About the 10 Commandments

[SDAFMLY]

Are the 10 Commandments still viable today? Were they nailed to the cross? If so, and if once saved we're always saved, then is it alright to say commit adultery, or break any of the other 9?
I believe there was a law that was nailed to the cross, but I believe it was the Jewish ceremonial law, that was written by Moses on kept on the outside of the Arc of the Covenant. When Jesus died on the cross, I believe the sacrificial laws; the sacrificial system was nailed to the cross. When Jesus, the ultimate and true sacrifice for sin died on the cross, that old ceremonial law is what was done away with, not the Words of God, written in stone and kept inside the Arc. I believe those words are as viable today as they were when God wrote them with His finger into stone.
Ps 119:11 says "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." So what is sin? 1 John 3:4 says, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." So if sin is transgression of God's law, what does Jesus Himself say about the Commandments? In John 14:15 Jesus says "If ye love me, keep my commandments." It is clear in my mind that God's 10 Commandments are eternal and should be obeyed, not out of an obligation to earn ones way into heaven by works, but out of love for God. In the same way I keep my marriage vows, not because she has told me that if I want to stay married, I'd better keep them, but because I love her and want to please her. I chose to marry her, no one forced me to, and like wise I keep my vows to her not to prove my love for her but because I love her. For the same reasons I choose to keep God's law, not because I'm forced to, but because I love him.

Have a Blessed Sabbath!
Tom

 

[rizen1]

Amen we are to keep God's law.

We should apply the bible to our lives daily.

I praise God that I'm no longer under the law, but under grace.

Romans 8

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
[a] who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from
the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was
weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh,
on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not
walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 

[SDAFMLY]

Rizen1,
Please forgive my ignorance, but I fail to see any removal of God's law in Romans 8:1-4. I keep God's law because I love Him, but the wages of sin is still death. If I were not under law, there would be no sin (1 Jn. 3:4). In Romanns 8:1 "...no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus..." I believe that as long as we accept Christ' grace, we are not condimed for our sins, not that we are free from the law to sin. In verse 2 it speaks of "...the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus..." Doesn't the capitalized "Spirit" refer to the law of God and that, in Christ, God's law frees us from the law of sin and death (Satan's law). Verse 3, so because we are week in flesh and could not of our own, keep God's law, He sent His Son on account of sin. Verse 4 so that through Christ "...the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us..." and we, through grace can walk "according to the Spirit."
I take this to mean that we are not excused from the law, but that through the grace of Christ we are able to keep the law of God.
Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

I love studying God's word!!!