Title: Christ Replaces Moses as a Lawgiver Meta: Christ replaces Moses as a lawgiver, just as He replaced other Old Testament types. Moses was the shadow, but Christ is the substance. Moses gave laws to a civil nation made up of mostly unregenerate people. Christ gave laws for a nation of fully regenerate people who all know the Lord and are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Tags: Moses,law,Christ,believer,covenant,Charles Leiter,reformed baptist 1 00:00:00,496 --> 00:00:04,568 Christ swallows up and replaces Moses 2 00:00:04,568 --> 00:00:07,008 as a lawgiver. 3 00:00:07,008 --> 00:00:09,025 Just like He swallows up and replaces 4 00:00:09,025 --> 00:00:12,847 Aaron as a priest. 5 00:00:12,847 --> 00:00:15,768 And He swallows up and replaces David 6 00:00:15,768 --> 00:00:18,257 as a king. 7 00:00:18,257 --> 00:00:20,518 Is Christ a true priest? 8 00:00:20,518 --> 00:00:24,075 He's the only true Priest that ever lived. 9 00:00:24,075 --> 00:00:26,766 Aaron was just doing stuff there 10 00:00:26,766 --> 00:00:29,286 with rams and stuff. 11 00:00:29,286 --> 00:00:33,745 He wasn't interceding truly 12 00:00:33,745 --> 00:00:35,460 and taking away sin. 13 00:00:35,460 --> 00:00:38,978 Aaron was a shadow. 14 00:00:38,978 --> 00:00:42,173 Christ is the reality, you see. 15 00:00:42,173 --> 00:00:44,038 The only real priest that ever lived 16 00:00:44,038 --> 00:00:45,820 was the Lord Jesus Christ. 17 00:00:45,820 --> 00:00:47,705 Was He a King? 18 00:00:47,705 --> 00:00:51,877 Yeah, He's the only King who's ever been. 19 00:00:51,877 --> 00:00:53,813 He's the King of kings 20 00:00:53,813 --> 00:00:55,279 and Lord of lords. 21 00:00:55,279 --> 00:00:57,036 Everything that any other king - 22 00:00:57,036 --> 00:00:58,718 David or Solomon or whoever - 23 00:00:58,718 --> 00:01:00,298 they were just little shadows. 24 00:01:00,298 --> 00:01:02,209 They were weak men. 25 00:01:02,209 --> 00:01:03,816 Now, beloved, listen to this. 26 00:01:03,816 --> 00:01:06,034 Is Christ the Lawgiver? 27 00:01:06,034 --> 00:01:08,821 Yeah, He's the only Lawgiver there's ever been. 28 00:01:08,821 --> 00:01:12,875 Moses was the shadow. 29 00:01:12,875 --> 00:01:14,813 He is the one that speaks 30 00:01:14,813 --> 00:01:18,014 the very words of God. 31 00:01:18,014 --> 00:01:20,402 Now that gives you a little different perspective 32 00:01:20,402 --> 00:01:22,105 about the Sermon on the Mount. 33 00:01:22,105 --> 00:01:24,155 People say, well, all He's doing there 34 00:01:24,155 --> 00:01:26,183 is correcting false Jewish ideas 35 00:01:26,183 --> 00:01:27,355 about what Moses said. 36 00:01:27,355 --> 00:01:29,490 No, He is not. 37 00:01:29,490 --> 00:01:31,418 You've heard this about performing vows. 38 00:01:31,418 --> 00:01:33,712 I say to you don't do it at all. 39 00:01:33,712 --> 00:01:36,845 How's that correcting false ideas? 40 00:01:36,845 --> 00:01:38,918 See? 41 00:01:38,918 --> 00:01:43,285 You have heard you shall not commit adultery. 42 00:01:43,285 --> 00:01:45,215 I say to you whoever looks on a woman 43 00:01:45,215 --> 00:01:47,288 to lust has committed adultery already. 44 00:01:47,288 --> 00:01:50,143 The law of Moses was not talking about that. 45 00:01:50,143 --> 00:01:53,132 It was talking about a civil nation 46 00:01:53,132 --> 00:01:55,353 exercising the death penalty 47 00:01:55,353 --> 00:01:58,106 for an actual act of adultery. 48 00:01:58,106 --> 00:02:00,359 A judge in Israel had no way of knowing 49 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:02,989 whether somebody committed adultery in his heart. 50 00:02:02,989 --> 00:02:05,241 Now, that doesn't mean it was right back then. 51 00:02:05,241 --> 00:02:07,024 In fact, we learn from Job 52 00:02:07,024 --> 00:02:10,275 that he wouldn't look on a woman. 53 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:13,769 But the fact is is the Mosaic law itself 54 00:02:13,769 --> 00:02:19,128 was dealing with a civil nation. 