If we were instantly perfected, we would not need the Bible as we have the Living Word within. We are not instantly perfect. We also have a vicious, intelligent enemy who has studied Christians for 2,000 years. He knows the kinds of things that Christians fall for. You know, things like dead religion, universal reconciliation, legalism, lying signs and wonders such as the Toronto Blessing and entertainment masquerading as "worship". We need to discern according to God's word. When my pastor started to condemn the congregation, I knew in my spirit that there was something wrong. So I looked into God's word. My spirit man knew that there was error, but I did not know exactly what. The Bible made it clear to me.
The Bible is not a handbook for living. If it was, all we'd need is the Bible and Jesus died for nothing. Why did God not simply continue the temple sacrifices? That was good enough for Israel for forgiveness of sin. But it does not change the heart of man, and that is the problem. People sin because they are sinners by nature, even the very best.
Knowing the Law condemns. It has no ability to save. If you are depending on how well you obey the Law to please God, you are fooling yourself.
Jesus ended the temple sacrifices because....the bible tells us.....
The blood of animals could never forgive sins. It was just a placeholder always pointing forward the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for sins.
Heb 9:10
concerned only with foods and drinks, various [
b]washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ came
as High Priest of the good things [
c]to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, [
d]sanctifies for the [
e]purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without [
f]spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 10:1 For the law (of sacrifices), having a shadow of the good things to come,
and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once [
a]purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those
sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For
it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and
offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure
in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, [
b]O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been [
c]sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all.
Jesus did not come to take away the law that defines sin, the Ten Commandments 1 John 3:4 Rom 7:7 James 2:10-12 Mat 5:18-30 so we can just sin freely - free to worship other gods, free to vain God's holy name, bow to idols, break His holy Sabbath day, free to murder, covet, steal or break the least of these commandments. Its really just common sense.
The wages of sin is death. Christ paid our penalty that we deserve for breaking God's law. We are living under grace because we have all sinned. In order to accept this free gift of grace, does that mean we are free sin and break God's law?
What dies scripture say so clearly?
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Walking in newness of life IS keeping His commandments
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything,
but a new creation.
1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing,
but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
Gal 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything,
but faith working through love.
God gave His law because He is not only God, He is our King. And every King has a kingdom and every kingdom has laws, just as God does. God did not leave it to man to write His holy and eternal law, He wrote it with His own finger- who has more Authority than God? His law is perfect for converting our soul, so if we love Jesus and have faith in what He asks we would keep His commandments.
He doesn't make us do it alone but it requires our cooperation
John 14:15 15 “
If you love Me,
keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [
e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
The earthy temple and the animal sacrifices all ended at the Cross Col 2:14, Eph 2:15 Heb 9:10 because they pointed to a new way to forgive our sins through Jesus, not the law the defines sin that God wrote and is Perfect that shows us how to love God 1 John 5:3 and man 1 John 5:2 Rom 13:9 the Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments including the Sabbath was kept decades after the cross just as Jesus indicated Mat 24:20
Sacrifices are not connected to the Sabbath, the Sabbath started at Creation it was God's perfect plan before the fall Exo 20:11 and points to our Creator Exo 20:11 because God never wants us to forget Who created us and where we come from. Its the other spirit telling us to forget the opposite of what God said.
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