WHEN WAS THE LAW TAKEN AWAY. AND GRACE BEGAN. ??

BobRyan said:

The New covenant is in Jer 31:31-34 it is the one and only gospel covenant.

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Wrong. The new covenant in Heb. 8 as well as in Jer. 31 is a future new covenant with the house of Judah and the House of Israel. It literally tells you in the writing.

The new covenant for the Christian is the covenant of blood that Jesus spoke off in Luke 22:20.

“And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup, which is poured out for you, is the new covenant in My blood.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭22‬:‭20‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

BobRyan said:

Gal 1:6-9 says there has only ever been one gospel. That one Gospel covenant is seen in Jer 31.

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No. This is the gospel that Paul preaches in Galatians and every other epistle.

““We are Jews by nature and not sinners from the Gentiles; nevertheless, knowing that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law; since by works of the Law no flesh will be justified. But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Far from it! For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a wrongdoer. For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.””
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭15‬-‭21‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

BobRyan said:

"the gospel was preached to Abraham" Gal 3:8

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Sure but here is what Paul says immediately after verse. 8 which you ignored.

“For all who are of works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the Law, to do them.” Now, that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “the righteous one will live by faith.” However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “The person who performs them will live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬-‭14‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

BobRyan said:

Moses and Elijah stand in glory with Christ in Matt 17, saved by grace, the one and only gospel

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Yep, the gospel that does not include the curse of the law.,

BobRyan said:

Enoch went directly to heaven before the flood, saved by grace in the one and only Gospel

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Right. No law here either.

BobRyan said:

God's solution was never to delete His Word, His Law.

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Delete? No. Fulfill (complete) definitely.

BobRyan said:

His solution was always to pay the debt His Word, the Law required rather than simply delete His Word, the Law

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Jesus paid the debt of the law. No law remains for those in Christ Jesus.,

BobRyan said:

"what then? do we abolish the Law by our faith? God forbid! in fact we establish the Law" Rom 3:31

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Exactly. The law remains for those that need a savior. The law remains to show the unbeliever that they are lost. There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Do you know why that is?

BobRyan said:

The New covenant is in Jer 31:31-34 it is the one and only gospel covenant.

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Indeed, God Himself writes what was written in applicable law in the minds of believers. You must know in your mind what has been placed in your mind. So you instinctively knew for example, without reading of law written in ink you should avoid the levitical unclean foods?

Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more
Hence:
Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness for everyone who believeth Rom10:4
And so:

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in[h] Jesus Christ to all who believe. Rom3:21&22

No one has ever entered Heaven except the one who came from Heaven, the son of man John3:13 That includes Enoch!

under grace1 said:

No one has ever entered Heaven except the one who came from Heaven, the son of man John3:13

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This Scripture was true before Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead.

After Jesus' resurrection, he led all the righteous peoples' spirits/souls to heaven. 1 Peter 4:6
These spirits/souls had been waiting in Abraham's bosom, a part of Hades, for Jesus to rise from the dead. Matthew 22:32, Luke 16:22-24

RE: When was the law taken away and grace begun?

Firstly, before the letter of the Law of Moses with its 613 laws was required of all the Israelites, the spirit of the Law of Moses, or the "natural law for all mankind," was in force. Adam and his descendants, including Abraham, were subject to this natural law.

The natural law requires that we love God above everything else and that we love our neighbors as we love ourselves.


So, why did God need to send his own son to earth?

Adam’s sin had estranged all mankind from God. No human could ever atone for Adam’s sin and mediate a reconciliation between God and mankind.

So God sent his son Jesus, who is both God and man, to earth to atone for Adam's sin and thereby mediate a reconciliation between God and mankind. This atonement and reconciliation make it possible now for mankind to have the hope of inheriting eternal life.


God's plan to redeem mankind from Adam's sin:

God chose Abraham and his descendants, out of all the people on earth, to bring God's gift of reconciliation (his Son) to the world.

