PRESENTATION OUTLINE
How do we Study and Apply the Law?:
I. Dispensational View
of the Law:
While it may be helpful for us to understand the different laws in these categories, the Bible does not make these categorical distinctions.
“Over 95% are so culturally specific, geographically limited, and so forth that they would be completely inapplicable, and in fact, unfulfillable, to Christians living throughout the world today.”-David Dorsey
What does the New Testament say?
“"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”
Matthew 5:17
“And he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself."
Luke 24:25-27
“For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities,...”
Hebrews 10:1
“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
Romans 15:4
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17
How do we Study and Apply the Law?:
Primary Uses of
the Law:
Gospel (Mirror)
“And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.”
Deuteronomy 30:6
Primary Uses of
the Law: Salt (Preserving/Bridle)
“"You are the salt of the earth,”
Matthew 5:13
Primary Uses of
the Law:
Light our Path (Flashlight)
1.Initial Context and Principle.
2.How is it Used and Viewed in the rest of the O.T.?
3. How it's Used and Viewed in the N.T.?
4.How has Jesus Fulfilled this Truth or Command?
“Every Old Testament commandment must today be filtered through a grid of fulfillment in Christ to see how its application may have changed.”
-Craig Blomberg
“"When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable. But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.” Exodus 21:28-29
“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."” Galatians 5:13-14
“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Joshua 1:8
