A NEW LAW FOR A NEW PEOPLE
Most of us
are acquainted with the laws of the old covenant; we were taught the Ten Commandments
in Sunday school and charged to keep these laws. But this was not necessary as
they did not belong to us in the first place. Exodus 20:1-17
I actually
went through all the Ten Commandments, for the benefit of those who are still
ruled by them, so they will know how best to keep them.
Exodus
20:18-20
The people
could not stand the thundering, the darkness and tempest but in spite of this
great awe they had, they still broke the law of God several times. The law was
divided into three parts:
1.
The
Commandments[ i. e. the ten commandment]
2.
The
Judgments and
3.
The Ordinances.
Exodus
20:1-17
Talks about
the commandments [Exodus 21] talks about the Judgments [Exodus 24:2] down to
Chapter 24, about 11 chapters were devoted to these ordinances that governed
the religious life of the children of Israel.
These two
words, Commandment and Judgment are synonymous but they
have some remarkable differences. Judgments had to do with the social life of
the people.
These three
that is the commandments, Judgments and ordinances made up his law of the Old
Testament. But the law was not able to make any one perfect, and because of its
ineffectiveness, it was abolished [Hebrews 7:18]
THE WOMEN – TROUSER ISSUE
This issue
is quite controversial with certain believers claiming that God addressed the
issue of women wearing trouser when he gave the laws. Even that if should be
part of the law; we are not under the law but under the grace. [Romans 6:14-15]
Deuteronomy
22:5
Many people
think this scripture is talking about fashion, but the scripture above did not
say a man should wear a fashion that pertains to a woman or vice versa.
The word “PERTAINS”
means “belongs to” so what God told them was that, a woman should not wear
anything which a man had worn, that is, which belongs to a man.
Psalm
133:1-2
From this scripture
you can see that the high priest of God had clothes that resembled that of woman.
This means that female and male clothes were similar in fashion. But presently,
Jesus don’t dress like they did back then that means their fashion changed.
Leviticus
19:19 - says we should not wear mixture of materials like mixture of cotton and
wool but some of the material we wear contains mixtures meaning we violate the
law. But Glory to God we are justified.