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**Matthew 5:16-19 :: **King James Version (KJV)
**Matthew 5
**16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 17 Think not that I 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. **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 came **not to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill, and not one jot nor one tittle shall pass from the law, till all be fulfilled, and if a person break one of the least important laws or commandments, and teaches men likewise, he will be called least in the kingdom of heaven (on earth), but those who do and teach the least commandments or laws will be called the greatest in this kingdom (which is on earth).
Entering into the kingdom of heaven is leaving the world completely. ‘For I have chosen you out of the world.’ The law could be the whole Bible except for the prophets, or even including the prophets, perhaps, such as Ezekiel and Isaiah, Jeremiah.
If not one law or commandment will pass from the law, then neither will
Lev 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
This may sound like a harsh penalty, but such was the law. It is far easier to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ which is the law summed up, even Gentiles, ‘sheep of another fold,’ will be included in this. The whole point of the Bible, in a nutshell. If you love your neighbor then you also love God, who is love.
The Jews could never do right, it seemed, so God sent His Son as a propitiation for their (our - ‘a Jew is not one who is a Jew outwardly, bu inwardly’) sins, so that we could start over, ‘born again’ or ‘renewed’ - ‘born from above’ - we could start over and confess our sins from there, having our misdeeds forgiven, and having a far better chance of getting into the New Jerusalem or into the Milenneum - being justified or sanctified makes one ‘bold before the throne of God.’
As far as sexual sin goes, I think the two most pernicious are perverse/‘homosexual’ or ‘strange woman’ and sex with a prostitute. Either one can have drastic consequences, the first can lower the bar so much that a person’s whole life can be considerably corrupted and perverted, a demon of addiction can enter in, and the second can lead to a death in many ways, emotional, spiritual, psychological and even physical - or being ‘cast down’ as a wounded. I feel what brought Sampson down was sex with a prostitute, which took place in Judges 16:1. Everything negative was after that, also as per Proverbs 7, saying such could cause death, maybe not the ultimate death right then and there, but a hastening of different kinds of death - the wages of sin being death, different kinds, not necessarily all at once. The death of a culture could be very much hastened if these two sins are accepted - in fact that culture is already ‘beyond the beyond. . . .’ Left to itself, with no vision, it is brought to shame.
I feel the Catholics are right about the confession of sins, and if one confesses sins to a priest, this is a discipline, and the task gets done: many Protestants don’t have the discipline to confess their sins to Jesus in private during prayer, and many or most, if not almost all, think they are forgiven in advance for any sin.
**Matthew 5
**16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 17 Think not that I 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. **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 came **not to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill, and not one jot nor one tittle shall pass from the law, till all be fulfilled, and if a person break one of the least important laws or commandments, and teaches men likewise, he will be called least in the kingdom of heaven (on earth), but those who do and teach the least commandments or laws will be called the greatest in this kingdom (which is on earth).
Entering into the kingdom of heaven is leaving the world completely. ‘For I have chosen you out of the world.’ The law could be the whole Bible except for the prophets, or even including the prophets, perhaps, such as Ezekiel and Isaiah, Jeremiah.
If not one law or commandment will pass from the law, then neither will
Lev 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
This may sound like a harsh penalty, but such was the law. It is far easier to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ which is the law summed up, even Gentiles, ‘sheep of another fold,’ will be included in this. The whole point of the Bible, in a nutshell. If you love your neighbor then you also love God, who is love.
The Jews could never do right, it seemed, so God sent His Son as a propitiation for their (our - ‘a Jew is not one who is a Jew outwardly, bu inwardly’) sins, so that we could start over, ‘born again’ or ‘renewed’ - ‘born from above’ - we could start over and confess our sins from there, having our misdeeds forgiven, and having a far better chance of getting into the New Jerusalem or into the Milenneum - being justified or sanctified makes one ‘bold before the throne of God.’
As far as sexual sin goes, I think the two most pernicious are perverse/‘homosexual’ or ‘strange woman’ and sex with a prostitute. Either one can have drastic consequences, the first can lower the bar so much that a person’s whole life can be considerably corrupted and perverted, a demon of addiction can enter in, and the second can lead to a death in many ways, emotional, spiritual, psychological and even physical - or being ‘cast down’ as a wounded. I feel what brought Sampson down was sex with a prostitute, which took place in Judges 16:1. Everything negative was after that, also as per Proverbs 7, saying such could cause death, maybe not the ultimate death right then and there, but a hastening of different kinds of death - the wages of sin being death, different kinds, not necessarily all at once. The death of a culture could be very much hastened if these two sins are accepted - in fact that culture is already ‘beyond the beyond. . . .’ Left to itself, with no vision, it is brought to shame.
I feel the Catholics are right about the confession of sins, and if one confesses sins to a priest, this is a discipline, and the task gets done: many Protestants don’t have the discipline to confess their sins to Jesus in private during prayer, and many or most, if not almost all, think they are forgiven in advance for any sin.