Unfortunately, Abraham's descendants worshiped a golden calf after God rescued them from their slavery in Egypt. In order to train these Israelites to obey God, he put them under his first covenant, the yoke of the Law of Moses, with its 613 laws.

The Israelites had to remain under this training yoke (Law of Moses) until God's own son, Jesus, finished all its laws by his perfect sacrificial death on the cross. Jesus also fulfilled all the prophecies about him that were written in the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets by his death and his resurrection from the dead.


By his sacrificial death, Jesus finished the first covenant law of Moses, making it obsolete.

By his sacrificial death, Jesus established his new and better covenant, firstly for the House of Israel and the House of Judah and secondly for all peoples of every nation.

Jesus Christ's New Covenant, which is the Law of Christ, is now in force, and we must obey its laws if we want to enter eternal life to be with God forever. The Law of Christ requires that we love God above everything else and that we love our neighbors as we love ourselves. We do this by keeping his commandments and helping our neighbors.

Jesus finished the Law of Moses:

John 19:28-30
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!” Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there, and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

BobRyan said:

God's solution was never to delete His Word, His Law.
His solution was always to pay the debt His Word, the Law required rather than simply delete His Word, the Law

"what then? do we abolish the Law by our faith? God forbid! in fact we establish the Law" Rom 3:31

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Colossians 2:13-15:

13 When you were dead in your sinsand in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[a] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

This is to illustrate that through faith in Christ the law is dead. The LAW brings death but the spirit brings life.

throughfierytrial said:

Colossians 2:13-15:

13 When you were dead in your sinsand in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[a] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

This is to illustrate that through faith in Christ the law is dead. The LAW brings death but the spirit brings life.

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Galatians 5:22-24:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness and self-control.Against such things there is no law.24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
So we have a higher calling…living by the Spirit…so we uphold the Law in this way. The LAW stands as a witness in judgement. A rule and a curb.

The words ''ten commandments'' SHOULD be redundant under the new covenant for born again christians. They have what is written in applicable law in their hearts and minds. In their minds they instinctively know God does not want them to steal, murder, commit adultery, take His name in vain, covet, lie. And in their hearts(the flesh is another matter) they do not want to do those things, its part of their spiritual dna in Christ. It is with them every day of their life.
So in the circumstances, what's the point in telling christians ''you must obey the law/TC''? Its as pointless as telling someone who has learnt their twelve times tables: ''you must follow your twelve times tables''
But there is something negative about the statement, people in reality are being told their righteousness hinges on obeying the law Paul says we die to and are released from, law he terms the letter that kills the ministry of death and condemnation. Whereas under the new covenant, we have a righteousness apart from law.(Rom3:21&22)
Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more
To keep repeating ''you must obey the ten commandments'' speaks of looking to an external law written in ink, or engraved in stone, that is not where ''the law'' now is for believers(2Cor3:3&Heb10:15-18)

Dan Perez said:

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# 3 A. NEW. //// KAINOS. in. the ACCUSATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 4. COVENANT /// KAVEN

# 5. HE HATH MADE ///. PALAIOO. in. the PERFECT TENSE in. the INDICATIVE MOOD , and this MOOD , means you BETTER BELIEVE IT

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# 10 THAT WHICH DECAYETH. ,///. in the PRESENY TENSE , in the PASSIVE TENSE . in. the NOMINATIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR in. the NUTER

# 11 AND ,/// KAI is a CONJUNCATION

# 12 WAXETH. OLD. , /// GORASHO. in. the PRESENT TENSE in. the ACTIVE VOICE means CHRIST is causing. it to be OLD is a PARTICIPL

in the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR and in. the NEUTER , meaning neither MALE or FEMALE

# 13. READY. , ///. ONGYS. is an ADVERB

# 14 TO VANISH AWAY , ///. APHANISMOS. in. the GENITIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

#A. THIS MEAND THE OLD LAW OF MOSES has been sat aside FOREVER. !!

