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On 7/14/2018 at 12:40 AM, Tyler S. said:

As the church of gentile Christians living in the ministry of Paul, how should we interpret and keep the Old Testament/covenant? I see many songs and preachers nowadays valiantly proclaiming such encouraging verses as, for example, Exodus 14:14 or Lamentations 3:21-24 to ease peoples mind and praise the lord. If the Old Testament/covenant was written to the Israelite Jews...then how can many of us today, as Christians of the church age, use these verses to worship and encourage and ease minds if these promises were never meant or written to US? Thanks for any advice or responses!

The whole Bible has parts written primarily for different people:

1) Unsaved Jews

2) Unsaved Gentiles

3) The church of saved Jews and Gentiles

Getting confused about which is for whom is a BIG problem. For example, if you read a passage about how Christians used to behave as binding on now, you think you can lose salvation (where it says X aren't saved then the next verse is this is how you (Christians) USED to be).

The OT for Christians, born again, saved Christians, is ALL good for teaching, exhorting, meditation and prayer, refining... but you don't have to "do" the OT acts to be saved. You have to trust Jesus to be saved.

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the old covenant did not offer salvation at all....   it was given to the Israelites to have long lives and a land to live in with protection.....     any eternal thing even then was through faith as Abraham had.     It wasn't until Jesus died for our sins that we are able to be born spiritually and become sons of God and have an eternal future in heaven.

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On 7/14/2018 at 2:48 PM, Tyler S. said:

I’m asking if God’s word as written in the context of the old covenant can still apply to our lives today because so many people use it to win people over or encourage others. Thanks!

2 Timothy 3:16     ALL scripture is given by inspiration of God & is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

The old covenant was the ten commandments given at Sinai, it was ratified with  blood,therefor sealed then. After there was other laws added, these were the shadows, pointers, pointing forward to the coming Messiah. They were placed in the side of the arch.  The shadows are spoken of in Colossians 2:17 And is the key to understanding Col 2:16-17 where 95% of Christians miss understand.

m The Old covenants problem was the people said they could follow the Lords instructions in there own strength. 

In the new covenan,t God said he will place the law in their heart. It is based on your faith that Jesus has fulfilled the righteous requirements of the law, this does not negate you from you obligation of  upholding the Law, but if we fail as we will we have an advocate in Christ   

 

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The entirety of the the Torah and the Prophets speak of Yeshua (Jesus).  The key to reading the OT is to put Yeshua into every passage you read.  Every law, every historic event, etc speaks of Him.

For example, the law about manslaughter.   If a person is guilty of accidental death of someone, what we typically would call manslaughter, the person could flee to a city of refuge that had been established.  As long as they remained there until the death of the high priest, they would be safe from the avenger of blood of the dead person's family.  

We are guilt of Yeshua's death. He stated to the Father "forgive them for they know not what they do", which moved us from being guilty of murder to being guilty of manslaughter.   Yeshua is our city of refuge, and we flee to Him.   He is our High Priest and never dies.  So when we flee to Him, we are forever protected from the wrath of the avenger of blood, the Father. 

These sorts of thing are all thru the OT.  Some dismiss the OT as being not important.  Yeshua's first act after His resurrection was to give a OT Bible study on the road to Emmaus.  It is rich with the Messiah on every page.  A lifetime of study is not enough to uncover every little morsel in the OT of the Messiah.  Even what the Messiah's name would be is in the OT, right out in front where everyone can see it.  Give you a hint... it is in Zechariah.  Not some gymnastics with the text, right in plain sight.  And virtually everything that is expounded on in the NT is found in the OT.  The law required that a matter could only be decided based on the testimony of at least two witnesses. The OT and the NT are two witnesses.   One should confirm any doctrine from both the OT and NT before accepting it as valid.  That is what the Bereans were commended for doing in the Book of Acts.

So many in the Ekklesia miss so much by not studying the OT.  

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