The Lord alone is our
lawgiver, King and Judge (Isaiah 33:22, James 4:12).
God alone defines crime and punishment, right and wrong, truth and
error. We do not want to poke-fun at the
Laws of God. We need to remember
that all of God’s Laws are an expression of His holiness. Whether we understand them or not we
still need to remember that it comes from the All-wise, All-knowing Almighty
God.
We know that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment and substance of all the ceremonial laws but the civil and moral laws remain. He said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill (Matt 5:17,18).” Jesus made that plain when he condemned the Pharisees for laying aside the commandment of God that says, “Whoso curses father or mother let him be put to death (Mark 7:8:13).” I don’t pretend to know everything about scripture but I do know if we leave our lives up to what we think and feel and not what scripture says then we run the risk of situational ethics.
When Paul wrote to Timothy,
“from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2 Tim 2:15,16).”
Timothy didn’t have a copy of the New Testament next to him when he was growing up. He had the Old Testament scriptures. The only rule of life we have as Christians is Genesis through Revelation. Of course we still need to interpret everything in light of the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So the ceremonial laws are literally fulfilled in Christ and we are no longer under the curse and condemnation of the law but all of scripture still remains as our only guide for education, business practice, finances, family, church, state, etc.
LEVITICUS 19:19 We may not take every single law in the Old Testament literal but we still can draw out principles. The laws written in Leviticus 19:19 were not punishable by death. So we don’t need to stone anybody for wearing wool and linen. The purpose of the following regulations would be: man must not deviate from the appointed order of things, nor go against the eternal laws of nature as established by divine wisdom. What God has ordained to be kept apart, man must not seek to mix together. One modern day application of these laws could be for Christians not to unequally yoked together with unbelievers (2 Cor 6:14).
We know that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment and substance of all the ceremonial laws but the civil and moral laws remain. He said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill (Matt 5:17,18).” Jesus made that plain when he condemned the Pharisees for laying aside the commandment of God that says, “Whoso curses father or mother let him be put to death (Mark 7:8:13).” I don’t pretend to know everything about scripture but I do know if we leave our lives up to what we think and feel and not what scripture says then we run the risk of situational ethics.
When Paul wrote to Timothy,
“from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2 Tim 2:15,16).”
Timothy didn’t have a copy of the New Testament next to him when he was growing up. He had the Old Testament scriptures. The only rule of life we have as Christians is Genesis through Revelation. Of course we still need to interpret everything in light of the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So the ceremonial laws are literally fulfilled in Christ and we are no longer under the curse and condemnation of the law but all of scripture still remains as our only guide for education, business practice, finances, family, church, state, etc.
LEVITICUS 19:19 We may not take every single law in the Old Testament literal but we still can draw out principles. The laws written in Leviticus 19:19 were not punishable by death. So we don’t need to stone anybody for wearing wool and linen. The purpose of the following regulations would be: man must not deviate from the appointed order of things, nor go against the eternal laws of nature as established by divine wisdom. What God has ordained to be kept apart, man must not seek to mix together. One modern day application of these laws could be for Christians not to unequally yoked together with unbelievers (2 Cor 6:14).
