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Friday, March 21, 2008

The Ten Commandments, set aside, or not?

Some teach that the Ten Commandments, the Law, were set aside when Christ died on the cross.
I believe that the Ten Commandments still stand, and judge the unsaved, convicting them under a sentence of death.

Allow me to appeal to the Scriptures to defend my position.

In Colossians 2: 13-14 we find written: "And you being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of you flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. 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".

In the Greek text from which this passage is translated ,the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, pertains to a legal document, here the Commandments being the legal authority. What then is the document? It is the certificate of the finding that we owe God our very lives for failing to live by his commandments. It is a bill of debt that says that we owe Him our blood.

This is supported by what we find in Hebrews 9: 22 "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood: and without shedding of blood is no remission (of sin)". Before the shedding of the blood of Christ for our sins, there were yearly sacrifices at the Temple, for the covering of sins one year at a time.

That the sacrifice of Christ was once and for all time, we find in Hebrews 10: 12-14. "But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God:
From henceforth expecting (waiting)
till his enemies be mad his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

The Ten Commandments were not set aside, the just death to which we who are saved were condemned under the judgment by the Law, was set aside, because Christ shed His blood for us.

In Romans 3:19-20 we read: "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guity before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in hi sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Christ tells us in Matthew 5: 17 "Think not I am come to destroy the law, or the prohets: I am come not to destroy, but to fulfill.

The sinner who continues to deny God is still found guilty under the Law, is condemned to eternal death (separation from God) already, and is cast into the Lake of Fire for refusing God's Grace, paid for with the blood of His only Begotten Son. When a man dies, it is too late to repent.

Father, we pray that those who remain lost will come to the saving knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. May all understand that each must reconcile themselves to you only through your Son and no other; that all have sinned and come short of your Glory, but that salvation requires each individual to approach you in humility, confessing that they are in fact a sinner and in need of the saving blood of Jesus Christ. Amen