When did the Law expire?

[Grace777x70]

We can't be left hanging here about what or rather Who is written on our hearts now that we are in Christ.

What is this new law that is written on our hearts seeing as we know it's not the ten commandments in the form given in the Law.

What is this New Covenant that Ezekiel is prophesying about that was to come and now is here manifested in Christ's finished work on the cross and resurrection?

What is the Law Written on Our Hearts?

Six-hundred years before Jesus came, the prophet Jeremiah spoke of a new covenant that God would make with his people:


“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.” (Jer 31:33-34)

What is the law that God writes on our hearts and minds? Here are three things it is not:

• It is not the law of Moses. As we saw in the last post, if God wrote the Ten Commandments on our hearts then Jesus died for nothing.

• It is not a new and improved version of the law. It is not the new commands of Jesus or the New Testament. We cannot please God by keeping a new law any more than we could please him by keeping an old one.

• It is not the knowledge of right and wrong that was bestowed upon us – against the Lord’s wishes – by Adam.

So what is this law that the Lord writes on our hearts and minds and embeds in our very being?

It is Christ Himself.

Let’s look at three things the New Testament says about the new law in our hearts.

1. The law of love

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. (John 13:34)

Under the old law covenant, love was demanded from you. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.”

But under the new covenant of grace, love is given to you – “As I have loved you” – and out of the overflow of Christ’s measureless love we are able to love others.

How does it happen?

God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. (Rom 5:5)

God abundantly pours his love into our hearts by giving us the Holy Spirit, a.k.a. the Spirit of Christ. Do you see the difference between the old and new?

• Under the old, the law was a rule for weak men to obey. Under the new, the Law is the Spirit of Christ given to us, loving us, and loving others through us.

• Under the old, you loved others because you feared punishment. But under the new, you love because a Lover lives in you and it is his nature to love.

• Under the old, you had to make an effort to obey. But under the new you have to make an effort to disobey. It’s a whole new way of life.

2. The law of the Spirit of life

It’s important that you understand the difference between the old law (a written code you can’t keep) and the new Law (Christ himself, living in you). Try and live by the old laws, as Paul did, and it make you miserable:

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? (Rom 7:24)

Paul couldn’t keep the old law no matter how hard he tried. He needed a new law and that new law is a Who:

Who will rescue me…? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 7:24-25a)

Do you see? The old law is a what; the new law is a Who. The old law ministers condemnation and death (2 Cor 3:7-9), but the new “law of the Spirit gives life” (Rom 8:2).

For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Cor 3:6)

Who gives life? Not a set of rules, but the Spirit of Christ within you. The new law is a Who.

3. The perfect law of liberty

James wrote of “the perfect law that gives freedom” (Jas 1:25), which can be contrasted with the law of Moses that binds (Rom 7:6).

What is the perfect law that gives freedom? Well, what is the implanted word that can save you (Jas 1:21)? It’s not the Ten Commandments or the Bible. It’s Jesus, the living Word who sets us free.

The perfect law of liberty describes what Jesus has done (perfectly fulfilled or completed the law) and the fruit he will bear in our lives (liberty) if we trust him.

But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it – not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it – they will be blessed in what they do. (Jas 1:25)

Look into the mirror of Moses’ law and you will be miserable, for it exposes all your faults. But look into the perfect law which is Jesus and you will be blessed, for it reveals His righteousness.

“Don’t just listen but do what it (the perfect law of liberty) says” (Jas 1:22). In other words, allow the Spirit of Christ to convince you that in him you are righteous and holy.

Don’t walk away from the perfect law and forget who you are in Christ. Fix your eyes on Jesus. Look intently with an unveiled face and be transformed into his likeness.

The Law written in our hearts is Jesus

Jeremiah said those who had the new law written on their hearts would know the Lord and would no longer need others to teach them. This is describing your union with Christ. One with the Lord you have the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16). His Spirit dwells in you and teaches you all things (John 14:26).




The law of the Lord written into your members is your Father’s spiritual DNA. It is the seed of God birthed in you by the Holy Spirit. It’s Jesus Himself.

How do you know He’s there? Because you are a new creation with new hopes and desires. You no longer want to sin. Your desire is to love God and others and that desire has nothing to do with old rules written in stone.

Christian, you are who you are because Christ lives in you. He is the new law written, by God, in your heart and mind.

https://escapetoreality.org/2015/04/...on-our-hearts/

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Ok, back to the original question:

When was the Law annulled?

The law cannot be kept

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Romans 5
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.
19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

[eph610]

The Law was fulfilled and all was accomplished when Jesus Put his blood on the Mercy Seat in heaven

Hebrews 9.11-14 shows us this clearly

[SUP]11 [/SUP]But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; [SUP]12 [/SUP]and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. [SUP]13 [/SUP]For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, [SUP]14 [/SUP]how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Was *all* accomplished yet that's found in the law?

The law Is GOD's perfect standard of Righteousness.

Jesus said It Is finished,before he bowed his head and gave up the ghost and sat down at the right hand of GOD,making peace between man and GOD.

 

[beta]

“For this is the covenant [that Christ is coming to establish, you’ll read in Hebrews 8:10]
… I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts. …”

Obviously it will be the 10 Commandments that will be written in our hearts, for the Christian there are no others----so they are still in force, being spiritual and eternal.
Can't understand why people believe they were abolished.