# B. And Rom 6:14 FOR YOU ARD NOT. //. OV s a DISJUNCATIVE PARTICLE NEGATIVE and means you will NEVERRRRR. be under

the LAW but UNDER GRACE. ,

# C This means that SALVATION is by ROM 10:9 and 10

# And John 3:3 and verse 5. will not save anyone and John is speaking to Israel ONLY. !!

dan p

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New covenants do not nullify the promises of covenants that have already been ratified, so God's covenants are eternal and cumulatively valid. One thing can only make another thing obsolete to the extent that it has cumulative functionality, so a computer makes a typewriter obsolete but does not make a plow obsolete, which means that if the New Covenant involved doing something different that was not cumualtive with the Mosaic Covenant, then it could not make it obsolete. The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way that it can be replaced by the New Covenant is if it is cumulative with it. So the New Covenant still involves following the Mosaic Law (Hebrews 8:10) plus it is cumulatively based on better promises and has a superior mediator (Hebrews 8:6).

In Romans 6:14, it describes the law that we are not under as being a law where sin had dominion over us, which does not describe the Law of Moses, but rather that is the role of the law of sin. In Romans 6:15, being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin, and in Romans 3:20, it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is, so we are still under it. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith, which is why Romans 6:15 says that being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to transgress it.

In Romans 10:5-10, Paul referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to the righteousness that is by faith proclaiming that the Law of Moses is not too difficult for us to obey, that obedience to it brings life and a blessing, in regard to what we are committing to obey by confessing that Jesus is Lord, and in regard to the way to believe that God raised him from the dead for salvation.

throughfierytrial said:

Colossians 2:13-15:

13 When you were dead in your sinsand in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[a] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

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Cancelding the charge of our legal indebtedness is not taking away the Law of God, but rather is taking away our penalty for breaking it. In Matthew 27:37, they nailed a sign to Christ's cross that announced the charge that was against him, which fits perfectly with the concept of the charges that were against us being nailed to his cross instead and with him dying in our place to pay the penalty of our sins, but has nothing to do with nailing any laws to the cross. The reason why Jesus went to the cross was not in order to cause us become free to become workers of lawlessness, but just the opposite. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem, us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what he accomplished through the cross is by becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Law of God (Acts 21:20).

throughfierytrial said:

This is to illustrate that through faith in Christ the law is dead. The LAW brings death but the spirit brings life.

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In Romans 3:31, Paul said that our faith does not abolish the Law of God, but rather our faith upholds it. In Romans 10:5-8, Paul referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the world of faith that we proclaim in regard to the righteousness that is by faith proclaiming that the Law of God is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life!

throughfierytrial said:

Agree in part. The promise of Messiah is Genesis 3 and looking to that promise was their salvation. OP mentions the dropping of the Law however which was added after Genesis 3 promise and done away with …as standing against mankind… on the cross as I tried to outline in previous posts citing Scripture

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in Acts 3:25-26, it doesn't say that Jesus came as the promised seed to curse us by freeing us to become doers of what the Law of God reveals to be wickedness, but rather it says that he came as the promised seed to bless us by turning us from our wickedness.

Soyeong said:

Cancelding the charge of our legal indebtedness is not taking away the Law of God, but rather is taking away our penalty for breaking it. In Matthew 27:37, they nailed a sign to Christ's cross that announced the charge that was against him, which fits perfectly with the concept of the charges that were against us being nailed to his cross instead and with him dying in our place to pay the penalty of our sins, but has nothing to do with nailing any laws to the cross. The reason why Jesus went to the cross was not in order to cause us become free to become workers of lawlessness, but just the opposite. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem, us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what he accomplished through the cross is by becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Law of God (Acts 21:20).


In Romans 3:31, Paul said that our faith does not abolish the Law of God, but rather our faith upholds it. In Romans 10:5-8, Paul referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the world of faith that we proclaim in regard to the righteousness that is by faith proclaiming that the Law of God is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life!


in Acts 3:25-26, it doesn't say that Jesus came as the promised seed to curse us by freeing us to become doers of what the Law of God reveals to be wickedness, but rather it says that he came as the promised seed to bless us by turning us from our wickedness.

