We see the juxtaposition of the Ten Commandments (written on stone) and the new code of the New Testament. The two codes (the Ten Commandments and the New Testament) have their foundation in governmentalism.
The Ten Commandments is referred to as “The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets.” It was also called “the Government of Condemnation.” It’s a death penalty. No one can be saved under it.
Whereas the new code is referred to as “the Government of Living Spirit” or “Government of Affirmation.” The New Testament affirms and gives life. Christ did not come to condemn the world but to save the world. The Ten Commandments is obsolete, the Bible says. Because it’s invalid no life can come from it. “We’re free of it! All of us!” Paul declares. We are free from condemnation. Thank God!
Don’t put yourself under the yoke of bondage by seeking to live according to the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments can’t save. Only affirmation of the sacrifice of Jesus saves. Sometimes the truth is so powerful it appears simplistic. Paul says the message of the gospel is so simple it’s actually considered foolish in some quarters. “For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition. But to us who are being saved it is the manifestation of the power of God”.
Scholars, philosophers and intellectuals sometimes find it hard to accept the simplicity of the gospel. God chose to baffle the learned with the simplicity of the gospel. For it is written, “I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the learned… And the philosophy of the philosophers and the cleverness of the clever and the discernment of the discerning… I will frustrate and nullify them and bring them to nothing.” The problem of unbelief is as old as the gospel itself.
The Greeks in the days of Paul considered the gospel unintellectual. The Greeks loved to philosophise and debate new fangled theories. They were famed as thinkers. To them the Gospel was an “absurd and utterly unphilosophical nonsense.” Yet a foolish thing that has its source in God is wiser than men, the Bible declares. The gospel is not esoteric or convoluted philosophy: Jesus came. Jesus died. He rose from the dead. Believe! No fasting, no candles, no incense, no chanting, no washings, no rituals, no incantations, no sacrifices.
JUST BELIEVE!
If you want salvation from the damnation of the Ten Commandments please pray this prayer:
Father I come to you as a penitent sinner. I believe Jesus died for me, that you raised him from the dead. I accept him today as my Lord and my Saviour. Amen.
It’s that simple! Congratulations!
Scriptures in this lesson: Exodus 31:18, Colosians 2:14, 2Corinthians 3:1-18, 1Corinthians 1:18-25, Hebrews 9:22-26
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