Yes, I agree that Christ fulfilled the Ceremonial Laws and Judicial Laws and nailed to the cross these ordinances that were against us (Colossians 2:14) (Colossians 2:16-17).
But I disagree that we are not obligated to keep the Moral Law (like do not murder, do not covet, do not steal, etc.). The Moral Law existed before the Law of Moses and it still exists today. Granted, the Judicial Laws attached to the Law of Moses do not exist anymore, but the Moral Law is still for us today. If not, then a person can turn God’s grace into a license for immorality like George Sodini.
To learn about George Sodini, check out this article
here. Yes, we keep the Moral Law by waking after the Spirit, and by loving our neighbor but the Moral Law is not abrogated.
setst RE: I know why you disagree that we are not obligated to keep the Moral Law, but we are never saved by keeping any law according to the Scriptures, but we do fulfill the entire Moral Law, and even the Ceremonial Law, by faith in Christ Jesus.
Please carefully read these Scriptures and let me know if you still disagree. . .
Romans 8:1-4
8 Therefore there is now
no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us,
who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Galatians 3:19 -29
19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. . . 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all
children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’soffspring and heirs
according to promise.
So we not obligated to follow the Ten Commandments, nor should we think to do so. Rather, we live by faith expressing itself though love. In this way, we fulfill the whole law of God -
whatever law there may be.
Romans 13 (WEB) Bolding mine.
8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for
he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”
and whatever other commandmentsthere are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor.
Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Romans 8 (WEB)
3 For
what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; 4 that the
ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Galatians 5 (WEB)
1
Stand firm therefore
in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and
don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage…
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but what counts is faith working through love…
14 For
the Whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “
You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
This does not mean we are obeying the letter of the Law given through Moses to the Jews (Mosaic Law). We are no longer under the written Code of the Law, just as Abraham was not under the Mosaic Law.
We are to keep God’s commandments. But if not the 10 commandments, then what commandments are Christians to keep? The Scriptures are clear throughout:
1 John 3:22-24 (NASB)
22 and whatever we ask we receive from Him,
because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
23
This is His commandment, that
we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ,
and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24
The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
To believe in the name of His Son is the first command, and faith includes repentance from that which enslaved us – our old nature of sin.
We are to die to the old life of slavery to the flesh, and then to put our faith in Christ, listening to and following Him into a life of love; for one cannot live by the Spirit if one is still controlled by the flesh.
These are the commandments of our rightful Lord and Master. Jesus gave many parables in this regard to instruct us how to live rightly - commands and instruction to repent, to die to the old life of sin, and to follow Jesus into a life of mercy, forgiveness, compassion and Love.
Besides this, the Lord Jesus commanded that new believers be baptized, and that all believers should celebrate the Lord’s Supper in remembrance of Him.
The 4th commandment, one of the Commandments given specifically for the Israelis, was to observed as a festival – a day of remembrance as well –
but that was only for the Jews – the Mosaic Law.
Since
Christians are under the
Abrahamic Covenant by faith, before the 4th commandment was even given, and before the Moral Law was given, then we, like Abraham, are saved by faith, and not by the works of the Law.
Therefore, we are not to live by the
written code by Moses. Instead, we are to live in the Spirit - walking in the Spirit of Christ who frees us from sin's bondage to follow in New Way of the Spirit. Therefore, we fulfill the Law and the Prophets by a life of love by walking in the Spirit of Christ, not by the written code.
The ordinances of the Law (the Law of Moses) are a shadow of the Spiritual reality found in Christ
Ephesians 2:13-15
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. 14 For He himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15
by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations.
Galatians 3:10-11 (NIV)
10 For
all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “
the righteous will live by faith.”
The Letter of the Law verses Spirit of the Law
2 Corinthians 3:6-9 NASB
6 He has made us competent as ministers of
a new covenant—
not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 7 Now
if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
Romans 7:6
6
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that
we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. . .
Blessings