55 00:02:19,128 --> 00:02:20,200 Now what do we have? 56 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:21,651 Well, that mount was glorious 57 00:02:21,651 --> 00:02:23,116 where God gave that law 58 00:02:23,116 --> 00:02:24,554 written by the finger of God, 59 00:02:24,554 --> 00:02:26,017 but if you have eyes to see, 60 00:02:26,017 --> 00:02:29,434 there was something more glorious than that. 61 00:02:29,434 --> 00:02:31,348 If I could choose, I'd like to be there 62 00:02:31,348 --> 00:02:34,240 at that mountain and see that mountain on fire 63 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,752 and all that? No. 64 00:02:35,752 --> 00:02:37,991 I'd like to be there at the Sermon on the Mount 65 00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:41,019 where God Incarnate sat and said, 66 00:02:41,019 --> 00:02:43,701 I say unto you... 67 00:02:43,701 --> 00:02:47,534 You have heard this, but I say unto you... 68 00:02:47,534 --> 00:02:50,986 What's He doing there? 69 00:02:50,986 --> 00:02:53,520 He's telling us deeper things, yes, 70 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,208 but what He's doing is He's giving 71 00:02:55,208 --> 00:02:59,023 the laws of His kingdom. 72 00:02:59,023 --> 00:03:00,714 And these are laws that can never 73 00:03:00,714 --> 00:03:03,436 be given to a civil nation - 74 00:03:03,436 --> 00:03:06,842 a physical nation of mostly unregenerate Jews. 75 00:03:06,842 --> 00:03:08,771 Most of them were unregenerate. 76 00:03:08,771 --> 00:03:11,984 Look at the way they lived. 77 00:03:11,984 --> 00:03:16,075 But He's giving laws that are for a nation 78 00:03:16,075 --> 00:03:18,774 of 100% regenerate people who all 79 00:03:18,774 --> 00:03:21,460 know the Lord and are indwelt by the Spirit. 80 00:03:21,460 --> 00:03:25,470 There's stuff that's absolutely impossible 81 00:03:25,470 --> 00:03:28,652 for anyone other than one empowered 82 00:03:28,652 --> 00:03:31,703 by the very life of Christ 83 00:03:31,703 --> 00:03:34,115 coming from outside themselves 84 00:03:34,115 --> 00:03:37,535 and filling them with strength to do it. 85 00:03:37,535 --> 00:03:40,864 And these are not legalistic 1, 2, 3, 4... 86 00:03:40,864 --> 00:03:42,937 They're guideposts. 87 00:03:42,937 --> 00:03:44,936 They're saying if somebody slaps you 88 00:03:44,936 --> 00:03:46,950 on one cheek, turn the other also. 89 00:03:46,950 --> 00:03:49,421 Well, now what does that mean exactly? 90 00:03:49,421 --> 00:03:52,930 I got cheated on the Internet... 91 00:03:52,930 --> 00:03:57,081 You see, He's giving us principles of life 92 00:03:57,081 --> 00:04:01,517 that is in a different realm. 93 00:04:01,517 --> 00:04:03,841 And the idea of going out here to the world 94 00:04:03,841 --> 00:04:06,789 and saying well, we need to impose 95 00:04:06,789 --> 00:04:09,352 the Sermon on the Mount on the world. 96 00:04:09,352 --> 00:04:11,881 That's nonsense. 97 00:04:11,881 --> 00:04:13,365 That's what pacifism says. 98 00:04:13,365 --> 00:04:14,408 That's nonsense. 99 00:04:14,408 --> 00:04:16,731 The world's not going to live by that standard. 100 00:04:16,731 --> 00:04:18,372 It can't. 101 00:04:18,372 --> 00:04:20,620 So then you've got other people that come along 102 00:04:20,620 --> 00:04:22,066 and they say we need to impose 103 00:04:22,066 --> 00:04:24,532 the law of Moses on the world. 104 00:04:24,532 --> 00:04:26,305 Totally missing the picture that was 105 00:04:26,305 --> 00:04:29,658 given to a physical nation in a theonomy, 106 00:04:29,658 --> 00:04:31,271 in a theocracy, 107 00:04:31,271 --> 00:04:32,967 where you could go to God and say 108 00:04:32,967 --> 00:04:35,002 what are we going to do in this situation? 109 00:04:35,002 --> 00:04:37,067 God says he needs to be stoned to death. 110 00:04:37,067 --> 00:04:40,957 We don't have that now. 111 00:04:40,957 --> 00:04:44,033 That applied to the nation of Israel. 