The law is not of faith

psalm911 · Mar 13, 2019

1 John 3:1-3 King James Version (KJV)
3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
They profess that they know God; but in THE WORKS OF THE LAW they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work OF THE LAW REJECTED BY GOD.
BECAUSE whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Rescued One · Mar 13, 2019

Question: "What is the law of Christ?"

Answer: Galatians 6:2 states, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (emphasis added). What exactly is the law of Christ, and how is it fulfilled by carrying each other’s burdens? While the law of Christ is also mentioned in 1 Corinthians 9:21, the Bible nowhere specifically defines what precisely is the law of Christ. However, most Bible teachers understand the law of Christ to be what Christ stated were the greatest commandments in Mark 12:28–31, “‘Which commandment is the most important of all?’ Jesus answered, ‘The most important is, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The second is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.’”
What is the law of Christ?

John 14
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Soyeong · Mar 13, 2019

psalm911 said:
1 John 3:1-3 King James Version (KJV)
3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
They profess that they know God; but in THE WORKS OF THE LAW they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work OF THE LAW REJECTED BY GOD.
BECAUSE whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, and obedience to it is straightforwardly about depending on Him to guide us in how to rightly live, so God's Law is of faith. Living by faith is always associated with living in obedience to God's will, such as with the examples of faith listed in Hebrews 11, whereas disobedience to God's commands is referred to as breaking faith. In James 2:17-18, he said that faith without works is dead and that he would show his faith by his works, so doing good works in obedience to God's Law is what faith looks like, which is why Paul said in Romans 2:13 that it is only the doers of the Law who will be justified. If we have faith in God to guide us, then we will follow His instructions and if we have faith in God to guide us, then we will be justified by that faith, so only those who are doers of the Law have faith and we are justified by that same faith. Furthermore, only doers of the Law are children of God (1 John 3:10). Sin is defined as the transgression of God's Law (1 John 3), so whatever is not of faith is sin, and disobedience to God's Law is not of faith.

Romans 3:27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

So there exists a law that is of faith and in this verse, Paul contrasted it with a law that is of works, so works of the law are of works, while he said in Romans 3:31 that our faith upholds God's Law, so again God's Law is of faith. In Leviticus 18:5, Deuteronomy 30:15-16, Galatians 3:12, Romans 10:5, and Matthew 19:17, the one who obeys God's Law will obtain life by it, which would not be the case if it were not of faith. So in Galatians 3:10-12, Paul was speaking about works of the law, which are not of faith, and was contrasting them with the Book of the Law, which is of faith.

Jesus was sinless, so he lived in complete obedience to the Mosaic Law, and there is not much sense in someone wanting to be like him while arguing against being what he was like, and though he can't be trusted to guide us to obey it.

StephenDiscipleofYHWH · Mar 13, 2019

psalm911 said:
1 John 3:1-3 King James Version (KJV)
3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
They profess that they know God; but in THE WORKS OF THE LAW they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work OF THE LAW REJECTED BY GOD.
BECAUSE whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

The Law of Moses is done away and completed.

The Law of Christ/Liberty/Faith/righteousness/Life/Salvation/ and Spirit is the New covenant law that is separate from the Old Mosaic Law.

Soyeong · Mar 13, 2019

Phoebe Ann said:
Question: "What is the law of Christ?"

Answer: Galatians 6:2 states, “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (emphasis added). What exactly is the law of Christ, and how is it fulfilled by carrying each other’s burdens? While the law of Christ is also mentioned in 1 Corinthians 9:21, the Bible nowhere specifically defines what precisely is the law of Christ. However, most Bible teachers understand the law of Christ to be what Christ stated were the greatest commandments in Mark 12:28–31, “‘Which commandment is the most important of all?’ Jesus answered, ‘The most important is, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The second is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.’”
What is the law of Christ?

Either the Law of Christ is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses, or they are in disagreement about which laws we should follow. Jesus was sinless, so he set a perfect example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, which means that he would have still taught full obedience to it by example even if he had said nothing, and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:3-6). Furthermore, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:14-15), and the Mosaic Law is how his audience knew what sin was, so repent from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of Christ. As such, I do not see a good reason to think that the Law of Christ is something other than the Law of the Father that he taught by word and by example.

Indeed, in 1 Corinthians 9:21, Paul said that he was not outside the Law of God in a parallel statement to being under the Law of Christ, so he straightforwardly equated the two. In Mark 12:28-31, Jesus was not asked which law we should follow, but about what the greatest commandment was. The reason why all of the other commandments in the Bible hang on the greatest two is because they are all examples of what it looks like to correctly obey them. For example, obedience to the command to help the poor looks exactly like obedience to the command to love our neighbor, so the command to love is not distinct from the other commandments, but rather it is the essence of them. In other words, Christ's obedience to the greatest two commandments looked exactly like his complete obedience to the Mosaic Law, so that is how we are to love as he loved.

John 14
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

In John 14:23-24, Jesus said that if we love him, then we will obey his teachings, if we do not love him, then we will not obey his teachings, and that his teachings were not his own, but that of the Father, so if we love Jesus, then we will obey what the Father has taught.

Soyeong · Mar 13, 2019

StephenDiscipleofYHWH said:
The Law of Moses is done away and completed.

All of God's righteous laws are eternal (Psalm 119:160), which means that none of them have ever been or will ever be done away with. Instructions for how to act in accordance with God's righteousness can't be done away with without first doing away with God's eternal righteousness.

The Law of Christ/Liberty/Faith/righteousness/Life/Salvation/ and Spirit is the New covenant law that is separate from the Old Mosaic Law.

Either the Law of Christ is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses, or they are in disagreement about which laws we should follow. Jesus was sinless, so he set a perfect example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, which means that he would have still taught full obedience to it by example even if he had said nothing, and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:3-6). Furthermore, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:14-15), and the Mosaic Law is how his audience knew what sin was, so repent from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of Christ. As such, I do not see a good reason to think that the Law of Christ is something other than the Law of the Father that he taught by word and by example.

