Then why were they commanded to be immediately baptized in the name of Jesus?
What if they don’t obey these commands? Will they be lost?Christians are commanded to do many things after salvation.
What if they don’t obey these commands? Will they be lost?
The key to understanding the relationship between the Christian and the Law is knowing that the Old Testament law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. Some of the laws were to reveal to the Israelites how to obey and please God (the Ten Commandments, for example). Some of the laws were to show the Israelites how to worship God and atone for sin (the sacrificial system). Some of the laws were intended to make the Israelites distinct from other nations (the food and clothing rules). None of the Old Testament law is binding on Christians today. When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:23–25; Ephesians 2:15).
In place of the Old Testament law, Christians 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…and to love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37-39). If we obey those two commands, we will be fulfilling all that Christ requires of us: “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:40). Now, this does not mean the Old Testament law is irrelevant today. Many of the commands in the Old Testament law fall into the categories of “loving God” and “loving your neighbor.” The Old Testament law can be a good guidepost for knowing how to love God and knowing what goes into loving your neighbor. At the same time, to say that the Old Testament law applies to Christians today is incorrect. The Old Testament law is a unit (James 2:10). Either all of it applies, or none of it applies. If Christ fulfilled some of it, such as the sacrificial system, He fulfilled all of it.
“This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). The Ten Commandments were essentially a summary of the entire Old Testament law. Nine of the Ten Commandments are clearly repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God, we will not be worshiping false gods or bowing down before idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we will not be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. The purpose of the Old Testament law is to convict people of our inability to keep the law and point us to our need for Jesus Christ as Savior (Romans 7:7-9; Galatians 3:24). The Old Testament law was never intended by God to be the universal law for all people for all of time. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we obey those two commands faithfully, we will be upholding all that God requires of us.got?
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Are what you are meaning to say it what Paul summarized below in Ephesians 2:8-10, specifically verse 10 and Gods purpose ?Living in obedience to God's law has nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation from God as the result, but rather it is the way that God is giving His gift of salvation to us. Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sins while we continued to live in sin, so there must be an aspect of our salvation that we are experiencing in the present by living in obedience to God's law. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so we are not required to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result and we are not required to do those works as the result of having first been saved, but rather God graciously teaching us to experience doing those works in obedience to His law is the content of His gift of saving us from not having that experience.
God is not in disagreement with Himself about which laws we should follow, so the Law of Christ is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses. Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Law of Moses by word and by example, so I don't see any justification for thinking that the Law of Christ is something other than or contrary to what Christ taught. It is contradictory to think that we are saved through faith in God's word made flesh, but not through faith in God's word.
While Paul denied in Ephesians 2:8-10 that we can earn our salvation as the result of our works lest anyone should boast, he did not speak against the position that getting to experience being a doer of good works is intrinsically part of God's gift of salvation, but rather he affirmed that we are new creations in Christ to do good works.Are what you are meaning to say it what Paul summarized below in Ephesians 2:8-10, specifically verse 10 and Gods purpose ?
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
AgreedWhile Paul denied in Ephesians 2:8-10 that we can earn our salvation as the result of our works lest anyone should boast, he did not speak against the position that getting to experience being a doer of good works is intrinsically part of God's gift of salvation, but rather he affirmed that we are new creations in Christ to do good works.