112 00:04:44,033 --> 00:04:46,444 That's gone. 113 00:04:46,444 --> 00:04:49,869 This applies to a spiritual nation. 114 00:04:49,869 --> 00:04:52,106 Sermon on the Mount. 115 00:04:52,106 --> 00:04:53,301 And that's the church. 116 00:04:53,301 --> 00:04:55,587 It doesn't apply to this world. 117 00:04:55,587 --> 00:04:58,468 They can't possibly live in this. 118 00:04:58,468 --> 00:05:00,548 It's a miracle whenever we live in it 119 00:05:00,548 --> 00:05:02,639 in any measure, you know. 120 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:13,549 It's incredible. 121 00:05:13,549 --> 00:05:15,180 You remember in Deuteronomy 13 122 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:20,018 God says if your dearest friend 123 00:05:20,018 --> 00:05:21,830 or the wife of your bosom 124 00:05:21,830 --> 00:05:24,725 tries to lead you away to another God, 125 00:05:24,725 --> 00:05:28,782 what are you supposed to do? 126 00:05:28,782 --> 00:05:31,983 Remember what the penalty is? 127 00:05:31,983 --> 00:05:33,515 Anybody? 128 00:05:33,515 --> 00:05:35,727 Stone them to death. 129 00:05:35,727 --> 00:05:37,399 Your hand shall be the first. 130 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:43,219 You shall not spare or pity them. 131 00:05:43,219 --> 00:05:48,069 So, if you live under the old covenant, 132 00:05:48,069 --> 00:05:50,660 you don't come in and share in the prayer meeting, 133 00:05:50,660 --> 00:05:52,668 please pray for my husband. 134 00:05:52,668 --> 00:05:56,471 He's become a Jehovah's Witness. 135 00:05:56,471 --> 00:05:59,197 You don't do that. 136 00:05:59,197 --> 00:06:00,994 The commandment of God 137 00:06:00,994 --> 00:06:03,105 was to stone them to death. 138 00:06:03,105 --> 00:06:06,368 And you were to be the first. 139 00:06:06,368 --> 00:06:07,611 You say, that's a bad law. 140 00:06:07,611 --> 00:06:09,126 No, that was a perfect, 141 00:06:09,126 --> 00:06:11,305 that was a wonderful law 142 00:06:11,305 --> 00:06:15,239 for the situation into which it was given. 143 00:06:15,239 --> 00:06:18,482 Because He's restraining, He's teaching, 144 00:06:18,482 --> 00:06:20,003 He's taking these people 145 00:06:20,003 --> 00:06:21,884 that are in this infancy stage 146 00:06:21,884 --> 00:06:23,083 and childhood stage 147 00:06:23,083 --> 00:06:26,444 and He's got them under a strict tutor 148 00:06:26,444 --> 00:06:28,362 for their own good. 149 00:06:28,362 --> 00:06:30,465 And what did He say? Then they'll all hear. 150 00:06:30,465 --> 00:06:32,396 Nobody will ever do this thing again. 151 00:06:32,396 --> 00:06:34,718 You see, He's restraining them through the law. 152 00:06:34,718 --> 00:06:36,988 He's trying to teach them basic principles 153 00:06:36,988 --> 00:06:40,405 of right and wrong and truth 154 00:06:40,405 --> 00:06:42,977 to preserve some remnant of understanding 155 00:06:42,977 --> 00:06:46,502 until the Messiah would come. 156 00:06:46,502 --> 00:06:49,434 But we're in a different realm now. 157 00:06:49,434 --> 00:06:51,321 It's an amazing thing. 158 00:06:51,321 --> 00:06:52,932 We're not in that realm where we 159 00:06:52,932 --> 00:06:54,635 stone to death our husband or wife. 160 00:06:54,635 --> 00:06:56,216 We're in the realm where we come 161 00:06:56,216 --> 00:06:57,616 and share at a prayer meeting 162 00:06:57,616 --> 00:06:59,079 and we start praying for them. 163 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:03,813 Beloved, Christianity is made to flourish 164 00:07:03,813 --> 00:07:05,760 in a pluralistic society 165 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,790 where people beat us up. 166 00:07:08,790 --> 00:07:10,330 It's not magisterial. 167 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:13,910 We're going to kill these homosexuals. 