COMMENT
Our adult Sunday Bible Study has been working its way through the Baptist Catechism. We have been in the section relating to God’s Law, and this Sunday, we continued our study of the fourth commandment, Remember the Sabbath.
We discussed questions 65, ‘How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?’ and 66, ‘What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?’ from the Catechism. During our discussion, the teacher brought up the subject of some “Christians” denying the need to obey God’s Law (moral) today. Their claim is that we are, in effect, Dead to the OT ( I think everyone agrees that, for the most part, the Ceremonial and Civil Laws do not apply) and not under the Moral Law (Ten Commandments ) in any form. One of the chief verses used to support this position is Mark 10:19(ESV):
17And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” 20And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 21And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
The argument put forth is that since Jesus did not mention the Sabbath (in verse 19), He is, by way of abstinence, stating it no longer applies. I hope you can immediately see the foolishness here. Can you identify the other commandments that Jesus does not mention? How about the first three! So, if the argument were to hold true that because Jesus did not mention the Fourth Commandment, it therefore does not apply, the same reasoning should apply to the first three: having other Gods, making Idols, and taking the Lord’s name in Vain. I can find no reasonable way that someone could call themselves a True Christian and hold to this belief.
COMMENTARIES
Mark 10:19, Matt 19:21, and Luke 18:20
Luke 18:20 – Thou knowest, &c.—Matthew (Mt 19:17) is more complete here: “but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which—as if he had said, Point me out one of them which I have not kept?—“Jesus said, Thou shalt,” &c. (Mt 19:17, 18). Our Lord purposely confines Himself to the second table, which He would consider easy to keep, enumerating them all—for in Mark (Mk 10:19), “Defraud not” stands for the tenth (else the eighth is twice repeated). In Matthew (Mt 19:19) the sum of this second table of the law is added, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” as if to see if he would venture to say he had kept that.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, vol. 2 (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 119.
Why did Jesus tell the rich young ruler he could be saved by obeying the commandments?
What does Mark 10:19 mean? | BibleRef.com
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