{"id":24442,"date":"2010-09-04T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=24442"},"modified":"2020-08-06T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:51:29","slug":"the-ten-commandments-and-the-old-and-new-testaments-shall-stand-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-ten-commandments-and-the-old-and-new-testaments-shall-stand-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments and the Old and New Testaments shall stand forever!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t

Question:<\/h2>\n

Do not mislead the people with your manipulation of the Word of God and your omissions\u00a0about the “Ten Commandments.<\/a>” His Word and Commandments were, are and forever shall remain true! He alone is the Creator and the destroyer! No mortal with limited knowledge can change what He tells through the only Living Book, the Bible (both Old and New Testaments). Only false prophets and manipulators and those whose mind and body and spirit are corrupted and led by the Devil himself can be arrogant enough to mislead the people and manipulate the True Word. You can speak your mind, but do not bend the truth! Know the Truth and it shall set you free (John 8:32)<\/p>\n

You will be judged. The grace, salvation, and life that God Almighty offers to all through the Blood of Jesus Christ is a choice, which you and I have the freedom to make. It is not an imposition, but the choice we make will have its own consequence (death or life).<\/p>\n

Repent for His hour is near and His Kingdom is at hand!<\/p>\n

May God save you, enlighten you, and may you be the bearer of the Word of God in the truest sense of the Word; the way God has penned it down through the ages for all of us through His anointed authors and saints.<\/p>\n

Be of good cheer!<\/p>\n\t

Answer:<\/h2>\n

““Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah- “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more”<\/em>” (Jeremiah 31:31-34).<\/p>\n

“But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. … In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away<\/em>” (Hebrews 8:6-7).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I see you have no answer when it is pointed out that God’s Word contradicts your beliefs.<\/p>\n

“Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience<\/em>” (Ephesians 5:6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t

Question:<\/h2>\n

I was\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0talking about the covenant. The meaning of covenant is an “agreement.” It in itself cannot be the law!<\/p>\n

Moses wrote the agreement or covenant by his own hand and lay it beside the ark of the covenant. Whereas the Laws of God were written in stone tablets by the Finger of God, etched in stone so no man can change, manipulate, and reinterpret. The stone tablets with the commandments or the Laws of God were then placed inside the ark, which signifies they are eternal and forever binding. And any man who would try to even touch the ark would die!<\/p>\n

God gave the commandments to Moses because Israel sinned. The covenant that Moses wrote was an agreement between God and Israel to show that they should keep the Law through animal sacrifices, etc.<\/p>\n

But Israel kept on breaking the laws through idol worship, so God had to make the covenant better and more tight with no loopholes. This time He sent His only Son Jesus to be the new covenant. With Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice, the old covenant was nullified. But the new one was better and stronger. Anyone who chooses to be saved, through grace, the laws are “written in their hearts and in their minds.”<\/p>\n

But Jesus strengthened the Laws. He did not change it. In fact, Jesus is the Law, hence God is the Law and God is eternal (so I wonder how Jesus can change?)<\/p>\n

If you choose to follow Jesus then you make an agreement (covenant) to keep and live the everlasting Law (all<\/strong>\u00a0the ten commandments). If not then you have just made a covenant with Satan!<\/p>\n

The devil can change laws and time, so be aware!<\/p>\n\t

Hear what Moses said, “So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess<\/em>” (Deuteronomy 4:13-14). Moses called the Ten Commandments God’s covenant.<\/p>\n

Hear what David said, “They did not keep the covenant of God; they refused to walk in His law<\/em>” (Psalm 78:10). In two parallel constructs, “the covenant of God” and “His law” are used to refer to the same body of work.<\/p>\n

Commandment, testament, law, precept, and covenant all refer to the same thing. See:\u00a0Is the covenant different from the Law?<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n

Since you acknowledge that the ten commandments were written on stone, you should review Paul’s statement as well:<\/p>\n

“You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.<\/em><\/p>\n

But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.<\/em><\/p>\n

Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech — unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away<\/em>” (II Corinthians 3:2-16).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that Paul claims to be a minister of the new covenant, as opposed to the old covenant. That new covenant was written on hearts, as opposed to the old covenant being written on tablets of stone. The new covenant serves to bring life, while the old covenant, engraved on stones, served to bring death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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