Dale Partridge - January 27, 2023


Do the Old Testament Commands Apply To Christians？


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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.