The concept of “to set aside” comes from taking the word meaning to place or set and negating it.
When Herodias used her daughter to manipulate the king into killing John the Baptist, he would not refuse (set aside) her request because he had taken an oath.
And the king was grieved; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her (Mark 6:25).
The Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus concerning His disciples. They were not keeping with the traditions of the elders. The issue was the disciples ate without washing their hands. This washing was not for cleanliness of the flesh, but for religious purposes (Mark 7:2). Jesus responded to their accusations, questioning why they set aside the commandment of God for their traditions.
He said to them, “All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition (Mark 7:9).
While John was in prison for rebuking Herod for taking his brother’s wife, he sent messengers to Jesus questioning if he is the Messiah. Reassuring them by instructing them to look at His works, they report back to John. After they leave, Jesus calls out the Pharisees and lawyers for setting aside the counsel of God when John the Baptist came proclaiming the Kingdom of the Heavens.
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the determinate will of God for themselves, not having been immersed by him (Luke 7:30).
Jesus sent out seventy men to go to every city before Him to proclaim the Kingdom of God at hand. They were not to take provisions, and he was sending them out as lambs among wolves. If the city received them, they were to eat the things set before them. If the city rejected them, they were to wipe off the dust that clings to them against those of the city. Those who hear them, hear Christ. Those who reject them also reject Christ and the one who sent Him.
He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me (Luke 10:16).
Jesus did not come to judge. If anyone hears his words and does not believe, Jesus does not judge him. The one who sets aside Jesus and does not receive His words has one who judges him—the words Christ spoke will judge him in the last day.
He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day (John 12:48).
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. But to those who are being saved, it is the inherent ability of God. Just as it is written, “I will ruin the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the prudent” (1 Corinthians 1:19).
We ought to know how to possess our own vessel properly in sanctification and honor. We are not to conduct our lives according to the passions of strong desires as the Gentiles, for God did not call us to uncleanness, but to holiness. Anyone who sets aside this, does not set aside men, but God
Therefore, he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 4:8).
Younger widows are not to become the responsibility of the local assembly, for they will grow wanton against the Christ and desire to marry. This will bring condemnation upon them for casting of their first faith. They learn to be idle, wandering from house to house, gossiping, and being busybodies, saying things they ought not.
But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith (1 Timothy 5:11–12).
Under the Mosaic Law, anyone who set the law aside died without mercy. How much more severely do you think the judgment will be for those who trample the Son of God under foot?
Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses (Hebrews 10:28).
In these last days, certain men have crept in unnoticed who are marked off for condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of God into licentiousness and denying the Lord. God destroyed those who did not believe when He took Israel out of Egypt, and He keeps the angels who did not keep their proper domain in the gloom of darkness, and destruction came upon Sodom and Gomorrah because they gave themselves over to fornication and went after strange flesh. These men who crept in are dreamers who defile the flesh, set aside authority, and speak false things about dignitaries.
Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries (Jude 8).
No one sets aside or adds to a man’s covenant once he has cut it. Therefore, the covenant given to Abraham concerning his singular seed that is multiple does not change the covenant concerning land.
Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it (Galatians 3:15).
We are not to set aside the grace of God by seeking to be justified before men through the law. If righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain (Galatians 2:21).
People set something or someone aside when they believe its message or value is unimportant. The Jews (religious leaders) set aside the proclamation of John concerning the Kingdom of the heavens, setting aside the determinate will of God. Through the preaching of the cross, God will destroy the wise and set aside their understanding. Let us not set aside the grace of God, seeking to be justified by law, for out from the law no flesh is justified before Him. Instead, let us live out who we are in Christ, taking full advantage of the righteousness we now possess in Him.
