Many people are convinced that they must keep the Ten Commandments as given in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. Well, when a person is a Christian the law written on those tables of stone no longer applies. Jesus gave us a “New Covenant” and for us, who are Christians, made the old covenant, which is the Ten Commandments, obsolete, non applicable. Christians under grace experience a change in their human nature to partake of the divine nature of GOD and Christ. This is a spiritual change of receiving GODS love into our human spirit. Romans 5:5 2 Peter 1:4 The prophets say it this way, “I will write my law on their hearts”, which is describing this partaking of the divine nature.
Scripture positivity identifies the Ten Commandments are the old covenant. We’re they not kept in a box called the ark of the covenant ?
A person who places themselves under the old covenant is responsible to keep all of the law by their own effort and without GOD. This old covenant, these Ten Commandments, cannot be added to or taken from so a new covenant was necessary. Everyone who places themselves under the Ten Commandments is guilty of sin and sentenced to death. No one has ever been able to keep the Ten Commandments. Anyone who thinks they do is either self deceived or a liar. The Devil wants people to think they must keep the old covenant, the Ten Commandments, because there is no salvation in the law, the old covenant, the Ten Commandments.
GRACE in Christ is what produces salvation. Under the new covenant Christians have the Holy Spirit and a very special and powerful love, GODS love that will fulfill any law, will do no harm to anyone and therefore will fulfill what the Ten Commandments demanded of us that we could no do because we didn’t have GODS love under the Ten Commandments.
Scripture says “love is the fulfillment of the law.” Romans 13:10
The law was given by GOD to condemn the entire world of sin.
Romans 3:19 “Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and THE WHOLE WORLD HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD.”
“The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of GOD.” 1 Corinthians 6:9
Righteousness does not come by the law, keeping the Ten Commandments, else Jesus died for nothing. Galatians 2:21
So then, keeping the Ten Commandments, the old covenant, will not provide us with the righteousness needed to be in GODS kingdom, and they cannot be fulfilled unless you have the Holy Spirit that imparts GODS love, then why try keeping them ?
Grace and faith , the new covenant, imputes GODS righteousness to us because we have faith to believe the gospel. It is GODS righteousness by faith along with the sacrifice of Christ that is paramount to escape the condemnation of the Ten Commandments. Christians fulfill the Ten Commandments by GODS love working in us to love GOD and our neighbor. Christians have no works of their own because we know salvation is not by works. The following scripture says this plainly.
Philippians 2:13 “For it is GOD who works in you both to will and to do HIS good pleasure.”
I hope all my readers can now see that while the Ten Commandments are indeed holy, just and good that the keeping of them will not provide you with salvation. We are not saved (have salvation) by the law or works of the law, the Ten Commandments. We are saved by grace through faith. For what the law could not do GOD did by giving us HIS son, Jesus Christ.
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