Laws of Moses
Summary
TLDRThe video script explores the 613 commandments in the Torah, which are part of a larger narrative about God's creation of a people capable of loving God and others. Jesus is presented as the fulfillment of this story, embodying the law's purpose through love and compassion. His teachings simplify the commandments to loving God and others, showing their depth and demanding nature. Jesus' life and the promised spiritual transformation through the Holy Spirit aim to enable true adherence to these commandments, completing the story of the law and the prophets.
Takeaways
- 📜 The Bible contains a total of 613 commands given to ancient Israel, which are part of the first five books known as the Torah.
- 🔍 The word 'Torah' is often translated as 'the law', but it is fundamentally a narrative about God's creation of a people capable of loving God and others.
- 🤔 The purpose of the laws within the Torah is to set Israel apart and to demonstrate God's nature to other nations through social justice and morality.
- 📚 The Torah's narrative pattern shows a cycle of God giving laws, Israel rebelling, and the need for a transformation of the heart to truly follow God's law.
- 👴 Moses, in his final speech, acknowledged that the people of Israel were incapable of following all of God's laws due to their hardened hearts.
- 📖 The Prophets reflect on the story, with some like Ezekiel and Jeremiah foreseeing a need for a transformation of the heart to obey God's commands.
- 🌟 Isaiah prophesied a future leader, the Messiah, who would lead the people in obedience to the law.
- 🕊 Jesus saw himself as the fulfillment of the Torah's story, agreeing with its laws and the need for a new heart to truly love God and others.
- ❤️ Jesus taught that the essence of the law could be summarized by the Great Commandment to love God and love others, showing that love is more demanding than it seems.
- 🔥 After his resurrection, Jesus promised to send God's spirit to transform the hearts of his followers, enabling them to fulfill the law's purpose of love.
Q & A
What are the Ten Commandments and where are they found?
-The Ten Commandments are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a foundational role in Judaism and Christianity. They are found in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.
How many commands are there in total in the Torah?
-There are 613 commands in total in the Torah, which are part of the laws given to ancient Israel.
What is the purpose of the laws in the Torah?
-The laws in the Torah serve as the terms of a covenant between God and Israel, setting them apart from other nations, guiding them in social justice and morality, and showing other nations what God is like.
How does the pattern of laws and rebellion in the Torah reflect the nature of the Israelites?
-The pattern of laws followed by stories of rebellion in the Torah reflects the Israelites' inability to follow God's laws due to their hardened hearts, indicating a need for transformation.
What does Moses say about the Israelites' ability to follow God's laws in his final speech?
-In his final speech, Moses acknowledges that the Israelites are incapable of following all of God's laws due to their hard hearts, and they will need new, transformed hearts to truly follow God.
What do the Prophets in the Jewish tradition reflect on regarding the story of Israel?
-The Prophets reflect on the story of Israel, recognizing their failure to obey the law and prophesying the need for a transformation of their hearts and a future leader, the Messiah, who would lead them in obedience.
How does Jesus view the law and the prophets in relation to his mission?
-Jesus sees himself as continuing the story of the law and the prophets, agreeing with their teachings, and coming to solve the problem of the human heart's default setting, which is not aligned with God's law.
What does Jesus mean when he says he came to fulfill the law?
-Jesus means that he came to embody and complete the moral and spiritual demands of the law by loving God and others perfectly, and by offering a way for others to have their hearts transformed to fulfill the law's purpose.
What is the 'Great Command' according to Jesus, and how does it relate to the Torah's laws?
-The 'Great Command' according to Jesus is to love God and to love others. He teaches that all the laws of the Torah can be fulfilled by adhering to this command, which is more demanding than it initially appears.
How does Jesus' teaching on love extend beyond the command 'Do not murder'?
-Jesus extends the command 'Do not murder' to include not only physical harm but also disrespect and harboring resentment towards others, emphasizing that true love should extend even to enemies.
What role does the Holy Spirit play in the fulfillment of the law according to Jesus' teachings?
-According to Jesus, the Holy Spirit will transform the hearts of his followers, enabling them to love God and others as part of fulfilling the purpose of the law.
