Almal, wat wedergebore word in Christus het 'n nuwe skepping geword en God se aard het. Die wil van God, wat weggesteek is vir die ou skepping, maar is geopenbaar deur die wet van Moses, is written upon the heart of the new man. This means that the new man doesn’t need the law of Moses to walk righteous in the will of God. Die nuwe man is die wet vir homself. By the renewing of spirit, Hart, and nature, the new man shall by nature obey the truth of God and walk after the Spirit in the will of God and establish the law (die morele deel van die wet). But if the law is written upon the heart of the new man, hoekom so baie mense, wat hulleself Christene noem, keep sinning and keep doing and approving those things that diametrically oppose the will of God?
The law of Moses was a schoolmaster until the coming of Christ
Daarom dien dan die wet? Dit is bygevoeg weens oortredings, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; en dit is verordineer deur engele in die hand van 'n middelaar. Nou is 'n bemiddelaar nie 'n bemiddelaar van een nie, maar God is een (Galasiërs 3:19)
Maar voordat geloof gekom het, ons is onder die wet gehou, toegesluit vir die geloof wat daarna geopenbaar sou word. Daarom was die wet ons skoolmeester om ons na Christus te bring, sodat ons geregverdig kan word uit die geloof (Galasiërs 3:23-24)
After the exodus of Egypt, God revealed Himself, Sy wil, Sy geregtigheid, and His holiness to His people by giving the law to Moses, who was chosen by God as His representative and the leader of His people to lead them into the promised land (O. Eksodus 3:1-4:17).
The law of Moses was a schoolmaster for everyone, who was born of the seed of Israel (Jakob), until the coming of the Messiah; Jesus die Christus, die Seun van die lewende God. The law of Moses was meant for the old creation in whom the sinful nature reigns in the flesh.
The law of Moses revealed sin and iniquity was and diametrically opposed the will of the flesh and dealt with the sinful works of the flesh.
Through obedience to the law of Moses, God’s people differentiated themselves from the pagan nations (die heidene), who walked after the will, begeertes, and desires of the flesh in pride, selfsug, Lê, afgodery, heksery, hoerery, adultery and uncleanness, and God’s people were guarded under the law.
But since the law diametrically opposed the will of the (Sondige) flesh and there were people among the house of Israel, who loved their flesh above God, there were rebels among God’s people to whom the law was a hindrance and a stone of stumbling (Lees ook: Waarom het God Sy wet op kliptafels geskryf?? enIs Jesus 'n kosbare Hoeksteen of 'n Steen van struikeling?).
They considered the law of Moses a heavy burden and refused to submit to God and keep His commandments, rituele, en verordeninge.
Although they were all born of the seed of Jacob and through their natural birth and circumcision in the flesh belonged to the house of Israel and lived in His covenant, not all of them belonged to God and loved God with all their heart, siel, mind and strength and because of that, they were not saved and didn’t enter His rest and receive their inheritance.
Because of their murmurering and complaining and their unbelief, ongehoorsaamheid, and rebellion towards God, they died in the wilderness and never entered the promised land.
Jesus represented the will of the Father and fulfilled the law
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, en elke mens druk daarin. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Whosoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whosoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery (Lukas 16:16-18)
Dink nie dat ek die wet sou vernietig nie, of die profete: Ek het nie gekom om te vernietig nie, Maar om te vervul. Want ek sê vir jou, Tot die hemel en die aarde verbygaan, Een jot of een tittel sal in geen wyse uit die wet uitgaan nie, Tot almal vervul word (Matteus 5:17-18)
God is holy and righteous and is no Respek van persone and act according to His law; die wet van die Gees, which is righteous and good.
God sent His Son Jesus to the earth, who was His reflection and represented His will.
Jesus was born of the Seed of God and the Firstborn of the new creation and walked after the Spirit in the will of God (Lees ook: Jesus is die beeld van die onsigbare God, Die eersgeborene van die nuwe skepping).
By His words, wat van die Vader afgelei is, and His righteous walk in obedience to God, Jesus exposed the lies of the devil, who has successfully tempted man with his lies and usurped man from the beginning of creation, and Jesus testified of the evil works of the old man (Die ou skepping).
Jesus exposed all things that were hidden in darkness, by His words, werk, and walk, and because of that Jesus was not always loved by the people around Him, but Jesus was loved by the Father.
