We Why Can "Get Rid of" The Law

The Gospel of Grace is restored to its proper place in my life.

Paul rebuked the Galatians sternly:

"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: (Galatians 1: 6)

 No doubt, he would have said the same thing to me.

Today, I am hearing loud and clear:

"8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:" (Hebrews 3: 8)

Today, I understand the key importance of heeding the voice of God's grace, that He has provided all things in His Son:

"31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." (Romans 8: 31-34)

Jesus declared:

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." (Matthew 5: 17)

That is exactly what Jesus did at the Cross:

"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." (John 19: 30)

Paul then explains the meaning of al that took place at the Cross:

"13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." (Colossians 2: 13-15)

Jesus rendered the law inoperative, in that He fulfilled every demand which the law makes on man, and thus silencing the voice of the accuser once and for all.

Review this part of Romans 8:

"33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."

When we understand that Jesus is up at the right hand of the Father justifying us, then we receive a greater revelation of this exhortation:

"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" (2 Corinthians 10: 4-5)

His obedience began at the Cross, when He died for us, and continues as He ministers on our behalf, with the power of an endless life (Hebrews 7: 16)

Because Jesus Christ has fulfilled the law in every way, and paid for all our sins with His blood, a blood which cleanses us (1 John 1: 7), we can rest assured that He is our God, and will never leave us nor forsake us.

If we insist on holding onto the law, that we must still keep the Ten Commandment and all attending statutes in the law of Moses, we are saying that Jesus did not do a good enough job.

Either He Finished the work, or He didn't.

Satan wants us to believe that He did not, yet Jesus did, and He spoiled the enemy, full and forever, making an open display of His weakness.

Grace and Truth came with Jesus Christ (John 1: 17), and while the law that was given through Moses had its place, that time has ended, and the law is vanished away (Hebrews 8: 13)

The lie then remains that the law can make us good, or that we must give it a place, or worse preeminence over the Son.

That cannot be:

"And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever." (John 8: 35)

and

"4For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. 5And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." (Hebrews 3: 4-6)

Moses gave the law, but the grace of God revealed in truth came through Jesus Christ, and His grace is the teacher which guides to live godly lives (Titus 2: 11-14)


We can "get rid of" the law only because the law has been fulfilled in Christ, and He has granted us His life and to guide into the godliness and holiness which exceeds that "thou shalt nots" of the Old Testament.