17/03/2022
Are the Old Testament laws still applicable to us today? There are 613 laws in the old testament and 1050 laws in the New testament, of which some of the old testament laws were included and enhanced to even higher levels of sanctification, i.e. if a man now calls his brother an idiot, he is already guilty of physical murder, or if a man looks at a woman (visa versa), with lustfull intent, he has already committed adultry. Further to this, the new testament (covenant) also requires of us to lay down our own lives, die to self, be willing to be prosecuted for righteousness sake, forgive and bless our enimies and love them, have our minds and hearts renewed, have our hearts circumcised, be born again (start a new life free from sin and sin is defined by God's law), just to name a few. In essance, after studying the whole Bible myself, I have come to the conclusion that the New Testament laws are even harder to keep and of a higher order than that of the old Testament laws and at the same time God's laws are not hard to keep (1 John 5:3) with the help of the Holy Spirit to guide us and having been given a new Spirit after being born again in Yeshua. All of God's laws are only for our benifit and for the benifit of our relationship with Him and others around us. He will also not expect of us to do something which we won't be able to do. Yeshua then took it further by stating, "If you love me, you will obey My commandments." (John 14:15) and John said:"this IS THE LOVE of God, that we keep His commandments." (1 John 5:3) Yet, we do not keep the law to be saved, since this wasn't even the case in the old testament, we have always been saved through faith in God alone. We do however keep it because it shows that we love God and the people around us. We must be careful however not to loose our salvation through habitual and willful premeditated sin and stay faithful to our King and Redeemer, Yeshua. (2 Tim 2:12-18, 2 Joh 1:8-9, Rom 2:6-10, Heb 6:5-6, James 2:14). Watch this video of a good friend of mine to find out more on how you can better your relationship with God by truly loving Him.
Which of God's laws in the Bible are still applicable to us today? (For any queries about this or any of my other videos, or any specific prayer requests, fe...