THE BROKEN THINGS OF THE BIBLE - J. C. O'Hair

THE BROKEN THINGS OF THE BIBLE 

 J. C. O'Hair

First let us consider the two broken stones on which God Himself wrote the ten commandments. Israel’s law: “And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.” (Exodus 31:18). “And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon tables.” (Exodus 32:16). “And it came to pass as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and BRAKE them beneath the mount.” Exodus 32:19.
This was very significant. The BROKEN STONES meant not only that Israel had broken God’s law, but the best that the best of the human race could do would be to break God’s law. “And I took the two tables and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.” Deuteronomy 9:17. But note Exodus 34:1: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou BRAKEST.” And 25:21: “And thou shalt put the mercyseat upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.”
Here we see both the terror of the law and the mercy of God under the law. In Hebrews 2:1 to 3 and in Romans 3:25 to 27 we learn that surely every disobedience and transgression must receive a just recompense of reward and that God must first be just and then merciful. The law of the Lord is just and demands justice and perfection. The mercyseat spoke of Christ on the cross being the propitiation for the sins of the whole world. (I John 2:2).
The law worketh wrath. (Romans 4:15). (Read John 7:19). Christ made peace through the blood of His cross. (Colossians 1:20).
Christ lived a sinless life under the law, then died with lawbreakers, for all lawbreakers, to deliver them from the curse of the law, (Galatians 3:13). Thus Christ became the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (Romans 10:4).
Because of Christ’s perfection in life, death and resurrection, God can be just and the Justifier of all who believe on Christ and accept His perfect propitiation. God freely justifies all such believers. (Romans 3:24 to 28 - Acts 13:39). Of this the blood-sprinkled mercyseat, above the unbroken stones spoke.
When God gave the law at Sinai no one could endure it. (Hebrews 12:20). It was contrary to them. (Colossians 2:13 to 16). It was a yoke no one but Christ was able to bear. (Acts 15:10).
Thus we have the BROKEN STONES and the BROKEN COMMANDMENTS. “The House of Israel and the House of Judah have BROKEN My Covenant.” (Jeremiah 30:10 - Psalms 89:31 and 34). Later Israel and Judah fell on the Stone of Matthew 21:44 and were BROKEN. (Romans 11:11).
Now note the words of Christ in Luke 22:19 and the words of Paul in I Corinthians 10:16 and I Corinthians 11:24: “And He took bread and gave thanks and BRAKE it, and gave unto them, saying, This is My body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me.” “The bread which we BRAKE, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?” “And when He had given thanks, He BRAKE it, and said, Take, eat; this is My body, which is BROKEN for you: this do in remembrance of Me.”
Thus we have the BROKEN STONES - The BROKEN COVENANT (law) - The BROKEN BODY of Christ - The BROKEN BREAD.
We BREAK bread at the Lord’s Table because His body was BROKEN, because the descendants of Adam BROKE the law. Then after we accept the broken body of Christ for redemption and think of Calvary, when taking the broken bread at the Table, let us remember another broken thing: “The sacrifices of God are a BROKEN spirit: a BROKEN and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Psalms 51:17.
In Jeremiah 30:8 we read that the Lord will come to BREAK the Gentiles’ yoke off Israel.

What is the Gospel?

Believing Christ died, that’s HISTORY.

Believing Christ died for YOUR sins and rose again, that’s SALVATION.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.  1. Corinthians 15:1-4

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