or we would still be under the law
We DO (if we are faithful) obey the law. But it is the law of Christ, NOT obeying by the letter ( which is whats called Moses law). BIG DIFFERENCE.
I say to you Eph that what we know as Moses Law is what was wrong.. it was obeying the law by the letter ( physically performing it) when it (the law) was always meant to be observed SPIRITUALLY.
It was simply an example, a similitude, a shadow... words meant to explain and show TRUTHS. NOT meant to be DONE in the flesh.
It was a parable I guess you could say.
The Hebrews didnt know that. So they performed it physically.
I can show you even where Moses says all this if you ever care to see it.
Take a look at this:
Isa 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.
This is Jesus being spoken about. He will teach people the right way to observe the law. In other words take away the earthly following and make it honourable... the spiritual sense of following it.
Isa 42:22 But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Who is "this people"? why, the Hebrews who are trusting in the earthly works way of performing the law. They were all in a snare by believing that was the right way.
Isa 42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Hey Jews? Anyone? will you give an ear and hear for the time to come? Will you ujnderstand that the law was always spiritual?
Will you hear that by following it literally that you have made a covenant with hell and death?
Isa 28:15 Because ye have said,
We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us:
for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Isa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand;
Eze 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things:
Zep 3:4 Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
More about the real law of God.
Zec 7:9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
Zec 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Zec 7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Zec 7:12
Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law,
He was telling them about LOVE, but they refused to listen they chose to follow after their rituals they were doing because it made them appear holy to MEN.
Mal 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law;
How did they stumble at the law? They followed it physically and put all their energy into that instead of realizing the truths about loving your neighbor and God and that it metaphorically showed them about a savior.
Mat 22:36 Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Rom 3:27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay:
but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
If you wanted to put those two verses together, you could say that one is justified by the LAW OF FAITH without following (physically)the DEEDS of the law.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
what does Paul mean by this?
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;
that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
Hes saying that the law which was suppose to show them life.... they turned into death (by following it physically)
Rom 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
He became decieved and believed he was to follow it physically
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 9:32
Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
they sought to follow the law by the actual physical works of the law, they stumbled there. They should have seen the spiritual truths.
The spiritual truths of God would NEVER say stone someone and kill them physically. They should have understood to "kill" the old man ( salvation) so the new man could lige unto God.
This is exactly why Jesus Himself did not stone the lady when He said, " let him who has no sin cast the first stone".
He was pointing out how the law didnt mean to really kill people.
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
If you act with love, you ARE fulfilling the law.
Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
1Cr 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
Paul himself is saying he isnt with out "law" .... it just wasnt Moses law... it was Gods law.
Gal 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
remember the law of faith? Hes asking, did you recieve the spirit by performing the physical works of the law, or by the law of faith.
Gal 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Hbr 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
(from physical following to spiritual following)
Jam 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Jam 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Perhaps you can se a difference in 'laws" now.
I am just someone who is searching for the Truth. I love Jesus and I want to learn all I can about him, that's all. I am not interested in the doctrine's of men.
