The Purpose Of The Law (Mosiac Law)

What We Believe Concerning The Law...

Deal with the Purpose of the Law from Tablet:

So this is why the Law is Good Holy. Romans 7:12

Romans 7:12 CSB

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Galatians 3:23–25 CSB

Before this faith came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed. The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith. But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

What should christians learn from the mosiac law?

“For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.” (James 2:10) Since no person could keep the Law perfectly, especially today, anyone who tries is guilty of Sin. If you’re willingly going back under the Mosaic Law you are going back under the curse that Jesus died to bring you out from.

When Jesus said, “Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” in Matthew 5:19, He was saying the Mosaic Law had to be kept perfectly. All 613 commandments. If Jesus was meaning for this to be the practice of the Church, it would mean that Christians today would have to keep all 613 commandments. This is literally impossible given the fact there is no Temple for sacrifices and offerings. Jesus fulfilled the Mosaic Law to free us from the Law. We are now under the Law of Christ and Jesus is our High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Most people who think they are “keeping Torah” or the Mosaic Law are being dishonest and are guilty of hypocrisy. They really just pick and choose which of the 613 laws (https://www.jmu.edu/dukehallgallery/exhibitions-past-2018-2019/the-613-mitzvot.shtml) their group will keep to make them feel more Jewish. They are typically more concerned with being conformed to Judaism then they are with being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ the Son of God. (US Laws Looking back, there have been 88,899 federal rules and regulations since 1995 through December 2016, as the chart shows; but "only" 4,312 laws.)

In summary, the Law is a unit comprised of 613 commandments, and all of it has been invalidated. There is no commandment that has continued beyond the cross of the Messiah. The Law is there and can be used as a teaching tool to show God’s standard of righteousness and man’s sinfulness and need of substitutionary atonement. It can be used to point one to the Messiah (Gal. 3:23-25). However, it has completely ceased to function as an authority over believers.

Let’s look at how Paul summarizes this issue in his epistle to the Galatians. “nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be! For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”(christ death was in vain if i choose to live under the law) Galatians 2:16-21

The first covenant is said to have been made old in Hebrews 8:13. This word, old, in Greek means “obsolete”. “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.” Hebrews 8:13 Believers in Christ do not have to keep any special day holy or keep the sabbath. You can have sabbath/rest every day in Jesus. You can be at rest in Jesus. His yolk is easy. You can rest from your works because your salvation is secure in Christ through Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Read Hebrews 4:9-11 & Colossians 2:16-17)

Today, there are believers in Christ being suckered into believing that they have to keep the Law of Moses to be saved or to keep right with God. This is what the Bible calls legalism. There is also an equal danger on the opposite side where some are taught, they are not under any law.

Believers in Jesus are now under a new law. This law is called: the Law of Christ in Galatians 6:2 and the Law of the Spirit of life in Romans 8:2. This is a totally new law, and completely separate from the Law of Moses. The Law of the Christ contains all the commandments applicable to a New Testament believer. (what is the law of christ… Love God and Love your Neighbor

The reason why there is so much confusion over the relationship of the Law of Moses and the Law of the Messiah is that many commandments are similar to those found in the Mosaic Law, and many believers have concluded that certain sections of the Law have therefore been retained. But it has already been shown that this cannot be the case.

One example to best illustrate this is how one state or country might differ in regard to their traffic laws. While being a citizen of one state or country you are subject to the traffic laws of that state or country. However, if you change your residence and live in another state or country, the previous state or countries traffic laws have become rendered inoperative, and you become subject to a new state or countries law. There are many similarities and also differences pertaining to traffic laws between the states and countries, but the point is when you change residence you become under a new law. Although there are similarities the power of law has changed.

There are many similar commandments, but they are nonetheless in two separate systems. So, if we do not kill or steal, this is not because of the Law of Moses but because of the Law of the Christ. On the other hand, if I do steal, I am not guilty of breaking the Law of Moses but of breaking the Law of the Christ. The believer is free from the Law of Moses, but he is also free to keep parts of it. Thus, if a Jewish believer feels the need to refrain from eating pork, he is free to do so. The same is true for all the other commandments.

However, there are two dangers that must be avoided by the Messianic believer who volunteers to keep some of the commandments of the Law of Moses. One danger is the idea that by doing so he is contributing to his own justification and sanctification. This is false and should be avoided. The second danger is when that person is expecting others to keep the same commandments which he had decided to keep. This is equally wrong and borders on legalism. The one who exercises his freedom to keep parts of the Law must recognize and respect another’s freedom not to keep it.

This is brought out in Paul’s epistle to the Colossians: “Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day - things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.” Colossians 2:16-23

So, there you have it my friends. The first issue brought against the Church in Jerusalem, in Acts 15 has been settled and is clearly evident through the epistles of Hebrews, Galatians, Romans and Colossians.

Christ has set you and I free from the Law of Moses. It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1

Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. Galatians 5:2-5

Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.” Acts 15:10-11

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. Romans 8:1-5