 

[beta]

The law Is GOD's perfect standard of Righteousness.

Jesus said It Is finished,before he bowed his head and gave up the ghost and sat down at the right hand of GOD,making peace between man and GOD.

It is an 'eternal' standard of righteousness. When Jesus said 'it is finished' he was not referring to the end of the law but to His human mission on earth.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Obviously it will be the 10 Commandments that will be written in our hearts, for the Christian there are no others----so they are still in force, being spiritual and eternal.
Can't understand why people believe they were abolished.

what about the other laws?

i.e the ones about how to grow crops and what clothes to wear? Who gets to choose what commands remain and what are removed?

 

[beta]

The law cannot be kept

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Romans 5
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.
19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

With God's Holy Spirit the 10 Commandments can be kept or God would not ask it of us and scriptures say so. Admittedly it takes us a lifetime to accomplish this because we have been enslaved to bad habits for a long time---but God is patient and longsuffering !!! Thank you Lord for all you are doing for us !

 

[wwjd_kilden]

ugh, I am loosing my ability to write English....which of course, not what

 

[beta]

what about the other laws?

i.e the ones about how to grow crops and what clothes to wear? Who gets to choose what commands remain and what are removed?

Seems you don't read scripture or you would know.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

It is an 'eternal' standard of righteousness. When Jesus said 'it is finished' he was not referring to the end of the law but to His human mission on earth.

Just curious,In your words what was the mission of the WORD of GOD manifested to the flesh?

Would you agree that CHRIST was the end of the law for righteousness?

The law was not made for the righteous.

The law Is a schoolmaster but once the person has been justified before GOD and the spirit made perfect,that person Is no longer under law.

 

[Grace777x70]

If one is going to live by the law - then he is obligated to live by all of it. There are no "parts" to the Law. Paul said that "coveting" was in the Law.

Saying that some laws are for us and some are not is just watering down the Law to make it seem "do-able" but in reality "law-keepers" have a very low respect for the Law and in fact break the law every day.

Romans 10:4-5 (NASB)

[SUP]4 [/SUP] For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. [SUP]5 [/SUP] For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

We have died to the Law SO THAT we might live unto God.

Galatians 2:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] "For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.

There is no justification or right standing with God because one "keeps the law". Christians live by faith - faith in Christ and what He has already done and we live by His life in us now.

Galatians 3:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11[/SUP] Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, "THE RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

The Law is NOT of faith and if you practice the Law - you must live by it.

Galatians 3:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, "HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM."

When we are trying to keep the law of which circumcision is a part of - we are obligated to keep the whole law ( Remember there are NO PARTS to the law - it is either all or live by Christ by grace through faith in His finished work on the cross and resurrection )

Galatians 5:3 (KJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

We can trust the Holy Spirit and the life of Christ in us to lead us into life in Him. Let's eat from the tree of Life - which is Christ Himself in us.

The Law is eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We were not meant to eat from that tree. That is for God. We were meant to eat from the tree of Life which is Christ Himself. Choose Christ. He is our life. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Colossians 3:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ( NOT in the law of Moses )

 

[stonesoffire]

Rom 8:2 For the law of theSpirit of life in Messiah Yeshua has set you free from the lawof sin and death.

The first verse says no condemnation to us. Grace. Hard to comprehend when we naturally judge ourselves and one another. I struggle with this daily and fail often.

Keep free. ??????

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Seems you don't read scripture or you would know.

I take it this means you do. (and that you are all- knowing about what others do and don't)
Now I can barely contain myself. Quote the scrupture that says "keep the ten commandments and forget the rest of them" please

 

[Ariel82]

Maybe I am misconstruing this.

I see the Law as a contractual arrangement made between God and Israel.

The contract is:

Do this and I will do this in return
Do that and I will do that in return


The contract had a release clause insofar as Jesus released the Israelites from the conditions of the contract, but only, so to speak, if they allowed him to countersign the original agreement.

For the others, the original contract remained in force.

Was there an expiry date for the contract?

We should examine the old covenant contract first....do you refer to the one with Moses or Abraham?

They are distinctly different.
.The one with Moses was prophesied to end.

 

[Stunnedbygrace]

A simple question.

If, as Paul says, the law is spiritual and good, it will never expire...
God is Spirit and His word is spirit and truth.

 

[Ariel82]

Jeremiah 31:31-34 - "Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

If, as Paul says, the law is spiritual and good, it will never expire...
God is Spirit and His word is spirit and truth.

Paul said,Inspired by GOD,that the law Is spiritual but I am carnal,sold under sin.

 

[Stunnedbygrace]

If, as Paul says, the law is spiritual and good, it will never expire...
God is Spirit and His word is spirit and truth.

God never said: oh, well they will not keep my law, so I will not demand that the law be kept anymore.
The law is spiritual and good.
He didn't tell Israel they must keep it and then turn around and change His mind.
Our Savior fulfills the law IN us as we grow in Him and have our mind renewed and become more and more like him.

 

[Stunnedbygrace]

Paul said,Inspired by GOD,that the law Is spiritual but I am carnal,sold under sin.

Yes, he said that also.