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Re: Lesson #2 - Jew and Gentile
[Re: Daryl]
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07/13/10 05:56 PM
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Despite the emphasis on the Jewish traditions in the lesson, Tuesday's point is confused, somewhat : the moral law is the law in Galatians that leads to Christ and is replaced as a 'saving' tool by him as we accept him. The "law in Galatians" is very important, having being clarified in our midst since 1888, but disputed or avoided nevertheless to this day. ...The feast of tablernacles is indeed outstanding, but all point to Christ, even today..., to inspire us, like Passover and the Day of Atonement. They are not obligatory feasts. The moral law is a guide for us to reach for Christ, who writes it on our hearts in our conversion experience, according to Jer 31:33, praise the Lord. Once we're believers the whole law is fulfilled as we live the life of faith, one day at a time, within this lifetime, for the final generation. What happens to the law wasn't actually allowed by the late author of the lesson, though he suggested that obedience wasn't excluded from our experience of the gospel - but, how much obedience?...full obedience, of course. It is the moral law which leads to Christ and which Christ imputes to our hearts with his Spirit, then indeed to form perfect, Christlike characters in our lives as we cooperate with him. An internalised law is indeed being made righteous (Rom 5:19), the experience of justification by faith.
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Re: Lesson #2 - Jew and Gentile
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07/15/10 04:14 PM
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The law was given at Sinai to teach the people the impossibility of keeping it in their own strength. Their clear violation of it - golden calf - showed them their need of a Savior. Hence, the law, by showing them that they fall short of God's standard, led them to Christ, who it the only One who can meet the standard.
And once they accept Jesus, He gives them His righteousness, both imputed and imparted, so that they could meet the standard.
By God's grace, Arnold
There is no excuse for any one in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation. RH 12/20/1892
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Re: Lesson #2 - Jew and Gentile
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Re: Lesson #2 - Jew and Gentile
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The 1901 General Conference Bulletin, April 4, speaks of Christ's taking "the necessary steps of repentance" on behalf of the human race. The following quote makes clear that it's possible for one person to feel repentance for another: As we see souls out of Christ, we are to put ourselves in their place, and in their behalf feel repentance before God, resting not until we bring them to repentance. ... showing them how to repent, and trying to lead them step by step to Jesus Christ (MS 92, 1901; SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 960 [404]). This is what Christ did. He put Himself in our place, and in our behalf felt repentance before God. Only Christ could repent perfectly (for our sins, of course, since He didn't have any of His own).
Those who wait for the Bridegroom's coming are to say to the people, "Behold your God." The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love.
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