Chapter 8 The
Righteousness of Christ Continued…
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law,
or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all
be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these
least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the
kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your
righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye
shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Bonhoeffer- 'But
there is a "better righteousness" which is expected of Christian.
Without it none can enter into the kingdom of heaven, for it is the
indispensable condition of discipleship. None can have this better
righteousness but those to whom Christ is speaking here, those whom he has
called. The call of Christ, in fact Christ himself, is the sine qua non of this
better righteousness.'
(((Sine qua non (/ˌsaɪnɨ kweɪ
ˈnɒn/; Latin: [ˈsine kwaː ˈnoːn])[1] or condicio sine qua non (plural: condiciones sine quibus non) refers to an
indispensable and essential action, condition, or ingredient. It was originally
a Latin legal term for "[a condition] without which it could not be,"
or "but for..." or "without which [there is] nothing".
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_qua_non>
))))
My thoughts- Without Christ there truly is NOTHING.
Bonhoeffer- 'Jesus
manifests his perfect union with the will of God as revealed in the Old
Testament law and prophets. He has in fact nothing to add to the commandments
of God, except this, that he keeps them.
He fulfills the law down to the last iota. But that means that he must
die, he alone understands the true nature of the law as God's law: the law is
not itself God, nor is God the law. It was the error of Israel to put the law
in God's place, to make the law their God and their God a law. The disciples
were confronted with the opposite danger of denying the law its divinity
altogether and divorcing God from his law. Both errors lead to the same result.
By confounding God
and the law, the Jews were trying to use the law to exploit the Law-giver: He
was swallowed up in the law and therefore no longer its Lord. By imagining that
God and the law could be divorced from one another, the disciples were trying
to exploit God by their possession of salvation. In both cases, the gift was
confounded with the Giver: God was denied equally, whether it was with the help
of the law, or with the promise of salvation.'
My thoughts- TRUTH!
Such remarkable truth! So many today want to throw the law away, many more than
I suppose want to keep it as their God, but truthfully I can see how that can
happen as well, even today.
Continuing with
Bonhoeffer- 'Confronted with these twin errors, Jesus vindicates divine
authority of the law. God is its giver and its Lord, and only in personal communion with God is the law
fulfilled. There is no fulfillment of the law apart from communion with God,
and no communion with God apart from fulfillment of the law. To forget the
first condition was the mistake of the Jews, and to forget the second the
temptation of the disciples.'
My thoughts- This is
so true. We want to forget this truth in favor of the much touted - the old law
it done away with. Far be it from people to comprehend that the ceremonial law
and the moral law of God were separate. The veil in the temple was torn in two
from top to bottom, without hands, the temple where the rituals- where the
ceremonial laws were carried out. Sacrifices were made upon altars, blood was
shed all examples of the more perfect Sacrifice that was made by our Savior,
Jesus Christ. His blood was not shed upon the altar of the temple, it couldn't
be. That temple was a shadow, an example of the heavenly, it wasn't the
true. Christ was the true Sacrifice, the
true ceremonial law realized. The sins that came into being after Eve and Adam
fell in the Garden of Eden needed to be forgiven. A realization of the result
of sin was known. A way was made to bring man and God back into communion. The
sin existed and a way to find forgiveness created. The sin existed because man
broke the moral laws. Eve broke the
moral law. Eve put another before God. Eve didn't break some mysterious law
that none of can know about. Every single sin is a result of breaking God's
moral law in one way or another. So to
say it was done away with means that there should be no more ability to sin and
yet we've kept right on sinning, and sinning, and sinning. The moral law has not disappeared it stands
today and will stand forever because it is God's truth!
Bonhoeffer speaks
truth when he says- '...only in personal communion with God is the law
fulfilled. There is no fulfillment of
the law apart from communion with God, and no communion with God apart from the
fulfillment of the law.'
How can anyone
believe otherwise? How?
Satan has used great
deception to get people to believe things that are not true. He could care less
if you belong to a church, as long as it is a church filled with his
deceptions. Make a stand for Christ, Satan is all for it, as long as it isn't
based on Christ's truth, but rather Satan's lies. Truly Satan has made himself
into an angel of light, people worshiping his lies over God's holy truth.
This isn't about us,
it's about God, our Creator, our Redeemer.
Life means NOTHING without them, NOTHING! We can go about trying to say
life is all about this, that, or the other thing, but that's what Satan wants. As
long as he has us looking to ourselves and not to God, he has us!
REMEMBER and NEVER
FORGET-- If you believe in God you HAVE
to believe in Satan. You cannot believe in God, if you do not believe in Satan,
because God tells us all about this battle between good and evil and it's real!
We are evidence of its reality. There is
NO way this was how life was supposed to be for us, NO WAY. And if you choose
to believe that this was how it was all meant to be, then I feel very sorry for
you. To live believing that life simply is about suffering and pain, with some
happiness thrown in, allows for no hope at all, none. We have hope in a world
without any of this pain and suffering, it's not this world, not now. It will
be in our world made new. Until that time, until Christ returns to take His
people to heaven, Satan will be working as hard as he can to keep all he can
from living the truth in Christ.
We simply cannot
separate the law from God or God from the law, and to do so is to be under
Satan's thumb, a slave to him and his lies.
By the grace and
mercy of our Lord and Savior may we comprehend all His TRUTH! He wants us to
know He is the all in all and the law He is Lord of it truth, His most amazing
TRUTH!
All in HIS LOVE,
ALWAYS, HIS LOVE!
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