The Law of Moses

The Law of Moses

Notes and Thoughts from Teaching by Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj 2018

Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His commandments fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” Lamentations 3:22-24 NKJV

“Remember the Law of Moses My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Malachi 4:4-6 NKJV

The Church has correctly and incorrectly taught that the Law of Moses was nailed to the cross and no longer applies to the Church. What is correct is that the ceremonial laws were nailed to the cross and no longer apply to Christians; Jesus continually chastised the religious leaders of Israel for following their ceremonial laws over the 10 commandments; the Sabbath, washings, eating, treatment of parents, and judging. Plus Jesus further defined the 10 commandments, murder is not just killing a person but hating them, sexual sin is not just doing it but thinking it, virtue in not public performance but private in the presence of GOD. Why would He discount their ceremonial laws and reemphasize the 10 commandments if He was going to nail them to the cross? In Acts 10 Peter had a vision of all kinds of animals being offered to him to eat by GOD and he refused because he had never eaten any unclean thing, but the LORD told Peter that, “What GOD has cleansed you must not call common.” Then Holy Spirit told him to go with some men without question and he did; he enter the house of a gentile (a Roman Centurion) and preached Jesus and all of the household were filled by Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. To this point the Church made up of Jews was still following many of the ceremonial laws; GOD brought persecution to the Church to get it out of Jerusalem and Judea into Samaria and into the rest of the world showing them that the ceremonial laws no longer applied to the Church. This was an issue all through the New Testament writings where the Jewish believers are trying to make gentile Christians obey the ceremonial laws of Moses like circumcision (which is not in the 10 commandments). The 10 commandments were not abolished and GOD expects His Church to keep and teach them.