Dale Partridge - January 27, 2023


Do the Old Testament Commands Apply To Christians？


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In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches on the role of the Ten Commandments as a mirror to ourselves and a measuring stick for our own righteousness. God still has an extreme standard of righteousness, and that standard is the law. Yes, it has been fulfilled in Christ, but nevertheless, we still must work to maintain our personal sense of holiness to that standard.

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00:00:00.000 The central failure of the American evangelicalism
00:00:03.440 is our commitment to preach Jesus without the law.
00:00:05.840 This is so frustrating
00:00:07.860 because the law is actually the thing that wounds
00:00:10.620 and the gospel is the thing that heals.
00:00:12.540 In the law, God still has an extreme standard of righteousness
00:00:16.040 and that standard is the law.
00:00:17.340 Yes, it has been fulfilled in Christ,
00:00:19.660 but nevertheless, we still must absolutely work
00:00:24.320 to maintain our personal sense of holiness to that law.
00:00:27.900 The good news is that though we fail,
00:00:30.940 we don't rest on our ability to keep that law,
00:00:33.020 we rest on the ability of Christ to keep that law.
00:00:36.580 And so the law is the ability to essentially,
00:00:39.240 for the lost person in our evangelism,
00:00:41.160 is to drive them to self-despair.
00:00:42.980 They cannot keep the law, they will be unable to do so.
00:00:45.400 I often tell people,
00:00:46.400 the reason we teach our kids the 10 Commandments is why?
00:00:48.980 It's because we wanna teach them
00:00:50.700 that they can't keep the law.
00:00:52.120 It's the standard of righteousness that God demands
00:00:54.540 that only Christ could keep,
00:00:55.600 And God still desires us to keep that law,
00:00:58.720 but at the end of the day, we can't keep it.
00:01:00.700 We can't maintain that righteousness
00:01:02.700 to those 10 commandments.
00:01:03.700 And this is what sober preaching of the law does.
00:01:07.980 It becomes a catapult to Christ.
00:01:10.100 It takes us to Christ.
00:01:11.240 It forces us to realize that we cannot justify ourselves,
00:01:15.560 but we need the righteousness of Christ.
00:01:17.580 And so Paul is teaching here
00:01:18.740 that the fulfillment of the law by Christ
00:01:20.760 on behalf of his people doesn't nullify the justification,
00:01:24.600 or sorry, the jurisdiction of the law in his people.
00:01:29.420 In a very real sense, the law has a purpose.
00:01:31.120 And what is that purpose?
00:01:31.960 We know it because Paul just said it.
00:01:33.720 It's to bring about the knowledge of sin.
00:01:36.680 That's what it does.
00:01:37.520 It's a mirror to ourselves to show,
00:01:39.420 it's a measuring stick and a rod
00:01:41.280 to make us realize that we are not righteous
00:01:43.420 and that we need an alien righteousness,
00:01:46.140 a righteousness of Christ that can be given to us again
00:01:48.240 by faith.
00:01:49.520 And so the law is still active in the world.
00:01:52.480 still absolutely should be used in our preaching. It still has a purpose of instructing even to the
00:01:58.180 Christians. So namely, the law of God has both a condemning power over the lost or over the world, 0.85
00:02:03.580 and it has an instructing or guiding power over the saints. And this is how we have to view the
00:02:08.340 law. So we still need to be absolutely, you know, thou shall not commit adultery. I mean, this is
00:02:14.200 absolutely something that we should be aiming for. And Jesus doesn't even just leave it at that. He
00:02:18.980 actually says, you've heard that it says to not commit adultery. I'm saying to you, even if you
00:02:25.300 lust after a woman, you commit adultery in your heart. So what Jesus is doing is he's actually
00:02:30.400 saying the law isn't just the actions, it's actually the thoughts and intents of the heart.
00:02:36.060 So Jesus is a law magnifier. So he's saying it's not just about following just what is said here,
00:02:42.840 it's actually the internal state of your heart matters to the law as well, which should make
00:02:48.760 people despair even more because they're thinking to myself, oh my goodness, if lusting or thinking
00:02:53.800 hateful thoughts or thinking blasphemous ideas, if even the thought of those things breaks the law,
00:03:00.400 there's no way I'm going to be found righteous. And this is why Jesus says that you have to
00:03:05.720 exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees, which leaves everybody in the room going,
00:03:10.380 well, I can't do that. The Pharisees are the most extreme religious zealots that are there.
00:03:15.340 and I'm nowhere close to that religious holiness.
00:03:20.020 And this is exactly what Jesus is doing.
00:03:21.900 He's saying, you can't do it.
00:03:23.440 You can't do it.
00:03:24.480 You need to turn to Christ.
00:03:26.640 You need to have faith in Christ
00:03:27.580 to bring your justification through faith
00:03:29.000 because his righteousness,
00:03:29.940 he's the only one that has been able to keep that law.