The clear answer to the question posed in the title of this information is YES. The Psalms and the Prophets testify together harmoniously that the commandments of God in bodied in the law exist today, and are eternal. The reason why this is so, is that God is law, and the written law is just a reflection of both His person and His purposes. I suppose this same truth exists on earth of men. For what person or government ever established, and enforced a law that has been not after his/its own value system and purpose? Good and righteous men create good and righteous laws. Wicked men create evil and foolish laws. Each after their person, and their purposes.
Therefore, upon this reasoning alone, how could it ever be believed that the laws of the eternal God, who's both creator and master of everything could ever be annulled, or made void? For to make void His law is corresponding to making God Himself void. Can the Person who created things, and by whose power and wisdom things are sustained, can this individual be made void? The clear answer is obviously no, and neither can His law be made void.
The purpose of this information is to stand in opposition to the belief system that proposes that the grace of God that has been revealed by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ has made the Law void by bringing testimony forth from not just New Testament sources, but in addition the from the Psalms and the Prophets. The source material that the early Apostles preached from and used to establish the New Testament Scripture, and Church.
In the fantastic treatise that individuals now reference since the Book Of Romans the Apostle Paul, who in his time was a good promoter and defender of the faith, establishes the reality that Christ stands between the Believer and the Law. This really is pointedly spoken of in Roman's 5:14 where it says, "...for ye are not under the law, but under grace." And obviously we all know that grace (favor) that the apostle is these are is accessed only by the faith of the Believer. Tax Thus, it is written in another place, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is just a gift of God. Not of works lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9, KJV) However, this simple point I'd make. If the law ceased to exist, if it had been annulled, as many choose to call home like it has been, then a grace of God (which is contained in the individual of Christ) would not need to stand between the Believer and the Law. But I suggest for your requirements, as even the Apostle Paul suggested in his time, that the faith of the Believer in no wise can make void God's law, for please pay attention to these words spoken by the Apostle Paul, (Romans 3:31 KJV) "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." It is very obvious in my experience that the Book Of Romans, along with the other New Testament books clearly testify that the Believer is justified purely by the mercy of God, completely independent of the keeping of the commandments of the law, for the reason that NO man (with the exception of Christ) has ever been able to obey it. However, once a soul of man has been justified by the mercy of God, then righteousness for the reason that person's behavior, and consequently a life that rightly testifies of eternal and heavenly realities can just only be obtained by obedience to God's commandments.
Why do I as a Christian Preacher bother to speak of this point? It is because the existence of confusion, outright unbelief, and disobedience in relation to the reality that God's laws were never made void, but are in this day, as in every times past, meant to be fleshed out. Failure to acknowledge and obey this truth brings forth tremendous error in the belief system, consequently the method of life of several people. Several classic samples of this which have very far reaching ramifications are:
- That so many refuse to obey the commandment of God that teaches the keeping of the Sabbath
- The failure of so many to admit and practice the reality that the Law of God hasn't, and doesn't now permit equality of headship between men and women
- That so many refuse to adorn the sexes distinct fully different, the main one from the other. For to disobey this is an abomination in God's sight: for He created the sexes within their persons to reflect completely different eternal and heavenly realities
- Corruptions of the reality that marriage is just a picture of the relationship of Christ and the Believer. The wife (or wives if he's significantly more than one) is owned by the husband, and thus, as Christ owns all Believers the husband is to mimic Christ in every points of authority and responsibility toward his wife, and the youngsters she brings forth. The lady is to mimic the correct actions of a Believer toward Christ in her actions and attitude toward her husband. To complete less than this is to mock ab muscles grace of God that calls us to Christ, and to divorce un-scriptually is to rehearse an abomination. For God hates divorce.
The Psalms Repeatedly Speak Of The Beauty And Purpose Of God's Law
- Psalms 19:7-9 KJV-The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord does work, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. Worries of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
John the Revelator's Wisdom
John testifies to whoever has eyes to see, and ears to know, that Believers have two signature qualities which meet God's approval.
- Revelation 12:17 KJV-And the dragon was wroth with the lady, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep carefully the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
- Revelation 14:12 KJV--This is actually the patience of the saints: here are they that keep carefully the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ.
The Prophet Isaiah Was Able To Foresee
Isaiah could look ahead in the Spirit to an occasion once the Law of God would fill the earth.
- Isaiah 42:4 KJV-He shan't fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait on His law.
Jeremiah the Prophet Foresaw A Time When God's Law Would Be Written, Not In Tablets Of Stone, But In The Hearts Of Men
- Jeremiah 31:33 KJV-But this shall be the covenant that I can make with your house of Israel; After days past saith the Lord I'll put my law within their inward parts and write it within their hearts, and is going to be their God, and they shall be my people.
The Prophet Micah Foreseeing The End Times
- Micah 4:1-2 KJV--But within the last days.....and many nations shall come,.....and he (Christ our Lord) will teach us of His ways, and we shall walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion.....
Malachi Speaks Of A Believer's Responsibility In Handling Yahweh's Word
The Old Testament Priest was a photo of a New Testament Minister, who's a minister of the term of the Lord, that the law is apart of.
- Malachi 2:7 KJV-For the Priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they need to seek the law at his mouth; for he's a messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
- Malachi 4:1&4 KJV-For, behold the day cometh, that shall burn being an oven; and all of the proud, yea, and all that wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up.....(who can it be that does wickedly? All the ones that don't abide in the faith of Jesus and don't keep His commandments) Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him at Horeb for several Israel, with the statues and judgments.
