Lesson 7 What Was Jesus Teaching? The Mosaic Law

This study is the second of several that will deal with, what exactly was Jesus teaching in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

I want to suggest to you that as we go through these lessons, that you read them, get your Bible, pray, study, and ask the Holy Spirit of the Living God to help you determine if these teachings are true.

Matt. 28  [16] Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. [17] And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. [18] And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. [19] Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Ok let’s look at verse 20 again, Jesus gives the eleven disciples their marching orders, they are to teach people to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them. Now let us look at these commands that Jesus gave the 11 disciples in the next few lessons, and see if you believe these commands are the Christian’s instructions, that we should be following, and doing, in the year of our Lord at the time of this writing April 2015.

Matt.5 [17] Think not that I (Jesus) am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Matt.5 [19] Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus in these verses is teaching his disciples, and the people, to follow the Mosaic Law.

In Matthew chapter 5, Jesus speaking says that he did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil it. He goes on and issues a stern warning against anyone who would teach people to break even one of these commands.

Fact is most Christians are guilty of breaking, and teaching people to break one of the Ten Commandments, very few Christians keep the Sabbath Day as commanded in the Old Testament, and it really is one of the big ones! In case you don’t know it, Saturday is the Sabbath, not Sunday.

In our studies of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the first eight chapters of Acts, we will see that no one, Jesus included, or any of Jesus’s disciples, ever told one person, at any time, that they no longer had to follow the Mosaic law and all the things written, and contained their in.

In fact we will see that Jesus follows the law, and teaches his followers, to follow the Old Testament Laws that he (Jesus) gave to Moses in the wilderness, for the Israelites to follow. Remember when Moses asked God, who do I tell the children of Israel hath sent me, and God told him, tell them “I AM hath sent me unto you.”

That was the Lord Jesus talking to Moses, Jesus is not just the God of the New Testament, he is the God of the Old Testament as well!

Exod.3 [14] And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
John.8 [57] Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? [58] Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Of course this is another subject for another day, I want to provoke you to think, read, and study the scriptures to see if these things are so.

Matt. Chp 7 [12] Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

By the time we get to Matt. Chp. 7 Jesus has already fulfilled, at least 9 Old Testament prophecies!

Matt. Chp 8 [1] When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. [2] And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him (Jesus), saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. [3] And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. [4] And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

You know I don’t have to make a lot of comments to teach you this, because if you read and let the Holy Spirit enlighten your eyes it all becomes clear, simply by comparing spiritual things, with spiritual! What happened here in Chp. 8 Jesus heals a leper, just by touching him, and saying I will be thou clean! Its that simple.

But the part I want you to really pay attention to, and ponder, is not what Jesus did for the leper, but what he told the leper to do after he was healed! He tells the leper to show himself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, it is the Mosaic Law! Jesus clearly teaches this leper to follow the Law!

Alright lets look at Leviticus Chp. 14, and find out what Moses commanded.

Lev.14 [1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [2] This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: [3] And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; [4] Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: [5] And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: [6] As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: [7] And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.

Now I don’t have to try and force, or wrestle with the scriptures to make them say anything but what they say, all one has to do is read, believe, and let the Holy Spirit of God enlighten your eyes. 

The Holy Spirit, bears witness in my spirit that Jesus was teaching his disciples, and the people, to follow the Mosaic Law!

What about you, is this not clear Jesus taught that leaper to follow the Law of Moses, when was the last time you heard a Christian preacher teaching someone to follow the Old Testament Law and to sacrifice, that is to kill an animal for an offering?

Time for another true story, a few years back, I was working in White Sands, New Mexico, every morning for several weeks, I passed by a church with a sign out in front of their building with the following statement!  JUST KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS!

How many of you reading this, believes that keeping the Ten Commandments, is what Bible Believing Christians are commanded to be preaching, and teaching to the world today, during this time period in which we live, the year of our Lord currently April 2015?

One more time, Jesus was teaching the law, and that is what he commanded the 11 disciples to go and teach the world in the supposed Great Commission.

This is not the message, or the Commission for the Body of Christ! Jesus gave a new commission, and message to the Apostle Paul, which we intend to prove beyond a shadow of doubt in the upcoming lessons.

All of the confusion among Christianity/Christians today can be attributed to the simple fact that the church, the Body of Christ, does not recognize the separate, distinct, and unique apostleship, ministry, and message of Paul.

If you fail to understand, or fail to learn how to rightly divide the word of truth, you can never come to the knowledge of the truth, and sound doctrine.

Romans 10 [8] But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; [9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with theheart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles!

2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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