Quotes from John G. Reisinger

Our Lord, the Son in whom God has spoken full and final truth (Heb. 1:1-3), has replaced Moses, the servant through whom God had spoken partial and preparatory truth.

Breaking the sabbath renounced the whole covenant relationship with God. To profane the Sabbath by performing even the slightest physical work was to deny all of the vows taken at Mount Sinai. It was an action equivalent to a man deliberately spitting in God's face and then, in defiant self-sufficiency and rebellion, breaking the most important law of the covenant by walking away and picking up some sticks or doing some other physical work.

When Jesus said 'THIS do in remembrance of ME,' he was contrasting the New Covenant, and its remembrance sign, with the Old Covenant and its remembrance sign. He was saying, "Instead of keeping the sabbath in remembrance of the old creation and Israel's redemption, THIS do in remembrance of me and the deliverance I have accomplished at Calvary." In other words, remember and think about what the new creation is and how Christ brought it about.

The liberal's problem is his misunderstanding of the true nature of God. He begins with love instead of beginning with holiness. The death of the "Lord's goat" shows the necessity of a death to pay for sin. I used to say, "God owes no man anything," but I was wrong. God owes every sinner the wages of sin, namely death as the penalty for sin. God is honest and will pay the earned wages.

I being now upright without it, and that too with that righteousness, with which this law speaks well of and approveth; I may not, will not, cannot, dare not, make it my Saviour and Judge, nor suffer it to set up its government in my conscience; for so doing I fall from grace, and Christ doth profit me nothing.22

The New Testament Scriptures showing the fulfillment of the three offices prophesied in Old Testament Scriptures clearly demonstrate the failure and end of the old covenant and all it brought into being. A totally new covenant has fulfilled the promises of the old covenant and completely replaced it. The church has a new Prophet, a new Priest, and a new King.

They are never called or treated as 'the unchanging moral law of God' either here in the Exodus passage that introduces them or anywhere else in Scripture. To call the Ten Commandments the 'moral law of God' is to use a purely theological term2 that is without any textual support from either this introductory passage or any other passage in Scripture.

Any discussion of the Ten Commandments that in any way separates that phrase from the 'words of the covenant' written on the tables of stone and given to Israel at Sinai does not follow the scriptural pattern for use of those terms. We must read these verses carefully and listen to what they say in order to understand correctly the nature, place and function of the Ten Commandments in the history of redemption.

The Ten Commandments are a covenant document given to Israel alone; they are not an unchanging moral code for all people in all ages.