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Can you enlighten me, how is your new covenant different from the old one?
No need to write a long response, just concisely tell me please, thanks

Isn’t it just that we should just trust in the Lord & not worry about what we think are contradictions in our eyes? The Lord told the rich young man to keep the commandments ( Matthew 19:16-19 as per Matthew 19:16-31). St. Paul tells us how to live with the world in Romans 13:1-14 with the particular verses 8 through 10 which are the Lord’s commandments.


The Lord says the golden rule is Matthew 7:12 as per Matthew 7:1-12 which is the law & prophets. The Lord says on the commandments are which the law & prophets depend ( Matthew 22:36-40). Everything was fulfilled on the cross ( John 19:25-37). St. Paul affirms this in Romans 3:21-25.

The Lord’s ways are not our ways as per Isaiah 55:1-13. Isn’t St. Paul giving us an answer to this in Romans 5:1-21?

under grace1 said:

Can you enlighten me, how is your new covenant different from the old one?
No need to write a long response, just concisely tell me please, thanks

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New covenants do not nullify the promises of covenants that have already been ratified, so God’s covenants are eternally and cumulatively valid. One thing can only make another thing obsolete to the extent that it has cumulative functionality, so a computer makes a typewriter obsolete but does not make a plow obsolete, which means that if the New Covenant involved doing something different that were not cumulative with the Mosaic Covenant, then it could not make it obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14–17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way that it can be replaced by the New Covenant is if it is cumulative with it. So the New Covenant still involves following the Mosaic Law (Hebrews 8:10) plus the difference is that it is cumulatively based on better promises and has a superior mediator (Hebrews 8:6).

Soyeong said:

New covenants do not nullify the promises of covenants that have already been ratified, so God’s covenants are eternally and cumulatively valid. One thing can only make another thing obsolete to the extent that it has cumulative functionality, so a computer makes a typewriter obsolete but does not make a plow obsolete, which means that if the New Covenant involved doing something different that were not cumulative with the Mosaic Covenant, then it could not make it obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14–17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way that it can be replaced by the New Covenant is if it is cumulative with it. So the New Covenant still involves following the Mosaic Law (Hebrews 8:10) plus the difference is that it is cumulatively based on better promises and has a superior mediator (Hebrews 8:6).

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Could you explain to me now in what ways you see the new covenant as different to the old one? Thanks

under grace1 said:

Could you explain to me now in what ways you see the new covenant as different to the old one? Thanks

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I just did.

Soyeong said:

I just did.

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'''plus the difference is that it is cumulatively based on better promises and has a superior mediator (Hebrews 8:6).'''

So the only difference in your view between the two covenants, I assume is the fact there are no more sacrifices for sins as Jesus died for our sins.
If I am wrong, please specifically state what other differences you believe there are, and elaborate on what the better promises are. Thanks

under grace1 said:

Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more
To keep repeating ''you must obey the ten commandments'' speaks of looking to an external law written in ink, or engraved in stone, that is not where ''the law'' now is for believers(2Cor3:3&Heb10:15-18)

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Christians continually need to reminded to obey the New Covenant royal law of Jesus Christ. James 2:8

1 Corinthians 9:21
To those (Gentiles who are) outside the law (the first covenant Law of Moses) I became as one (of the Gentiles who were) outside the law (the first covenant law of Moses)—not being without law toward God but under the (New Covenant) law of Christ—that I might win those (Gentiles to Jesus Christ's New Covenant who are) outside the law (the first covenant Law of Moses).

The "letter" of the Law of Moses is no longer required under Jesus' New Covenant.
Its 600+ dietary, ceremonial, and sabbath laws were fulfilled/finished by Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross. They are obsolete.

The "spirit" of the Law of Moses will always be required under Jesus' New Covenant.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."


