Why Humans Can't Obey the Law (and God's Plan to Fix It) • The Law Ep. 2
How did the prophets, Jesus, and his followers deal with the law? Join Tim and Jon as they finish their discussion on the theme of the law throughout the biblical story.
In this episode, you’ll learn …
The primary message from Ezekiel and Jeremiah regarding Israel’s disobedience
How Jesus challenged the common interpretations of the law in the Gospels
How the first Jesus followers wrestled with fulfilling the law
What the law should mean for Jesus followers today
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Guys, I think, as a King of the universe, the Law of God is for all His Creation, not only for jews, not only for humans. It the Law of His Kingdom. It's the Law of His Character which is Love. And He gave us in a brief and perfect summary on how to keep it, in the ten commandments.
And although, Jesús made it even simpler, to make us undurstand the essential point (love), He never said "you don't have to whatch all the Law, because it doesn't matter". On the contrary, He gave us example to keep it and how to keep it properly.
We also should consider James 2:10-11 and others verses in the Bible which teach us about the importance of keeping all ten commandments (including the sabath day).
So are you saying that because we can't obey the Torah (Instructions) perfectly, we ought not try to? David, Solomon, the Messiah Himself, Paul and James said it was profitable, holy, set apart, and useful in the life of a Believer.
Do you address the troubling passages in deuteronomy somewhere such as the ones about capturing women etc?
>Doesn’t mean you can go back to sinning and disobeying GOD
There are examples in the bible of people who do just that and are still saved.
1 CORINTHIANS 3 KJV
1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1 Corinthians 3 New King James Version
1And I, BRETHREN, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to BABES IN CHRIST. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
The reason they act that way is because they are immature in the faith. Immature babies act like lost people, in the flesh. There are other examples of Christians who disobey God and sin IN THE BIBLE.
In order to NOT sin a person must WALK in the Spirit, and that is a CHOICE. Whether someone does do that or not salvation isn't about keeping the law AFTER YOU BELIEVE.
The Apostles had a meeting about whether someone needs to keep the law, which includes the ten commandments, after faith TO BE SAVED in Acts 15!
They concluded with this.
Acts 15:24 KJV
24”forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:”
SALVATION and SERVICE are separate issues!
Keeping the ten commandments, living a holy life, IS something the Lord wants believers to do, but NOT TO REMAIN SAVED but for SERVING the Lord.
SALVATION and SERVICE are separate issues!
If someone mixes the two together they will be those in Matthew 7 whom Jesus says "depart from me I never knew you" because they didn't do the "will of the Father" which is to believe in Christ for EVERLASTING life (John 6:40).
John 6:40 KJV
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
The penis head is shaped like the heart. 🫀 What we allow into our emotional mind 🧠 can profoundly shape our soul, which is why we are wise to seek a pure heart. Sexuality is closely connected to the emotional heart and our emotional heart is a container we can fill with healthy consecrated spirit food, such as the Word of YHWH, and the obedient application there of, or with fleshy things such as lust, or pride, which is why we must guard our thoughts. We have the advocate to help, but we must put forth the effort in prayer asking for the advocate’s help🕊and following through in humble (death to ego) obedience to our Savior’s commands. When we are going through trials, when lust enters into our thoughts, as an example, that is when, like flies find your BBQ, the demonic forces will find you, and temptations will be put forth. It is here, we are being tested by our own flesh. Only when we are circumcised of heart, can we recognize this temptation, and we have the ability to make a choice. By this choice, is our faith tested, and if we succeed… that faith is made true complete. We build our living faith’s endurance by choosing the narrow difficult road. We weaken our progress when we give into those temptations and gratify our fleshly desires.
Wish they'd snip.
Same, Paul, same.
I am a sabbath keeper and I keep it as an expression of my love for Jesus. It is a really enlightening to hear from different perspectives. I had my own journey of faith, and Romans 2-4 gave me security on my day of worship that I wanted to share. Indeed that the law cannot save us, doing good deeds will not save us, it is through faith in Jesus Christ Romans 3:22-24. So if faith saves us? What is the law for? We get this story of Abraham and how he was put him right before the Lord. There were no Jews, no christians then. And Abraham gets circumcised– his faith prompted him to obey God. Faith moves us to do God's will, and good acts/deeds and obedience are byproducts of faith and faith without acts is dead James 2:26. Romans 3:31, "does this mean that by faith we do away with the law? No not at all, instead we uphold the law". We follow Jesus in how we should treat our neighbors and how to have a relationship with God but stops on when should we worship. Indeed he challenged the rules of the Sabbath, because He didn't want it to be a burden but to be a celebration of our covenant with God established since creation and solidified in the 10 commandments (literally on a rock). And Jesus was a Jew, and kept the Sabbath even in the grave, He rested. “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.” Duet 4:2. Change is a constant thing in us and around us, but God never changes.
