What part of the Law should we keep?

[SeekingGloryOnThisJourney]

What part of the Old Testament’s law should we keep?

 

[mkgal1]

As Jesus said, "love God - love others as yourself"

But this spans across the Old Covenant into the New.

The Greatest Commandment
(Deuteronomy 6:1-19; Matthew 22:34-40)

John 13:34 ~ A new commandment I give to you, that you should love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.​

 

[RaymondG]

We should keep all of it until we fully pass over to the spiritual side of things.....then, we are no longer under the law.

We will know when this has taken place when we no longer mind the things of the flesh.

"For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit."

And, when we are no longer concerned with ordinances.

"20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using; after the commandments and doctrines of men?"

Therefore, let no man speak against the law.....for we cannot know the spiritual state of another.

"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."

 

[ChristianGirl_96]

All of it?

 

[mkgal1]

It's impossible to keep most of the old covenant laws as many pertained to the temple system that was destroyed in 70 AD.

Jesus fulfilled the Law and what the prophets spoke of. He is the High Priest - mediator of a "better covenant ".

From quoted article: These sacred rituals were symbols of God’s love and mercy for the Israelites.

The book of Leviticus, like the rest of the Old Testament, is only one part of an unfinished story. All these symbols pointed forward, to a time anticipated by Israel’s prophets, when God’s people would no longer be rebellious (see Ezek. 36:16-38) and would be forgiven once and for all (see Jer. 31:31-34)
After Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, the earliest Christians all went back and re-read books like Leviticus with brand new eyes. They began to see how the accomplishment of Jesus was the reality to which all of these sacrificial symbols were pointing all along.
This is the Day of Atonement | BibleProject™

 

[Soyeong]

What part of the Old Testament’s law should we keep?

Even when the law was given to Moses there wasn't a single person who was required to keep every single law, and not even Jesus kept the laws in regard to having a period or to giving birth. Some laws were only for the King, the High Priest, priests, judges, men, women, children, widows, those who are married, those with servants, those with animals, those with crops, those with tzaraat, those living in the land, and those who are strangers living among them, while others were given to everyone.

For example, laws in regard to temple practice should only followed when there is a temple in which to practice them along with a presiding Levitical priesthood. When the Israelites were in exile in Babylon, the condition for their return to the land was to first return to obedience to God's law, which required them to have access to a temple that they didn't have access to while they were in exile. The Israelites were also given laws that governed how they should live once they had entered the land before they had enter the land that do not need to be followed when they are in exile.

So understanding how the Mosaic Law applies to us today is a matter of prayer, careful study, and leading of the Spirit. David said repeatedly throughout the Psalms that he loved the Mosaic Law and delighted in obeying it, so if we consider the Psalms to be Scripture and to therefore express a correct view of the Mosaic Law, then we will share it, as Paul did (Romans 7:22). If we believe that God gave the Mosaic Law for His people's own good in order to bless us (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13) and that God can be trusted to guide us in how to rightly live (Psalms 19:7, Nehemiah 9:13), then we have the attitude of looking for reasons for why we can have the delight of getting to obey Mosaic Law rather than the attitude of looking for reasons to avoid following God's guidance.

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 the same instructions for how to walk in the same ways and express the same character traits. All of God's laws are important because they all teach us about who He is, how to grow in a relationship with Him, and how to act as a light and a blessing to the world through living in a way that testifies about who He is.

For example, the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness is based on God's righteousness, not on any particular covenant, and God's righteousness is eternal, so any instructions that God has ever given for how to do what is righteous are eternally valid regardless of which covenant someone is under. All of God's righteous laws teach us about His righteousness and by practicing or training in righteousness in obedience to His law we are growing in knowledge of who He is and testifying about who He is (1 John 3:4-10, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Matthew 5:13-16).

Jesus is the radiance of God's glory and the exact expression of His nature (Hebrews 1:3) and what that looked like was a life lived in sinless obedience to the Mosaic Law. So the Mosaic Law was given to the Israelites in order to teach them about who God is and Jesus also lived in sinless obedience to the Mosaic Law in order to teach us about who God is, which is why Jesus said that if we have seen him, then we have seen the Father (John 14:9), and why Jesus said that the Scriptures testify about him (John 5:39-40), so the rejection of the Mosaic Law is the reject of who the God of Israel has revealed Himself to be and the rejection of Christ.

 

[RaymondG]

"It's impossible to keep most of the old covenant laws........."

"And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." -Jesus

 

[Blood Bought 1953]

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.

 

[Joined2krist]

We are subject to the law if we are not led by the Holy spirit

"If the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the law" Gal 5:18

 

[Rugged Cross]

(Abridged)-Love God, Love Your Neighbour - on these two hang the law and commandments.

 

[Sketcher]

Keep what is repeated in the New Testament.

 

[ICONO'CLAST]

We are subject to the law if we are not led by the Holy spirit

"If the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the law" Gal 5:18

This is so wrong!
Christians are not lawless.