168 00:07:13,910 --> 00:07:17,737 That's not the way it is at all. 169 00:07:17,737 --> 00:07:20,730 We're in a realm now where the blessing - 170 00:07:20,730 --> 00:07:22,850 God teaches Abraham - He blesses him 171 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:26,145 with all these physical blessings 172 00:07:26,145 --> 00:07:27,429 to let us know, you know, 173 00:07:27,429 --> 00:07:30,087 that He'll bless those who serve God. 174 00:07:30,087 --> 00:07:32,560 And He still does it today in many ways. 175 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,398 But by the time you come to Christianity, 176 00:07:35,398 --> 00:07:37,216 He's wanting you to grow up enough 177 00:07:37,216 --> 00:07:38,695 that you realize that somebody 178 00:07:38,695 --> 00:07:40,387 like the Apostle Paul may not have 179 00:07:40,387 --> 00:07:45,272 anywhere to lay his head. 180 00:07:45,272 --> 00:07:51,943 And he says often sleepless and hungry. 181 00:07:51,943 --> 00:07:53,603 And He wants us to grow up enough 182 00:07:53,603 --> 00:07:55,727 to realize that God's blessing is resting 183 00:07:55,727 --> 00:07:58,715 on that man mightily. 184 00:07:58,715 --> 00:08:00,134 You see how much more mature? 185 00:08:00,134 --> 00:08:01,982 Paul says in Galatians 3 186 00:08:01,982 --> 00:08:03,710 moving into Galatians 4, 187 00:08:03,710 --> 00:08:05,861 he says you're sons now. 188 00:08:05,861 --> 00:08:07,846 You're no longer under that schoolmaster. 189 00:08:07,846 --> 00:08:09,847 You've got the Spirit of adoption. 190 00:08:09,847 --> 00:08:13,215 You're full grown sons. 191 00:08:13,215 --> 00:08:17,002 My oldest son is in his thirties now. 192 00:08:17,002 --> 00:08:19,501 I don't have a list. 193 00:08:19,501 --> 00:08:21,045 I don't tell him anymore: 194 00:08:21,045 --> 00:08:22,979 you've got to tie your shoestrings. 195 00:08:22,979 --> 00:08:24,681 I don't call him in the morning: 196 00:08:24,681 --> 00:08:26,413 put your shoes on. 197 00:08:26,413 --> 00:08:28,247 And you've got to brush your teeth. 198 00:08:28,247 --> 00:08:30,047 Did you remember to brush your teeth? 199 00:08:30,047 --> 00:08:36,115 Don't put your gum under the table. 200 00:08:36,115 --> 00:08:38,867 What is it? 201 00:08:38,867 --> 00:08:44,959 Much, much fewer rules and regulations. 202 00:08:44,959 --> 00:08:50,156 Much, much greater responsibility. 203 00:08:50,156 --> 00:08:53,769 Our responsibility, beloved, is so big. 204 00:08:53,769 --> 00:08:57,701 We can't comprehend it. 205 00:08:57,701 --> 00:09:00,157 He has opened the doors up. 206 00:09:00,157 --> 00:09:03,632 He says I take all those laws off of you. 207 00:09:03,632 --> 00:09:06,773 Now be like Me. 208 00:09:06,773 --> 00:09:10,618 It's unbelievable. 209 00:09:10,618 --> 00:09:12,173 We're free. 210 00:09:12,173 --> 00:09:13,877 Paul says you're free from the law. 211 00:09:13,877 --> 00:09:14,707 It's amazing. 212 00:09:14,707 --> 00:09:16,378 He's dealing with the Corinthians 213 00:09:16,378 --> 00:09:17,746 talking about immorality. 214 00:09:17,746 --> 00:09:20,100 He could so easily quote - 215 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:23,594 the Bible says in the law of Moses, 216 00:09:23,594 --> 00:09:25,283 you shall not commit adultery. 217 00:09:25,283 --> 00:09:29,054 What's he doing? Dealing with Corinthians. 218 00:09:29,054 --> 00:09:30,763 The most immoral culture around 219 00:09:30,763 --> 00:09:32,559 and he starts talking to them about - 220 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,825 he says you're the temple of the Holy Spirit. 221 00:09:36,825 --> 00:09:48,819 Totally different way of approaching everything. 222 00:09:48,819 --> 00:09:51,072 See, the law of Christ surpasses 223 00:09:51,072 --> 00:09:52,533 the law of Moses 224 00:09:52,533 --> 00:10:01,174 as much as sonship surpasses slavery. 225 00:10:01,174 --> 00:10:02,961 That's how much it is. 226 00:10:02,961 --> 00:10:04,889 The law of Moses restrained 227 00:10:04,889 --> 00:10:08,191 and constrained a civil/physical nation 228 00:10:08,191 --> 00:10:11,701 of mostly unregenerate people. 