All of the bible which is the Law and Prophets hangs on Love.
Jesus came
not to destroy the law and He so clearly stated.
In fact this is what He has to say about Moses
John 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
People can come up with their own conclusions of what spiritual blindness is, but what does Jesus say? Is He not our Righteous Judge? The Creator of everything including His own law that He wrote and spoke. Would He not know what is leading one down the wrong path?
Lets see what He says about it....
Matthew 15:3 He answered and said to them,
“Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4
For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ Where is this found? In the Ten Commandments Exo 20. Jesus condemned those who kept their traditions over the commandments of God quoting directly from the Ten Commandments. Should we follow His teachings or teachings of man? This is what Jesus says when we follow our own teachings...
and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me
is a gift
to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father [
a]or mother.
’ Thus you have made the [b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
8 ‘
These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
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And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”
Seems like a really bad idea. Jesus tells us where this leads...
10 When He had called the multitude to
Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
12
Then His disciples came and said to Him,
“Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
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But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
So Jesus in this one passage tells us when we choose to obey our rules over the commandments of God this is what happens:
1. We make the commandments of God of no affect- Rev 22:14 Blessed
are those who do His commandments- which reconciles us. So the opposite...Rev 22:15
2. We are only honoring Him with our lips- not our heart, mind and soul
3. Our hearts are
far from Him. The opposite of the New Covenant- God's law written in the
heart
4. And in vain we worship Him- wow, that's serious. We are told we must worship Him in Truth and Spirit. So worship in vain is keeping our rules over the commandments of God- true worship as we see in Rev 14:12 is keeping God's commandments and the faith of Jesus.
No wonder Jesus taught not to break or teach others to break the least of these commandments because it affects us being reconciled in Christ Mat 5:19
How does one profess faith in Jesus but not faith in His teaching or the example He left for us.
1 John 2:3
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4
He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5
But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God [a]is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
What faith did Jesus have? Did He keep all of the commencements? Are we told that He who abides in Him ought himself to walk just as He walked. Seems like a good idea to me.
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Hebrews 10 makes it pretty clear, not all the law of Moses ended.
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28
Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” [
g]says the Lord.
And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
prophetic word ) that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.”