A. God promised a new law to replace the old Mosaic law:JER 31:31. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: JER 31:32. 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 an husband unto them, saith the LORD: JER 31:33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. HEB 8:7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. HEB 8:8. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: HEB 8:9. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. HEB 8:10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: B. Names of the new law: A new covenantJER 31:31. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: the law of faith ROM 3:27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. ROM 8:2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ROM 9:31. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. GAL 6:2. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. HEB 9:15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. JAM 1:25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. JAM 2:8. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 2PE 2:21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. C. Jesus' death on the cross fulfilled & ended the law:MAT 5:17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. JOH 19:30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. ROM 10:4. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. COL 2:14. Blotting 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; D. The old Mosaic law is now discarded (for believers in Jesus):HEB 8:13. 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. HEB 10:9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. HEB 8:6. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. E. True believers are no longer bound by the rigid Mosaic law:ROM 6:14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. GAL 3:24. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. GAL 3:25. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 1TIM 1:9. Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, F. Jesus has liberated us from the Mosaic law:ROM 7:4. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. ROM 7:6. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. ROM 8:1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ROM 8:2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. GAL 3:13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: G. Jesus' Spirit & truth gives us freedom:JOH 8:36. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 2COR 3:17. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. GAL 5:1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. GAL 5:5. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. GAL 5:18. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. H. Read Jesus' liberating Words to be set free:JOH 8:31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; JOH 8:32. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ROM 10:17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. JAM 1:25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. |
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