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Q 17: Are the Ten Commandments of any other use?
A 17: As a guide to love, the Ten Commandments provide direction in interpreting the rest of Scripture and in guiding every aspect of the life of faith. (Matt. 22.34-40; 1 Jn. 5.2, 3; 1 Cor. 7.17-19)
I have mentioned that the Law of God is the acorn to the oak of divine revelation. Whatever the rest of Scripture teaches, it is, at least to some extent, contained in the Law of God. Whatever the Law teaches is further developed and fulfilled by subsequent revelation.
There is no essential discontinuity between the Law of God and the rest of Scripture, as some suppose (“I’m not under Law, I’m under grace.”) While the Old Covenant has been fulfilled by the New, the Old having been weak, the “weakness” of the Old Covenant, and of the Law, was not in the form or content of the revelation, but in the hearts and flesh of those commanded to obey it. We cannot understand the rest of Scripture aright apart from a good understanding of the Law of God.
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