The Law can never fall away!!!
The problem with the Law is that people can't not keep it!!!!!
Therefore another plan for salvation was needed! Indeed, it was all planned before hand but the people didn't want the plan!! The plan was that people would be treated as sons of the King, and a King does not judge His children like you judge a criminal!! As children the concern is their upbringing, so it was about training, teaching, educating, and improving the children; so not about a legal matter!! Yet when the Israelites said, "Let not God speak to us", they made it about a legal matter and not a relationship matter!! Therefore, the Law had to be put in stone, to show the people that they could not get salvation by following a set of rules and standards of God (The Law) And failure to follow the Law of God meant death for all who could not follow it! Yet when death came after the One who had followed the Law to perfection, it was death that had to die. Therefore death was defeated by the willing sacrifice by the only One who perfectly followed the Law.
Still, there needs to be one thing that needs to changed, and that is that people still need to change the attitude that says, "Let not God speak to us." We have to get out from under the Law and into the relationship with our Lord that was always planned!! Or did we not read about how "Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." (Gen 5:24) and that before the Law was put in stone!!!
God had always intended and want a relationship with His creation! And we are free to enter into that relationship with God through Jesus Christ, the Word of God and King of kings! All it takes is faith - a faith that means hearing from Him who is always with us. Never-the-less God has put before us both good and evil, so a choice needs to be made. Do you want to live under God, even as sons and daughters of the Host High - or do you want to live under sin, those dark evil forces that have rebelled against God. If God, then we seek Him as we can get ourselves to do so, and that results in getting to know Him, even as a child knows a parent. If not we go after the evil spirits of this world. So it is that we battle with those dark spiritual forces, even us Christian who want to do good have that battle, because sin (evil spirits) are still around. Thanks be to God that He is always with us and victory is in Him.
That might all sound a bit complicated, but it is not so. The Lord has again made it as simple as walking and talking with Him. It is not even that you have to be perfect at it, but just that you believe He is there to be inquired from - meaning you believe He is so you talk to Him as you remember to do so - and if we believe it is Today that we talk to Him, right? I mean if we believe God, the King of kings and our Father, is always with us, then certainly we will talk to Him everyday, right? We will listen when we hear Him call us by name, right?
Then we try, or at least want to try and do what He tells us, right. And what He tells us to do means we are trying to Him, the Law maker!! Therefore the One commandment that needs to be followed is not in the Law, but in the relationship!! And we know what commandment that is, right??
Deut 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
That is it - "Hear, O Israel!" That commandment was not written in the Law of stone, but it is the commandment that results in a relationship with God! It is what Enoch did, it is what Abram did which credited to him as righteousness. (Gen 15). So it is the command that if followed shall cause you to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and that is in the Law! So we need to keep those words "Hear, O Israel" on our heart!
Deut 6:4-7 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.
“You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
And so when Jesus was asked what is the foremost command, He answered "Hear, O Israel" - and explained that then we shall know that God is One and that if we hear Him then we shall love God with all our heart, and also we shall love our neighbor as ourselves, because He does and we learn that from listening to Him!!
Mark 12: 28 - 31 One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’ “The second is this, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Still it was written:
Is 6:9,10 He said, “Go, and tell this people:
‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.’
“Render the hearts of this people insensitive,
Their ears dull,
And their eyes dim,
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
Understand with their hearts,
And return and be healed.”
So Jesus spoke in a saying and the Scribe missed the answer to his question of what the foremost commandment was. "Hear, O Israel" was the foremost commandment that must be kept, and that by faith, because it is the single commandment that causes us to love God and then our neighbor (the first two commands in the Law), but upon hearing the Law the scribe again focused on the Law and not the Lord. He was close to the answer, but did still not understand the answer is in the relationship with God which comes from hearing Him by faith. So Jesus told him:
Mark 12:34 When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions.
Understanding that the Law, and especially the Loving God and your neighbor, is extremely important means you are not far from the Kingdom of God - but not far does not mean you still understand that only by hearing the Lord by faith are you going to Love God and your neighbor as you need to! So again - it's simple! You need to walk and talk with God and you will love Him, and His care for all people will be heard by you. So then you will realize the most loving thing you can do for someone it to tell them "Hear, O Israel"!!! If they listen to you so they listen to Him, then they will fulfill the Law through Jesus Christ, but if not the Law will judge them. So we preach faith in Jesus Christ, and that to mean that we need to seek Him and His instructions to us!
So I have explained it, but in a long form because it is still written to speak "Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.’ - and who listens to a fool? And you can tell a fool by the number of His words. Yet a fool understands more than most how he needs to listen to the Lord. Does someone who think themself wise seek wisdom - even the voice of the Lord? Do they even take the advice of an ordinary man telling them to seek the extraordinary One by faith? If they did they would know that the Law does not go away, but it is fulfilled through a relationship with Jesus Christ, and that comes from talking with Him!
Is 1: 18-20 Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.
“If you consent and obey,
You will eat the best of the land;
“But if you refuse and rebel,
You will be devoured by the sword.”
Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken.