Pharisees Jesus
This was revelation that came to me in the wee small hours. I read somewhere on the internet, about the Ten commandments being applicable in the BORN AGAIN believers life.
I woke with 3 words in my ear, " ministration of death" I looked up the relevant scripture and scratched out on a piece of paper the idea above. As you can see, I have put the Pharisees and Jesus underneath. You do not find Jesus using the law to accuse people of sin.
Here are the references:
Rom 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.2Co 3:7
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: Gal 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.Rom 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.Eph 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
I used to believe fire and brimstone preaching was a no compromise only way to go attitude toward the word. One such person I used to have close fellowship with till he passed away. We would bounce scriptures off each other, and although we would disagree on the law and sin, we still went out for pizza together. Such preachers had a real zeal for God. But the more I studied the more I saw a God of compassion. Displayed in His son Jesus.
People who preach and practice the law must at sometime or another judge another person for transgressing the law.
Such people like Paul before
his conversion, become a Judge and fail to look at sin in themselves.
Read Paul's account in Romans 7, and the anguish he suffered because of
the command "Thou Shalt Not Covet". When he judged himself as not being
able to keep the law, he trusted in Christ, and the condemnation in Romans 7 is
removed by the time you arrive at Romans 8.
There is therefore no condemnation. Here is food for thought. They who supposedly were upholding
the law had everyone in their sights, except themselves. Eventually they
zeroed in on Jesus.
Joh 7:19 Did not Moses
give you the law, and yet
none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
The Woman in Adutery
Joh 8:6 This they said,
tempting him, that they might have to
accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and
with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and
said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
at her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
Do you desire to be under the Law? I am sure none of us could keep the Law
better than the Scribes and the Pharisees. Yet many believers cannot let go.
Here we have a woman worthy of death, Yet it is the Lord who forgives.
"Neither do I condemn thee."
God is bound by his own word and yet he doesn't condemn this
woman. Why? Because the law was only in place TILL the seed should come
which is Christ Luk 16:16
Joh 8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
The word says the accusers of the woman were convicted by their own conscience. Maybe the Lord wrote the commandments on the ground which applied to these men.
1Ti 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
Tit 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.Here Are Some Conscience Scriptures
Heb 9:9
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;The law cannot give you a clear conscience.
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Only the blood of Christ can purge your conscience. How can we serve God if we feel condemned.
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. :23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.
This is the reason that Jesus died that we might draw near to God.
Remember Adam and Eve hid themselves. See my study on the knowledge of Good and Evil.
1Pe 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Have you been baptized and crucified with Christ, then you are dead to the law, and should have a clear conscience toward God.