Because when the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus (and on other occasions), a voice came from Heaven saying, this is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased (O. Matteus 3:17; 12:18; 17:5, Merk 1:11; 9:7, Lukas 3:22; 9:35, John 12:28)
The will of the Father was written upon the heart of Jesus
Jesus had totally surrendered His life to the Father and did nothing outside His will.
The will of the Father was written upon the heart of Jesus and guided Him. Van jongs af, Jesus was busy with the things of His Father and doing His will. By His walk, Jesus fulfilled the law and finished His redemptive work for fallen mankind on earth (Lees ook: Watter vrede het Jesus op aarde gebring?)
Jesus het die duiwel oorwin, sonde, en die dood
Jesus Christus, die Seun van die lewende God, took the place of fallen man. Jesus was crucified and carried all the sins of the world and took the penalty of sin, which is death upon Himself and entered Hades (Hel, die koninkryk van die dooies), where Jesus stayed for three days and then rose as a Victor from the dead and triumphed over all principalities and powers (Lees ook: Wat het Jesus in die hel gedoen?)
Through the perfect sacrifice of Jesus and His blood and His resurrection from the dead, Jesus dealt for once and for all with the sin problem and made a way for sinners to be made perfect, heel, and righteous and reconcile them with God.
Jesus didn’t come to destroy the law but to fulfill the law. En almal, who is born of God and has become a son of God (dit geld vir beide mans en wyfies) and has received God’s nature shall by faith establish the law (die morele deel van die wet, wat die wil van God verteenwoordig (O. Romeine 3:31)).
The promise of the New Covenant
Sien, Die dae kom, sê die Here, dat Ek 'n nuwe verbond met die huis van Israel sal sluit, en met die huis van Juda: nie volgens die verbond wat Ek met hulle vaders gesluit het op die dag toe Ek hulle aan die hand geneem het om hulle uit Egipteland uit te lei nie; wat hulle My verbond verbreek het, al was ek 'n man vir hulle, sê die Here: Maar dit sal die verbond wees wat Ek met die huis van Israel sal sluit;
Na daardie dae, sê die Here, Ek sal my wet in hulle binneste gee, en skryf dit in hulle harte; en hulle God sal wees, en hulle sal my volk wees. En hulle sal nie meer elkeen sy naaste leer nie, en elkeen sy broer, sê, Ken die Here: want hulle sal My almal ken, van die geringste tot die grootste van hulle, sê die Here: want Ek sal hulle ongeregtigheid vergewe, en Ek sal nie meer aan hulle sonde dink nie. (Jeremia 31:31-34)
En Ek sal hulle een hart gee, en Ek sal 'n nuwe gees in julle binneste gee; en Ek sal die hart van klip uit hulle vlees verwyder, en sal hulle 'n hart van vlees gee: sodat hulle in My insettinge kan wandel, en onderhou My verordeninge, En doen dit: en hulle sal my volk wees, en Ek sal hulle God wees (Esegiël 11:19-20)
Want Ek sal jou onder die heidene uit haal, en versamel julle uit al die lande, en sal jou in jou eie land bring. Dan sal Ek skoon water op jou sprinkel, en julle sal rein wees: van al jou vuilheid, en van al jou afgode, sal ek jou reinig. Ek sal jou ook 'n nuwe hart gee, en Ek sal 'n nuwe gees in jou binneste gee: en Ek sal die hart van klip uit julle vlees wegneem, en Ek sal jou 'n hart van vlees gee. En ek sal my gees in jou plaas, en veroorsaak dat u in my insettinge loop, en julle sal my oordele hou, En doen dit (Esegiël 36:24-27)
Want deur een offer het Hy die wat geheilig word, vir altyd volmaak. Waarvan die Heilige Gees ook vir ons 'n getuie is: want daarna het hy vantevore gesê, Dit is die verbond wat Ek ná daardie dae met hulle sal sluit, sê die Here, Ek sal My wette in hulle harte gee, en in hulle gedagtes sal Ek hulle skrywe; En aan hulle sondes en ongeregtighede sal Ek nie meer dink nie (Hebreërs 10:14-17)
In the Old Covenant God gave the promise of a New Covenant (because the house of Israel and Juda had broken His Covenant), wherein by one offering He would perfect them, who would be sanctified (in Hom), and put a new spirit, His Spirit within them and replace the heart of stone by a heart of flesh, so that they would walk in His statutes and keep His ordinances, His judgments, and they would be His people and He would be their God.
