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Excellent insight. If it were not for the law, salvation would be meaningless and Christ would have died in vain.
Biblical standards are important because they provide a clear target that shows us the direction in which the Holy Spirit will be moving, motivating and empowering us to lay hold of that “high calling”.
Clearly, the most important part of education is the providing of ethical standards contained in the 10 Commandments. Whether a Pastor, Doctor, Lawyer, Steelworker, Clerk or anything else, a biblical, foundational moral compass is absolutely necessary as it guides views and decisions in everything one does.
Ignoring boundries does not make them go away. Christ died not to do away with the boundries, but to give us unmerrited, limitless, kingdom potential to achieve all that is eternal…. and boundless!
HEAR HEAR! 🙂
This is spiritual meat. I’ve got some chewing to do!
Great insightful post by Bishop Mattera, Please read and chew on it!
Much here to chew on!
Awesome article and very true.
We read your words with interest. You certainly provide a theological overview that seems to merit careful review and discussion. Galatians and the word “Law” are being discussed these days (again). It would seem that many Bible teachers do not think “Law” in Galatians includes the 10 commandments. They have separated the decaloge from the rest of the Law (Torah) and have placed it into a glass bubble for safekeeping, so to speak and for legal force over others. But when this is done, “Through the Law I died to the Law” (G. 2:19) seems to be emptied of its original meaning. Did the civil and cremonial laws cause the Apostle’s spiritual death and exit from the Law system (Torah)? Or was it the moral Law as mentioned directly in Romans 7 “thou shalt not covet” that finished him off and drove him to Christ in a full way? In additon, for many the “circumcision” mentioned in Galatians seems (to them) to be a ceremonial Law only, thus limiting the meaning of Galatians to that one procedure. We remember that many in Europe have sung the Psalms for ages, praising the Law week by week. The gospel without the Law seems, to them and for many today, to be a scaring thing indeed. But these may lack the confidence that the Spirit indeed works wonders within us if we maintain faith in Him. And so, by this re-defining of what the Law is, the teeth may have been taken out of Galatians. Bible teachers sometimes hollow out some words and phrases of their original biblical force and intent. You seem to do what happens quite commonly through time. By praising the Law (as you do above) and reconstructing it as a lofty standard, you win admiration from men but you also may be removing the stumbling stone from the gospel. Finally, I was telling a pastor that many western church services begin by practicing the declaration of the 10 commandments week by week. He said that would be like throwing cold water on a hot spiritual fire. Finally, We are studying Galatians on F.B. Please find: Rediscover the New Testament book of Galatians.