I figured you would go here.
The law is not gone. It is fulfilled.
Those who want to live by it. It still exists.
But it's ministry for us believers has passed away.
Your reply seems to indicate that you think obedience and commandments are to point you to the law. And you find OT Scripture to back up this interpretation. But OT Scripture wasn't written to you. It was written to the Jews who were under the Law. It doesn't mean it's not useful, but it is incomplete.
Jesus came to complete our understanding. NT Scripture isn't to point you to the law, it's to point you to the Lord. Do you see the difference?
Check out this passage in 2 Co 3:
2 Corinthians
7Now if the
ministry of death,
carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being
brought to an end,
8will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory?
12Since
we have such a hope, we are very bold,
13not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being
brought to an end.
We have a hope that Moses did not have. But for those who do not
turn to the Lord, we see this:
14But their minds were
hardened. For to this day, when they read the
old covenant, that
same veil remains unlifted, because only
through Christ is it taken away.
Without looking at the OT through Christ the same veil remains. That's how Jesus completes our understanding. So we must look at the OT through Him. Or else we risk having our minds hardened just like the Jews did.
15Yes, to this day whenever
Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.
Notice it says "When Moses is read" when it discusses the OT. Because much of the OT is given to Jews through Moses. But we Gentiles come in through Abraham (Gal 3).
So how do we remove the veil?
16But when one
turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
17Now the
Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom.
And that is why we don't turn to the Law. We turn to the Lord. The Spirit of God. He is our Freedom.
Those who look elsewhere are not free. And those who try to understand OT Scripture without Him have a veil over their understanding. Only He can remove it.
If fulfilled means gone then all righteousnes is gone also...
Now most people are told this is the place the Messiah “did away with the Law,” because He “fulfilled it.”
Matthew 3:15, “But יהושע answering, said to him, “Permit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to
fulfill righteousness.” Then he permitted Him.”
“fulfill” is word #G4137 πληρόω pleroo (plee-ro'-ō) v., 1. to fully, completely fill., 2. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow)., 3. (figuratively) to fully supply, satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.
[from G4134], KJV: accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply, Root(s): G4134
ALL HAS NOT YET been fulfilled, Yahshua has still to return as the Lion:
Luke 24:44-46, “And He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that all have to be fulfilled that were written in the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me. Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it has been written, and so it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise again from the dead the third day.”
Fulfilled already-
To be fulfilled in the future
Isaiah 46:10, “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not yet been done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do.”
There are 2 "it is done" statements...
Fulfilled already
John 19:30, “So when יהושע took the sour wine He said,
“It is done!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.”
1. Passover/First-fruits – Yahshua's Sacrifice(Passover), burial and resurrection (First Fruits – presenting Himself to YHWH)
2. Feast of Unleavened Bread – Removal of sin by Yahshua's perfect work as the Passover Sacrifice
3. Feast of Weeks – The blessing Holy Spirit of YHWH, coming into our lives stronger than ever
4. Feast of Trumpets – Yahshua's return and gathering of the Saints
5. Day of Atonement – Yahshua leads the army of YHWH to destroy evil rulers of this world and satan is chained for 1,000 years
6. Feast of Tabernacles – Yahshua dwells on earth for 1,000 years teaching truth and righteousness
7. The Last Great Day – satan is loosed and swiftly destroyed, the Kingdom of YHWH reigns forever
To be fulfilled in the future
Revelation 21:4-8, “And Yah shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying. And there shall be no more pain, for the former matters have passed away. And He who was sitting on the throne said, “See, I make all matters new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and trustworthy. And He said to me, “
It is done! I am the ‘Aleph’ and the ‘Taw’, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I shall give of the fountain of the water of life without payment. The one who overcomes shall inherit all this, and I shall be his Strength and he shall be My son. But as for the cowardly, and untrustworthy, and abominable, and murderers, and those who whore, and drug sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
I will stand on the words of the MEssiah thank you:
Mat 5:18, "I say to you; Unless heaven and earth passes away, one yodh; the smallest of the letters will in no way pass from the Law, until all things are perfected."
Revelation 21:1, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away."
Mat 22:37-40, "Yahshua said to him: You must love YHWH your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (
Deut 6:5) This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (
Lev 19:18) On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
Mat 24:35, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but My teachings will not pass away.”
Luke 16:16-17, "The Law and the Prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of YHWH is preached, and every man is pressed to enter it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one yodh of the Law to fail."
but there is another one who speaks against Yah:
Daniyl 7:25, "And he will speak great words against YHWH, and will wear out; mentally attack to cause to fall away, the saints of YHWH, and think to change times and Laws…"