229 00:10:11,701 --> 00:10:13,752 Held them in check for their own good. 230 00:10:13,752 --> 00:10:17,554 It was perfect for the setting 231 00:10:17,554 --> 00:10:20,401 in which it was given. 232 00:10:20,401 --> 00:10:22,424 But we're in a realm now 233 00:10:22,424 --> 00:10:24,405 that is unbelievable in terms of 234 00:10:24,405 --> 00:10:26,800 the liberty and the responsibility 235 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:27,962 that we've been given. 236 00:10:27,962 --> 00:10:29,391 So Jesus saying things like 237 00:10:29,391 --> 00:10:31,182 they hit you on one cheek, 238 00:10:31,182 --> 00:10:34,196 turn the other one. 239 00:10:34,196 --> 00:10:35,686 You've heard that it was said 240 00:10:35,686 --> 00:10:37,157 you shall not commit adultery. 241 00:10:37,157 --> 00:10:38,667 I say this reaches right down 242 00:10:38,667 --> 00:10:40,688 into your thought life. 243 00:10:40,688 --> 00:10:45,090 Deal radically with it. 244 00:10:45,090 --> 00:10:46,945 You have heard you shall not murder. 245 00:10:46,945 --> 00:10:48,756 He says I'm telling you if you've got 246 00:10:48,756 --> 00:10:51,091 hatred in your heart, you're a murderer already. 247 00:10:51,091 --> 00:10:52,295 And John says in 1 John, 248 00:10:52,295 --> 00:10:54,989 we know that no murderer has eternal life. 249 00:10:54,989 --> 00:10:57,234 You don't stand and tell a group of Christians 250 00:10:57,234 --> 00:11:00,487 you know, we Christians, ought not to hate each other the way we do. 251 00:11:00,487 --> 00:11:02,606 If you hate people, you're not a Christian. 252 00:11:02,606 --> 00:11:04,777 We know that we've passed from death to life 253 00:11:04,777 --> 00:11:08,153 because we love the brethren. 254 00:11:08,153 --> 00:11:11,022 That's that law written on the heart. 255 00:11:11,022 --> 00:11:18,752 Now, I'm almost done here. 256 00:11:18,752 --> 00:11:25,534 Well, after what I just heard him say, 257 00:11:25,534 --> 00:11:27,553 I'm going to take this and I'll try 258 00:11:27,553 --> 00:11:30,321 to get the right spot. 259 00:11:30,321 --> 00:11:33,541 This big part of the Bible - 260 00:11:33,541 --> 00:11:36,501 I'm just going to throw that out. 261 00:11:36,501 --> 00:11:39,701 We're in the new covenant now. 262 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:41,926 No, that's exactly wrong, isn't it? 263 00:11:41,926 --> 00:11:44,921 (incomplete thought) 264 00:11:44,921 --> 00:11:49,139 We call this the Old Testament. 265 00:11:49,139 --> 00:11:51,995 But beloved, the old covenant is a different thing 266 00:11:51,995 --> 00:11:53,851 than that first part of our Bible. 267 00:11:53,851 --> 00:11:55,570 We're not under the old covenant, 268 00:11:55,570 --> 00:11:58,275 but this whole first part of our Bible 269 00:11:58,275 --> 00:12:00,437 is still the Word of God to us. 270 00:12:00,437 --> 00:12:04,558 It is still absolutely authoritative. 271 00:12:04,558 --> 00:12:06,770 And Jesus said not one stroke - 272 00:12:06,770 --> 00:12:11,714 not one jot or tittle or one iota 273 00:12:11,714 --> 00:12:16,304 will pass away until all is accomplished. 274 00:12:16,304 --> 00:12:17,436 It's the Word of God. 275 00:12:17,436 --> 00:12:19,436 He says in Timothy that all Scripture 276 00:12:19,436 --> 00:12:21,754 is inspired by God and so on. 277 00:12:21,754 --> 00:12:24,289 And he says that the man of God 278 00:12:24,289 --> 00:12:25,265 might be adequate. 279 00:12:25,265 --> 00:12:27,571 He's talking about the Old Testament. 280 00:12:27,571 --> 00:12:32,423 New Testament hadn't been written yet. 281 00:12:32,423 --> 00:12:34,166 You see, the big things about God 282 00:12:34,166 --> 00:12:35,912 and His character have never changed 283 00:12:35,912 --> 00:12:36,720 in the least. 284 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,119 They haven't changed. 285 00:12:39,119 --> 00:12:42,805 And all of this is the Word of God to us.