Once
received the magazine published by the Worldwide Church of God
Worldwide Church of God in England. The leader Herbert Armstrong died
in 1986. gathered approx. 120 thousand people who kept all the feasts
of Israel. After his death, leadership of the church took Joseph
Tkach, announced in 1995 that the law of Moses no longer in force,
and you do not have to follow any Sabbaths, there was a schism, some
believers formed a new church. Staying with the old rules and further
keep Israeli holidays.
Many
churches astray because they do not understand the basic doctrine of
the two covenants. They practice and encourage saving at the same
time both covenants of the Old / Sinai / or new / Christ /. The fact
that the two are mutually exclusive tell us the letters of Paul. In
the first case, salvation was made possible by completing all laws
that no one was able to fill. Secondly, based on faith, grace and the
merits of Christ. Are we allowed to keep both the covenant? In his
letter to the Galatians 4 we have a description of the life of
Abraham who had two wives and two sons. One of the slave Hagar, and
the second from a free Sara. Both ladies are a symbol of the Old and
New Covenants
Gal.4,24
These
things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two
covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who
are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
Gal.30-31
„But
what does the Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her
son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance
with the free woman's son.(31): Therefore, brothers, we are not
children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
So
now we are not children of the Old and New Testaments, but only
children free. Only the children of the New Covenant. The text also
says that the old covenant or law of Moses will haunt the New
Covenant
Gal.4,28-29
(28):
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. (29): At that
time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the
power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
Persecution
in the days of Abraham. Isaac was humiliated, mocked him, the
pressure to younger did so as a senior dictates Law of Moses attack
grace, every legalist attack life according to the Spirit will be
pressured to obey the law,it will be ridiculed grace
Gal.4,30
Gal.4,30
"
Get rid of the slave and her son because the son shall not be heir
with the son of a slave-free" Cast out the old covenant because
it will not inherit old with new”
Question
1
Christ walked to the synagogue on the Sabbath, kept the Passover, he had to behave tithing. Christ has given us a pattern of conduct that we should not do like him?
Christ walked to the synagogue on the Sabbath, kept the Passover, he had to behave tithing. Christ has given us a pattern of conduct that we should not do like him?
Łuk.
5:14
Then
Jesus ordered him, "Don't tell anyone, but go, show yourself to
the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your
cleansing, as a testimony to them."
Christ
was born during the Old Covenant. At the Last Supper he establishes
the new covenant in his blood. On the day before he died. Throughout
its activities neither Jesus nor the Father they had not appealed the
Old Covenant. Jesus as a human being complied with all the provisions
of the law of Moses. If he did not do it He would have been a rebel,
committed to sin, or rebellion against what God has instituted, and
not canceled. Jesus said:
Mat.
5:17
"Do
not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have
not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
bwp-
"Truly I tell you. Till heaven and earth pass away, nor will it
be abandoned or one "and" what is more, even not a single
dot on the "and"" will not change until filled the
whole law. "
Kol
2:14.16
(14):
having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was
against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it
to the cross.
(16):
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or
with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a
Sabbath day.
In
other words, the law of Moses was nailed to the cross and let no one
accuse for not obey holidays, new moon or Sabbaths Israel.
The
second example of the apostle
Romans 7 gives a comparison of the law of Moses and the life of the spirit. Woman as wife and husband as God. As long as we both live are bound by the law of the covenant, says the text, but the death of one of the parties ends marriage covenant. In the event died husband, the legislator on the cross. Ending the marriage covenant. He says and you also have died with Christ to the law of Moses and live anew the resurrection of the Lord in a new spirit and not according to the letter of the Old Covenant
Romans 7 gives a comparison of the law of Moses and the life of the spirit. Woman as wife and husband as God. As long as we both live are bound by the law of the covenant, says the text, but the death of one of the parties ends marriage covenant. In the event died husband, the legislator on the cross. Ending the marriage covenant. He says and you also have died with Christ to the law of Moses and live anew the resurrection of the Lord in a new spirit and not according to the letter of the Old Covenant
Rz
7:2.4.6
(2):
For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long
as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law
of marriage. (4): So, my brothers, you also died to the law through
the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was
raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. (6):
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from
the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the
old way of the written code.
Question
2
If all the Mosaic law does not apply Have we got allows to allows to steal and kill?
If all the Mosaic law does not apply Have we got allows to allows to steal and kill?
Law of the Old
Covenant no longer exists, it has changed in a spiritual form. The
end of the law on the cross is the end of salvation through the law.
