TEN Commandments - e.g. "do not take God's name in vain".. still moral law

I have a Jewish inheritance from my mother's side but was not convinced that my mother was Jewish until the family did an historical trace. So I have no inkling of what you say since my mother refused to talk about it.
Her family was Prussian - from a family of nobility - named Sulke and yes there were Jewish families in the lines of nobility in the Prussian region.

On another note, I have worked as a software engineer with an Hasidim man and I am glad that we are not under the law but grace and walk in the Spirit.

Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Don't get me wrong, my favorite Psalm is 119.

However if anyone (myself included) wants to voluntarily keep any part of the law, including Sabbath keeping (understanding that it gains no merit in the sight of God applicable to salvation) then who am I to object?.

Ultimately we are to rest in the works of Jesus Christ apart from anything we do (Hebrews 3 and 4 - appropriately given to Hebrew Christians).

By the time I came along I received only 1/4 of my heritage from the Ashkenazim but born into a Catholic Italian family.

But I may participate in some of the festivals to experience the Jewish part of my heritage firsthand perhaps in Israel if my health allows, Deo Volante.

We have deduced that my maternal grandmother (who married my grandfather - an Italian immigrant) here in America was closemouthed because of antisemitism in her Boston neighborhood.

She did have a Mediterranean look about her so she probably passed as Italian though she did have an eastern European maiden name.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Are you Ashkenazi Dr. Bob?

HankD

 

Dr Bob, how is your health, I remember you saying you were not well

Numbers 6
24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

HankD

 

Dear Bob, Bob, Bob...

Still kicking against the pricks I see. Just embrace the grace of God my friend!

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed!!!!!!!!"

 

These are not referring to the 10 commandments.

The commandments of God are not the commandments of the mosaic law.
John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Ephesians 6 2 Paul is using the law as instruction to children because they probably have not been born again and do not have the Spirit of God guiding them. They are still under the law.

The Spirit of God has never led me into sin. When we walk in the Spirit we don't want to sin.

I don't want to sin not because of the 613 commandments given by Moses but because of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Sin is repulsive to me.Not because of any goodness of my own, but the Spirit of Christ.

A sheep does not need to be told not to wallow in the pig sty.

Just so you will know I don't take the Lord's name in vain because I am one of his sheep, not a hog.

The Spirit of God is my guide through life not Moses.

1 John 3
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

HankD

 

There's nothing wrong with having a statue of Zeus or Poseidon in church as long as nobody worships them? Okay.

 

Repeat after me, "Lord Jesus, forgive me a sinner, forgive me of the sins I commit daily against my fellow man and against You my God, thank you for going to the cross, thank you for doing that which I could not do, for keeping the Law that brought death to me, thank You for nailing that Law to Your cross and replacing the Law's condemnation with Your grace through faith, thank You for no longer holding that Law against me as I fail daily to love You with all my heart, body and soul and as I fail to love my neighbour as myself, thank You for giving me Your Holy Spirit to teach me and guide me as I fail Your commandments and fall short of Your Glory, thank You for Your promise to one day rid me of this body of death when I will fail Your Law no more, Amen."

 

Hi Bob,

Sheep do on occasion get dirty.
But sheep must depend on their shepherd to cleanse them.
The sheep cannot cleanse themselves.
Moses cannot.

Only the Good Shepherd can cleanse His sheep.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Not only that He gives them what Moses cannot: Eternal Life.

John 10
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Matthew 11
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Hebrews 4
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief


HankD

 

Jeremiah was directing that towards the house of israel, correct?
And what does God use to save lost sinners? The Cross or His Law being kept?

 

Bob I have no problem with this statement.
I didn't say otherwise.

But as a Christian I don't know that I ever have.

I was saved while in the military. I was a drinker and a blasphemer.
That ceased almost immediately. No one told me that it had to go.
The Spirit within me led me away from the hog wallow.

Maybe early on I did, but I honestly don't think so.

I'm far from perfect. In fact, the older I get the more the evidence builds.


HankD

 

Are we the lost sheep of Israel and Judah?

 

Except that your church adds the burden of law keeping to Grace!