"LAW AND PROPHETS"
Intro: Some views toward Old Testament.
I. CHRIST RELATIONSHIP TO LAW AND PROPHETS.
A. Prophets and prophesies. "He came to fulfill."
1. 300 prophetic details of His Life completely and literally fulfilled.
a. Birth, life - death.
b. "I have come as it is written of me in the volume of the Book."
c. "Search the scriptures."
B. Law - Moral, Judicial, Ceremonial.
1. Moral 10 Commandments. He lived up to them completely.
2. Judicial (Laws to a particular nation applied for time and place.
3. Ceremonial - Sacrifices and offerings for sin.
a. Here lies understanding of cross.
b. Christ was making atonement.
c. Note - vial rent - Temple and altar destroyed.
II. BELIEVERS PRESENT RELATION TO LAW AND PROPHETS. WHOLE CANON OF OLD TESTAMENT.
A. Read and believe.
1. Some have difficulty believing only because of their limited concept of God.
B. Relationship to law.
1. Does Grace eliminate Law?
a. Grace gives power to keep law.
b. Jeremiah saw the day when God would write law on fleshly tables of
our heart.
By this is meant.
2. Believers and 10 Commandments.
3. Believers and Judicial Law.
4. Believers and Ceremonial Law.
III. WHAT THE LAW CANNOT DO NEVER INTENDED TO DO.
A. Make one righteous.
B. Forgive sins.
IV. PURPOSE OF LAW.
A. Reveal sin.
B. Reveal our helplessness.
C. Lead us to Christ.
V. CHRIST IN TURN GIVES US A NEW NATURE WITH DESIRE TOWARDS HIM.
A. "Work nut your own salvation."
B. Rom.8:3,4 What the Law could not do because of weakness of flesh. Righteous of law
fulfilled by us who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
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Chuck Smith (1927 - 2013)
Pastor Chuck was used in the Jesus People revival where he was used along with others to minister to the hippy young people. They saw a work of the Spirit where many were added to the church and discipled. He has raised up many pastors who are a part of the Calvary Chapel movement now and where he pastors the large Costa Mesa church in California.The Calvary Chapel movement is based of simple principles that Chuck Smith taught over the years such as: The priority of agape love, Simple fellowship amongst the saints, the breaking of bread, the teaching of God's word chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And lastly and most importantly the principle not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord.