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the ten words are distinguished within Israelite law itself by their exclusively apodictic form: 'You shall', 'You shall not', 'Remember', and 'Honour'. Unlike the rest of the law, they are not a mixture of casuistic and apodictic.From the Finger of God, 90
hearts always needed the removal and replacement that Ezekiel spoke of, so that the divine inscription of the principles of the Decalogue would be a delight rather than bondage, but the only means by which that was ever achieved and the only guarantee that it will continue in the people of God is in the mediator of the new covenant. Its newness and superiority lie in him. Far from expressing hostility towards the law or commanding a blunt assertion that the law is obsolete, he confirms that the laws inscribed in stone do not pass away.From the Finger of God, 318
For Christian theology, biblical theology that stops with what the text means is no more useful than systematic theology that ignores what the text meant.From the Finger of God, 50
Exegetes and biblical theologians who eschew systematic theology will approach the texts they study under the influence of dogmatic presuppositions--whether they like it or not.From the Finger of God, 49
It is good to rest on the Sabbath-day from the works of our calling; but if we rest from labour and do no more, the ox and the ass keep the Sabbath as well as we; for they rest from labour. We must dedicate the day to God; we must not only 'keep a Sabbath,' but 'sanctify' a Sabbath.Ten Commandments, 100
Sabbath rest is not the post-eschaton Sabbath celebrated in heaven, nor the rest that believers experience in death, but a present rest enjoyed by those who believe (4:3), anticipating a greater future "rest" (4:11). Human Sabbath keeping is a metaphor for cessation from works (4:10) in commemoration of God's rest at creation (4:4=Gen. 2:2) and of salvation provided by Christ. The physical Sabbath rest that God's people enjoy reflects the inner spiritual rest, which is a deposit of the final eschatological rest proleptically experienced "today" (4:7)For the Glory of God (280)
All Christians accept that Christ came to fulfill the law, but what did he mean when he said so in Matthew 5:17? Despite saying in the same breath that he did not come to abolish the law, some interpretations of 'fulfill' demand nothing less than the abolition of the law, leaving us with a Teacher who spoke in unfathomable riddles. In addition, when interpreters look at Matthew 5 in one of several self-imposed contextual microcosms it leads to stifled portrayals of Christ's fulfillment of the law.https://kevinfiske.wordpress.com/tag/threefold-division/
I have to reckon up the abuses of the sabbath-day, or the sins committed against this commandment. It is transgressed by those who do not cease from evil works, but abuse the sabbath's rest to provoke fleshly pleasures. For they keep the sabbath to God, but they work to the devil, in gambling, 505 drinking, dancing, and feeding their inclinations 506 with the vanities of this world, whereby we are not only drawn from the company of the holy congregation, but we also defile our bodies, which we should rather sanctify and keep holy. Those sin against this precept, who either exercise any handy occupation on the sabbath-day, or else lie wrapped in bed and fast asleep till the day is almost spent, not once thinking to make one of God's congregationThe Decades https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
We know that the sabbath is ceremonial, so far as it is joined to sacrifices and other Jewish ceremonies, and so far as it is tied to a certain time. But considering that on the sabbath-day, religion and true godliness are exercised and published, and that a just and seemly order is kept in the church, and that the love of our neighbour is thereby preserved in it, I say that it is perpetual, and not ceremonial. Even today, truly, we must ease and bear with our family; and even today we must instruct our family in the true religion and fear of God. Christ our Lord nowhere scattered abroad the holy congregations, but as much as he could, he gathered them together. Now, as there ought to be an appointed place, so likewise must there be a prescribed time, for the outward exercise of religion, and consequently, for a holy rest.The Decades https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
On the seventh day we must think of the works that God did in six days: the children of God must call to remembrance what and how great are the benefits they have received the whole week — for which they must thank God, for which they must praise God, and by which they must learn God.The Decades https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
We should consider it nothing less than shockingly unacceptable for Bible teachers and ministers to undermine the practice of the worship and service of God by teaching against the Sabbath law.Call the Sabbath a Delight
'I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts' (31:33), does not go beyond the expectations of the Mosaic Law itself (Deut. 30:14). According to the Shema (Deut. 6:6), God always intended that the law be internalized in the hearts of his people.From the Finger of God, 203
The new covenant consists of four elements: the law written on hearts, God's presence, knowledge of God, and forgiveness of sins.From the Finger of God, 203
Foods separated for uncleanness were a sign of Israel's separation to a God whose separation was marked by the veil. The implications of its rending extend to everything touched by the theme of separation, including the people and the purity laws. Divine separation gives way to divine nearness -'I am with you always' (Matt. 28:20), ethnic separation gives way to a universal welcome -'make disciples of all nations' (Matt. 28:19), and the separation of certain foods to uncleanness now symbolizes a past reality that gives way to the intrinsic cleanness of all things.From the Finger of God, 189
those who use the threefold division do not view it as the basis upon which the New Testament develops patterns of continuity and discontinuity, but rather as itself based upon the patterns of continuity and discontinuity developed in the New Testament.From the Finger of God, 165
Jesus gave the highest place to the commandments of the Decalogue and his response to the scribe reflected that, thus it is 'with good reason' that the two greatest commandments were considered a precis of the Decalogue.From the Finger of God, 160
if you throw it out and become a non-commandment person and you don't have the fourth Commandment then how do you justify having a moral obligation to treat your employees a certain way because whenever Paul or Peter talk about the treatment of servants? It is rooted and grounded in the morality of the fourth Commandment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YOm0y5EEk
Would you discipline someone in your church who just showed up once a year? Would you allow them to still be members in your church, and if you discipline that person you're basically saying they're committing a sin. Sin has to be tied to a moral obligation how do you have a moral obligation without an ought without a commandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YOm0y5EEk
Folks why do we go to church every seven days as opposed to every 40. And this is especially my question to those people who abandon the reformed position and abandon The Ten Commandments as the Ten Commandments and abandon the fourth Commandmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YOm0y5EEk
the whole Ten Words were always treated as a unit. Specifically, creational imperative may have been given ceremonial and civil trappings under the old covenant, but the moral imperative built into creation remains unchanged.There Remains a Sabbath Rest, 80
Although directed to Israel, it declared certain unchangeable truths from and about God, which affected all humanity, whether they knew it or not. From the perspective of the Pentateuch, as well as the confessions, it 'doth for ever bind all.'From the Finger of God, 104
This should be obvious -every society shows it regards some laws as more important than others by making some penalties more severe than others... It is, however, so obvious that it is missed by those who claim the Pentateuch, and the first century Jews who studied it, regarded the Mosaic Law as an individual whole.From the Finger of God, 91-92
The Sabbath is the market day of our souls, in which we come to God's house to buy the wine and milk of the word without money.
in urging his followers to pray that their flight might not occur in winter or on the Sabbath, Jesus assumed that the institution would last into the eschaton.For the Glory of God, 278
The First Testament specifies only one way of "remembering," "keeping," or "sanctifying" the seventh-day Sabbath: banning daily work performed to sustain life.For the Glory of God, 277
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