In Psalm 119:45, the Mosaic Law is referred to as a law of liberty. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law. In Romans 7:12, Paul described the Law as being holy, righteous, and good. In Matthew 19:17, Jesus said that if we want to enter into life, then obey the commandments. In Matthew 1:21, our salvation is from sin, and in 1 John 3:4, sin is defined as the transgression of the Law. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Law. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God writing His Law on our hearts so that we will obey it. So all of those descriptions you listed are in accordance with the Mosaic Law. The New Covenant does not involve refusing to follow the Law that Jesus followed and taught us to follow by word and by example.

Rescued One · Mar 13, 2019

Are Gentiles required to be circumcised?

StephenDiscipleofYHWH · Mar 13, 2019

Soyeong said:
All of God's righteous laws are eternal (Psalm 119:160), which means that none of them have ever been or will ever be done away with. Instructions for how to act in accordance with God's righteousness can't be done away with without first doing away with God's eternal righteousness.

Either the Law of Christ is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses, or they are in disagreement about which laws we should follow. Jesus was sinless, so he set a perfect example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, which means that he would have still taught full obedience to it by example even if he had said nothing, and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:3-6). Furthermore, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:14-15), and the Mosaic Law is how his audience knew what sin was, so repent from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of Christ. As such, I do not see a good reason to think that the Law of Christ is something other than the Law of the Father that he taught by word and by example.

In Psalm 119:45, the Mosaic Law is referred to as a law of liberty. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law. In Romans 7:12, Paul described the Law as being holy, righteous, and good. In Matthew 19:17, Jesus said that if we want to enter into life, then obey the commandments. In Matthew 1:21, our salvation is from sin, and in 1 John 3:4, sin is defined as the transgression of the Law. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Law. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God writing His Law on our hearts so that we will obey it. So all of those descriptions you listed are in accordance with the Mosaic Law. The New Covenant does not involve refusing to follow the Law that Jesus followed and taught us to follow by word and by example.

1. The Lord said that the Law of Moses/the Book of the Covenant would be fulfilled and that a New Covenant would be made that was not a part of the Old covenant. The Eternal law/law that would last forever(Olam meaning long lasting/ period of time) had an end and that end came when Christ became the anti-typical fulfillment of the whole Mosaic Law.

2. Not true there is no disagreement the law of the spirit of life in Christ is not a part of the law of the Flesh that was the mosaic law(since it was weak by the flesh).

3. Christ had to be sinless to fulfill the mosaic law as he had to be the Sacrificial lamb without blemish and live a sinless life, and also if he had broken even one law he could not have been called righteous by the Law of Moses since only those who kept the whole law without offending in one point were righteous by the Law, also if he had failed in even one point of the law then he would have been cursed since every man who does not keep the whole law without fault was cursed under it.

4. We follow his example, he said that the law would be completed in him and a new law established by him. Then we seek to follow his example of living a righteous life by this new Law, seeking to walk the path of righteousness set forth by Christ.

5. Yes the Mosaic audience knew sin by the Mosaic law, and now we have a New law as Christians and by this New Law we know what sin is. Those under the Mosaic law repented of this sins made under that law, we who are under the Law of Liberty repent of our sins made under the Law of of Liberty.

6. The Law is not of faith(Galatians 3:12-14).

7. In Romans 2 Paul is speaking of the Law of Christ, he even says that it is the law we are all judged by in the end saying it is by the Gospel of Christ that we will be judged.

8. Yes we must obey the Ten commandments written on stones as they are eternal(being the Moral law) the Moral law is not a part of the Law written on parchment placed on the side of the ark. The Law written on stones was placed inside the ark to signify it was eternal.

9. Yes the Spirit of the Lord helps us to obey the Law of Christ, but since the Law of Moses is fulfilled it does not help us to follow a law that has already vanished(Hebrews 8:13).

10. Yes he writes his law in our hearts, this law written in our hearts is said to be the New covenant which is not a part of the Old. That is what is written in Jeremiah.

11. In conclusion it shown using the word of God alone that the Law Moses has passed, and only the law of Liberty and faith in Christ remains. The Schoolteacher is no longer necessary as Christ has already come, we are no longer bound to our first husband(law of moses) but marred to a new one in Christ, we are the children of the free woman and not the bondwoman, the Yoke of bondage has been lifted and we should never again seek to have to put back upon us.

Soyeong · Mar 14, 2019

Phoebe Ann said:
Are Gentiles required to be circumcised?

In Acts 15:1, they were wanting to require all Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved. However, God's Law does not command all Gentiles to become circumcised and the reason that it commands all Jews to become circumcised was not in order to become saved, so the problem was that circumcision was being used for a purpose that went above and beyond what God commanded it for, which was in fact contrary to His purposes, so the Jerusalem Council upheld God's Law by rejecting that requirement. A ruling against requiring Gentiles to obey something that God never commanded should not be understood as a ruling against requiring Gentiles to obey what God has commanded.

StephenDiscipleofYHWH · Mar 14, 2019

Soyeong said:
In Acts 15:1, they were wanting to require all Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved. However, God's Law does not command all Gentiles to become circumcised and the reason that it commands all Jews to become circumcised was not in order to become saved, so the problem was that circumcision was being used for a purpose that went above and beyond what God commanded it for, which was in fact contrary to His purposes, so the Jerusalem Council upheld God's Law by rejecting that requirement. A ruling against requiring Gentiles to obey something that God never commanded should not be understood as a ruling against requiring Gentiles to obey what God has commanded.

The Pharisees were trying to force Christians to both be Circumcised and to keep the law of Moses/the yoke of Bondage.
Galatians 5
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Acts 15
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Soyeong · Mar 14, 2019

StephenDiscipleofYHWH said:
1. The Lord said that the Law of Moses/the Book of the Covenant would be fulfilled and that a New Covenant would be made that was not a part of the Old covenant. The Eternal law/law that would last forever(Olam meaning long lasting/ period of time) had an end and that end came when Christ became the anti-typical fulfillment of the whole Mosaic Law.

