Transcript THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (1)

THE OLD TESTAMENT
SCRIPTURES (2)
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (1)
I. ARE WE UNDER THE O.T. TODAY?
A. Gal. 3:23-25
B. Arguments saying we are under the O.T.
•“Only the ceremonial law was taken away.” Rom. 7:1-7
•“Jesus said he came not to destroy the law.” Matt. 5:1718; Acts 5:38-39
•“The O.T. is still in effect today; it is done away when
someone is baptized.” Gal. 3:18; Eph. 2:14-15
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (1)
I. ARE WE UNDER THE O.T. TODAY?
A. Gal. 3:23-25
B. Arguments saying we are under the O.T.
II. WHAT LAW ARE WE UNDER TODAY? Matt. 17:5;
Acts 3:21-23; Jn. 14:15; Eph. 3:3-4; 1 Cor. 14:37; 9:21; Jn.
12:48; Matt. 16:18; Eph. 5:23
III. THE USE OF THE O.T. TODAY
A. To build hope, Josh. 21:43-45; Isa. 53; Mic. 5:2
B. Divine basis of Christ’s mission, Jn. 5:39; Acts 3:21-23;
17:11-12
C. Teaches proper attitude towards the word of God
D. God’s way will work, Isa. 55:8-9; Jer. 10:23
E. The possibility of apostasy, 1 Cor. 10:1-12
F. God’s providence, Daniel, Esther
The Belief That There is Only Covenant
“From the time of Genisis, until the present and to the
day of eternity, God has interacted with man within a
single framework, the eternal (everlasting) covenant of
peace…”
“In opposition to the single everlasting covenant,
various teachers see an old one of Moses and a new
Christian one, differing in word and content and
diverse in purpose and intent, together with
contrasting laws – of Moses (Rom. 3:19) and of Christ
(see Gal. 6:2). (Stanley Paher, The Eternal Covenant of
Peace, pp. vii, ix, Nevada Publ.)
WHY IS THIS BEING TAUGHT?
“The thrust of such teaching is to promote his (Jim
Puterbaugh, sw) doctrine on `Marriage, Divorce and
Remarriage.’ He explains that whatever Moses taught
on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage, Jesus also
taught....When (according to brother Puterbaugh) those
under Moses’ law divorced their wives and both
remarried new mates, although the divorce was sin, God
recognized the second marriage of each and if they
repented of their sin, they would be forgiven and could
remain in covenant relationship with God while at the
same time keeping the second mate. So it is today under
Christ. In fact, to divorce the second mate and return to
the first would be sin, according to brother Puterbaugh.
(Jim McDonald summarizing Jim Puterbaugh’s teaching from a series of tapes by
brother Puterbaugh on “Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage.”)
Stanley Paher: "Appreciation of this great
biblical theme, as well as an understanding
that the great promises and comforting
statements of the Jewish prophets find
fulfillment not only in the messianic era but
also in the Jewish period, was gained in the
early 1980s through studies with James
Puterbaugh" (The Eternal Covenant of
Peace, p. 286, my emph, sw).
JIM PUTERBAUGH TEACHING THAT ADULTERY
MEANS COVENANT BREAKING
Jim Puterbaugh on Mk. 10:10-12:
JP: "So that's answering the question of verse 2. What
was the question? `Is it lawful for a man to divorce a
wife?' And Jesus says, `When you divorce and marry some
body else, you commit adultery.' That's a sin. Now he didn't
say you're not married. He doesn't say God doesn't
recognize the marriage. He just said when you did that
you've sinned. That's all that passage teaches. And there's
nothing in the grammar or the language that says that if you
continue to be married you continue to commit adultery. It
just says if you divorce and remarry you've sinned."
Question: "In the New American Standard on verse 12, it
says if she herself divorces her husband and marries
another man she is committing adultery. Is that referring
to the initial..." (stops speaking as JP answers)
JP: "It's referring to divorcing and marrying, that process
divorce and marrying commits adultery....Yeah, the
argument is made that because it's present tense in Greek
it's continuous, but that's not a valid argument. Present
tense doesn't prove continuous action at all....It proves an
action, that's all. Context has to determine whether it's
continuous or point action."
JP (later): "I've preached this for fifteen years."
JP (later): "That's why Jesus said `when you divorce and
marry another' - it's just an understood thing, you divorce
for the purpose of marrying another, and when you do that
you commit adultery. In other words breaking this covenant
and making a new covenant is sin."(From tape of Jim Puterbaugh on
MDR, "#3 of 3" transcribed by Steve Wallace, all emph mine, sw)
SOME FURTHER QUOTES FROM TAPES FROM
BROTHER PUTERBAUGH:
JP (later, speaking on 1 Cor. 7): "What I am saying is that
any interpretation on any scripture in the Bible that
precludes a man or a woman having a wife [sic] - under
any circumstances - violates the teaching of the word of
God. Because Paul says marriage is God's solution for not
committing immorality."