End of law as a guide. Now leads us the Spirit who gives us the
opportunity to live in holiness. The law itself reflects the
character of God. Presents His holiness, so it may cease to exist.
What does spiritual law? It was the priesthood of the Levites. In the
New Testament priesthood of all believers. The priesthood does not
cease to exist, it changed form. In the Old Testament sacrifices of
animals. In New Testament_ we have spiritual sacrifices. By faith we
offer the blood of Jesus on Golgotha. before the Father for our sins.
The sacriefices are also our thanksgiving.
Hebr.
13:15
(15):
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice
of praise-- the fruit of lips that confess his name.
Rest
were on holidays but they pointed to fulfillment in Christ. Holidays
were a shadow pointing to rest in Christ. Hebr.4 says that it was a
rest on the Sabbath. In the New Testament we have the rest to which
we are entering, it is spiritual rest.
Hebr.4,10:
for
anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as
God did from his.
This
text talks about resting in Christ and not in a week, you can
celebrate the Sabbath, all the holidays of Israel, but as you will
not have rest in Christ all this will be an empty law.
How, then,
is the case Commandments?
It must how the entire law change of legalism in the state of spiritual freedom. Love of neighbor is closing legalism and the opening of the heart for others, love removes coercion, restores fulfillment of the law without having to remember about its existence.
It must how the entire law change of legalism in the state of spiritual freedom. Love of neighbor is closing legalism and the opening of the heart for others, love removes coercion, restores fulfillment of the law without having to remember about its existence.
Rzym.
13:9-10
(9):
The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not
murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and
whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one
rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
(10):
Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment
of the law.
Life
according to the Spirit is the fulfillment of law without remembering
its existence. For example. At the station is shown "no smoking"
and I'm a non-smoker. Such prohibition does not apply to me because
he realizes it in my life his , naturally, without coercion, but when
I reach for the cigarette the law have for me apply. That is why Paul
wrote that the law is for those who break them.
1
Tym. 1:9
„We
also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers
and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for
those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers”
If
You do not break the 10 commandments you do not have to wonder about
their existence. The sanctity of life, without sinfulness is the
fulfillment of the rights of the 10 commandments. My friend came to
me. I said to him, "I forgot about 10 Commandments" and
what did you broken commandments? he asked? . "I do not but I
only forgot that there are" I replied. He added, "So do not
worry about it how you break any of the commandments it you remember"
Symbol
of life according to the spirit and life according to the law can be
presented in the following example:
Father
and son lived together. The two went to church. Father / symbol of
the New Covenant / sang songs of joy. He was pleased when he could
give gifts. He was happy to participate in the meetings. Son / symbol
of the Old Covenant / went to the same church but only because he
lived in the house of his Father. He had no desire to sing the songs
but he did it because he had to. Instead of Church meetings he would
prefer to go with colleagues for a beer. For a year, the two did not
break even one commandment. Both filled the whole law. the difference
is that the father lived by the spirit of a son by letter of the law.
Rom
7,6
(6):
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from
the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the
old way of the written code.
2
Kor. 3:5-6
(5):
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for
ourselves, but our competence comes from God. (6): He has made us
competent as ministers of a new covenant-- not of the letter but of
the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The
Law of Moses, we can perform on our own, but to live by the spirit.
Can qualify us but the Spirit. Without a new birth from the Spirit,
no one can be righteous, the old nature, nature Adam will dominate.
The Holy Spirit gives us the desire to be holy like God, aversion to
evil, free will remains, and we still have a choice between good and
evil, but our desire to move in the direction of loving and pleasing
God only by the Holly Spirit.
What
is the difference between the legalist from person living according
to the spirit?
Legalist would say, on the sabbath day I can read this book and this I can not. I have to wear this shirt and not another, to meet in the church. Bread for supper is to take the form of a wafer and no buns. from 5-7 cm
Legalist would say, on the sabbath day I can read this book and this I can not. I have to wear this shirt and not another, to meet in the church. Bread for supper is to take the form of a wafer and no buns. from 5-7 cm
Spiritual
man to devote time to prayer as a sacrifice to God, no matter what it
is dressed. He seeks contact with God, not a costume. Supper for him
is participation in the death of Jesus and no the size of the wafer.
1
Kor. 6:12
(12):
"Everything is permissible for me"-- but not everything is
beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"-- but I will
not be mastered by anything.