In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the Law in contrast with not abolishing it, so you should not interpret fulfilling the Law as meaning essentially the same thing. They way you've interpreted it is kind of like being at a restaurant and asking the waiter to fill your glass up to the brim, then asking them to take it away because you don't want it anymore. Rather, "to fulfill the Law" means "to cause God's will (as made known in the Law) to be obeyed as it should be" (NAS Greek Lexicon pleroo 2c3). After Jesus said he came to fulfill the Law in Matthew 5, this is precisely what he then proceeded to do six times throughout the rest of the chapter by teaching how to correctly understand and obey it. In Galatians 6:2 says that bearing one another's burdens fulfills the Law of Christ, so you should interpret it in the same way as fulfilling the Law and the Prophets, namely obeying it as it should be, not as doing away with it. In Romans 15:18-19, it says that Paul fulfilled the Gospel, which again referred to causing Gentiles to become fully obedient to it in word and in deed, not to doing away with it.

While it is true that the New Covenant is not like the Mosaic Covenant, in Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God writing His Law on our hearts so that we will obey it, so the way that they are not alike is not in regard to His Law. Rather, as that passage describes, the differences are in regard to have a superior mediator and being based on better promises.

While I agree that olam can refer either to forever or to a very long period of time, instructions for how to act in accordance with God's righteousness are straightforwardly based on God's righteousness, so those instructions can't be temporary unless God's righteousness is also temporary, so in this case "forever" is the correct translation.

2. Not true there is no disagreement the law of the spirit of life in Christ is not a part of the law of the Flesh that was the mosaic law(since it was weak by the flesh).

In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God commanded him to without departing from it either to the right or to the left, so the Mosaic Law is God's Law. So if Jesus taught something different than the Mosaic Law, then he was in disagreement with the Father about which laws we should follow. However, I agree that there was no disagreement, which is why I think that the Law of Christ is the same as the Mosaic Law.

The Mosaic Law is never referred to as being of the flesh in nature, but rather the works of the flesh are always those done in disobedience to it. For example, in Galatians 5:19-22, everything listed as works of the flesh are also against the Mosaic Law, while all of the fruits of the Spirit are in accordance with it. In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who refuse to submit to God's Law.

3. Christ had to be sinless to fulfill the mosaic law as he had to be the Sacrificial lamb without blemish and live a sinless life, and also if he had broken even one law he could not have been called righteous by the Law of Moses since only those who kept the whole law without offending in one point were righteous by the Law, also if he had failed in even one point of the law then he would have been cursed since every man who does not keep the whole law without fault was cursed under it.

In Galatians 5:14, loving your neighbor fulfills the entire Law, so Jesus was one of countless people who have done that, so while living a sinless life is an example of fulfilling the Law, it is not a necessary requirement. We are not made righteous by obeying the Law primarily because it was never given for that purpose. In Romans 3:21-22, the Law and the Prophets testify that the righteousness of God comes through faith in Christ for all who believe, so this has always been the one and only way that there has ever been to become righteous.

The Law itself came with instructions for what to do if people sinned, so perfect obedience was never the requirement. If we needed to have perfect obedience, then there would be no point in repentance because it would already be too late to have that, so the fact that repentance has value means that obedience that is less than perfect has value. The consistent message of the prophets up to and including Jesus was to repent from our sins and turn back to obedience to God's Law, so the need to continue to practice repentance if we sin has always been key.

In Deuteronomy 11:26-32, the distinction between being under God's blessing or His curse is based on whether we choose to serve God or to chase after other gods, not based on whether we have perfect obedience. While everyone in the OT sinned and fell short of perfection, everyone being under God's curse does not reflect the reality of what is recorded about those who served God.

4. We follow his example, he said that the law would be completed in him and a new law established by him. Then we seek to follow his example of living a righteous life by this new Law, seeking to walk the path of righteousness set forth by Christ.

In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the Law, so if Jesus had added a brand new law, then he would have sinned and therefore disqualified himself as our Savior. In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Law and the Prophets as being about how to love God and our neighbor, so it is the Law of Love. If the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness was changed by Christ, then God's righteousness would not be eternal.

5. Yes the Mosaic audience knew sin by the Mosaic law, and now we have a New law as Christians and by this New Law we know what sin is. Those under the Mosaic law repented of this sins made under that law, we who are under the Law of Liberty repent of our sins made under the Law of of Liberty.

In Psalm 119:45, the Mosaic Law is the Law of Liberty. Sin is an affront to God's eternal character, so the things that are sin will never change.

6. The Law is not of faith(Galatians 3:12-14).

In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law and obedience to God's instructions is straightforwardly about having faith in Him to guide us in how to rightly live, so God's Law is of faith. In Leviticus 18:5, Deuteronomy 30:15-16, Galatians 3:12, Romans 10:5, and Matthew 19:17, the one who obeys God's Law will obtain life by it, which would not be the case if it were not of faith. In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law that was of works with a law that was of faith, so works of the law are of works, while he said in verse 31 that our faith upholds God's Law, so again it is of faith. In Galatians 3:10-14, Paul was speaking about works of the law, which are not of faith, and was contrasting them with the Book of the Law, which is of faith.

7. In Romans 2 Paul is speaking of the Law of Christ, he even says that it is the law we are all judged by in the end saying it is by the Gospel of Christ that we will be judged.

Again, the Mosaic Law is how Christ's audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the the Gospel of Christ and I don't see a good reason to think that the Law of Christ is something other than the Mosaic Law that he taught by word and by example.

8. Yes we must obey the Ten commandments written on stones as they are eternal(being the Moral law) the Moral law is not a part of the Law written on parchment placed on the side of the ark. The Law written on stones was placed inside the ark to signify it was eternal.

Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to obey God, so all of God's laws are inherently moral laws. While I agree that the Ten Commandments were the only ones placed inside the Ark, the Bible does not suggest that this was done because they are the Moral Law while it is moral to disobey everything else.

9. Yes the Spirit of the Lord helps us to obey the Law of Christ, but since the Law of Moses is fulfilled it does not help us to follow a law that has already vanished(Hebrews 8:13).

