ten Commandments from his youth and asked what he yet lacked. Jesus answered him in Matthew 19:21 Obviously there was something this young man lacked that keeping the Ten Commandments did not provide. Also as we should know, no one can keep the Ten Commandments because all have sinned and broken them. This young man thought he was righteous by keeping the Ten Commandments just like Paul did before his conversion. Philippians 3:9 This has the effect on many people that the keeping of them makes them righteous and in good standing with GOD when in fact they produce self righteousness which is filthy rags to GOD. Isaiah 64:6 This is why Paul said the law deceived him and killed him. Romans 7:11 This does not make the law evil it makes us evil. The law is holy, just and good to condemn sinners to death, it was the ministry of death on stone. 2 Corinthians 3:7
People that put themselves under the Ten Commandments therefore are dead because anyone who broke the law dies without mercy. Hebrews 10:28 The wages of sin is death, the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law. 1 Corinthians 15:56 This is or at least should be Christianity 101 , it’s not difficult to read the scriptures to see the truth of these things.
Christians are no longer under the Ten Commandments, the old covenant, the ministry of death. Christians undergo a spiritual transformation that changes their nature to become a partaker of GODS nature, they have GODS love so that we need not be commanded but do by nature what GODS will is by the example of Jesus Christ. Jesus fulfilled the Ten Commandments with GODS love not by command but because he was one with his GOD and was created in his GODS image and we are to be recreated in the image of Jesus. The first humans, Adam and Eve , had no knowledge of what sin is, they had to disobey GOD to acquire that knowledge but before this human nature was pure and innocent but would be changed by their obedience to Satan and from that day forward human nature became Satanic. Before conversion we were the children of the Devil but through Jesus we can be made children of GOD. Acts 26:18
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