Does anyone believe we can and must keep the 10 Commandments?
I think we need to be reborn in Christ so that we don’t need to be told “ don’t have any other gods” but we are reborn with a new nature that doesn’t want to do that so we keep it by our new nature we find in Christ .
I think keeping Gods word should become our nature and I believe faith in Christ and his word makes that change so we don’t need the law telling us what not to do , we won’t be lying , cheating , stealing and those things won’t be our desire and motive any longer
but we have to follow the spirit in the gospel to get there
So you have the commandment to a sinner saying “ don’t commit adultery with your flesh or you will die “
and the truth of overcoming the sin of the flesh is to believe the spirit “ it’s wrong for you to entertain even the ideas that lead to adultery , rod your heart and mind of that and you won’t have any desire to commit adultery “
“Ye have heard that it was said by
them of old time,
Thou shalt not commit adultery:
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
Matthew 5:27-28
“There is therefore now
no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit.
For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:1-2
there are two laws one of the spirit which says “ the reason you struggle with sin is inside of your mind and heart fight the battle there and win the war “
the law of the flesh says to the flesh “ don’t do any of the things you want to do by your sinful nature or you will die “
so we have to learn what this means
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of
the flesh is flesh; and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
John 3:3, 5-
“This I say then,
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But
if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
Galatians 5:16-18
we need to be led by the Law of the spirit being written on our hearts because we believe in Jesus
“
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
John 6:63
when we are born in Christ the commandments aren’t a grievance or debate we don’t even need to see them anymore because we’re new , having our minds and hearts remade because we believed the Gospel and persevered by faith