The Christian Jewish RootsÖrnek

I assume you have accepted Jesus Christ into your life and you are born-again according to John 3: 3, and therefore let me proceed by asking you that just because you are now saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus you don’t have to follow these Ten Commandments? In other words does it mean that Jesus put an end to those teachings of having to follow the Law of God? Permit me to answer that question with a reply from Jesus Himself – “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.” [Matt.5: 17 KJV]

Now we are brought to the question that has created confusion for multitudes of Christians: If the works of the law cannot save a person, is it therefore necessary to keep the law? Apparently this was a burning issue in the early church, because Paul asked the same question in Romans 6:1. “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” In other words, does grace give us a license to disobey the law of God? His answer is: “God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (verse 2). 

How interesting it is that Christians in this age of relativism can invent their own definitions that condone lawbreaking. The Bible says sin is violating the Ten Commandments - the law which has been described as irrelevant and old-fashioned by many modern theologians. 

The reason that the gay movement, the abortion industry and the humanist movement have flourished in nearly every country in the world is because the church has been a sleeping giant for too long. 

Some spiritual leaders have reached a stage where their indifference is so clearly seen by the stance they take. If the church does not rise up and speak out and take action on issues like the sacredness of marriage, we will bequeath a moral cancer to our children and grandchildren and we will not be able to differentiate between our children and the children of the world who live in darkness and sin.

Don’t be deceived. Every one of those great moral precepts is just as timely and needful today as they were when God wrote them on the imperishable tables of stone. And nothing has ever happened to make them less binding than they were when God gave them.

In fact, we are going to discover that Jesus came to magnify the law and to open up its spiritual application, making it more comprehensive than the legalistic Pharisees ever imagined. Under the distilling influence of Christ’s perfect life of obedience, we can see the spiritual details of law-keeping which are neither recognized nor made possible apart from Him. 

Fortunately for us, all 613 Mitzvahs have been condensed into these two mitzvahs: love God and love others as yourself. How simple! How gracious and wonderful indeed!!