While we are under the New Covenant and not the Mosaic Covenant, we are nevertheless still under the same God with the same ways and therefore the same instructions for how to walk in His ways. If the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness were to change when the New Covenant was made, then God's righteousness would not be eternal, but it is eternal (Psalm 119:142), so any instructions that God has ever given for how to do what is righteous and avoid sin will always be valid regardless of which covenant we are under, but as part of the New Covenant we are told that those who do not follow those instructions are not children of God (1 John 3:10). Furthermore, the New Covenant involves God writing His Law on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33), so while the Mosaic Covenant has become obsolete, God's eternal righteousness and righteous Law did not become obsolete along with it.

10. Yes he writes his law in our hearts, this law written in our hearts is said to be the New covenant which is not a part of the Old. That is what is written in Jeremiah.

The fault that God found with the Mosaic Covenant was not with His righteousness or righteous Law, but rather God found fault with the people for breaking their covenant because of the hardness of their hearts, so the solution to the problem was not for God to do away with His righteousness or righteous Law, but rather the solution was to do away with what was hindering us from obeying it. This is why the New Covenant involves God taking away our hearts of stone, giving us hearts of flesh, and sending his Spirit to lead us to obey His Law (Ezekiel 36:26-27), sending His Son to free us from sin so that we might be free to obey the Law and meet its righteous requirement (Romans 8:3-4), and wring His Law on our hearts so that we will obey it.

11. In conclusion it shown using the word of God alone that the Law Moses has passed, and only the law of Liberty and faith in Christ remains. The Schoolteacher is no longer necessary as Christ has already come, we are no longer bound to our first husband(law of moses) but marred to a new one in Christ, we are the children of the free woman and not the bondwoman, the Yoke of bondage has been lifted and we should never again seek to have to put back upon us.

Having no more need for a tutor is not the same as having no more need to live by what they taught you. Someone who disregarded everything that their tutor taught them after they left would be completely missing the whole point of a tutor. Now that Christ has come, we have a superior teacher, but the subject matter is still how to walk in God's ways in obedience to His Law in accordance with what he taught by word and by example.

When two people get married, they get married to the other person, not to their wedding contract. God's Law was part of the wedding contract between God and Israel, not the object to which Israel got married.

The reason that God saved the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt was not in order to put them under bondage to His Law, but rather it is for freedom that God sets us free (Galatians 5:1) and God's Law is a law of liberty, while it is sin in transgression of God's Law that puts us into bondage (John 8:34). The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to do the things that God revealed to be sin in His Law.

Soyeong · Mar 14, 2019

StephenDiscipleofYHWH said:
The Pharisees were trying to force Christians to both be Circumcised and to keep the law of Moses/the yoke of Bondage.
Galatians 5
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

All throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and turn back to obedience to His Law, and even Christ began his ministry with that message, so it would be absurd to interpret these verses as Paul warning us against doing that and saying that we will be cut off from Christ if we follow Christ. The problem he was dealing with in Galatians was with works of the law, not with God's Law.

Acts 15
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Do you believe that the Psalms are Scripture, that they therefore express a correct view of God's Law, and that the Jerusalem Council was in complete agreement with the Psalms? The view expressed of God's Law, such as in Psalm 119 is completely incompatible with the view of the law that they were speaking about in Acts 15:10, so they could not be speaking about the same law. Likewise, in Deuteronomy 30:11-14, God said that His Law was not too difficult for His children to obey, so if they had been speaking about the same Law in Acts 15:10, then they would have been in direct disagreement with God and would therefore have been wrong. However, I explained that in Acts 15:1, they were wanting to require all Gentiles to do something that went above and beyond what God's Law commanded, so they were not speaking about God's Law.

In the 1st century, there existed a large body of Jewish oral laws, traditions, rulings, and fences, that they taught for how to obey God's Law. For example, there are 24 chapters worth of traditions in the Mishnah for just how to rest of the Sabbath that range everywhere from how far someone could walk to how much someone could lift before it counted as work. Then they would put a fence around that to scale it back in order to prevent anyone from accidentally doing something that could be counted as work. A Pharisee who was teaching someone to keep the Sabbath would be teaching them to follow all of the traditions that they taught for how to correctly keep it, so they considered themselves to be teaching the Law of Moses even though their traditions went above and beyond what the Law of Moses instructs. A Gentile who was consented to becoming circumcised was becoming a Jewish proselyte and agreeing to live as a Jew according to all of their oral laws and traditions, and doing all of that in order to become saved, and this was what they were speaking against, not against obeying God.

psalm911 · Mar 14, 2019

Soyeong said:
In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, and obedience to it is straightforwardly about depending on Him to guide us in how to rightly live, so God's Law is of faith. Living by faith is always associated with living in obedience to God's will, such as with the examples of faith listed in Hebrews 11, whereas disobedience to God's commands is referred to as breaking faith. In James 2:17-18, he said that faith without works is dead and that he would show his faith by his works, so doing good works in obedience to God's Law is what faith looks like, which is why Paul said in Romans 2:13 that it is only the doers of the Law who will be justified. If we have faith in God to guide us, then we will follow His instructions and if we have faith in God to guide us, then we will be justified by that faith, so only those who are doers of the Law have faith and we are justified by that same faith. Furthermore, only doers of the Law are children of God (1 John 3:10). Sin is defined as the transgression of God's Law (1 John 3), so whatever is not of faith is sin, and disobedience to God's Law is not of faith.

Romans 3:27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

So there exists a law that is of faith and in this verse, Paul contrasted it with a law that is of works, so works of the law are of works, while he said in Romans 3:31 that our faith upholds God's Law, so again God's Law is of faith. In Leviticus 18:5, Deuteronomy 30:15-16, Galatians 3:12, Romans 10:5, and Matthew 19:17, the one who obeys God's Law will obtain life by it, which would not be the case if it were not of faith. So in Galatians 3:10-12, Paul was speaking about works of the law, which are not of faith, and was contrasting them with the Book of the Law, which is of faith.

