Hi All,
What do you all think on this:
Is the Old Law passed, is the New Law in effect? Are both in effect?
Through HIM,
TOFT
What do you all think on this:
Is the Old Law passed, is the New Law in effect? Are both in effect?
Through HIM,
TOFT
Originally posted by Live!
Old law is the Mosaic Law of the Old Testament, New Law is the commandments
that Jesus told us to follow in the New Testament. Old Law is no longer
in effect.
Originally posted by TOFT
Dear Hank,
I think we find a good reference in Hebrews 8:13 (NKJV)
"In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
The whole OT is obsolete. However the NT repeats what is necessary for Christians.
Through HIM,
TOFT
Originally posted by Hank
The Jews young and lod feel cheated, what do I tell them? Did they obey the law of Moses for nothing?
Originally posted by TOFT
Dear Hank,
I think we find a good reference in Hebrews 8:13 (NKJV)
"In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
The whole OT is obsolete. However the NT repeats what is necessary for Christians.
Through HIM,
TOFT
Originally posted by wblastyn
Jesus fulfilled the Old Law, then He gave us 2 New Commands (Love God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbour as you love yourself), which cover the Old Law (if you love God you will worship only Him, and if you love your nighbour you will not murder them, etc).
Originally posted by LightBearer
Its important to include verse 31 and 32 to get a clear understanding.
Jeremiah 31:31-33 Look! There are days coming, is the utterance of Jehovah, and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; not one like the covenant that I concluded with their forefathers in the day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine they themselves broke, although I myself had husbandly ownership of them, is the utterance of Jehovah. For this is the covenant that I shall conclude with the house of Israel after those days, is the utterance of Jehovah. I will put my law within them, and in their heart I shall write it. And I will become their God, and they themselves will become my people.
When someone breaks a covenant or contract the contracter has the option to cancel. God took this option when he made a new one.
However, the Law covenant became in a sense obsolete when God announced by means of the prophet Jeremiah that there would be a new covenant. (Jer 31:31-34) Heb 8:13 "In his saying a new [covenant] he has made the former one obsolete. Now that which is made obsolete and growing old is near to vanishing away". When something vanishes away it is gone.
In 33 C.E. the Law covenant was canceled on the basis of Christs death on the torture stake. Colossians 2:13-14 Furthermore, though YOU were dead in YOUR trespasses and in the uncircumcised state of YOUR flesh, [God] made YOU alive together with him. He kindly forgave us all our trespasses and blotted out the handwritten document against us, which consisted of decrees and which was in opposition to us; and He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the torture stake". The new covenant replacing it. Heb 7:12; 9:15; Ac 2:1-4.