All of these things preceded the written law, the letter that kills. the law of sin and death.
It is the law keepers that have failed.
For to fail at one part is to fail at all.
Cause a woman to loose their unborn child "Death"
Strike your father "death"
Make a fire on the sabbath "death"
If righteousness could
come through the
law, then
Christ died for nothing!
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another.
Belong to another? Another what? Another law? Or to Christ and the law of his Spirit in us.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh.
Not that the old law that was against us was put aside but rather satisfied in Christs life and death so the new can come.
It is still a useful tutor, and still good for increasing sin and exposing the need for Christ.
The law is not subject to the Spirit of Christ just as the sabbath is subject to the lord of the sabbath.
It is lawful to work and do good on the sabbath?
We are dead to the laws judgments against us. Can we still learn about God and Christ and ourselves from it, yes, it was and still is good.
But it is totally unlawful to apply it to those who have died and now live by the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus.
We ourselves are now a law unto ourselves, like the law to the world, living as ones who shine the light in the darkness and exposing sin and the need for Christ. If we are what we say and live according to the Spirit that is the effect of our lives.
Beloved let us love one another, for Love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
If you love me you will keep my commandments and my father will love you and will come and make His home with you.
Everyone who sin has not seen or known God.
John warns us to be be deceived regarding righteousness. That the ones who are righteous by faith are actually righteous. It is not just some attributed righteousness but a deposited one that you are expected to live from if you have it as the power of God to do so.