Commandments and Ordinances
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments
AND ordinances of the Lord blameless. Romans 6:23
(a) commandments (b) ordinances Note: these laws are different.
1.
Were the ordinances law of Moses and the law of God
abolished at Jesus'
death?
(a) Isaiah 51:6,7,8 ... my
righteousness shall NOT BE ABOLISHED. Hearken
unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people
in whose HEART is MY LAW; ...
2 Peter 2:5;
shall righteousness dwell. (1 John 3:4,8; Isaiah 66:22,23)
(b) Ephesians
2:13to16 Having ABOLISHED in his flesh the enmity,
even the law
of commandments
contained in ORDINANCES: ...
2. What are some differences?
(a) Romans 3:31; 7:7,12; 13:9,10 Do we then make void the law through faith?
GOD FORBID: yea, we establish the law. God's law reveals sin to us and that we
need to be converted to the only Saviour. Psalm 19:7; John 14:6; 3:3,5,16,18
(b) Hebrews 9:22, 1to28 And almost
all things are by the law purged with blood;
and without
shedding of blood is no remission.
Galatians
then serveth the law? It was added
because of
transgressions, ( a. 1 John 3:4;
1 Timothy 2:15; Romans 4:15; Genesis 3:1to12
Note Eve coveted the fruit and stole
it. Exodus 20:3to17) till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; ...
Genesis 3:15,21 seed promise, ... Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord
God make coats of skins, and clothed them. Revelation 13:8 ... the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. ...redeemed ... with the precious blood of Christ
as a lamb without blemish and without spot: ... Leviticus 4:27to35; Numbers 5:5to8
When a man or woman shall commit any sin ... a trespass against the Lord, and that
person be guilty; Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: ... Bring his
sin offering before the priest, and shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. The priest shall take of the
blood of the sin offering ... the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath
committed, and it shall be forgiven him. (Lev. 17:11) Acts 2:37,39; Eze.18:20to32
Exodus 25:8,9,20to23; Heb. 8:1to5;
of the heavenly sanctuary, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 1 Peter 1:18,19
3. Which of these laws are full of types and
shadows pointing to the Messiah/Christ,
and which is the perfect law of
love?
(a) Psalm 19:7;
James 1:25; 2:8to12; Exodus 20:3to17; Deuteronomy
Matthew 19:16to19; 23:36to39 The ten commandments are the minimum standard
of love, to a
Christian, Matthew
faith. Hebrews 4:1to11;
(b) Hebrews 10:1to4,10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and
not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. ... By the which will we
are sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Exodus 12:2to8,42to49; John
Passover sabbaths
Leviticus 16:15,16,29to34; Hebrews 10:19,20; Luke 23:45,46
Day of Atonement sabbaths Daniel
Note spiritual applications may still apply.
4. Which law in meat and drink offerings, and
holydays, and sabbaths were blotted out at Jesus
death?
(a) Leviticus 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the Lord ... Exodus
seventh day is the sabbath
of the Lord ... (Isaiah 58:13;
Luke 4:16; 6:5; 23:52to56 They ... rested the sabbath day according to the
commandment. Note Luke records for us that after Jesus' death the seventh day
sabbath, the Lord's day is still a commandment. (ten commandments not blotted out)
Acts 13:42,44; 16:12to15 And on the sabbath we (Paul and other Christians)
went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; ...
Paul spake ... the Lord opened hearts, and baptized whole household. Praise God,
for a special day like this, to remember all of God's goodness to us. And in the new
heavens and new earth, that the Lord will make for the saved. They shall all come
to worship and praise him. Isaiah 66:22,23; Rev. 21:1to4;22:2
(b) Colossians
2:14to17 Blotting out the handwriting of ORDINANCES that
was
against us, ...
took it out of the way nailing it to the cross. ... which
are a shadow of
things to come; but the body is of Christ. Leviticus 23:37,39 These are the feasts of
the Lord, ... to be holy convocations, ... meat offering, ... drink offerings, every thing
upon his day. ... Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ... on the first day
shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath." Nehemiah 10:32to34;
Ezekiel
45:14to17" ... the make reconciliation for the house of
2 Corinthians 5:15to21 ... God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; ...
5. What new covenants/testaments? (1 Corin.10:6to12)
(a) Jeremiah
31:31to34; Hebrews 8:6to13; Deuteronomy
10:1to5 ... God shall speak unto thee; (Moses) and we (the people) will hear it, and
do it. (old covenant, our sinful flesh Romans 8:1to9 they/we can not do it) ...
And I (Moses) looked, and behold, ye had sinned against the Lord ... And I took
the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your
(the people's) eyes. (covenant
broken James
(Moses) Hew thee
two tables of stone like unto the first, ... And he (God) wrote on
the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, ... and put in the
ark (of the covenant) ... ( new covenant, written on human tables) Proverb 3:1to6
Exodus 31:18; Luke
ink, but with the Finger of God/Spirit of the living God; not in tables
of stone, but
in fleshly tables of the heart. Praise God, be an epistle of Christ, be born of the Spirit
from the heart in God's love! John 3:3,5,16,18 The new covenant can be yours by
faith. Romans
power of God unto salvation to every one the believeth; ... The just shall live by faith.
(b) Luke 22:19,20 Jesus said, ... This is my body which is given for you: this do in
remembrance of me. ... This cup is the new testament(covenant) in my blood, which
is shed for you. (Hebrews 10:26to31;)1 John 1:7to9
Will you open you whole heart and become a new covenant
believer!