Drew said:
veteran said:
The passage in Jeremiah that God would write His law in the hearts and minds of both houses of Israel is a New Testament declaration in the Book of Hebrews also. The foundation of Christian Doctrine does not throw God's laws away.
Well, this requires some nuancing. The New Testament is clear - the Law of Moses, as a prescriptive code for morality, ceremony, etc has been retired. Paul says this so clearly, and at so many places, that one simply cannot avoid it. Jesus, also, clearly overturns the Law of Moses when He effectively declares that all foods are clean in Mark 7 - in direct contradiction to the Law of Moses.
But, of course, and as Jesus tells us in Matthew 24, the "spirit" of the Law lives on - love God and love neighbour. And Paul tells us that the retirement of the Law is accompanied by the gift of the Spirit. So, it is in this sense - the underlying "spirit" sense - that the Law of Moses lives on.
But it certainly does not live on in the sense of being the
informing source for how we are to live. The Spirit has that role now. In other words, we should be looking to the Spirit, not to the "rules" of the Law of Moses for guidance as to how to act in the world.
Yes, especially since the old 'form' only had one purpose, which was to condemn and work it's wrath, through condemning every man a sinner.
The letter kills:
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.
2 Cor 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
The old covenant was a covenant unto death. That is why it did not save anyone. That is why even from the beginning, God made a promise to Abraham to fulfill a NEW one, through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
The old covenant is called 'bondage', and is by allegory, the covenant that all the unsaved are considered to be 'in', until they come to Christ, by a new and living and BETTER way...and all enter into it, by faith.
We are commanded to toss out that old that can only work, to embrace the free woman, whom is the mother of us all.
Two sons...two ways..one unto death, one unto life.
Gal 4:1 Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Gal 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Gal 4:3 Even so we, when we were children,
were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Gal 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Gal 4:5
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Gal 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Gal 4:8 ¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,
how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Gal 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Gal 4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.
Gal 4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Gal 4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Gal 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Gal 4:17 They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Gal 4:18 But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing], and not only when I am present with you.
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Gal 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Gal 4:21 ¶
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Gal 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal 4:23 But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory:
for these are the two covenants; the one from the
mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
THE STONE LAW!
Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal 4:28
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
Gal 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Gal 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
You cannot live by the stone law and be of the FREE woman!
