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- 1. Obedience to the Law Melanie Joy Jacinto
- 5. Christ and the Law As the great "I AM," He Himself proclaimed the Father's moral law from Sinai (John 8:58; Ex. 3:14). Part of His mission on earth was to "magnify the law and make it honorable" (Isa. 42:21). Psalm 89:34 “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips” John 15:10 “I have kept my Father's commandments”
- 6. Christ came not only to redeem man but to vindicate the authority and holiness of the law of God, presenting its magnificence and glory before the people and giving them an example of how to relate to it. As His followers, Christians are called to magnify God's law in their lives. Having lived a life of loving obedience Himself, Christ stressed that His followers ought to be commandment keepers.
- 7. Christ Fulfilled the Law "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt. 19:17). Rom. 7:10- “And therefore the law which was ordained to life… …I found to be unto death. “ • “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17)
- 8. Do we need the Law if we’re under grace? Romans 6:15 “What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the grace? God forbid.” Romans 2:13 “For not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified.”
- 9. “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” Rom. 13:10 “Through love, love is awakened” EGW, DA "If you love Me, keep My commandments" (John 14:15) "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love" (John 15:10). "I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart" (Ps. 40:8; cf. Heb. 10:5, 7).
- 10. Can we obtain a heartfelt obedience on our own? Only through abiding in Christ can we render heartfelt obedience. "As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine," He said, "neither can you, unless you abide in Me. . . . He who abides in Me, and I in Him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing" (John 15:4, 5).
- 11. “justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Rom. 3:24. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Rom. 5:1. More than this, He enables us to keep the law. “For He [God] hath made Him [Christ] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:21.
- 12. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit...For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Rom. 8:1-4.
- 13. Can anyone be saved by keeping the Law? So can we be saved while we deliberately disobey?
- 14. Blessings of Obedience Scripture pronounces "blessed" all "who walk in the law of the Lord" (Ps. 119:1), whose "delight is in the law of the Lord" and who meditate "in His law. . . day and night" Obedience develops Christian character and produces a sense of well-being, causing the believers to grow up as "newborn babes" and to be transformed into Christ's image (1 Peter 2:2; 2 Cor. 3:18). Proverbs 29:18 “He that keepeth the law, happy is he”
- 15. (1) insight and wisdom (Ps. 119:98, 99) (2) peace (Ps. 119:165; Isa. 48:18) (3) righteousness (Deut. 6:25; Isa. 48:18) (4) a pure and moral life (Prov. 7:1-5) (5) knowledge of the truth (John 7:17) (6) protection against disease (Ex. 15:26) (7) longevity (Prov. 3:1, 2; 4:10, 22) (8) the assurance that one's prayers will be answered (1 John 3:22; cf. Ps. 66:18).
- 16. Conclusion:
Editor's Notes
- >the devil hates the law cuz when people look at God's law they become aware of their sin and recognize they're need for a saviour. if devil can get rid of the law he can hypnotize people into thinking that everything is alright when in reality it isn't >*purpose= mirror = to be aware that there is a problem but its not the remedy (function) -the law has never been designed to save us from our sin, it is to help us know what the perfect will of God is in that respect
- >Christ blood= purpose to wipe out your sins, it's the only way wash our sins >*you need the law in order to recognize your need of the blood of Christ. the law helps us see how we need the blood of Christ. Thus to get rid of the law, then you don't need a saviour to save you from your sin >we're what needs changing to transform us- that's the whole purpose of the plan of salvation. to transfer us to become new creatures, new hearts
- >Law big deal to Christ >Christ had the highest regard for the ten-commandment law. >we are ought to give priority to what God gives priority. We are ought to be serious to what God is serious about. >10 commandments not 10 suggestions or 10 recommendations
- >Now since the design of the law was that it should be kept, or, in other words, that it should produce righteous characters, and the promise is that those who are obedient shall live, we may say that the ultimate design of the law was to give life. And in harmony with this thought are the words of Paul that the law >But “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” and “the wages of sin is death.” Thus it is impossible for the law to accomplish its design in making perfect characters and consequently giving life. When a man has once broken the law, no subsequent obedience can ever make his character perfect >If we were to stop right here, with the law unable to accomplish its purpose, we should leave all the world under condemnation and sentence of death. >Christ Himself fulfilled the law, not by destroying it but through a life of obedience even obedience unto death which was death on the cross.
- >traffic speeding = under liberty until speeding, now under law the officer says you're free, under grace. what would be our reaction? Christ didn't give us a ticket to do more sins. we become more careful we because we don't want to insult that grace. thus sin even under grace is an insult to Christ. God wants us to obey His laws >many Christians confused of a very basic fundamental truth
- >Obedience reveals such love. >If you love God better you will keep the law better
- >To abide in Christ we must be crucified with Him and experience what Paul wrote of: "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20).
- >Now we shall see that Christ enables man to secure both righteousness and life. In Christ, therefore, it is possible for us to be made perfect—the righteousness of God, and that is just what we would have been by constant and unvarying obedience to the law.
- >What could not the law do? It could not free a single guilty soul from condemnation. >The law could not cleanse a man’s past record, and make him sinless; and poor, fallen man had no strength resting in his flesh to enable him to keep the law. And so God imputes to believers the righteousness of Christ, who was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, so that “the righteousness of the law” might be fulfilled in their lives..
- >Ephesians 2:8 - we're saved by grace nobody is saved by their works >case in point: after God saved the children of Israel and gave them the law. those who continue to rebel, did they ever make it to the promise land? no >thats the story of salvation: we are saved by grace and if we love Him and trust Him we will make it to the promise land
- Though they were sinners, Christ gave His life to provide them with the gift of eternal life. God's abundant love awakens in the repentant sinner a response that manifests itself in loving obedience through the power of the grace so abundantly bestowed. Believers who understand that Christ values the law and who understand the blessings of obedience will be strongly motivated to live Christ-like lives.