Jesus was sinless, so he lived in complete obedience to the Mosaic Law, and there is not much sense in someone wanting to be like him while arguing against being what he was like, and though he can't be trusted to guide us to obey it.

Galatians 6:1-2 King James Version (KJV)
6 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The law that you read above is referring to the commandment of Christ below.

John 13:34 King James Version (KJV)
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

psalm911 · Mar 14, 2019

Soyeong said:
In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, and obedience to it is straightforwardly about depending on Him to guide us in how to rightly live, so God's Law is of faith. Living by faith is always associated with living in obedience to God's will, such as with the examples of faith listed in Hebrews 11, whereas disobedience to God's commands is referred to as breaking faith. In James 2:17-18, he said that faith without works is dead and that he would show his faith by his works, so doing good works in obedience to God's Law is what faith looks like, which is why Paul said in Romans 2:13 that it is only the doers of the Law who will be justified. If we have faith in God to guide us, then we will follow His instructions and if we have faith in God to guide us, then we will be justified by that faith, so only those who are doers of the Law have faith and we are justified by that same faith. Furthermore, only doers of the Law are children of God (1 John 3:10). Sin is defined as the transgression of God's Law (1 John 3), so whatever is not of faith is sin, and disobedience to God's Law is not of faith.

Romans 3:27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

So there exists a law that is of faith and in this verse, Paul contrasted it with a law that is of works, so works of the law are of works, while he said in Romans 3:31 that our faith upholds God's Law, so again God's Law is of faith. In Leviticus 18:5, Deuteronomy 30:15-16, Galatians 3:12, Romans 10:5, and Matthew 19:17, the one who obeys God's Law will obtain life by it, which would not be the case if it were not of faith. So in Galatians 3:10-12, Paul was speaking about works of the law, which are not of faith, and was contrasting them with the Book of the Law, which is of faith.

Jesus was sinless, so he lived in complete obedience to the Mosaic Law, and there is not much sense in someone wanting to be like him while arguing against being what he was like, and though he can't be trusted to guide us to obey it.

What you read below is the laws of God.

1 John 3:22-24 King James Version (KJV)
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Furthermore, Christ explained in detail in the gospels how the second is to be fulfilled and what it looks like.

psalm911 · Mar 14, 2019

Phoebe Ann said:
Are Gentiles required to be circumcised?

No.

psalm911 · Mar 14, 2019

Soyeong said:
All of God's righteous laws are eternal (Psalm 119:160), which means that none of them have ever been or will ever be done away with. Instructions for how to act in accordance with God's righteousness can't be done away with without first doing away with God's eternal righteousness.

Either the Law of Christ is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses, or they are in disagreement about which laws we should follow. Jesus was sinless, so he set a perfect example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, which means that he would have still taught full obedience to it by example even if he had said nothing, and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:3-6). Furthermore, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:14-15), and the Mosaic Law is how his audience knew what sin was, so repent from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of Christ. As such, I do not see a good reason to think that the Law of Christ is something other than the Law of the Father that he taught by word and by example.

In Psalm 119:45, the Mosaic Law is referred to as a law of liberty. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law. In Romans 7:12, Paul described the Law as being holy, righteous, and good. In Matthew 19:17, Jesus said that if we want to enter into life, then obey the commandments. In Matthew 1:21, our salvation is from sin, and in 1 John 3:4, sin is defined as the transgression of the Law. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Law. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God writing His Law on our hearts so that we will obey it. So all of those descriptions you listed are in accordance with the Mosaic Law. The New Covenant does not involve refusing to follow the Law that Jesus followed and taught us to follow by word and by example.

Romans 8:1-2 King James Version (KJV)
8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law(FAITH) of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law(10 COMMANDMENTS) of sin and death.

Hebrews 8:13 King James Version (KJV)
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old(10 COMMANDMENTS) is ready to vanish away.

The law of liberty is faith:Jesus Christ

Soyeong · Mar 14, 2019

psalm911 said:
Galatians 6:1-2 King James Version (KJV)
6 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The law that you read above is referring to the commandment of Christ below.

John 13:34 King James Version (KJV)
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

In Matthew 22:36-40, the reason why all of the other commandments hang on the greatest two is because they are all examples of what it looks like to correctly love God and our neighbor. For example, obedience to the command to help the poor looks exactly like obedience to the command to love our neighbor, so the command to love does not replace the other commandments, but rather it is the essence of them. In other words, if you were to look at the life of someone who was obeying the greatest two commandments and compare them with the life of someone who lived in complete obedience to the Mosaic Law, then you would not be able to tell the difference because they would both look like the same example that Jesus set for us to follow. Jesus expressed His love for God and for His neighbor through his obedience to the Mosaic Law, so that is how we are to love as he loved.

psalm911 said:
Romans 8:1-2 King James Version (KJV)
8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law(FAITH) of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law(10 COMMANDMENTS) of sin and death.

If there was a king who gave laws to govern the conduct of their citizens and there was someone going around teaching people to rebel against what the king has commanded, then would this person be a servant of the king or an enemy of the king?

Paul was a servant of God, not His enemy, so you should not interpret him as speaking against obeying what He has commanded. Paul said that God's Law is holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), that he wanted to do good (7:18), that he delighted in obeying God's Law (7:22), and that he served it with his mind (7:25), but contrasted that with the law of sin, which held him captive (7:23), which caused him not to do the good that he wanted to do (7:13-20), and which he served with his flesh (7:25). So in Romans 8:1-2, Paul straightforwardly equated God's Law with the Law of the Spirit (the Spirit is God) and contrasted them both with the law of sin and death, so that is not the Ten Commandments, but rather it is the opposite of God's Law. Furthermore, in Romans 8:3-4, Jesus gave himself to free us from sin so that we might be free to obey the Law and meet its righteous requirement. In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh, who are enemies of God, and who refuse to submit to His Law.

In Matthew 19:17, Jesus said if we want to enter into life, then obey the commandments, so the commandments of God were giving to bring life, not death.

