Is the law a blessing or a curse?
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This cannot be, for the ten commandments were given by Moses and they contain ways to love. If we love we do not lie, do not steal, do not murder. Moses was also told to give commands that are not laws but that taught the Israelites about the law like diet to teach keeping pure and fleshly circumcision to teach to be circumcised to the lord. Paul called them schoolmasters. These are the laws of Moses. The holy spirit replaces these laws.
How can you possible separate the laws that the Lord gave to man? The only separation I can see in the laws is the separation of love. God is love, and if a law reflects love, how can you say it is not of God so we are "no longer in bondage".
Obedience to law gives freedom, not bondage. If it binds and is not a blessing, it is not a law of the Lord. Just ask an alcoholic or a person with any addiction if he is in bondage or freedom. To love is to be free, to hate is to be in bondage.
Obedience to law gives freedom, not bondage. If it binds and is not a blessing, it is not a law of the Lord. Just ask an alcoholic or a person with any addiction if he is in bondage or freedom. To love is to be free, to hate is to be in bondage.
One is not to be dead to a blessing but to be dead to a curse is appropriate. Paul taught that we are to be dead to the law. Some people here are going against Paul on this.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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In Exodus 23:14-17, God says,
14 “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. And no one is to appear before Me empty-handed. 16 Also you shall keep the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. 17 Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
"You shall" and "as I commanded you" don't sound like "suggestions" to me. Rather, they sound like laws which is appropriate as they are part of the Law.
14 “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. And no one is to appear before Me empty-handed. 16 Also you shall keep the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field. 17 Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
"You shall" and "as I commanded you" don't sound like "suggestions" to me. Rather, they sound like laws which is appropriate as they are part of the Law.
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