I am not here to fight, or disagree, just want to learn.
We have died TO the law...which law? The Ten Commandments?
The law of Moses condemns.....
The law as a principle
The law of faith, which excludes self righteousness.......
The law of sin IN the members, which is victorious over the law of the mind.......
The law of the mind, which consents to the law of Moses, but cannot do it, because of the law of sin in the members..........
Law of the Spirit
Law of Christ
Maybe you can connect the dots for me?
Also, there are over a 1000 Imperatives recorded in the NT, to which believers must be obedient to
Shalom
J.
We died to the law of Moses. Because the promise was made to Abraham 430 before the law of Moses.
Galatians 3:8,17-19 KJV
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. [17] And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. [18] For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. [19] Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
That’s why Abraham is the father of faith and we are the children of Abraham
Galatians 3:29 KJV
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 3:7 KJV
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
The law is good…
Galatians 3:21-22 KJV
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
but the flesh is weak, that’s why we cannot obey the law.
[22] But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
It’s important to note that we are in the flesh that’s why we are cursed because the flesh cannot obey because it was weak and the law of God is holy and just.
In Romans 7, the man wants to obey God but the problem is he can’t help but do what he doesn’t like. In short, he’s a servant and in bondage with sin.
Romans 7:14,18 KJV
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
[18]For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
That’s why he cries, Romans 7:24 KJV
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (helpless state)
That’s where the solution comes:
Romans 7:25 KJV
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Jesus was sent by God in the likeness of sinful flesh, who is filled with the Holy Spirit, and obeyed all the law of Moses.
Matthew 3:15 KJV
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 5:17 KJV
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Romans 8:3 KJV
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Now the gospel of Jesus is about him dying in our place (because we were cursed and appointed to die) The wrath that should be poured on us was poured on him. He died on our behalf so that we can live righteously by his life.
Galatians 2:19 KJV
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Now Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, has a new law called the law of liberty. (setting us free from the bondage of sin)
James 1:25 KJV
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.
His two commandments (Love God and love your neighbor as yourself) are a summary of the 10 commandments. (The law of Christ/The law of Spirit)
Matthew 22:37-40 KJV
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. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Jesus said, “Keep my commandments.” Now how can we who are in the flesh obey the law of liberty? It is by dying.
Galatians 2:20 KJV
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 5:24 KJV
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
We can only obey God’s new commandments by crucifying the flesh with the affections and lusts. How?
By his Spirit, which is also his Word.
Ephesians 6:17 KJV
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
If we truly believe Jesus, we will obey what he says. Like the centurion said:
Matthew 8:8-9 KJV
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
[9] For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Likewise, God created everything in this world by his word. Jesus is the Word, the Word became flesh.
If we truly believe Jesus, we will obey his Word, and we become a new creature, just as God created everything by his word and it was so.
How do you know that you have obeyed his word? You do not cause anyone to stumble and you cannot sin.
1 Corinthians 8:9 KJV
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
1 John 2:10-11 KJV
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. [11] But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Only by loving God and loving our neighbors (fulfilling the law) can we be not under the law.
James 2:8-13 KJV
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
[9] But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
[10] For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
[11] For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
[12] So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
[13] For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.