let me say it plainly.
Many here say they obey God because they love. Do they realize all the law hangs on Love, of God and one's neighbors?
If they claim to know this, then how can they deny the law is not still in effect.
I suppose they need to study the Word a bit more and see that although Jesus Christ, Yeshua, has fulfilled the lion's portion of thelaw, there are many, and He teaches wwhich, that are still very much in effect.
To say the law was abolished by Jesus Christ can beocntrued as saying He lied, and we all know He did not.
Too many are teaching without knowledge, and this should nto be.
Jesus did not teach that the law is abolished...not one jot or tittle etc
where people confuse it, is in claiming if someone says that, they are saying either the law saves or trying to say that salvation is not by faith alone
two things there: salvation has always been by faith...Abraham's righteousness was accounted to him by faith and all sacrifice under the OT system were not to absolve from sin, but rather covered the sin and indicated that sin is death
this hue and cry of 'we are not under law' is ridiculous because of course we are not if have accepted Christ as our Savior, but saying there is no more law is also nonsense because Jesus said it will not pass away until heaven and earth pass away
For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Matthew 5:18
so we are NOT condemned by the law, still in effect,
BECAUSE we are covered under the sacrifice of Jesus..NOT because there is no more law (the final plague in Egypt is a perfect illustration of this fact when the angel of death passed over the homes with the blood of the lamb on their doorposts)
understanding the OT, gives greater understanding to the new....but so many just want to read the ending it seems and forget about the intro and the middle that led up to the ending or else they greatly misunderstand it.
it's their loss but does not mean they are not saved. this is a dumb argument, IMO, that seems to go on endlessly here with both sides never meeting in the middle and one side constantly misunderstanding what the other is saying
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Hebrews 10:4
we have only one sacrifice that removes...blots out sin...and that is Jesus and He is also our High Priest
By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. Hebrews 10: 10-12