There is one voice that has been raised on this earth to which we had better listen moreso than any other voice that has ever spoken in a human language of any kind at any time to anyone. That is, of course, the voice of Jesus Christ. One of the few times the Father’s voice was ever heard by human beings was when He spoke and said, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” Even His mother Mary said, “Whatever he says unto you, do it.” It takes an awfully clever and powerful Satan the devil to deceive millions of professing Christians and their pastors to turn a deaf ear to Jesus Christ again and again. No apostle ever contradicted Jesus Christ in anything they ever wrote.
The prophet Malachi informs us that Jesus Christ was the Messenger of the New Covenant, writing “Behold, I (the Lord) will send my messenger (John the Baptist), and he shall prepare the way before me, and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, EVEN THE MESSENGER OF THE (NEW) COVENANT, whom you delight in, behold, he shall come, says the Lord of hosts.” (Malachi 3:1).
Every utterance that Jesus Christ spoke was New Covenant teaching and doctrine. When Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said by them of old time, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery'” He was making reference to Old Covenant doctrine, but when He said in His next breath, “But I say unto you that whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart,” He was establishing New Covenant doctrine. (See Matthew 5:25-28). Rather than doing away with God’s commandments, in actuality He was making them all the more binding. The Old Covenant said, “Don’t commit the act.” The New Covenant says, “Don’t even think the thought.” Jesus warned that not one iota of the Ten Commandments could be altered or changed in the slightest degree. He said heaven and earth would have to pass away before such a thing could happen. Yet millions of believers think God authorized the apostles to change completely one entire commandment, setting it aside totally and establishing another day in its’ place as a holy day! The absurdity of such a thought is mind staggering.
So what are we to do? Are we to heed the Father and listen to our Lord or go along with the long established teaching of the majority opinion and insist the apostle Paul’s letters nullify Jesus’ words regarding the sacredness of the Ten Commandments? I think the theologians might do well to rethink their stand in this matter.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley