Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:46:54 AM
‘The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.’ [Deuteronomy 29:29]
We submit to you that something better than Moses has come. Moses gave us a foundation in moral law, but his ceremonial and civil law has passed away with the temple and its bloody sacrifices.
‘I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.’ [Deuteronomy 18:15]
The Law reveals our sin and condemns us. It teaches us our great need of grace. Moses has no mercy and no power to justify. These things are found in the New Covenant Prophet. The Pharisees questioned Jesus about the woman caught in adultery, ‘Moses commanded that such should be stoned. But what do you say?’ [John 8]
In Jesus came grace and the fulfillment of the righteousness of God by faith first practiced by our father in the faith…
‘Abraham believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.’ [Genesis 15:6]
When men say that they will not have this Man rule over them, they are not referring to Moses. The history of freedom does not trace back to the Law of Moses, but to the gospel in the Old Testament and to the full light of the gospel in Jesus Christ. The gospel is where men are set free from the curse of the law.
Life lies in looking to the provision given by God…
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." [Numbers 21:8]
Moses taught us in types and shadows that grace and mercy will come to the covenant people through a blood bought redemption.
’And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up’ [John 3:14].
The Son of Man has brought fulfillment to the Law and to the Prophets by offering up Himself once and for all at the cross…
‘Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?’ And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. [Luke 24:26]
Hope lies in the great covenant promises made to Abraham and to his seed…the same seed of the woman prophesied Genesis 3:15 that would crush the serpent’s head.
‘In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed…’ [Genesis 22:18; Galatians 3:8,16]
The advancement of the West is a living testimony to the authority of whole Bible. The kingdom of God has come and is advancing wherever the gospel is preached and the Creator and Redeemer God is worshipped in spirit and truth. Men need the complete revelation. We are no longer children to be taught by types and shadows. The substance has come and fully revealed the living God for all men to see. We shall not separate what God has joined together. How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?
So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, "Give God the glory! We know that this Man is a sinner." He answered and said, "Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see."…Then they reviled him and said, "You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where He is from." The man answered and said to them, "Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes! Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him. Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind. If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing." [John 9]