Should we enforce the Law of Moses?
I believe that forgiveness somehow relates to the New Covenant, which is for the house of Israel and the house of Judah. We still have God's Law, but I don't know how the New Covenant is not like the Old.
We establish the Law on faith.
However, the Law is not of faith.
Jesus said that He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill.
The enmity, that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances, has been abolished.
Is the Law of Moses eternal?
Do we report and convict transgressors?
Do we use right or just judgment?
Do not take your own revenge. Leave room for the wrath of God.
God has appointed Jesus to be the Judge.
The New Covenant.
I believe that forgiveness somehow relates to the New Covenant, which is for the house of Israel and the house of Judah. We still have God's Law, but I don't know how the New Covenant is not like the Old.
Jeremiah 31:32 NASB - 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.
We establish the Law on faith.
Romans 3:31 NASB - 31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.
However, the Law is not of faith.
Galatians 3:12 NASB - 12 However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, "HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM."
Jesus said that He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill.
Matthew 5:17 NASB - 17 "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.
The enmity, that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances, has been abolished.
Ephesians 2:15 NASB - 15 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, [which is] the Law of commandments [contained] in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, [thus] establishing peace,
Is the Law of Moses eternal?
2 Timothy 3:16-17 NASB - 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
Do we report and convict transgressors?
James 2:9 NASB - 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin [and] are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Do we use right or just judgment?
John 5:30 NASB - 30 "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 12:47 NASB - 47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Matthew 7:1 NASB - 1 "Do not judge so that you will not be judged.
Luke 6:37 NASB - 37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.
John 12:47 NASB - 47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Matthew 7:1 NASB - 1 "Do not judge so that you will not be judged.
Luke 6:37 NASB - 37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.
Do not take your own revenge. Leave room for the wrath of God.
Romans 12:19 NASB - 19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath [of God,] for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord.
God has appointed Jesus to be the Judge.
Luke 2:34 NASB - 34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, "Behold, this [Child] is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed--
Acts 10:42 NASB - 42 "And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 10:42 NASB - 42 "And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.
The New Covenant.