New Law vs. Old Law! Or...commonly referred to as the new (replacement) law that nullifies and makes desolate the old law from God to Moses that Jesus kept.
Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past (opposite of future), through the forbearance of God;
Rom 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Rom 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Rom 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Rom 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Conjecture should never be an option in interpretation...especially conjecture born of a non Messianic Hebrew mindset. The above scripture by Paul appears to be contradictory to the unlearned eye. On one hand, he appears to say the deeds of the law are not necessary. But at the end, he said the law is not void... he is establishing the law. What law?
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his (Paul's) epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
The law of Faith (Rom 3:27).
What then is this law of faith? This is the focus of Paul's teaching above. If we can understand this "Law of Faith", then everything else will make clear sense.
...and Jesus said...
Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Mat 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Mat 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte (convert to your twisted doctrine), and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Mat 23:16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Mat 23:17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Mat 23:18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
Mat 23:19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Mat 23:20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
Mat 23:21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
Mat 23:22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Mat 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and FAITH (all found in the 10 commandments and tithing doctrine, Deu 14:22-29): these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Mat 23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Mat 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Mat 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres (tombs), which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Mat 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Mat 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Mat 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
So now we know by the mouth of Messiah exactly what faith is and what we should and should NOT be doing. One cannot, through conjecture, make the assumption that the faith in question is a New Testament doctrine, as He often replied, "For it is written...". I would surmise that most folks even find the above words of Jesus confusing as they don't understand the customs of the Pharisees. However, pastors (shepherds) should pay close heed.
Rom 9:31 But Israel (ALL Israel...both Jews and gentiles), which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained (adhered) to the law of righteousness (Laws of Moses).
Rom 9:32 Wherefore (Why)? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
This is where Paul is speaking of those who focus only on the deeds of the law, rejecting the blood of Jesus or who killed His Holy Prophets. Most of all, it was fame and corrupt reasoning over faith. Jesus made it clear above that the weightier matters are located in the Torah. The Pharisees reject the Messiah, while other shepherds reject the laws and focus solely on grace. Both are man made doctrines, and both are out of God's will. The rejection of the truth has reared It's ugly head in recent years for the calling of the removal of the Book of Hebrews from scripture. Their reason? Because they don't understand it...and it clashes mightily with prosperity and replacement theology...
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
So much for grace, absent adherence to His law. Oh yes, it matters...
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
If there are any commandments outside the Laws of Moses that Jesus created to nullify Torah in the NT, I have not seen them. So far, I'm 0 for 0. In fact...I see Jesus all through the Torah, and the Torah all through the NT. My Book is one volume...
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Psa 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Shalom (peace to you)
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