...continued
from...
...The fewer regulations
a country has, the more loving the people are. The reason for regulation.(apart
from overt oppression).is
for education and/or control of those unable to regulate themselves. Such
are those who allow themselves to be governed by religion; these are those
who lack the spirituality to be governed by the
law of love which just cannot harm another in any way. But, without
this in the heart, one must have rules and regulations, so they can have
a measuring stick for actions: 1Corinthians
3:1-3 "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk
and not with meat; for hitherto
you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For you are
yet carnal....."
It was the same with the
old covenant regulations; the heart just was not in them; they needed
control from some kind of a 'government':.1Samual
8:6-8;
Deuteronomy 5:29;
Mark
10:5.
In the new covenant, it is
a different story:.Hebrews
8:10; 10:16.
With love in heart, the
times of hope and sureness.(Hebrews
6:19).of
the
new covenant,
what
further need was there for working to impress the heart with external
regulations such as the Mosaic Law required?.2John
1:6.
The Mosaic Law was a law
made for the low consciousness of man. The Holy Spirit is much more
efficacious
than writings on tables of stone,
such
as what the commandments were written on.
Christ
is now available for one's heart. Emmanuel was the sureness of a better
testament:.Hebrews
7:22. Better than what?.Hebrews
7:19. And why? So He can save them who come to God by Him.(Christ),
not to Him by religious legalistic
law keeping.
This better way is so far
above the Mosaic Law as to be incomparable: Ephesians
1:18-22.(especially
verses 21 and 22).
You rule your heart and mind
through kindness, peace and love,
the
fruits of what's called the Holy Spirit:.Colossians
3:15.
Thinking that God loves
you if you do this or that, is kicking out of your life the unconditional
love He has for you through Christ, that is, what Christ
came to reveal about what we call the Father.
Paul tells us not to work
the law in our lives:.Ephesians
2:9. We triumph in all ways in Christ.(1Corinthians
15:57), not the law.
If one needs a law, any
law to regulate himself, rather than the love of the Holy Spirit, then
he is still 'of the flesh' and not of the Father:.Romans
8:2,3,8; 9:8.
With Christ in you, the
righteousness unattainable by the works.(keeping
the various rules and regulations).of
the Old Testament Mosaic Law,.is
fulfilled.as
you love and care for others; again, Romans
13:8,10. Note that verse 10 here is also saying that if one loves
others, cares and helps them, it is impossible
to do anything apart from that to them in all your interactions with them.
Paul again shows the superiority
of Christ over the "carnal commandments".(there
is no distinction between the singular or plural of the word 'commandment'
in the original, in spite of how translators chose to utilize it).of
the Mosaic Law:.Hebrews
7:16,28;
Hebrews 8:6-8.(re:
'for finding "fault' {could not make you perfect as the sacrifice of Christ
can} with "them" {'them' is more accurately translated 'it', when you consider
the context and see Strong's Exhaustive Concordance available
free in the
Online
Bible and God's
Word for Windows}).
Paul in Hebrews tells us
to consider Him with no mention of instruction to make yourself
knowledgeable in the now defunct Mosaic Law:.Hebrews
3:1; again, 8:13.
The Holy Spirit was given
only to a few select individuals in the Old Testament:.Mark
12:36. Now the Holy Ghost is for the many
God is now calling:.Hebrews
7:19.
And what commandment or
commandments should we now in this era
of the
New Testament be following:.John
15:12 "This is my commandment.(original
is 'instruction{s}'), That you love
one another.(Matthew
22:37-40), as I have loved you."
1John
2:3 "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments."
2John
1:5,6 "And now I beseech
you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandmentunto you, but that which
we had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love,
that we walk after his commandments.(original
is 'commandment', not in the plural form as the translators have rendered
it; however the plural form would also be correct as the commandment to
love one another encompasses faith.{Galatians
5:6).and
patience and kindness and various other of love's
attributes). This is the commandment,
that, as you have heard from
the beginning, you should walk in it."
And,
what today do we obey in addition to being a loving person?.Romans
1:5 ".....obedience to the faith....."
How
many commandments or instructions were there for humanity to always
prosper and be in health?.3John
1:2.
A spiritually minded person,
called in the Holy Bible, a Christian,
is one who has concern for others. A non spiritual person is one whose
concern for you is mollified
by any lack of opportunity through you he may sense. In other words, if
a person cannot see any use for you presently or in the future, they will
have little or nothing to do with you; you are not worth wasting time on:.2Peter
2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise
of you.....".(or,
they'll figure out some way to extract your money by obligation instead
of personal uncoerced
decision from the heart)
And,.1Timothy
6:12-14 "Fight the good fight of faith, lay
hold on eternal life, whereunto you are
also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickens
all things, and before
Christ
Emmanuel, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, that
you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable,
until the appearing of our Lord Emmanuel the Christ."