Hope for the future of the covenant people lies in the circumcision of our human dickheadedness, the doing away of the tip of perverted and corrupted minds. And it be wrapped in the Laws and the Prophets for prevention of bearing more bad fruits… How? By Jesus drinking of the fruit of the Vine again in the kingdom, the red letters!
In the podcast you said that circumcision is like a symbol of God fruitfulness being the reason Abraham was made a nation considering he could not have kids so in a way you are saying that circumcision is a symbol that God did it all and of not replying on oneself simply because you are able to so God came to circumcise the hearts of his people is basically what Jesus did by paying the debt we were unable so a circumcised heart is one that realises that it is unable and relies on God with faith just as Abraham did
Paul said, when in Rome. 😂
I love my neighbors (people) but I do not like them (most) people are very annoying and fake
My boyfriend comes from a tradition that believes that the sabbath and feasts are really important to keep until Christ's second coming and also that we will continue to keep them in the kingdom. I find it challenging to see it from the same standpoint. I do believe that Jesus's focus in scripture is on thr heart. He also understands that their is a privileged priest position In the 1000 year reign for those that keep the sabbath. On Saturdays. With no work and no spending money or causing others to work.
Can you shed some light on this topic that may help us bridge this gap. Between grace and thr commands.
Always check teaching IN its context and, like the Bereans did in Acts
Mother milk, pagan fertility ritual in which boil alive a kids goat in goat milk.
Don't worship God the way the pagan do. Example, cut a tree down, put it in your house and decorate it and then say your doing it for Worship of God.
39.5 minute: throwing pebbles reference is not living biblically.
God set up a Judical System and process. A person cannot be the judge, jury and executioner according to the bible. That man sinned when he did that.
We don't have that system now so, but I still cannot go against Torah. That is not love. The Torah, prophets, writting is God's love and God's ways.
I love Bible Project. Thank you for doing these different teachings.
37 min: The Lord Day reference.
Yeshua states he is Lord of the Sabbath.
We need to get gentile traditions and culture out of our brains when trying to understand Hebrew things.
We need gentile culture relative to a specific city mixed with the Hebrew as our base foundation to understand the " unknown god" reference as an example. Paul's used to culture for connections but used Hebrew Scriptures as the Truth.
29 minutes : So leave out the word Jew and say those that loved and followed God. It makes the argument that there are those who stay Gentile or those who stay Jew after converting to Christ weird.
What the Bible says is that we become grafted into true Israel. (There was non-true Israel who didn't understand that salvation has always been by faith according to the Law and the Prophets. Genesis & Habakkuk. It is after salvation that we become sanctified into loving Gods ways and hating the worlds.) So we are now one new man in Messiah. Not one with dying flesh and dead spirit. We now have His Spirit which empowers us to keep His Instructions. Romans 8 & Galatians 5.
I think the argument that Pail had 2 personalities depending on who he is around makes Paul a hypocrite. Paul means that who uses their culture to influence people to Yeshua. We can only understand things according to our culture. Prime example is the "Unknown god".
I love you guys and love the Bible project.
The Humans and the children of Israel are two different entities. The book clearly explains the nations God created and his favorite group who disobeyed him and who have been paying for that disobedience ever since! Today, all their enemies have and still enslave them and rule over them but will be redeemed at the end if they return! Sorry to disappoint you!
King James Version
The Book of Matthew
Chapter 1:21
Yous seem to be both putting your selves under the law contrary to the new covenant. 2sd Corinthians 3:6. Galatians 3:2-3. James 2:10. Impossible. This is why Jesus had to died.
I can't wait for the day you guys dissect the deuterocanonical books.
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humans cannot obey god's law even if according to christ we can and must. the only way for a man with two coats to give unto the man who has none is for him to buy indulgences with them, because he killed another man to steal that extra coat. forgiveness violates the with what measure ye mete rule because the justified condemnation in retribution must be forsaken.
In Romans 14, Paul doesn't specifically mention the Sabbath. In Revelation 1, the Day of the Lord is a day that's referenced many times in the bible (easy to find with a word search). I find it very interesting how the fact that the Sabbath is a part of the ten commandments is always danced around. Like, what part of God's commandments are you wanting to keep if you aren't even wanting to keep the 10 commandments? And in Genesis 2 the 7th day is set apart as holy by God Himself. What more evidence do you need to set apart a day than God doing it himself at creation? The argument that Jesus rose on Sunday and that's why it's now the acceptable day of church worship is ridiculous.
