Yet Jesus condemned those who were lawless. Not only that, but we're commanded to be Holy as God is Holy, so I don't think we can simply look at it as a gift. Perhaps a different thread though.
The law came from God. It is part of His personality. So the way to fulfill the law is to listen to Him and do what He says. He can not break the law because it is part of His personality, which is love. Yet we are evil so can not fulfill the law by leaning on our understanding. That why it was written that the law is fulfill through Jesus Christ.
This is what Oscarr was saying and what Christianity is about!!!
The Lord first brought the people to the mountain to speak to them, and what He first spoke was the Law, but the people didn't want to listen to Him!! It is important to understand that not wanting to listen to Him is our problem.
So the Lord wrote the law on stones to signify that what He said was not going to go away. Still the people were not going to be able to keep the law, and He knew it, so a testimony was given to the people explaining to them that they were surely going to perish because they did not listen to Him.
Deut 8:18-19... I testify against you today that you will surely perish. Litde the nations that the Lord make to perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
The legalistic person tries to fulfill the law by their own efforts and thinking, because like those other of God's people in the dersert, they did not want to listen to the voice of the Lord their God.
There is nothing new under the sun. There are still many of God's people (those going to chruch and studying their Bible) that do not want to listen to the voice of the Lord their God.
To them, preaching the Word of God means preaching the Bible not telling people about the personal relationship that we can have with the Lord.
They are like Saul who held the coats of those stoning (throwing the Law) someone that knows the Lord personally. So those Sauls (those that are devote students of the Scritputures but have not yet hear the voice of the Lord) need to have that Damacus road experience, and become a Paul.
To Saul, the Scriptures were the very Word of God. To Paul, Jesus was the very Word of God to him. Saul was going to perish and did spiritual speaking, and became Paul, a new man in Christ.
Paul preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified (we kill the Word of God when we don't listen to HIm). Saul preach salvations through the study of the Scritpures.
The Jews had the Scriptures and thus the Law, but did not come to know the Lord because they refused to listen to Him way back in the desert. People are people, and there are many Christians that are doing and have done that same thing, to the disgrase of themselves and God.
But their is good news. And the good news is that our sins our forgiven so that we can now boldly enter into the holy place where we too can hear the Lord. We find that place within us. This too was fortold.
Deut. 30:1-2 So it shallbe when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all nations where the Lord your God has banished you, and you return to the Lord your God and
obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, then the Lord your God will restore you...
"OBEY HIM" - Obeying Him does not mean that you read the Bible and tried to apply it in your life, because He is the Great I AM, so is always with you. Obeying Him means listening to what He has to say to you though out today and everyday: It is a walk with Him, A relationship with Him, A life lived with Him who you know as a friend and your Lord who is God.
This surely is what Oscarr is trying to explain, and this is what Christianity is all about. It's about knowing your Lord, and that is what His book, the Bible, is telling you.
When a person that knows the Lord tells you that you need a personal relationship with the Lord, they mean exactly that. When a person that knows the Lord tells you we are not following the Law but the Lord, they understand that following the Law will not save you because you can not fulfill the Law by your efforts, so you must follow the Lord Jesus Christ as the Word of God (who did fulfill the Law) via the Spirit of God. You must be obeying His voice, and His voice is a small voice you can pick up within you, and not the words printed on the pages of His book which He will also have you read because He is the Teacher, but not the book.
Now that is a very long version written because some just do not what to seek to hear what God has to say to them.
Ps- remember to test the spirits, because God is not the only spirit, but don't the fact that other spirits our out there discourage you from seeking the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart.