The point I'm making is we can't keep the law. So instead of trying to keep the law, we seek His presence. In His presence, He will keep the law in and through us. Thus our effort is not in trying to keep the law, but in delighting ourselves in Him.
Yes... focus on Jesus and everything else will work out.... Jesus was a perfect example of obedience, and the more we become like Jesus the more we will obey.
We can't become perfect by our efforts but by faith in Jesus we can have His righteousness.
By grace we recieve this gift.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
I agree that with Jesus in us, He will keep the law in and through us..
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 7:7-9
7 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin
was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
So knowing the law helps us know what is sin.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Knowing Jesus is the key. It is essential to let Jesus gain the victory in us by faith. But knowing Jesus is more then just know His name or knowing about Him. It is understanding His character and spending quality time with Him. The law is part of God's character of love.
Nevertheless, at a minimum, nearly every letter of the law has passed.
We now read the following verse again.
Matthew 5:18
For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished!
So we clearly understand that all has been accomplished.
There is no other way to read this verse.
Mat 5:17-18
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Till Heaven and Earth Pass one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.
If you take that as the whole Torah and every law it can be an issue. Laws have been nailed to the cross. But the law Jesus was talking about does not change till heaven and Earth pass.
This is why we need to understand that there are different laws.
Ceremonial laws that were a shadow.
The moral law
The civil laws
And natural laws
Gravity is still a law of nature today
The moral law is still unchanged today.
The civil and ceremonial laws passed away when Jesus died and when Israel stopped being a nation.
Rom 2:25-27
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Jas 2:10-12
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.