Outlines
📜 The Ten Commandments and the Purpose of the Torah
This paragraph introduces the Ten Commandments and the larger body of 613 laws given to ancient Israel in the Torah. It explains how the word 'Torah' is often translated as 'the law,' but the Torah is actually a story about God creating people capable of fully loving Him and others. Jesus’ teaching brought this story to its fulfillment, highlighting the true purpose of the Torah as something deeper than mere laws.
📖 The Story Behind the Torah’s Laws
The second paragraph walks through the narrative of how the laws fit into the Torah. It begins with God rescuing the Israelites from Egypt and forming a covenant at Mount Sinai. The laws given by Moses served as the terms of that covenant, but the story shows how Israel constantly rebelled, breaking the laws. Moses acknowledged that Israel would need transformed hearts to truly follow God’s law, as mere adherence to rules was insufficient.
🛑 Israel’s Continued Failure and the Need for a New Heart
Here, the narrative explains how the Israelites repeatedly broke the laws after receiving them. Even as more laws were given, the rebellion continued, highlighting a deeper issue within the human heart. Moses warned that the people were incapable of fully obeying the law, as their hearts were hardened. He foresaw that only transformed hearts could enable true obedience, which later prophets like Ezekiel and Jeremiah echoed.
🔮 The Prophets’ Vision of Heart Transformation
This paragraph connects the Torah with the prophetic books, which reflect on Israel’s failure to obey the law. Prophets like Ezekiel and Jeremiah envisioned a future when God’s Spirit would transform the people's hearts, enabling them to obey His law effortlessly. Isaiah prophesied about a Messiah who would lead the people in obedience to God’s commands, moving from external rules to an internal transformation.
❤️ Jesus' Fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets
Jesus is presented as the continuation and fulfillment of the story told in the law and the prophets. He identified the human heart as the source of rebellion against God’s commands and emphasized that true love—love for God and others—could fulfill the entire law. Jesus’ teachings showed that love is far more demanding than mere rule-following, even extending to love for enemies.
✝️ Jesus’ Acts of Love and the Role of the Holy Spirit
The final paragraph explains how Jesus fulfilled the law through acts of compassion, mercy, and ultimately by loving His enemies, even unto death. His resurrection and the sending of God’s Spirit to His followers enabled them to have transformed hearts, thus fulfilling the law's purpose: to love God and love others. The Apostle Paul summed this up by saying, 'the one who loves fulfills the law.'
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Ten Commandments
💡Torah
💡613 Commands
💡Covenant
💡Golden Calf
💡Social Justice
💡Moses
💡Prophets
💡Messiah
💡Fulfillment of the Law
💡Transformation of Hearts
Highlights
The Bible contains a total of 613 commands given to ancient Israel, not just the well-known Ten Commandments.
The word 'Torah' is often translated as 'The Law' in English, but it is fundamentally a story about God's creation of a people who can love God and others.
Jesus taught that he was bringing the story of the Torah to its fulfillment.
The Torah's narrative begins with God creating humanity, who then rebel, leading to God choosing Abraham to bless all nations.
God rescues the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and makes a covenant with them at Mount Sinai, establishing the laws as the terms of the agreement.
The laws in the Torah serve to set Israel apart from other nations and demonstrate God's nature through social justice and morality.
The pattern in the Torah shows a cycle of Moses giving laws, Israel rebelling, and then more laws and rebellion, indicating a need for something beyond laws.
Moses acknowledges that the Israelites are incapable of following God's laws due to hard hearts,预示着 a need for transformation.
The prophetic books reflect on the Torah's story, with some prophets like Ezekiel and Jeremiah foreseeing a transformation of the heart as necessary for obedience.
Isaiah prophesies a future leader, the Messiah, who will lead the people in obedience to the law.
Jesus sees himself as the fulfillment of the Torah and the Prophets' story, agreeing with their teachings but offering a solution to the human heart's default.
Jesus teaches that the great command to love God and others fulfills the entire Torah, showing that love is more demanding than not just murder.
True love, as taught by Jesus, extends even to enemies, which is a challenge for human hearts not equipped to fulfill God's command.
As the Messiah, Jesus fully loves God and others, demonstrating God's nature through compassion, mercy, and even to the point of death.
After his resurrection, Jesus promises to send God's spirit to transform the hearts of his followers, enabling them to love and fulfill the law.
The Apostle Paul summarizes that love fulfills the law, encapsulating the culmination of the Torah and the Prophets' narrative.