JP: "You see God never condemned marriage; God
condemned divorce. God hates divorce, not marriage.
We've turned it around and said, `Well, okay, get a divorce
if you can't get along but then you can't marry anymore.'"
Homer Hailey: “This universal moral law is the expression
of God’s own character and will, determined in His
purpose before creation as the standard for creatures to be
made in His image (Eph. 1:4-5). That standard or law was
made know to a degree at the time of Adam’s sin and
following… It was revealed more fully and recorded in the
Mosaic law; then revealed in its fullness…by the Holy
Spirit in the New Covenant under Christ…” (Homer
Hailey, The Divorced and Remarried Who Would Come to
God, p. 35, Nevada Publ.)
Stanley Paher: “Various religious thinkers see as many as
seven distinct and often unrelated covenants, expressed in
scripture between God and man….Contrary to such
notions, this chapter and those following develop a
doctrine of one eternal/everlasting covenant for God’s
people, initiated with the patriarch Abraham and
extending to the present and into the future, forever and
ever. This peace treaty rests squarely upon God’s timeless
moral law, also called natural law.” (Stanley Paher, The
Eternal Covenant of Peace, p. 93)
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
DIFFERENT COVENANTS OF GOD:
1. Noah: “And, behold, I establish my covenant with
you…” (Gen. 9:8-17)  2 Pet. 3:5-7
2. Abraham: “…The Lord made a covenant with
Abram…” (Gen. 15:18)  Josh.21:43-45
3. Israel: “The Lord our God made a covenant with us
in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us…” (Deut. 5:2-3)
4. Abraham’s spiritual seed (Gen. 12:3): “…I will make
a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the
house of Judah…” (Heb. 8:8)
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
"Indeed, Jeremiah's famous new (renewed) covenant of 31:31-34, first prophesied in about 593 BC
was realized about 60 years later when God's
people in the houses of Judah and Israel, to whom
the covenant oracle was specifically addressed,
returned from Babylonian exile.” (Stanley Paher,
The Eternal Covenant, p. 78).
"The New Covenant in Jeremiah 31:31-34
refers to God renewing his covenant first
when the Jews came out of Babylonian
captivity. To put the law in their hearts refers
to Jer. 17:1. God's law would replace the sin
in their heart. There is no refer- ence to the
Old Law and the New Law" (Jim
Puterbaugh, Tape of "The Covenant", 2/6/
95, quotes last two slides via Jim McDonald,
“Jeremiah 31 and the `One Covenant’
Controversy,” Watchman Magazine, 2/00).
Hebrews 7-10 show contrast and distinction between two
covenants, not "unity" and “continuity.”
•The priesthood has changed necessitating a change of law
(Hb. 7:12).
•Christ is the surety and mediator of a better covenant,
enacted upon better promises (Hb. 7:22; 8:6).
•He is the mediator of a New Covenant in which His death
took place for the redemption of transgressions of those
who were under the first (Hb. 9:15).
•The first covenant was dedicated with animal blood but
the second was dedicated with the blood of God's Lamb,
His Son (Hb. 9:18-20).
•Had the first covenant been faultless, no place would have
been sought for the second (Hb. 8:7).
•The fact that he said ”new" made the first "old," nigh
unto vanishing away (Hb. 8:13).
•Christ "took" away the first, that he might establish the
second (Hb. 10:9ff).
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
•Where is the record that Jeremiah 31 was fulfilled at the
return from exile? Ezra 10:2ff
•Jeremiah 31:34, “I will forgive their iniquity, and their
sins will I remember no more.” Heb. 10:1-3
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
THE LAW WAS NOT NAILED TO THE CROSS!!
Wallace Little: "Colossians 2:11-14 deals in sin and
salvation. Contextually verse 14 must mean that sin, NOT
any law, was nailed to the cross. Verse 15 is transitional,
leading to verses 16-17 showing the ceremonial aspect of
Mosaical Law is no longer binding." He also criticizes those
who say "God's universal moral law is a myth" (Gospel
Truths, May, 1997, page 14, via Tom O’Neal, “Confusion
on the Covenants,” Watchman Magazine, 2/00, my emph,
sw)
Stanley Paher: “Similarly, Jesus did not blot out any law
on the cross but removed its damning evidence…. But
nothing ever happened to the law itself at the cross.” (The
Eternal Covenant of Peace, p. 176)
Jim Puterbaugh: “Christ nailed no law to the cross. He
only nailed sin to the cross.” (letter circulated by Wallace
Little, 1/96, via Jim McDonald, A Review of Jim
Puterbaugh’s Teaching on the One Covenant, p. 4)
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS? Gal 3:19;
Eph. 2:14-15
Definition of the word covenant:
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon: "A disposition,
arrangement, of any sort, which one wishes to be
valid...a compact, covenant...the ark of the covenant or
law, in which those tables were deposited, Heb. 9:4...we
find in the N.T. two distinct covenants spoken of (Gal.
