Expert: Rev Philip Dacre - 12/20/2009

Question
QUESTION: Hi, I'm wondering:
Did JESUS break any of The Law of GOD? If so, how? If not, why not? Thank you!

ANSWER: Dear Ron,



Yes Jesus came to change the law process to the grace process. Technically he broke the Sabbath laws, and also He did not condone stoning the adulteress. Probably more besides this. However He did not come to take away goodness and virtue but to change hearts of men and women so that they would want to do good, not be forced to do good.


The law motivation was fear. The Jesus motivation is love. Big difference. Condemnation does not cause humans to overcome doing wrong. Love does.


By changing hearts with love motivation Jesus caused more goodness and virtue to be achieved than the law ever caused. This time with the will of man being directly involved. The changed heart caused men to want to do what was right. A new nature within and the power to achieve it. The law undermined men from doing good, always making them to feel inferior and weak... an bad side product. Whilst the law is not wrong, the motivation to keep the law was wrong. With the coming of the new kingdom on earth (albeit unseen), power was able to enable men and women to overcome evil and do good. Their will being directly involved.

Loving God with all your heart enables us to accomplish in the New Testament that which the Old Testament could only force men to do.

As with a child, we tutor the child to want to do good and so obey the law from this motivation.

Jesus broke His own commandments to show the reason for these commandments.

God bless

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QUESTION: Dear Rev Philip,
Though I agree with your statement that HE "came to change the hearts of men and women", if JESUS actually broke the Law, as you suggest, HE then would, by the very standard that was established by GOD to identify sin, (i.e. The Law), become a sinner, making Paul's and Peter's statements about HIM false:"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Cor. 5:21). "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin" (Hebrews 4:15). "To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 'He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth'" (1 Pt. 2:21-22). The two examples that you site are also not accurate according to the ONLY Scriptures that were available to men during the times of the New Testament writers. JESUS did not break The Law of GOD by healing on the Sabbath. No where in The Holy Scriptures do we find healing on the Sabbath contradictory to The Law of GOD. It WAS however, contradictory to the law of sectarian Judaism, which was comprised of their traditions and the additions and subtractions that they made to The Law of GOD. Also, the woman caught in adultery was set free, not because she was innocent, but because The Law of GOD required "two or three witnesses" to condemn her. So, instead of JESUS breaking The Law of GOD, HE in fact confirmed it, by not condemning her. Won't you please reconsider your statements and beliefs on these things?  

Answer
Dear Ron,

Or whoever you really are. Are you seeking to argue? Working on the Sabbath is what the sectarian Jews were pointing out was wrong... the second it is clear that Jesus knew the adulteress was guilty of sin. The Old Testament laws demand stoning.

To me these are not sins, of course Jesus was sinless. I merely pointing out that according to the laws of the Old Testament they could have been construed as sinful. Jesus came to change the laws system. Not to take away from its value but to change the basis for it and the motivation for it.

Proper discussions must be based on mutual respect. I do not fight brothers in Christ, nor should you. We struggle against darkness not against light.

I am actually not in the slightest bit interested in semantics or winning an argument. I walk with the Lord and so should you, if you don't already. Arguing about a point of law is of no value in my book. It is of interest as a mere passing fancy. Of course Jesus our Christ, was sinless but according to the Judiastic interpretation of the law, he was guilty. Which I thought was the question? Does it matter what they thought? They are irrelevant. Jesus was God in the flesh. What He did is what counts.

God bless