The New Covenant Law of Jesus Christ:

Romans 13:8-10
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Luke 6:31
And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Jan001 said:

Christians continually need to reminded to obey the New Covenant royal law of Jesus Christ. James 2:8

1 Corinthians 9:21
To those (Gentiles who are) outside the law (the first covenant Law of Moses) I became as one (of the Gentiles who were) outside the law (the first covenant law of Moses)—not being without law toward God but under the (New Covenant) law of Christ—that I might win those (Gentiles to Jesus Christ's New Covenant who are) outside the law (the first covenant Law of Moses).

The "letter" of the Law of Moses is no longer required under Jesus' New Covenant.
Its 600+ dietary, ceremonial, and sabbath laws were fulfilled/finished by Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross. They are obsolete.

The "spirit" of the Law of Moses will always be required under Jesus' New Covenant.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."


The New Covenant Law of Jesus Christ:

Romans 13:8-10
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Luke 6:31
And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

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Christians continually need to reminded to obey the New Covenant royal law of Jesus Christ.

Why would christians continually need to be reminded of what is in their most inward parts, what is in their hearts and minds? How can you escape thinking of what is in your most inward parts?

Jan001 said:

Christians continually need to reminded to obey the New Covenant royal law of Jesus Christ. James 2:8
1 Corinthians 9:21
To those (Gentiles who are) outside the law (the first covenant Law of Moses) I became as one (of the Gentiles who were) outside the law (the first covenant law of Moses)—not being without law toward God but under the (New Covenant) law of Christ—that I might win those (Gentiles to Jesus Christ's New Covenant who are) outside the law (the first covenant Law of Moses).

The "letter" of the Law of Moses is no longer required under Jesus' New Covenant.
Its 600+ dietary, ceremonial, and sabbath laws were fulfilled/finished by Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross. They are obsolete.

The "spirit" of the Law of Moses will always be required under Jesus' New Covenant.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."


The New Covenant Law of Jesus Christ:

Romans 13:8-10
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Luke 6:31
And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

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In Matthew 4:!5-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Law of Moses was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel message. Jesus also set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Law of Moses and we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked (1 John 2:6). The reason why Jesus established the New Covenant was not in order to nullify anything that he spent his ministry teaching or so that we could continue to have the same lawlessness that caused the New Covenant to be needed in the first place, but rather the New Covenant still involves following the Law of Moses (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27).

Everything in the Law of Moses is either in regard to how to love God or how to love our neighbor, which is why Jesus said in Matthew 22:36-40 that those are the greatest two commandments and that all of the other commandments hang on them, so the position that we should obey the greatest two commandments is also the position that we should obey the commandments that hang on them. For example, if we love God and our neighbor, then we won't commit idolatry, murder, adultery, theft, rape, kidnapping, favoritism, and so forth for the rest of the Law of Moses. Someone who was correctly living in obedient to the greatest two commandments would be indistinguishable from someone who was correctly living in obedience to the rest of the Law of Moses because they would both be following the same example that Jesus set for us to follow.

In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish it and he warned against relaxing the least part of it, so you should not interpret Jesus fulfilling the law as meaning the same thing as abolishing it or as relaxing even the least part of it. If you retroactively insert the cross back into Matthew 5 in spite of it making no allusion to the cross, then you you are interpreting it with the assumption that Jesus had no intention for his audience to understand what he meant. Rather, Jesus did not invent the concept of fulfilling the law, so we should seek to understand what it meant in the context of Judaism before Jesus said that he came to fulfill it, which would be in the way that his audience understood him. "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), so Jesus proceeded to fulfill the law throughout the rest of Matthew 5 by correcting what the people had heard being said and by teaching how to correctly obey it as it was originally intended. According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so again it refers to correctly obeying it, moreover, it refers to something that countless people have done and should continue to do in perpetuity, not to something unique that only Jesus did on the cross in order to abolish it. In Galatians 6:2, bearing one another's burdens fulfills the Law of Christ, yet you do not consistently interpret that as meaning that we are no longer required to obey the Law of Christ.