AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Ten Commandments
The Way to Eternal Life
When a young man came to Him asking the way to eternal
life, Jesus said: “If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments”
(Matthew 19:16–18).
The young man asked, “Which?”
Jesus answered: “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit
adultery…’” and proceeded to list several of the Ten
Commandments. Jesus Christ knew the way to salvation! He said
that way was obedience to the law of God the Father and surrender
to His will.
Jesus declared: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my
Father in heaven” (Matthew 7:21).
Far from abolishing the Ten Commandments, Jesus obeyed
them (John 15:10). Christ was the “light” that God sent into the
world to show men how to live. After His death and resurrection,
Christ sent the Apostles out with this command: “Go therefore and
make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
observe all things that I have commanded you” (Matthew
28:19–20).
The Apostles had been there when Christ told the young man:
“Keep the commandments.” They had heard Him magnify the
commandments of God in what is called the Sermon on the
Mount (Matthew 5–7).
The Apostles had witnessed the obedience of Christ to the Ten
Commandments, and knew that His was the perfect example.
Therefore, when Jesus Christ sent them out to every nation with
the order to teach them all things He had commanded them, there
could be no possible doubt in their minds but that this included
the Ten Commandments of God.
Obedience to the Ten Commandments, then, was the very basis
of the teaching of Christ and of His original Apostles. But what
about the “new” commandments of Jesus? Did they not alter or
abolish the necessity for literally keeping the Ten Commandments
that were revealed in the Old Testament?
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