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Sunday, March 11, 2018

The old laws and the new laws.

People have asked/suggested/told me, I don’t know how many times, “do we still keep the Old testament laws?”


Well, for one thing, all the laws God gave to Moses, were for the Israelis, not for the gentiles, which is what we are.

But even if those old laws were for the gentiles too, we read in Hebrews chapter 7: ( and this is mainly all about Melchizedek who Abraham met in the book of Genesis).... but this is how I understand it to be, according to the book of Hebrews;

Verse 11: Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood ( because the Jews received the laws under this priesthood) There would not have been any need for another priest, would there?

But the priesthood was changed, so out of necessity, the law also had to be changed....Why? Because of He, of whom these things are said, comes from another tribe. He comes from the tribe of Judah, (not Levi), and no man from this tribe has given attendance at the altar.

And Jesus came from out of Judah, and Moses said nothing, as far as the priesthood is concerned, from this tribe.

So, because the priesthood was changed, transferred to another, so the law was also changed.

There was no perfection under the old law. The new priesthood is made, not like the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life...Christ Jesus.

The old Levitical priesthood was made without an oath, and, as the levites did not have to make an oath, they were born into it, but Christ with an oath by Him, said of Him...
“The Lord sware and will not repent Himself, Thou art a priest forever”

By so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

23 And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:

24 but he, because he abides for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.

25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.( that is...us)

26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

27 who needs not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

28 For the law appoints men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appoints a Son, perfected for evermore.

And with that, the Moses law tells us we are not to commit adultery, but Jesus said, "If a man as much as looks at a woman with lust in his heart, he has committed adultery with her"

And "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" the new law, when we follow Jesus' law is more strict than the Moses law given to the Israelis.
Blessings

Yaddy


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