50 Days after Passover (Pesach, Pascha), God made His will known to His people, via Moses. God wrote His law with His finger on two tables of stone. But why did God write His law on stone? Why did the commandments of God had to be written on stone? What do the tables of stone in the Bible mean?
God wrote His law on tables of stone
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them (出エジプト記 24:12)
God wrote the ten commandments on the two tables of stone by His finger. God revealed 彼の意志 and made His will visible to His people. These tables of stone represented the heart of stone of the carnal people, who were still 古い創造物.
Moses’ job was to teach the people of God His law and commandments, so that they would all get to know His will.
Everyone knew His will, but it was up to each one of them if they would keep His commandments in their hearts, and walk in His way.
Despite the fact, that the people of God knew His will, and wholeheartedly promised to do, what the Lord commanded them to do, many lived in rebellion against God.
The people knew His will through His law and His commandments. But despite this knowledge, they lived after their own insights and according to their own will. They kept doing the things that pleased them, instead of doing the things that would please God. They loved themselves above all. はい, even above the Lord.
The heart of stone was replaced by a heart of flesh
50 days after the crucifixion イエス・キリストの, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit took place. The spirit of man, who was trapped in a sinful nature and under the authority of the death, was raised from the dead, by the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
On the Day of Pentecost, 新しい創造物 was created. This new creation didn’t have a heart of stone anymore, because the heart of stone belonged to the old creation. God Himself, removed the heart of stone and gave a heart of flesh.
Everyone, who would become a new creation イエス・キリストに, through the new birth, would get a new heart; a heart of flesh.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be My people, そして私は彼らの神になります. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, 主なる神は言う (エゼキエル 11:19-21)
悔い改める, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, 主なる神は言う: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye (エゼキエル 18:30-32)
“I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts”
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them. And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God (エゼキエル 36:26-27)
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, 主は言われる; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, 言ってる, Know the Lord: for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more (Hebrews 8:10-12)
A change of heart causes a change in nature
通じてthe new birth, the spirit of man is raised from the dead and becomes alive. When a person becomes born again, the person will be given a new heart. That new heart will cause a change in nature.
The heart of stone, that always rebelled against God and against His will and His commandments, will be replaced by a heart of flesh. This heart of flesh possesses the nature and the will of God. The will of God; His law has been written in your new heart of flesh.
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart(2 コリント人への手紙 3:3)
When you are baptized with the Holy Spirit, God’s nature becomes your nature.
The Holy Spirit dwells in you and communicates with your spirit. You shall listen to Him, and walk after His will like the new creation; 神の子.
新しい創造物 doesn’t walk in rebellion and disobedience to God the Father. But the new creation will submit to the Word of God; イエス, and will live after the will of the Father, イエスのように.
The new creation will not harm the Kingdom of God, by habitually living in sin, and doing those things that please him/her. The new creation shall only do those things, which please the Father so that He will be exalted and glorified. Because the new creation loves God with all his mind, heart, 魂, and strength (こちらもお読みください: ‘Do you love God with all your heart?「).
The new creation pleases the Father and Jesus Christ
Because the new creation loves God with all his heart, 心, 魂, and strength, the new creation shall fulfill the law of God. Because the law of God is nothing more than His will. His will already existed, before God made His will known, to Moses and His people.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: はい, we establish the law (ローマ人 3:31)
God has given us His Word and if we live after His Word and His Spirit, and do what Jesus has commanded us to do and therefore keep His commandments, then we shall fulfill the law and please the Father and Jesus Christ.
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