-If the Mosaic Law
is done away, why did Emmanuel
tell this man to keep the commandments?.Matthew
19:17-19 "And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what
good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him,
Why do you call me good? There is none good but one, that is, God, but
if you wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said unto him, Which?
Emmanuel said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father
and thy mother and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.(*).
The young man said unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth
up. What lack I yet? Emmanuel said unto him, If you will be perfect, go
and sell that you have and give to the poor and you shall have treasure
in heaven and come and follow me.".This
young man who was taught the Mosaic Law, obviously missed some of the
more important points of it.
When Emmanuel said that
to this young nobleman, the nobleman replied with this:.verse
20. Notice what he said. He said."all
these have I kept since my youth, what lack I yet?"
Notice how
keeping
the commandments makes one feel that it's never enough. He still
felt something else was needed, that something still was lacking. It
was! It was a deep caring for others, especially the poor.
Don't you too sometimes feel
that way around some people?; that no matter what, it is just never quite
good enough; that their love for you is dependent not upon their acceptance
of you, but rather upon some degree of performance expected of your character.
That is because they expect
performance from you before acceptance of you; that is because their lack
of humility prevents them from showing any.grace
toward you, as God does toward us.
If they did they would see
you in a framework of mind comprising what you will eventually be. But
some people cannot see that. Why?
Such demanding individuals
are effective by driving others. They believe more in force than the peace
of cooperation. They need to apply the psychology
in the
Book of Proverbs.
What this young nobleman
really needed was the Holy Nature of the Great Infinite One that Christ
came to reveal, but that nature of heart would not be available for all
the world until Emmanuel died and rose again and sent it, making it available
for all who believe:.John
16:7; 15:26; 14:16-18,26;
Mark
1:8; Acts 19:2.
There was still a veil over
one's beginning to understand
Christ:.2Corinthians
3:14. It was not the time of Christ yet. Emmanuel had not yet
risen to His former glory that he had with the Father:.John
17:5.
Emmanuel, of course, knew
the Holy Spirit, the Holy Nature of God, would be sent by Him once He returned
to the Father:.John
16:7. That is why He dealt with this young nobleman the way that He
did.
It was still the time of
the Mosaic Law:.Matthew
23:2-4;
Romans 3:19. Emmanuel
taught it; making it even more binding.(Matthew
5:21,22,28,29,31,32,33,34).and
said that He did not come to destroy the law, but to bring that law to
its full purpose:.Matthew
5:17,18.
Emmanuel fulfilled all righteousness.(Matthew
3:13-15).so
it could be given to us as a gift:.Romans
5:17. He had it! It was His to give. What a wonderful Savior!
The law's full purpose was
to lead to Christ.(Ephesians
3:11), which purpose would become
readily evident by the work He commissioned His disciples to do after He
completed the reason why He came and then went back to heaven.
Emmanuel, being the only
accurate teacher of the Mosaic Law at the time.(Matthew
12:3,5; 15:1,3; 19:4;
22:31;
Mark
12:19 and so on), as the Pharisees
had so perverted it to the point that their version of it not only made
them feel superior, when it was designed by God to make a man realize he
was inadequate.(again,
Romans
3:19,20; 4:15;
5:20),
but their version of it was almost unrecognizable as coming from the original.
So, it was abolished
and its entire system with it.
The Mosaic Law was only
a shadow of much greater things to come:.Colossians
2:17; Hebrews 8:5. It is now
gone altogether, and with all of its parts:.Hebrews
8:13. Although it was a righteous law, it could not make anyone
perfect, even if they could perfectly keep it, which they could not:.Hebrews
10:1.
That is why it was taken
away.(Hebrews
10:9).and
we now are
sanctified in Christ.(Hebrews
10:10), that is, He made possible
for the loving nature of the Great Infinite One to be our nature. This
sets us.(spiritual
persons).apart
from those of the mass mind of humanity. Sanctified means to be set apart
for a purpose of the Great Infinite One, and that purpose is to love.
The something.greater
that the young nobleman felt he needed, yet did not know about, was.(Galatians
3:24).this
God nature in him, with all that means.
The law's purpose was good.
Would God design anything otherwise? It was a law of righteousness having
to do with fleshly, carnal things.(again
Hebrews
9:10), which righteousness is now
fulfilled in us.(Christ,
born physically as the person called Emmanuel, fulfilled the physical Old
Testament law spiritually perfectly),
who now are under no obligation to use the defunct
Mosaic Law to regulate fleshly conduct concerning how the Infinite may
now think of us:.Romans
9:31;
8:4;
9:32.
It is now done away, superseded
by the higher nature of love revealed by Christ:.Romans
10:4. This is what now counts:.Romans
13:10 ".....love is the fulfilling of the law."
