Christ Has Fulfilled & Replaced the Law of Moses With Higher Laws of the New Covenant

Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, TX (YouTube channel CANSWERSTV, at http://www.youtube.com/user/CAnswersT... websites: http://www.BIBLEQUERY.ORG, http://www.HISTORYCART.COM & http://www.MUSLIMHOPE.COM) presents a Bible lecture by John Reisinger; he is an evangelist & has written many books including "The Sovereignty of God in Providence," "John Bunyan on the Sabbath," "What is the Christian Faith?", "Tablets of Stone & the History of Redemption," etc. Mr Reisinger contrasts commonly held dispensationalist theology with covenant theology.

The Bible always consider the Tablets of Stone (Ten Commandments) as the specific covenant document that established the nation of Israel as a body politic at Mt Sinai. It was the terms of this covenant document that necessitated and brought into being both the priesthood and sacrificial system that they administered. Everything in Israel's worship centered around the Tablets of the Covenant kept in the Ark of the Covenant.

The first use of the words "the Ten Commandments" in Exodus 34:27,28 give us the key to nature and function of their use in the history of redemption. The Tablets of Stone upon which was written the Ten Commandments were:

1. the terms of a legal covenant that promised life and threatened death;

2. the covenant was made only with Israel and established the terms of their special relationship with God;

3. this covenant is the Old Covenant that was replaced by the New Covenant established by Christ.

The Scripture no where states of infers that we are to think of the Tablets of Stone as "God's eternal uncahnging moral law." We are always to think "Old Covenant."