Additionally, the example of trying to live by the law and "throwing pebbles at some poor woman on the street" is also completely ridiculous. The judicial and priestly system in place in Israel to judge such cases is not in place anymore and therefore the punishment of stoning cannot be followed by anyone. People in biblical times were not to just take laws into their own hands. They had a system of government and once someone was found guilty that's when the penalty was carried out. That's why in the gospels when the leadership asks Jesus what they should do with an adulterous woman that they found, he refuses to take their bait to get him to pronounce judgment because he was not a judge.
I love your videos so much because they generally do so much to help people understand how to read the Scriptures from a Hebraic mindset instead of from a westernized view.
However… I was really surprised to hear you completely miss the fact that the only day the Lord ever claimed ownership of was the Sabbath (in 3 out of 4 gospels, no less, so it shouldn't be hard to spot). So the Lord's day was clearly referring to the day which Jesus claimed to be the Lord over… Sabbath (not Sunday). And it also says in multiple places that the early church got together "daily" to worship, so of course they met on Sundays as well. But that doesn't mean they switched to that as their Sabbath any more than it means that they treated all 7 days as Shabbat and never did any more secular work once they became "Christians." Remember, Paul was a tentmaker. Yet he also stated that he continued to keep all of the Jewish laws. So if he made tents on Shabbat, that would have made him a liar, and no one would have continued listening to him. And other Christians would have called him out for beating false witness. And if he saw every day as a shabbat and treated every day equally, he couldn't have made tents on any day of the week, because God commanded that we not do any secular work on that day (the scripture gives more instructions that just that, but that's the part that's applicable here). Paul even mentions that he preached to the Jews one Sabbath and then the gentiles asked if he would come preach to them the next Sabbath. Why wait a whole week if they could have just come the next day to Sunday services? Especially when the gentiles would have been used to Sunday worship.
You can actually trace the history of when Sunday became the popular day of worship, and it didn't arise until the persecution of the Jews by Rome when they started killing Jews in large numbers. So they identified all Sabbath-keepers as being in that same group. So to avoid the persecution, many Christians switched to worshipping on the day that the Roman's commonly worshipped on… The Sun God's day (or Sunday). That way it was clear that they were not Jews and were good loyal citizens. In fact, the Roman church is the one that led the change (for that reason), and you can read in the Roman Catholic Catechism today and it clearly states that it was the Catholic Church that, as they put it, transferred "the solemnity" (or holiness) from Saturday to Sunday because, as they believe, the Pope (not the Holy Spirit) is "God on Earth" and, as God, he supposedly has the authority to change God's times and laws. In fact, even they point out very plainly that there is no evidence that the early Christian church ever kept Sunday in any way other than as they daily came together to break bread.
Isaiah 66 even states that we will all be coming together each shabbat throughout eternity. So clearly what Paul said doesn't mean what so many who read the Bible think it means at first glance from our western perspective. Dig deeper. There is more than one type of shabbat mentioned in scripture, but the other shabbat were connected to the tabernacle system and have already seen their fulfillment in Christ (or since the veil was torn – and the glory had departed – you can't properly observe all of the things connected to any parts that have not yet been fully realized in those shabbat, regardless). But the weekly shabbat is a memorial to creation and points forward to the millennial shabbat (in particular) and the eternal shabbat, in type. Those have not yet been fulfilled, as they are still in the future. And they were put in place even before the fall, which means that they are not connected to sin, but to it's opposite, so-to-speak. Which is why they will continue in eternity. They are a perpetual symbol of fellowship – resting in our Creator and walking in paradise with Him… And yet even when we are restored to that, we'll still be coming together in a special way each shabbat.
Anyway, I'm not a theologian or expert orator so I'm sure you could explain what I'm trying to say better than I have. Because although I understand it, that doesn't mean I'm good at explaining a lot of what I understand in my head 😅. So I'm just a bit disappointed because I thought that the Bible Project, of all groups, would have figured all of this out already. Especially when someone as simple as I am can see it so easily. After all, it's really the embodiment of all of the types of content you teach. So please, please research this and test the symbols and patterns in scripture on this one as well so you can do a new video showing the beauty of this point. Because everything else I've seen from you guys reinforces exactly these points, and yet you missed them 😢 and I know they would be as much of a blessing to others to see as they are to me.
'Though as I think about it more, I'm wondering if maybe this video is several years old and maybe you already have updated this in a different video. Because I've been binging a lot of more recent ones, and you guys have totally skirted this in a way that connects to this point and reinforces what I'm trying to point out. So maybe I have simply missed the one where you actually correct this part? So I'll keep looking. But if you haven't grasped this part of the picture yet, then please do explore it so you can add that next level to what you've already explained. 👍
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