Paul said the Law was “ weak and USELESS”, because it has no POWER to Save anybody.....We are no longer under Law—- We live in the Age Of Grace. It takes a Gospel Of Grace to Save today — THAT is where the Power to Save can be found....” By The Law, no man will be Justified”
If you are trusting in your Performance, your ability to keep the Law to make you “ fit for Heaven” instead of giving all the Credit to Jesus Plus Nothing because of His Finished Work Of The Cross, you are in Serious Trouble.....
37 Scriptures That Prove Christians Are Not Under The Law
Many Christians give lip service to the fact they live in the New Covenant.
The truth however is that because they fail to realise they are no longer under the law they are really still living in an Old Covenant reality.
Here are 37 scriptures that prove that Christians are not under the law!
Acts
The law is an unbearable yoke. (Acts 15:10)
Romans
The law reveals sin but cannot fix it. (
Romans 3:20)
If the law worked then faith would be irrelevant. (
Romans 4:14)
The law brings wrath upon those who follow it. (
Romans 4:15)
The purpose of the law was to increase sin. (
Romans 5:20)
Christians are not under the law. (
Romans 6:14)
Christians have been delivered from the law. (
Romans 7:1-6)
The law is good, perfect and holy but cannot help you be good, perfect or holy. (
Romans 7:7-12)
The law which promises life only brings death through sin. (
Romans 7:10)
The law makes you sinful beyond measure. (
Romans 7:13)
The law is weak. (
Romans 8:2-3)
1 Corinthians
The strength of sin is the law (
1 Corinthians 15:56)
2 Corinthians
The law is a ministry of death. (
2 Corinthians 3:7)
The law is a ministry of condemnation. (
2 Corinthians 3:9)
The law has no glory at all in comparison with the New Covenant. (
2 Corinthians 3:10)
The law is fading away. (
2 Corinthians 3:11)
Anywhere the law is preached it produces a mind-hardening and a heart-hardening veil. (
2 Corinthians 3:14-15)
Galatians
The law justifies nobody. (
Galatians 2:16)
Christians are dead to the law. (
Galatians 2:19)
The law frustrates grace. (
Galatians 2:21)
To go back to the law after embracing faith is “stupid”. (
Galatians 3:1)
The law curses all who practice it and fail to do it perfectly. (
Galatians 3:10)
The law has nothing to do with faith. (
Galatians 3:11-12)
The law was a curse that Christ redeemed us from. (
Galatians 3:13)
The law functioned in God’s purpose as a temporary covenant from Moses till John the Baptist announced Christ. (
Galatians 3:16 & 19, also see…
Matthew 11:12-13,
Luke 16:16)
If the law worked God would have used it to save us. (
Galatians 3:21)
The law was our prison. (
Galatians 3:23)
The law makes you a slave like Hagar. (
Galatians 4:24)
Ephesians
Christ has abolished the law which was a wall of hostility (
Ephesians 2:15)
Philippians
Paul considered everything the law gained him as “skybalon” which is Greek for “poop”. (
Philippians 3:4-8)
1 Timothy
The law is only good if used in the right context. (
1 Timothy 1:8) (see next verse for the context)
It was made for the unrighteous but not for the righteous. (
1 Timothy 1:9-10)
Hebrews
The law is weak, useless and makes nothing perfect. (
Hebrews 7:18-19)
God has found fault with it and created a better covenant, enacted on better promises. (
Hebrews 8:7-8)
It is obsolete, growing old and ready to vanish. (
Hebrews 8:13)
It is only a shadow of good things to come and will never make someone perfect. (
Hebrews 10:1)
Well there you have it… 37 scriptures that make a very convincing arguement.