4:24), viz. the Mosaic and the Christian...This covenant
Christ set up and ratified by undergoing death (Heb.
10:29); my blood by the shedding of which the covenant
is established (Mt. 26:28)...By metonymy of the
contained for the container is used in 2 Co. 3:14 of the
sacred books of the O.T. because in them the conditions
and principles of the older covenant were recorded" (pg.
136,137). (all emph mine, sw)
The Bible’s Use of the Word “Covenant”
1. Covenants of promise:
a. Gen. 9:11-15: Promise not to destroy world with a
flood.
b. Gen. 15:18: The land promise to Abram.
c. Ex. 6:4-5: Promise to Israel to give the land (cp. Lev.
26:42; Judges 2:1-2).
d. Gen. 17:2-4: Abraham's descendants to be multiplied.
e. There were "promises" to Abraham - not just one promise (Gen. 12:1-3; Heb. 7:6; Gal. 3:16-17; Eph. 2:12).
The Bible’s Use of the Word “Covenant”
2. Covenants of law:
a. Gen. 17:9-14: The covenant of circumcision. (It was
both a covenant [law] and a sign of a special
relationship, v. 11).
b. Ex. 24:7; 34:27-28: The "book of the covenant," the
"words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments."(Cp.
Deut. 4:13; 5:2,3; 9:9,11,15)
c. 1 Kgs. 8:9,21: The ark of the covenant contained the ten
commandments - not the spiritual promise.
d. 2 Kgs. 23:21: The Book of the Covenant (or of the Law,
2 Kgs. 22:8) included teaching about the Passover.
e. Psa. 78:10: The covenant was "His law."
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS’ DEATH, Ex. 24:8;
Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19-23, 16-17, 15
“Where in the Old Testament…is there a type set up for
Jesus to die to institute as a testator a last will and
testament? Did a priest provide a death in order to be the
testator of a new will and testament? You see, that context
is not in the Bible!” (from a series of taped sermons by Jim
Puterbaugh on “One Covenant,” 1995, via Jim McDonald,
A Review of Jim Puterbaugh’s Teaching on the One
Covenant, p. 5)
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS’ DEATH, Ex. 24:8;
Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19-23, 16-17, 15
V. THE O.T. AND N.T. ARE NOT THE SAME!
THE OLD TESTAMENT AND NEW
TESTAMENT ARE NOT THE SAME
To Jews only,
To every creature,
Deut. 5:1-15
Mk. 16:15-16
Children by fleshly
Children by spiritual
birth, Gen. 17:10
birth, Jno. 3:3-5
To last till Christ,
Last to end of world,
Gal. 3:19
Matt. 28:20
Changeable priesthood, Unchangeable priestHeb. 7:12
hood, Heb. 7:24
High priest on earth,
High priest not on earth,
Heb. 8:3-4
Heb. 9:24
Tabernacle of this
Spiritual tabernacle,
world, Heb. 9:1
Heb. 9:11
Blood of animals,
Blood of Christ,
Heb. 10:4
Heb. 9:14
No forgiveness of sins,
Sins forgiven,
Heb. 10:3
Heb. 8:12
Imperfect, Heb. 8:7
Faultless, Heb. 8:7
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS’ DEATH, Ex. 24:8;
Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19-23, 16-17, 15
V. THE O.T. AND N.T. ARE NOT THE SAME!
VI. CONSEQUENCES, 1 Cor. 7:2; Rom. 7:2-3
"The Bible never precisely condemns polygamy. It's like
slavery. God allowed slavery in the law of Moses and then
slavery just disappears when we get over into Christianity...but is there a verse that says slavery is immoral?
...Even in Philemon Paul doesn't condemn slavery. And
that's the way I look at the concubines or polygamy, that they
do not precisely violate moral law as God reveals it but once
you have Christianity, it just seems to disappear, like slavery
does...What about Abraham? He had a wife and a
concubine under the universal, moral law, as it was. Was he
in sin, then? He was under the universal, original law and
was he in sin? I think we'd all have to say that he, that we
couldn't say he was in a state of sin that was going to keep
him from going to heaven, at least...that's the only way I
know how to deal with it...I just confess to you that it is a
struggle, that it is a problem."(Puterbaugh, MDR tapes,
via McDonald, ibid., p. 8, my emph, sw)
THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES (2)
I. GOD HAS HAD MORE THAN ONE COVENANT
II. JEREMIAH 31:31-34 AND ONE COVENANT ADVOCATES
III. WAS THE LAW NAILED TO THE CROSS?
IV. JIM PUTERBAUGH AND JESUS’ DEATH, Ex. 24:8;
Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19-23, 16-17, 15
V. THE O.T. AND N.T. ARE NOT THE SAME!
VI. CONSEQUENCES, 1 Cor. 7:2; Rom. 7:2-3