When are you going to understand how to read and interpret the Bible correctly?
In Matthew, to whom was Jesus speaking? OT Jews, not Christians! It is bizarre to write "your righteousness hasn't even reached the level of those people Jesus was referring to" when a) again, He was speaking to OT Jews and b) it clearly says in Romans 3:21-22a, "But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets, the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ for all who believe." So in one sentence, your claim is disproven!
Believers have the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ, who fulfilled the OT law entirely. To put yourself back under the law is to deny the salvific work of Jesus Christ!
Sorry that you are struggling to accept exactly what the Bible teaches! You're fighting hard for what you misunderstand to be the Truth.
I hear that!
you were asking about the following information:
"The works of His hands are verity and judgment; all
His Commandments are sure. They
stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in Truth and uprightness."
Psalms 111:7-8
Who are the 10 Commandments written to?
They are written to
all God's Children.
Who are God's Children? Let's see.
God is a spirit. Those who worship Him (His Children) must worship Him in spirit and in Truth.
John 4:24
Spiritual Israel are God's Children; NOT any physical/fleshly race - for
"...they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:.."
Romans 9:8
Is God's Law a physical Law or a Spiritual Law?
"For we know that the Law is spiritual:..."
Romans 7:14
"Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, (those who do them and keep them may go to heaven.)...Ye shall not add unto (them), neither shall ye diminish (them)..., that ye might keep
the Commandments of the Lord your God ..."
Deuteronomy 4:1-2
NOTE: this chapter speaks
nothing of the Mosaic/Ceremonial laws. It is ONLY referring to the 10 Commandments which ARE God's Law.
"And He declared unto you ...
Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on tables of stone."
Deuteronomy 4:13
And what if His Children stop obeying His Commandments?
"... the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen,..."
Deuteronomy 4:27
We are living this reality today. Scattered far and wide; few and far between among the nations.
"But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
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This next verse is PROOF POSITIVE that the Commandments are still valid to this very day.)
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee,
even in the latter days (end times), if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto His voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God; ) He will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget
the covenant of thy fathers (10 Commandments) which He sware unto them."
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
"The works of His hands are verity and judgment; all
His Commandments are sure. They
stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in Truth and uprightness."
Psalms 111:7-8
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My covenant will I not break nor alter (forever) the thing that has gone out of My lips."
Psalms 89:34
"For I am the Lord,
I change not; ..."
Malachi 3:6