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-If the Mosaic Law is done away, why did Emmanuel tell this man to keep the commandments?.Matthew 19:17-19 "And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why do you call me good? There is none good but one, that is, God, but if you wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said unto him, Which? Emmanuel said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.(*). The young man said unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up. What lack I yet? Emmanuel said unto him, If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have and give to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven and come and follow me.".This young man who was taught the Mosaic Law, obviously missed some of the more important points of it.

When Emmanuel said that to this young nobleman, the nobleman replied with this:.verse 20. Notice what he said. He said."all these have I kept since my youth, what lack I yet?"

Notice how keeping the commandments makes one feel that it's never enough. He still felt something else was needed, that something still was lacking. It was! It was a deep caring for others, especially the poor.

Don't you too sometimes feel that way around some people?; that no matter what, it is just never quite good enough; that their love for you is dependent not upon their acceptance of you, but rather upon some degree of performance expected of your character.

That is because they expect performance from you before acceptance of you; that is because their lack of humility prevents them from showing any.grace toward you, as God does toward us.

If they did they would see you in a framework of mind comprising what you will eventually be. But some people cannot see that. Why?

Such demanding individuals are effective by driving others. They believe more in force than the peace of cooperation. They need to apply the psychology in the Book of Proverbs.

What this young nobleman really needed was the Holy Nature of the Great Infinite One that Christ came to reveal, but that nature of heart would not be available for all the world until Emmanuel died and rose again and sent it, making it available for all who believe:.John 16:7; 15:26; 14:16-18,26; Mark 1:8; Acts 19:2.

There was still a veil over one's beginning to understand Christ:.2Corinthians 3:14. It was not the time of Christ yet. Emmanuel had not yet risen to His former glory that he had with the Father:.John 17:5.

Emmanuel, of course, knew the Holy Spirit, the Holy Nature of God, would be sent by Him once He returned to the Father:.John 16:7. That is why He dealt with this young nobleman the way that He did.

It was still the time of the Mosaic Law:.Matthew 23:2-4; Romans 3:19. Emmanuel taught it; making it even more binding.(Matthew 5:21,22,28,29,31,32,33,34).and said that He did not come to destroy the law, but to bring that law to its full purpose:.Matthew 5:17,18.

Emmanuel fulfilled all righteousness.(Matthew 3:13-15).so it could be given to us as a gift:.Romans 5:17. He had it! It was His to give. What a wonderful Savior!

The law's full purpose was to lead to Christ.(Ephesians 3:11), which purpose would become readily evident by the work He commissioned His disciples to do after He completed the reason why He came and then went back to heaven.

Emmanuel, being the only accurate teacher of the Mosaic Law at the time.(Matthew 12:3,5; 15:1,3; 19:4; 22:31; Mark 12:19 and so on), as the Pharisees had so perverted it to the point that their version of it not only made them feel superior, when it was designed by God to make a man realize he was inadequate.(again, Romans 3:19,20; 4:15; 5:20), but their version of it was almost unrecognizable as coming from the original. So, it was abolished and its entire system with it.

The Mosaic Law was only a shadow of much greater things to come:.Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 8:5. It is now gone altogether, and with all of its parts:.Hebrews 8:13. Although it was a righteous law, it could not make anyone perfect, even if they could perfectly keep it, which they could not:.Hebrews 10:1.

That is why it was taken away.(Hebrews 10:9).and we now are sanctified in Christ.(Hebrews 10:10), that is, He made possible for the loving nature of the Great Infinite One to be our nature. This sets us.(spiritual persons).apart from those of the mass mind of humanity. Sanctified means to be set apart for a purpose of the Great Infinite One, and that purpose is to love.

The something.greater that the young nobleman felt he needed, yet did not know about, was.(Galatians 3:24).this God nature in him, with all that means.

The law's purpose was good. Would God design anything otherwise? It was a law of righteousness having to do with fleshly, carnal things.(again Hebrews 9:10), which righteousness is now fulfilled in us.(Christ, born physically as the person called Emmanuel, fulfilled the physical Old Testament law spiritually perfectly), who now are under no obligation to use the defunct Mosaic Law to regulate fleshly conduct concerning how the Infinite may now think of us:.Romans 9:31; 8:4; 9:32. It is now done away, superseded by the higher nature of love revealed by Christ:.Romans 10:4. This is what now counts:.Romans 13:10 ".....love is the fulfilling of the law."


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