Sentences with phrase «jesus kept the law»

While I don't know if it is ever stated exactly this way, it sometimes seems that we teach that Jesus kept the law perfectly so that as the only perfect person, He could credit His righteousness to our account.

His work actually strengthens the claim that Jesus kept the law, and that Paul renounced the law and lived under Grace.

Not exact matches

You could never keep the law but through Jesus you could even fulfill it.

= > yes, that would be in keeping with the truth revealed throughout where even Jesus hammered the Sanhedrin for their manipulative wrongful twisting of the Law of the Prophets.

The Law stays the same, the means of salvation and being able to keep it has changed because Jesus goes on to say that» unless your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye likewise shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.»

Jesus said that he came to fulfill the Law.We are supposed to keep the 10 Commandments [which are good] but we now live under Grace and not the Law.

So Jesus fulfills a law we can not keep anyways — do you believe he was God also?

Damian, Jews were ordered to keep the law in conducts but Christians were ordered to wear Jesus and keep the law in hearts as well, not just in conducts; the reason OT has 600 commands whereas NT has over 1,000 commands.

So not only did the law not justify the one who kept the primary commandment of the law perfectly, thus showing the sinfulness of those under it, and their inability to judge righteously, but it shows that Jesus was vindicated by God for his trust even unto death, apart from the law's judgment, and that he was righteous in doing so.

One of the things Jesus was railing against was the keeping of the letter of the law while ignoring the spirit of the law.

Jesus was abundantly clear in that the law of love is to be our guiding principle in life, and even stated that when kept we have not violated the law.

Brigitte Jesus did say if we have kept these commands of love we have kept the entire law.

Increasingly the church did try to stop Jewish believers in Jesus from keeping the Jewish Law.

When he warns, «Everyone who accepts circumcision is obliged to keep the whole Law» (5:3), he is speaking both literally to the Galatians and also typologically to us: If we insist on following the old customs required by those laws which have not yet been superseded by faith in Jesus Christ (that faith «which makes its power felt through love»), we will continue to be slaves, to be kept in our place, to be oppressed by those who have power through those laws to dominate us.

Nobody can keep the law except Jesus Christ, because the law reflects the very nature of God Himself.

in Exodus 31:16,17 he said «the sons of Israel must keep the Sabbath... etc. read on and you will see the reasons for this law and Jesus as a jew, obeyed the law but after he died the law was needed no more, see Col. 2:13 - 16.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

I was so terrified and confused, only now do I realize that JESUS was producing the fruit while I was resting and believing... the fear of condemnation and trying to keep the law ruined my faith.

Your interpretation goes something like this: Jesus is saying that He came to keep the law and to be an example for us in keeping the law.

In other words, only Jesus could fulfill the law - i.e. keep it completely and accomplish its perfect end.

Regarding witnessing with the law, most of the time the law is used in Scripture by Jesus, it is directed toward the religious elites who thought they were keeping the law, not with the masses.

The truth, the golden rules that you are so keened on keeping close to your heart is Jesus» teachings as in Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

It was exciting to see the group grasp the idea that they were faced with two options: either try to keep the whole law (which was impossible) or accept justification by faith in Jesus.

Bear in mind that the law in their context is not the original Law of Moses (which was difficult to keep in its own right) but the one around which the religious leaders had built fence upon fence — to the extent that Jesus accused them of expecting others to keep to a law that they themselves could / did nlaw in their context is not the original Law of Moses (which was difficult to keep in its own right) but the one around which the religious leaders had built fence upon fence — to the extent that Jesus accused them of expecting others to keep to a law that they themselves could / did nLaw of Moses (which was difficult to keep in its own right) but the one around which the religious leaders had built fence upon fence — to the extent that Jesus accused them of expecting others to keep to a law that they themselves could / did nlaw that they themselves could / did not.

I believe that Jesus was teaching an interpretation of the Mosaic law which would make it easier for Jews to keep, and which would open the door of the kingdom to all people, not just to Jews, and that ultimately, eternal life is not about keeping the law anyway, but is all about grace, from first to last.

The laws of kosher food, the wearing of phylacteries, the endless meticulous rules about keeping the Sabbath — these were not sacred to Jesus.

As an example of this, Justin points to Jesus» healing on the Sabbath, which fulfilled the Law, not through the strict keeping of it, but through love.

I believe that in Jesus, God has done away with all the laws, rules, regulations, and book keeping.

According to the Holy Bible those who have never heard of Lord Jesus will go to Paradise if they have kept their conscience / Law unsoiled!

Jesus said that He finished the Jewish Bible though we are to still keep the moral laws of Moses and that He came to save all mankind (the Jews are included), and He told His disciples to make all nations His disciples.

It is a building that is called out of The World, it is a building that Keeps His Commandments and Laws (Husbands love your wives (not husbands) as Christ Jesus Loves The Chruch); Wives submit yourselves to your Husbands (not wives) as unto The Lord.»

So when Jesus told the rich man to keep the entire law, it seems arrogant and preposterous to us today for the man to respond as he did, that he had kept the entire law since he was a boy.

The word Accountability reeks of the Law while God is «not keeping an Account / Record of our sins» 2 cor 5:19 Accountability focuses on self and we tend to look for our sin side as is habit in these groups... bad idea; consider Peter who said to Jesus» Depart from me I am a Sinful Man «after the miracle Fish thing.

To keep the focus on the question of purity and eating with «defiled» hands, the lectionary omits the verses in which Jesus counterattacks by lifting up an example of using a technicality of the religious law to avoid fulfilling a deeper obligation.

Jesus Himself said that if we keep that one truth, we have not violated the law.

A. Jesus Christ DID «behave as a Pharisee», in the sense that he was the first human ever in the history of the world to have fully kept the Law.

He argues that Paul was NOT a Pharisee, which is exactly true (he was, but after meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus, he renounced keeping the Law.

That would not be literally obeying Jesus, but it would still be loving, and would therefore be keeping the spirit of the text rather than the letter of the law.

Instead we should say that Israel is no longer defined in ethnic and cultic terms (those born Jews who keep the law) but rather that it consists of all those (Jews and Gentiles) who believe in Messiah Jesus.

Jesus preaches this sermon to show us that keeping the law is not so much about outward actions as inner attitudes of the heart.