This promise of God was fulfilled on the Pinksterdag when about 120 disciples of Jesus were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance (Handelinge 2).
The old man had become the new man and was no longer carnal and didn’t possess a heart of stone, but had become spiritual and had received a new heart of flesh, upon which the laws of God (Sy wil) were written and caused them to do the will of God and keep His commandments (Lees ook: Waarom het God sy wet op tablette van klip geskryf? And The commandments of God vs the commandments of Jesus).
The law is written upon the heart of the new man
Want wanneer die heidene, wat nie die wet het nie, doen van nature die dinge wat in die wet vervat is, these having not the law, are the law unto themselves: wat die werk van die wet toon wat in hulle harte geskryf is, hulle gewete getuig ook, en hulle gedagtes is gemeen terwyl hulle mekaar beskuldig of anders verskoon; in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel (Romeine 2:14-16)
Salvation came first to the house of Israel and then to the Gentiles. Because by faith in Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him, the Gentiles also had the ability to be saved and by His blood receive forgiveness of sin and be redeemed from the reign of the devil and the power of darkness and be translated into the Kingdom of God’s beloved Son, and be reconciled with God and become fellow partakers of His Body; the Church and the spiritual things and fellow partakers of His promise in Christ Jesus and live as fellow heirs in union with God in the New Covenant (O. Romeine 15:27, Efesiërs 3:6-7, Kolossense 1:12-23)
Deur die bestendiging van die Heilige Gees, Die wet van God, wat Sy wil verteenwoordig, is written upon the heart of the new man, and because of that the new shall walk by faith in obedience to the Word in the will of God.
Die nuwe man is die wet vir homself
Daarom was die wet ons skoolmeester om ons na Christus te bring, sodat ons geregverdig kan word uit die geloof. Maar daarna het geloof gekom, ons is nie meer onder 'n skoolmeester nie. Want julle is almal kinders van God deur die geloof in Christus Jesus. Want almal van julle wat in Christus gedoop is, het hulle met Christus beklede. Daar is nie Jood of Griek nie, daar is nie band of vry nie, daar is nie manlik nóg vroulik nie: want julle is almal een in Christus Jesus (Galasiërs 3:24-28)
Deur geloof en wedergeboorte in Christus, there is no difference anymore between the circumcised in the flesh; the people who are born of the seed of Israël and are God’s covenant people and live under the law of Moses, and the uncircumcised in the flesh; die heidene, who don’t belong to God’s covenant people and are not under the law.
The law of Moses was a schoolmaster for the children of Israel until the coming of Jesus Christ, who redeemed them from the law through faith and regeneration in Him.
The Gentiles are not born under the law, but when they are baptized in Christ and clothed with Christ and receive the Holy Spirit and become a new creation, they shall automatically do the will of God from their new heart, Gees, and nature and establish the law. They are the law unto themselves, not because they have to, but because they want to.
Because all, who are baptized in Christ are clothed with Christ and have become a new creation and are all one in Christ Jesus and belong to the same Body and have received the same Holy Spirit, whereby the laws are written upon their heart and they shall love God above all and walk in obedience in the will of the Father and keep the commandments of Jesus and please and honor Him and glorify the Father.
Dié, who reject the law, reject the Holy Spirit
If there are people, who say they believe and are born again, but don’t keep the commandments of Jesus and don’t do what He says and don’t walk according to the will of God, but keep sinning and keep living in rebellion towards God’s Word in iniquity, then the Word testifies, that they are not a new creation and don’t belong to God and don’t have the Holy Spirit abiding in them, but they are still the old creation, who belongs to the ruler of the world and has the spirit of the world and live from their sinful, opstandig, and prideful nature, since they compromise with the world approving sin and keep walking after the flesh doing the works of the flesh,
Their love for their flesh is bigger than their love for Jesus and because of that they don’t want to submit to Christ and are not willing to change.
Freedom in Christ doesn’t mean redemption from the will of God (die morele deel van die wet) and the commandments of Jesus, but freedom in Christ means redemption from the power of the devil and sin and death, wat in die vlees heers.
Faith is not an addition to your old life and doesn’t revolve around going to church every week and following a set of laws, reëls, rituele, feeste, ens. which are imposed on man, but faith is your life through a personal encounter with Jesus Christ and the crucifixion of the flesh and the resurrection of the spirit from the dead in Christ and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, whereby you shall live from your new nature (God se natuur), doing the will of God whereby you shall establish the law.
‘Wees die sout van die aarde’