Question 3
Is the 10 Commandments is not a separate law given to all people in the world?
Answer
Ask
the Jews of the 10 Commandments is outside the law of Moses. or that
the law of Moses was given the 10 Commandments to the Jews and all
the world? they ask you where you got such a theory. In the Bible it
does not? For this we whole Israelite law. In which includes all
rights to the priesthood, moral, holidays, etc. This type of division
have made only Christians in later centuries. The apostles did not
know of such a division. This led to legalism in the church.
Compliance with the rules on the pattern of Israel. Christians have
come to the conclusion that if the priest's no longer in force, this
we shall apply moral prescriptions only 10 commandments that adapted
to their own view. the Sabbath was changed to Sunday. Introduced
iconolatry and images. This stems from a lack of understanding of the
letters of the Apostle Paul, for life in the spirit. Legalism always
entered in place of the spirit. It is permissible for me and that I'm
not allowed
For
example
"In
March 2002, BBC news told about the incident in Saudi Arabia. Saudi
religious police prevented firefighters to rescue 15 of 800 girls
trapped inside their burning school. What was the reason blocking
rescue? Since the other 15 girls wore no proper Islamic dress. The
religious police rescuers warned that "it would be sinful to
approach them." Fifteen girls died because they did not wear
head scarves and black robes required by a strict interpretation of
Islamic kingdom. "Quote from the" Straight from the Heart "
Question
4
Is the life of grace does not lead to the belief that you can sin at will?
Is the life of grace does not lead to the belief that you can sin at will?
There
are two extremes - Legalism and antinomism. With antynomists meets
John Bunyan and Wesley. He even quoted a conversation with one of
them
"Do you believe that you have nothing to do with the law of God?
"Yes, because I am not under the law, lives by faith" Are you living the faithyou have a right to everything in this world? Yes because Christ is mine, it's all mine, so can you take yourself anything, for example something from a store without the knowledge of its owner?
And I can if I want, because this is mine, this one will not hurt.
Do you have a right to all women in the world. So with their agreement. And is not that a sin? So, for those who think it is a sin, but not for those whose hearts are free "
Kol.3,5
(5):
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:
sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is
idolatry.
Kol.
3:8
(8):
But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger,
rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
This
is not a suggestion to live in freedom without law. In the spirit of
freedom is the freedom of the right procedure and not doing anything
that what wants his body. Umbrella. it is right procedure, anyone who
leaves the territory of that umbrella falls into Satan. God protects
us in His own territory. By entering enemy territory you are under
his control. Sinning it means that your father is the devil, because
he is the father of sin. Freedom in the Spirit does not mean that the
10 commandments does not exist. The inverse of the 10 commandments
means that we sin. Freedom in the Spirit it means fulfillment of the
10 commandments without legalistic forms, from the heart, the desire,
without coercion.
Newborn
Christian has no desire to sin. He seeks what with God. Nature Adam
it means man not born from the God. He does not seek what with
God.
Living by faith does not mean consent to sin. Grace does not lead to the fact that you can sin, because sin is the opposite of holiness. we have not been cleansed of the sins that we have sinned. Free will is still in us and we can choose both directions. Spiritual freedom is not freedom to sin, nor slavery to the law, you have to be able to feel it.
Living by faith does not mean consent to sin. Grace does not lead to the fact that you can sin, because sin is the opposite of holiness. we have not been cleansed of the sins that we have sinned. Free will is still in us and we can choose both directions. Spiritual freedom is not freedom to sin, nor slavery to the law, you have to be able to feel it.
Hebr.
10:26
(26):
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the
knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left
Our
deeds spring from the faith. How closer to God, the less sin. being
in the presence of God do not commit sins. It is not to say that we
never sins in our life no commit an error. There is a theory that the
newborn can never go away from God and be condemned. it is not true
theory, we can choose God or Satan. The fight is about our decision.
battle is about our mind. About our choice. what we choose.
1
Jan. 3:9
(9):
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed
remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of
God.
This
text talks about life without sin, It is not says that beliver never
commit no sin, in the same letter John wrote
1
Jan. 2:1
(1):
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But
if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our
defense-- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
1
Kor. 6:12
(12):
"Everything is permissible for me"-- but not everything is
beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"-- but I will
not be mastered by anything.
Your
mind must distinguish between what is useful and what does not
bondage of, what is good and what is bad.
2
Kor. 3:17
(17):
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom.
Gal.
5:13
(13):
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom
to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
