Ten Commandments Study Guide

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1 Ten Commandments Study Guide If people in our Christian fellowships today were to announce that they had decided to keep God s law, we would probably be skeptical and alarmed. We probably would take them aside for counseling and possibly alert other responsible people in the group to keep an eye on them. We would be sure nothing good would come of it. We know that one is not saved by keeping the law and can think of no other reason why one should try to do it. This leaves us caught in a strange inversion of the work of the Judaizing teachers who dogged the footsteps of Paul in New Testament days. As they wanted to add obedience to ritual law to faith in Christ, we want to subtract moral law from faith in Christ. How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century. The Centrality of God s True Law to Human Life The law that God had truly given to Israel was, until the coming of Messiah, the most precious possession of human beings on earth.

1 Ten Commandments Study Guide If people in our Christian fellowships today were to announce that they had decided to keep God’s law, we …

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