2 Corinthians 3
New International Version
3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
This to me says the ark of the covenant is written on Christians hearts 😊.
The ark of the covenant is written on hearts too ? Have you ever read the law of Moses brother ? This his what was placed in the side of the ark
“
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. For
I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day,
ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?”
Deuteronomy 31:26-27 KJV
So God wrote this in our heart ?
Consider what Paul is saying the commandments are for here using the example of “ thou shalt not covet”
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay,
I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.”
Romans 7:7 KJV
That’s a ten commandment right ? Paul’s explaining what use it has its there to teach man about sin and death this is what the law is for according to an apostle
“Now we
know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that
every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
Romans 3:19-20 KJV
You understand that part ? “Thou shalt not kill “ teaches a person killing is wrong it’s sin and you’ll die “ Like this
This is sin
“
Thou shalt not kill.”
Exodus 20:13 KJV
this is the result
“And
he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.”
Leviticus 24:17
One more example this is sin
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Exodus 20:14 KJV
This the result
“And
the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife,
the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
Leviticus 20:10 KJV
Now we might say if anyone needs to be taught killing is wrong there’s a big issue and that’s the point the law is made for people without discernment of good and evil it’s not for a righteous person it’s for vile people
“knowing this, that
the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”
1 Timothy 1:9-10 KJV
See you have to tell killers “ do not kill or you’ll be killed “ you have to tell adulterers at heart “ don’t commit that adultery your desiring to commit or you must die “ ect
Christian’s are born in Christ and taught
what to do how to live others right
the law is telling sinners not to sin or they will die how to not die v how to come to life and overcome the world
God didn’t write a law making us guilty on our hearts he wrote this word here is we are willing to hear and believe this word
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 5:24 KJV
at he word of spirit and life
“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 KJV
the word that sees an adultery and doesn’t follow the laws command to execute her but instead he saves her from the laws demand of her death
now if we follow Jesus we aren’t going to kill he teaches us to love instead and if we follow Jesus we aren’t going to be desiring adultery and fornocation because he teaches us to take control of our minds and hearts in other words if we actually learn from and follow Jesus we aren’t going to be breaking the commandments we won’t kill or cheat or lie or dishonor our parents ect so it’s not like chrirtians are taught to now defile Moses law it’s just a different perspective
zone is God speaking to corrupt man who can’t do right the other is God speaking to those he has remitted thier sins and given them new birth as his children we want this word that offers life and not the one that guarantees the accusation and death sentance of all sinners that’s not going to help us we need the fathers word that came through the son
“And call no man your father upon the earth: for
one is your Father, which is in heaven.”
Matthew 23:9 KJV
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