Matthew 7:22-23 (NLT)"On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name. 23; "But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’"
This goes back to what I have been saying, in my other blog series. If you live under the law you live under Judgment! Matthew is a New Testament book, written towards us New Testament believers! So you might be saying well look at what God said; I never knew you, get away form me, you who break God's Laws! That scripture is geared towards the unbelievers! The ones who would not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! They tried to live by the Laws, by God's Commandments! We cant enter to heaven that way anymore! God does not allow it, because he would have to overlook the death of his Own SON! He would have to say: I know I gave my son to die for you but you can go on ahead because you did such a great job, High Five!" NOO! This scripture is Jesus talking to the unbeliever, everyone who does not believe in Jesus Christ is bound to the Laws written on stone. The stone tablets were created to condemn every single person, to remind them that they are not worthy and should be destroyed. No man on this earth except for Jesus Christ will ever be able to uphold the written Laws. There is a reason for that, and God said that even if you break on, you have broken them all! The reason he made them impossible to keep was so that they would come back to him and atone for their sins. We needed to be reminded who God is and condemn ourselves under the Law.
So let’s go back to the beginning of that scripture, and say hmmm how is it that they prophesied in his name, performed miracles and even cast out demons, are they still destined for hell? Because of the LAW! God created the Law to make us conscience of our own sins. He created the law, because man wanted him to, they begged him for it. When Moses was in the desert, the Israelite's begged him to talk to God about creating some kind of rules for them to live by. They were filled with pride because they told God we can keep all your laws. When God gave them to Moses it caused the death of 3,000 people! Let me show you.
Exodus 32:28 (NKJV):So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.
So on the day God created the Law, 3,000 people had to be killed due to their Idolatry. They had sinned against God according to the new law that had just been written. So mosses told all who were with God to slay all those who were against him. That is why the Apostle Paul calls the Law, "The ministry of death" in his 2nd letter to the
2 Corinthians 3:7-9 (NKJV) 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Wow that is some powerful stuff! So now we know that the Law certainly leads to death. There is no way around it because we are not capable of upholding the Laws God had created for us! We can try with all the goodness of our heart to do good things and bless others or do good works, but in the end it is the Law that will bind us to our sin forever. It will remind us every day of the Fact that we are not worthy to be in God's presence, that we do not deserve good in our lives! Good intentions will still get you a one way ticket to hell! I don’t care how much Good Karma you think you have, it will not save you. Remove that word from your vocabulary, do not let it enter your life, it will just give you false hope and allow you to trust in your own "good works" rather than the Grace and Mercy God has already given you!
So what do the new Gospel and the New Covenant teaching bring to the table? LIFE!! The exact opposite of the law! Jesus Christ came to give us Life! He came to free us from the Laws that were written, that in the end resulted in the death of thousands of people. Let us take a look at what happens when the new covenant is brought in. When Jesus died on the cross he left us something. What did he leave to us? The Holy Spirit!
In Acts chapter 2 it talks about the Holy Spirit coming to the people of
So let us read on in Acts, to see what happened when the Holy Spirit came upon them. Now remember, when the Law was brought to them, 3,000 died.
Acts 2:40-42 (NKJV): "40 and with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, be saved from this perverse generation.41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.”
Wow! How amazing is that, praise God! 3,000 were ADDED to them! Hallelujah! The Law came; boom 3k dead, Jesus Dies and boom 3k are added! So you tell me the difference between the two? The Law brought death that is why Paul calls it the ministry of Death! When Jesus dies and the Holy Spirit comes, he brought what? LIFE! Jesus came so that we may have life! Not death!
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