Hebrews 8:13 King James Version (KJV)

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13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old(10 COMMANDMENTS) is ready to vanish away.

The law of liberty is faith:Jesus Christ

While we are under the New Covenant and not the Mosaic Covenant, we are nevertheless still under the same God with the same nature and therefore the same instructions for how to walk in His ways and express His character traits. For example, if the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness were to change when the New Covenant was made, then God's righteousness would not be eternal, but God's righteousness and righteous laws are eternal (Psalm 119:142, 160), so any instructions that God has ever given for how to do what is righteous will always be valid regardless of which covenant we are under, but as part of the New Covenant, we are told that those who do not follow those instructions are not children of God (1 John 3:10).

The reason that God saved the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt was not in order to put them under bondage to His Law, but rather it is for freedom that God sets us free (Galatians 5:1) and God's Law is a law of liberty, while it is sin in transgression of God's Law that puts us into bondage (John 8:34). The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to do the things that God revealed to be sin in His Law.

Soyeong · Mar 14, 2019

psalm911 said:
What you read below is the laws of God.

1 John 3:22-24 King James Version (KJV)
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Furthermore, Christ explained in detail in the gospels how the second is to be fulfilled and what it looks like.

If you were to compare the life of someone who loved God and his neighbor with the life of someone who lived in obedience to the Mosaic Law, then you would not be able to tell the difference because they would both look like the same example that Jesus set for us to follow, so the command to love is inclusive of all of God's Law.

Likewise, in Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, which is essentially what God's Law was given to instruct us how to do. Furthermore, verse 14 says that Jesus gave himself both to redeem us from all Lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are zealous for doing good works, so if you believe on the name of the Son Jesus Christ, then that should cause you to become zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's Law (Acts 21:20) and should not cause you return to the Lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem you from.

StephenDiscipleofYHWH · Mar 14, 2019

Soyeong said:
In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the Law in contrast with not abolishing it, so you should not interpret fulfilling the Law as meaning essentially the same thing. They way you've interpreted it is kind of like being at a restaurant and asking the waiter to fill your glass up to the brim, then asking them to take it away because you don't want it anymore. Rather, "to fulfill the Law" means "to cause God's will (as made known in the Law) to be obeyed as it should be" (NAS Greek Lexicon pleroo 2c3). After Jesus said he came to fulfill the Law in Matthew 5, this is precisely what he then proceeded to do six times throughout the rest of the chapter by teaching how to correctly understand and obey it. In Galatians 6:2 says that bearing one another's burdens fulfills the Law of Christ, so you should interpret it in the same way as fulfilling the Law and the Prophets, namely obeying it as it should be, not as doing away with it. In Romans 15:18-19, it says that Paul fulfilled the Gospel, which again referred to causing Gentiles to become fully obedient to it in word and in deed, not to doing away with it.

While it is true that the New Covenant is not like the Mosaic Covenant, in Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God writing His Law on our hearts so that we will obey it, so the way that they are not alike is not in regard to His Law. Rather, as that passage describes, the differences are in regard to have a superior mediator and being based on better promises.

While I agree that olam can refer either to forever or to a very long period of time, instructions for how to act in accordance with God's righteousness are straightforwardly based on God's righteousness, so those instructions can't be temporary unless God's righteousness is also temporary, so in this case "forever" is the correct translation.

In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God commanded him to without departing from it either to the right or to the left, so the Mosaic Law is God's Law. So if Jesus taught something different than the Mosaic Law, then he was in disagreement with the Father about which laws we should follow. However, I agree that there was no disagreement, which is why I think that the Law of Christ is the same as the Mosaic Law.

The Mosaic Law is never referred to as being of the flesh in nature, but rather the works of the flesh are always those done in disobedience to it. For example, in Galatians 5:19-22, everything listed as works of the flesh are also against the Mosaic Law, while all of the fruits of the Spirit are in accordance with it. In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who refuse to submit to God's Law.

In Galatians 5:14, loving your neighbor fulfills the entire Law, so Jesus was one of countless people who have done that, so while living a sinless life is an example of fulfilling the Law, it is not a necessary requirement. We are not made righteous by obeying the Law primarily because it was never given for that purpose. In Romans 3:21-22, the Law and the Prophets testify that the righteousness of God comes through faith in Christ for all who believe, so this has always been the one and only way that there has ever been to become righteous.

The Law itself came with instructions for what to do if people sinned, so perfect obedience was never the requirement. If we needed to have perfect obedience, then there would be no point in repentance because it would already be too late to have that, so the fact that repentance has value means that obedience that is less than perfect has value. The consistent message of the prophets up to and including Jesus was to repent from our sins and turn back to obedience to God's Law, so the need to continue to practice repentance if we sin has always been key.

In Deuteronomy 11:26-32, the distinction between being under God's blessing or His curse is based on whether we choose to serve God or to chase after other gods, not based on whether we have perfect obedience. While everyone in the OT sinned and fell short of perfection, everyone being under God's curse does not reflect the reality of what is recorded about those who served God.

In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the Law, so if Jesus had added a brand new law, then he would have sinned and therefore disqualified himself as our Savior. In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Law and the Prophets as being about how to love God and our neighbor, so it is the Law of Love. If the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness was changed by Christ, then God's righteousness would not be eternal.

In Psalm 119:45, the Mosaic Law is the Law of Liberty. Sin is an affront to God's eternal character, so the things that are sin will never change.

In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law and obedience to God's instructions is straightforwardly about having faith in Him to guide us in how to rightly live, so God's Law is of faith. In Leviticus 18:5, Deuteronomy 30:15-16, Galatians 3:12, Romans 10:5, and Matthew 19:17, the one who obeys God's Law will obtain life by it, which would not be the case if it were not of faith. In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law that was of works with a law that was of faith, so works of the law are of works, while he said in verse 31 that our faith upholds God's Law, so again it is of faith. In Galatians 3:10-14, Paul was speaking about works of the law, which are not of faith, and was contrasting them with the Book of the Law, which is of faith.

Again, the Mosaic Law is how Christ's audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the the Gospel of Christ and I don't see a good reason to think that the Law of Christ is something other than the Mosaic Law that he taught by word and by example.

Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to obey God, so all of God's laws are inherently moral laws. While I agree that the Ten Commandments were the only ones placed inside the Ark, the Bible does not suggest that this was done because they are the Moral Law while it is moral to disobey everything else.

While we are under the New Covenant and not the Mosaic Covenant, we are nevertheless still under the same God with the same ways and therefore the same instructions for how to walk in His ways. If the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness were to change when the New Covenant was made, then God's righteousness would not be eternal, but it is eternal (Psalm 119:142), so any instructions that God has ever given for how to do what is righteous and avoid sin will always be valid regardless of which covenant we are under, but as part of the New Covenant we are told that those who do not follow those instructions are not children of God (1 John 3:10). Furthermore, the New Covenant involves God writing His Law on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33), so while the Mosaic Covenant has become obsolete, God's eternal righteousness and righteous Law did not become obsolete along with it.

The fault that God found with the Mosaic Covenant was not with His righteousness or righteous Law, but rather God found fault with the people for breaking their covenant because of the hardness of their hearts, so the solution to the problem was not for God to do away with His righteousness or righteous Law, but rather the solution was to do away with what was hindering us from obeying it. This is why the New Covenant involves God taking away our hearts of stone, giving us hearts of flesh, and sending his Spirit to lead us to obey His Law (Ezekiel 36:26-27), sending His Son to free us from sin so that we might be free to obey the Law and meet its righteous requirement (Romans 8:3-4), and wring His Law on our hearts so that we will obey it.

Having no more need for a tutor is not the same as having no more need to live by what they taught you. Someone who disregarded everything that their tutor taught them after they left would be completely missing the whole point of a tutor. Now that Christ has come, we have a superior teacher, but the subject matter is still how to walk in God's ways in obedience to His Law in accordance with what he taught by word and by example.

When two people get married, they get married to the other person, not to their wedding contract. God's Law was part of the wedding contract between God and Israel, not the object to which Israel got married.

The reason that God saved the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt was not in order to put them under bondage to His Law, but rather it is for freedom that God sets us free (Galatians 5:1) and God's Law is a law of liberty, while it is sin in transgression of God's Law that puts us into bondage (John 8:34). The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to do the things that God revealed to be sin in His Law.

1. I don't interpret anything brother I simply compare scripture with scripture and let the word of God interpret the word of God. The Lord said he would make a new covenant and the Old would not stand, this new covenant would not be a part of Old but would have a new foundation and would not be built of the Old(Jeremiah 31:31-34,Isaiah 28:13-19, Ezekiel 36:25-27,29-31).
A New covenant will be made:Jeremiah 31:31-34, Isaiah 28:10,13-19, Ezekiel 36:23-27,29-31
The Old Covenant will not stand:Isaiah 28:13-19
The New law will be written in their Hearts:Jeremiah 31:33-34, Ezekiel 36:26; Ezekiel 11:19
On a Tried stone will this Covenant be Made:Isaiah 28:16
This New Covenant will give the People a New Spirit:Ezekiel 36:26-27; Ezekiel 11:19
The New Covenant will be of the Promise of Faith:Isaiah 28:16
The Whole Covenant that was the Book of the Covenant would be Fulfilled/completed:Isaiah 28:15,17

In Matt five we are told he came to complete/fulfil the whole law, he said that the whole law would pass away at once and not one law would pass without the rest
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

This is why Christ is called the author and finisher of the faith, he is both the author of the New covenant of Faith(through the promise of Faith) and the finisher of the Old Covenant(mosaic book of the Covenant)
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

In Matt five we see Christ establishing the New covenant Law(but preaching that none could understand until after he made it known to them so as not to violate the Old covenant). Each time he says "But I say unto you" he is showing what laws are in the New covenant(and none understood what he said).

Galatians 6:2 is speaking of obedience to the law of Chris to accomplish/fulfill it(378 Anapleroo-
fill up, fulfill, occupy, supply. From ana and pleroo; to complete; by implication, to occupy, supply; figuratively, to accomplish (by coincidence ot obedience) -- fill up, fulfill, occupy, supply.-this is a different word used for fulfill than the one used to describe Chris's fulfillment of the Mosaic law) as one of the commandments given by Christ is to bear one another's burden's/love all people as we love ourselves(enemies included). It differs from the fulfillment of the OT foretold by the Lord since nothing written in the NT has said that any other covenant will be established(that would make the Law of Christ unable to stand as with what happened to the Old covenant-Jeremiah 31:31-34,Isaiah 28:13-19, Ezekiel 36:25-27,29-31).

In romans 15:18-19 it says Christ fully preached the Gospel(as we all are to do).
18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
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2. The Law written in our hearts is the Moral law written on stone, that is why it says that tablets of stone are no longer necessary to teach us of God's moral law(2 Cor 3).

In Jerimah 31 it says that the covenant that will be done away is the one given to them after the took them out of Egypt. The only covenant given at that time was the Mosaic book of the Covenant

Handwriting of ordinances-Exodus 34:27; Nehemiah 9:13,14; 2 Chronicles 33:8; Exodus 18:20; Leviticus 18:4; 2 Kings 17:34,35,37,38

Law of moses-Joshua 8:31,32,34,35; Joshua 23:6; Judges 4:11; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 23:25; 2 Chronicles 23:18; 2 Chronicles 30:16; Ezra 3:2; Ezra 7:6; Nehemiah 8:1; Daniel 9:11,13; Malachi 4:4

Law of the Covenant/Book of the Covenant- Exodus 34:27; Exodus 24:7; 2 Kings 23:21; 2 Kings 23:2,3,21

