how do you prove your love for God. being a good person takes and understanding of what God wants from us and I know he does not want us to sin so grace is what saves us and the laws we obey show our love for God.
2007-11-25 12:39:25 · 17 answers · asked by mairszee 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
are the commandments still necessary all ten of them including keeping sabbath. I think it is easy to see we are not to keep sinning if we are to live like Jesus.will we be judged
2007-11-25 12:41:48 · update #1
Jesus came to complete the law. The law was God's way of showing us that we could never be "good enough" to work into heaven. Only the free gift of God - salvation - can get you in. You cannot earn it, only accept it. So, how do you accept it? By loving God, believing in Jesus, and giving your life to Him. In giving your life to Him you will begin to do His will as it is revealed to you - just because you want to please the one you love, so, in loving the Father you'll want to please Him.
2007-11-25 12:54:10 · answer #1 · answered by onparadisebeach 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In place of the Old Testament law, we are under the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2) which is to, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37-40). If we do these two things, we will be fulfilling all that Christ wants for us to do, “This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). Technically, the Ten Commandments are not even applicable to Christians. However, 9 of the Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God we won't be worshipping other gods or worshipping idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we won't be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. So, we are not under any of the requirements of the Old Testament law. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we do those two things faithfully, everything else will fall into place.
2007-11-25 12:45:48 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You cannot sin against a law you are dead to. Christians die to the law through baptism.
And the Christian has nothing to "prove" to God who places His Spirit within them.
But if we "prove" our love to God by keeping the old covenant commandments, then feel free to show where this is supported in Scripture. And don't assume "God's commandments" for Christians are the Law of Moses.
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2007-11-26 05:59:23 · answer #3 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word says
"Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound...God forbid...how shall we who are dead to sin live any long therein..." If one does not properly understand and identify with what happened on the cross, they will not know how to properly live for God. No saint of God PLANS to sin or should be carrying out habitual acts of sin. Because we believe in Christ and He lives in us, the laws are fulfilled in us. We are responsible for the moral aspect of the laws. But no, Grace does not give anyone a license to sin.
2007-11-25 12:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by Gail R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In 1Timothy it clearly states that the Law, meaning the laws of Moses (including the 10 Commandments), is not made for a righteous man. We prove our love to God by reading our Bible, praying and worshiping him (God) and doing what we know in our Spirit is what he (God) wants us to do. When we do sin, we ask for forgiveness and go on.
2007-11-25 12:48:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it is more the opposite.
Not being under the law (Rm. 6:14) obviously does not mean that all purely moral laws are abrogated as commands for holy living, which is the error of the antinomians, for the N.T. constant affirms we are to keep the law in it's holy intent, as revealed under the New Covenant, as we live out the faith by which we are justified by the imputed righteousness of Christ. And only because we have as a gift that which the law demands for salvation can we be rightly motivated and enabled to fulfl the righteousness of the law (Rm. 8:4).
The New covenant is not a lower standard, but calls and enables a higher one, In obeying the O.T law as interpreted under the New Covenant, we see that the law against the sin of adultery is reiterated in the N.T. but extends to the heart as well. But no one can say that since the law against the sin of bestiality is not reiterated in the N.T. then we need not obey it. And to mystically propose that since we are under the law of love then we need no more obey (as under the New Covenant) the moral law (as a category) of Moses is contrary to love, for the Mosaic law reveals what love for God and man entails. And though we obey it as understood under the New Covenant, most of the time it requires keeping it in letter as well as in spirit. It is still a sin to literally disobey nine of the ten of the 10 commandments, though we not saved by keeping them. Nor was it the moral laws of the O.T. that Peter labeled as a burden (Acts 15:10), but the entire law, which included the multitude of abrogated typological laws (such as circumcision), as a means of salvation (Acts 15:1). That the requirements given them were only the bare essentials for redeemed souls is evident inn the epistles, and thus the value of Moses being read in the synagogues (v. 21).
In short, we are not under the law (as an entire unit) as a means for salvation. The law gains it's power to condemn when perfect obedience to it is made the requirement for salvation (because we fall short of that), and we are not under the law in that sense, nor bound to literal obedience to every precept of the law as a whole, but as souls justified by faith and made "accepted the the Beloved," we seek to keep the intent of law, which usually requires obedience to the letter, insofar as the moral law is concerned, yet "not according to t he letter" as if that is where it stops, but according to it's full intent. The letter of the law offers a theoretical limit, but love is open ended.
And in this i certainly have a very long way to go. "Brethren, pray for us." .
2007-11-25 13:30:53 · answer #6 · answered by www.peacebyjesus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rom 6:1 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
2007-11-25 12:46:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christ had but two commandments...if you keep those, you will find that you have been keeping the 'ten commandments' as well...as for 'the law', we are not, as Christians, bound by the 8 gazillion rules and regulations of ancient jewish law...but it DOES NOT mean that we can sin...Christ said, "go and sin no more"
2007-11-25 12:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It means that your good works don't work the trick of Redemption in the Christian sense - that's the exclusive function of the blood sacrifice of Jesus. You're still supposed to be good, but only as a point of good manners, really.
Paul goes as far as to tempt us with "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid." And yet the implication certainly IS that it's worthwhile to sin because it's so much more worthwhile to be redeemed. In fact, that's the only conceivable excuse for the whole setup in which God creates imperfect beings only to punish them for their imperfections, but then sends His own Son to die in their stead that they might be reconciled to Him and made perfect.
2007-11-25 12:45:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Romans 6
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
2007-11-25 12:54:09 · answer #10 · answered by sego lily 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