The Commandments aren't Gods Law.
If the Commandments were Gods Law then they could never be called the Ministration of Condemnation and Death. (2 Cor 3)
The Commandments have a purpose. To bring a person to Christ. Once a person comes to Christ the Ministration of Condemnation and Death has no more authority over them. They have gone on to a better Way. They have gone on to a New Covenant. They have moved forward into Gods Real Law and not the imagination and traditions of legalists who don't understand what Christ has done and what He continues to do.
If the Commandments were Gods Law then they could never be called the Ministration of Condemnation and Death. (2 Cor 3)
The Commandments have a purpose. To bring a person to Christ. Once a person comes to Christ the Ministration of Condemnation and Death has no more authority over them. They have gone on to a better Way. They have gone on to a New Covenant. They have moved forward into Gods Real Law and not the imagination and traditions of legalists who don't understand what Christ has done and what He continues to do.
Nowhere in the text does it say that God's law/commandments no longer apply. You have to read that into the scriptures. The OT covenants had curses (physical penalties) associated with them. If you sin, you had to pay these penalties.... from animal sacrifices, to capital punishment (being stoned). This was why the 10 commandments were referred to as the "ministry" (servicer/supplier) of death. The law/commandments supplied this "death" for those that broke them and were found guilty. It also supplied blessings and glory to those who followed it.
The law was written down physically for the first covenant.... and therefore had physical penalties (curses) for breaking it (sacrifices, stoning, etc.). The Messiah paid those physical penalties with the death of his body so that that the law could be transfered to a new covenant written on the heart... Spiritual law... spitirual penalties....
Matthew 5:19
19 So whoever sets aside one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom from heaven. But whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom from heaven.
The law never went away. Just the PHYSICAL penalties because those were the penalties for the physical (earthly) covenant.