Book of the Law- Deut 29:27,29; Joshua 1:7-8; Deuteronomy 31:24,26; Deuteronomy 30:10; Joshua 23:6; Joshua 24:26; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Chronicles 25:4; 2 Chronicles 17:9; Nehemiah 9:3; Nehemiah 8:1; Ezra 6:18; Nehemiah 13:1; 2 Kings 22:8-13 ; Psalm 40:7; 1 Samuel 10:25; Nehemiah 8:9; Joshua 8:31,31,34,35

the Lord says it is not after this Old Covenant that a new will be made but instead it will be a wholly new covenant after the promise of faith given to Abraham(which the Mosaic law was not of-Galatians 3:12).
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3. The righteousness of the law came by keeping the whole mosaic law ( Duet 27:26; Josh 8:34; Duet 28:58-61; 2 Kings 22:13; Gal 3:10-12; Gal 5:3-4) And this is why no man was considered righteous under the law of Moses except for Christ, who alone lived a sinless life (1 Pet 2:22; Heb 4:15; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 John 3:5; Rom 8:3) and in living a sinless life the lord fulfilled, completed, and put and end to even the righteousness of the law(Matt 3:15). The righteousness of the Mosaic Law which was the keeping of all the works of the law,as it is said "That the man which doeth those things shall live by them" (Rom 10:5; Lev 18:5; Neh 9:29; Gal 3:12) Is not the righteousness spoken of by faith, which does not say those who do these things but instead says the righteousness of faith speaketh on this wise "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the word Yahshua and shalt believe in thine heat that God hath raised him form the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness..." (Rom 10:6-10; Gal 5:5) No flesh is justified by the works of the law (Gal 2:16) The grace of God is not come within the Law of Moses, but it is manifested apart form the Mosaic Law "For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." (Gal 2:21; Rom 3:21-22, 24-28; Rom 9:30-33) In Christ we are justified from all things which we could not be justified by the law of Moses (Acts 13:39;Rom 10:4; Rom 3:19-27; Rom 5:17, 21; Rom 8:10) No man is justified by the law in the sight of God(Gal 3:11 Gal 5:4; Phil 3:9; Tit 3:5; Gal 2:16, 21) Instead the just shall live by faith and are justified by faith having the righteousness which faith brings (The righteousness of God is by faith- Phil 3:9; Tit 3:5; Eph 2:8-9; Gal 3:11; Gal 5:5).

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StephenDiscipleofYHWH · Mar 14, 2019

4. Christ taught Kept the mosaic law and preached the Gospel of Christ. When he Precched the Gospel of Christ he did so in way that none could understand until after his death or until it was made known to them
Luke 18:34
34And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

Matt 13
9Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

15For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

17For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous menhave desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

But while under the mosaic law he instructed everyone to keep it's statutes until the law was completed in him thus he did not break the law
Matt 5
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matt 23
1Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

These things he taught while under the law so as not to sin, but after his death the law was done and his gospel/law came into effect.

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5. We are delivered from the letter of the Law of the Covenant which was after the Flesh(Romans 7:17-19,21,23-25) and put under that Spiritual law that came by Christ(Romans 7:6,12,14-16,22,25). The Law of Moses was by the flesh in that it was weak by the flesh(Romans 8:3-4) and those who were under it were not of the spirit but were of the flesh.

Romans 8
The Law of the covenant was weak by the flesh(Romans 8:3,1) and they that keep the law of the covenant are carnally minded(Romans 8:5,6,7), in so much that they are an eminity against God and cannot please him(Romans 8:6,7,8) for to be after the Flesh and the law of the Flesh is Death(the law of the Covenant is death)(Romans 8:6,13). The Law of the spirit of Life that is Christ has made us free from the Law of sin and death(Law of the Covenant which is of the Flesh)(Romans 8:2) that we who are of the Spirit walk not after the Flesh(Law of the Covenant) but after the spirit(Romans 8:1,4,14) are given a new spiritual mind not of the Flesh(Romans 8:5) in like manner also we are dead to Flesh by Christ, being raised up again in the Spirit(Romans 8:9,10,11,13,16,23) so that we will never again be put under the bondage that is in the law of the covenant(Galatians 5), nor yet even be put under the Spirit of Bondage that is by the Mosaic law(Romans 8:12,15,21). It is this Newness of Spirit, that comes not by the Law of the Covenant which is after the flesh(Romans 8:1,3,6,13; Romans 7:17,18,19,21,23,24,25), that we become the Children of God and Joint Heirs with Christ(Romans 7:16,17,21,23;Galatians 4:30) so we are now saved by the Hope and Promise of Faith which is Christ(Romans 8:24,25).

Galatians 6
We should not now reap the things that were after the Law of the Flesh(Galatians 6:7,8,12;Romans 8:1,3,6,13; Romans 7:17,18,19,21,23,24,25) for not even they who are of the Law of the Covenant, which is after the Flesh, keep the law (Galatians 6:13). The things of the Law are Carnal, of the Flesh(Galatians 6:7,8,12,13;Romans 8:1,3,6,13; Romans 7:17,18,19,21,23,24,25) we who are spiritual(Galatians 6:1,15) reap spiritual things(Galatians 6:7-9) after the Law of Christ(Galatians 6:2).

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6. As shown in point three the righteousness of the law came by keeping the whole law. While under the law there were many who were justified by their faith apart from the law, but none could keep the whole law and thus none were justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 5
Whosoever followeth the law of moses is a debtor to the whole law(Galatians 5:3,4;Galatians 3:10,12) and christ shall profit them nothing for he will become of no effect unto them who keep the law of the covenant(Galatians 5:2,4;Galatians 3:11;Romans 3:19,20,27) for if even a little of the leaven that is the law of the covenant be kept the whole lump(which is our body and soul) will be brought to sin(Galatians 5:7,8,9) but those who follow the spirit are not under the law of moses(Galatians 5:1,14,18,24,25) but are after the promise of faith which is Christ(Galatians 5:5,6,18,24,25;Galatians 3:13,14,16,17,22,24,26,29).

Romans 3
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

In the sight of the Lord no flesh is justified by the deeds of the law of moses(Romans 3:19,20,27) being witnessed by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of the lord is manifested without the law of moses(Romans 3:21,22,24,25) within the law of faith that we have received through christ(Romans 3:21,22,24,25,26,27), the law is not made void by our faith but is fulfilled by it(Romans 3:31).

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