I am mystified what a discussion about the law has to do with a true new testament church.
I reckon Jesus said it best.
John 5:43-47 (KJV)
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43 [/SUP]I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
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44 [/SUP]How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that
cometh from God only?
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45 [/SUP]Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is
one that accuseth you,
even Moses, in whom ye trust.
[SUP]46 [/SUP]For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
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47 [/SUP]But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
It's the fight against the Mosaic law, and not being able to understand the spiritual aspect of it because of a carnal mind. If the church refuses the Mosaic law, and calls it past, defunct, inert, negated, or just done away with because of Christ, they exemplify a carnal mindset,and their testimony, and ministry have been corrupted.
Romans 8:3-7 (KJV)
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3 [/SUP]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:
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4 [/SUP]That the
righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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5 [/SUP]For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
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6 [/SUP]For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace.
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Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
The law wasn't weak in itself. If that were the case, we would be saying that the giver of the law is also weak, but that isn't the case. Flesh is weak and couldn't live up the the Words in the covenant of the law. The covenant/wineskin contains the words of the covenant. The Old wineskin cannot be used for new wine, but the wine is still very good. Drink the old wine because of the new covenant. Then the new testament church has it right.
Leviticus 26:10-12 (KJV)
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10 [/SUP]And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
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11 [/SUP]And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
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12 [/SUP]And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.