Transcripts
you're most likely familiar with the ten
commandments in the bible stuff we
generally
take as good advice don't murder don't
steal honor your parents
the list goes on and those are just the
first ten they're actually a total of
613 commands all given to ancient israel
found in the first five books of the
bible which in hebrew are called
the torah now the word torah is usually
translated in english as
the law because it has all of these laws
in it
and as you read through them you wonder
am i supposed to obey some of these
all of these i mean what's the purpose
of the law
well that translation is kind of
confusing because while the torah has
laws
in it the book itself is fundamentally a
story about how god is creating new
kinds of
people who are fully able to love god
and love others
and when jesus taught about the torah he
said that he was bringing that story
to its fulfillment so walk me through
the story and
how it's fulfilled so the story begins
with god creating humanity who rebels
and god chooses abraham to bless all of
the nations through his family
who end up in slavery down in egypt and
so god
rescues them then at mount sinai god
makes a covenant with israel like an
agreement
and all of the laws that moses gives to
israel are the terms of that agreement
they're like a constitution
so some of the laws they're about
rituals and customs that set
israel apart from the nations other laws
are about social justice or
morality and by following these israel
would show the other nations what god is
like
okay so the rest of the torah is just
the complete list of laws that moses
gives israel
no the rest of the torah just continues
the story and the 613 commands are only
a selection from that original
constitution
and even these have been broken up and
placed at strategic points within the
story
now pay attention because you'll see a
really clear pattern moses gives the
first laws to israel they don't worship
other gods don't make idols
and then right after that there's a
story of israel breaking those very laws
yeah they worship the golden calf
and so moses gives some more laws and
then you get more stories
of rebellion some more laws rebellion
against more laws more rebellion and you
start to see the point
right no matter how many laws they're
just gonna continue to rebel
so at the conclusion of the torah's
story moses gives this
final speech to israel as they prepare
to go into their new home and he tells
them you guys
i know that you're not going to follow
all of god's laws
you've proven to me that you're
incapable and moses says
the problem is that their hearts are
hard and that they're going to need
new transformed hearts if they're ever
going to truly follow god's law
and he was right i mean the story goes
on to recount israel's total failure
they go into the land
they break all the laws right now the
next section of books in the jewish
tradition are the 15 books of the
prophet
and they reflect back on the story for
example ezekiel he said that if israel
was ever going to obey the law
god's spirit would have to transform
their hard hearts
into soft hearts and jeremiah said
that's when
obedience to god's commands wouldn't
feel like a duty but they would be
written
deep in their hearts in isaiah he
promised a future
leader israel's messiah who will lead
all of the people in obedience to the
law
now in jewish tradition all of these
books together are called the prophets
even the historical books because
they're continuing the story
told from the perspective of the
prophets okay so we have the law and the
prophets
and they're telling one connected story
about god's desire to bless the whole
world through a people
israel who it turns out needs a new
heart
yes and jesus saw himself as continuing
that
story so he agreed with the law and the
prophets when he taught that it's out of
the human
heart that come the most ugly parts of
human nature
it's like the default setting of our
hearts as opposed to god's law
but jesus also said that he came to
solve that problem and in his words to
fulfill
the law so what does he mean there to
fulfill the law
well first he said that the demand of
all of the laws in the torah could be
fulfilled by what he called the great
command that we are to love god and to
love others
so that seems pretty easy i mean we all
want to love
well we think we want to love but jesus
showed how love is
far more demanding than we realize so he
quotes the law do not
murder and he says yes not killing
someone it's a very loving thing to do
but then he also says that when you
treat someone with disrespect or when
you nurse resentment against them you're
also
violating god's moral ideal because
you're not treating that person with
love
and so jesus said true love ought to
extend even to our own enemies
so even though this command seems very
simple jesus showed how our hearts are
not
currently equipped to fulfill even this
basic command of god
to love others and that's kind of a
downer
but where israel failed jesus brought
this story
to his fulfillment as israel's messiah
he fully loved god
and others and he showed all of the
nations what god is truly like
he did this through his acts of
compassion and mercy and ultimately by
loving his enemies
even unto death and after his
resurrection he told his followers that
he would send god's spirit to transform
their hearts so that they could follow
him and fulfill the purpose of the law
to love god and to love their neighbor
so this fulfills the story of the law
and the prophets or in the words of the
apostle paul
the one who loves fulfills the law
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