(06/27/2017) Thoughts On The Commandments

Today, thoughts are shared on the Ten Commandments as an Incarnation of divinity.  Obedience to the law of GOD provides many different benefits.  Even so, simply obeying the law does not completely and correctly realign created beings and living creatures to be eternal life companions to an immortal, incorruptible Creator.  Justification with GOD is an expression of acceptance and approval through divine grace, and is not based on a percentage or statistics that describe a sinner’s obedience of sacred law.  The demands that result in fruitful relationship with divinity go beyond the obligations from the law described as good deeds and works, and that emerge from finite desire, intellect, imagination, logic, passion, or carnal reason.  Believers also must continually display inseparable aspects of spirit content from the makeup of GOD.  Included are faith, forbearance, holiness, hope, joy, lovingkindness, righteousness, and wisdom.  Many have condemned sacred law as “cursed”, because the frameworks for exposing and identifying “sin” did not also eliminate divine judgment, justify the living as godly and righteous, and shield the living from the perpetual wrath of GOD against sin.  While all divine law has been provided to enable recognition and rejection of sin, and did include statements describing consequences and effects of its disobedience/obedience (we say, sanctions), the law did not embody or operate like sin by opposing the continued existence of GOD and the created universe.  Jesus Christ would come as an incarnation of divinity who would die on the cross both to fulfill divine law, and to further reveal atonement and propitiation for mankind’s sin.  A fighter at “Yahoo! Answers (India)” using the ID “STEVAN” (Level 4 with 3,064 points, a member since October 17, 2007) posted the following:


How many of Moses's ten commandments have you personally broken?


THE GOLDEN ARROW:  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:  for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  (Romans 8:  1-10, King James Version, KJV)


THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  Making and Keeping Justice? (05/25/2017); Carrying Out Divine Law? (03/20/2017); Called, Justified, and Glorified? (01/08/2017); Grace is Not Against Law (07/23/2014); Cruel and Offensive (07/24/2014); When Is A Law The LAW? (03/25/2014); Saul of Tarsus (03/26/2014)


“STEVAN”, here are some ideas you may not find familiar, yet, should build up your thinking about the Ten Commandments:  The unseen precepts, principles, and spirit of the law are as important as the audible statement and wording of the law (it’s letter).  The law embodies divinity (is an Incarnation, an appearance of GOD using a familiar form).  To break one commandment from GOD is to break all the commandments.  This is because the law must be received as having internal coherence, harmony, integrity, sacred substance (we say, breath, spirit, word), and stability.  For mature Christian believers, the same principle of oneness without sameness that describes the existence of divine persons within the fullness of Deity (we say, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is to be acknowledged when considering the sacred law expressing divine will that was imparted to mankind through Moses as covenant and inheritance.

Many lack sacred knowledge and indulge spiritual confusion when it comes to divine law.  They take up the law as an inorganic abstraction.  To provide academic explanations and secular instruction, the law becomes analyzed, “broken down” and compartmentalized  into specific judgments, ordinances, regulations, rules, and statutes.  Comparison (grouping things to show how they are alike), contrast (pairing things to show how they are different), and efforts to detail subtleties (i.e., barely visible differences; hidden and sudden shifts in meaning, quality, and value) introduce language and overlays that give the law a false appearance of complexity, contradiction, and incompleteness.  More than this, the person and active presence of divinity are denied.  By his insistence on carrying out the righteousness of the law, Jesus Christ reinforced the consciousness of law as personal and living.

The purposes and workings of the law pertain to judgment as the assigning of value, determining continuity and duration, resolving conflicts and settling disputes in accordance with divine order, and the endorsement of the makeup and substance of created beings and living creatures as being “justified”.  Consider again the following:

(1.)  Mark 12:  28-32, King James Version (KJV):  28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?  29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:  30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:  this is the first commandment.  31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.  32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth:  for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

(2.)  Matthew 5:  18-20, KJV:  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.  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.  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.

(3.)  Romans 13:  8-10, KJV:   Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:  for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.  9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:  therefore love is the fulfilling of the law

There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually apprehended.  (For example, (4.)  James 2:  8-11, KJV:  8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:  9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.  10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.  11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.)  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.

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