We are not talking about Paul's understanding of what Moses wrote. We are talking about following what Moses wrote. We have the Holy Spirit to be our Teacher and our Guide to show us the way of righteousness and how we are to live. I spend time to study Hebrew so I can understand what the Bible is teaching us. I did not bring Paul up. Others try to claim that Paul tells us we do not have to follow the teaching of Moses and I say we do have to follow the Bible as we are lead by the Holy Spirit of God to follow the Bible. As David teaches us the advantages of following the Bible. In fact that is what Paul was doing was quoting the teachings of David.
Jesus makes this very clear: "For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished". (Matthew 5:18) I believe it is important to follow the teachings of Leviticus in the Bible. This teaching has to do with out priesthood before God. Of course there is no temple we are the temple and we are to be Holy & Sanctified before God. We are told that one third of the people are going to be saved but I believe that only 10% of the people take their priesthood serious before God to serve Him.
There is a LOT of mis information in the church and now with this virus we are starting to see there is a LOT of misinformation in science also. There are people that claim to know the truth but they do not represent the truth at all. People that have the Holy Spirit are lead by the Holy Spirit so they know if people are trying to deceive them or not. For them all of this goes without saying because they do not need man to lead them. They are taught by God.
You do understand we are of a new covenant? Following Leviticus is putting the burden of the law back into the equation for salvation.
For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished". (Matthew 5:18
Yes exactly. The law is still holy but the key new Testament word is that it has been fulfilled. May want to study what fulfilled means.
I'm sorry to say but you have been deceived. Just as my vegetarian mother's side of the family who follow the OT diatery laws because their false prophet told them to in the church of the 7th day Adventist. Who also believes it is a grave sin to worship on Sunday. It isnt the first time this demonic thought has infected believers.
People tried this in Acts. Peter corrects them.
Acts 15:10-11 New International Version (NIV)
10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is
through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
Grace my friend brings such freedom to the soul. Meditate on that for awhile.
Hebrews 3:3-6 New International Version (NIV)
3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”[
a] bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Jesus is greater than Moses. Here is what scripture says about your Leviticus belief.
Hebrews 7:11-12 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Like Melchizedek
11 If perfection could have been attained through the
Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—
why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? 12
For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also.
Hebrews 7:18-19 New International Version (NIV)
18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 8:6-13 New International Version (NIV)
6 But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said[
a]:
“The days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.
10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”[
b]
13
By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Hebrews 9 New International Version (NIV)
Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle
1 Now the
first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
10
They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
11
But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here,[a] he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation.
Matthew 5:17 New International Version (NIV)
The Fulfillment of the Law
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.
And that is indeed what Jesus did. He fulfilled what we couldn't do.