Why I break the law

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by ReformedDave

I guess I should have said that it applies to more than just the muzzling of the ox...as Paul states.

The Law of Moses was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Christ epitomizes all the sacrifices of the OT. He nailed to His cross the law contained in ordinances, Eph 2:15, which no one was able to keep because of the weakness of our flesh. Rom 8:3, Acts 15:10. The old testament, which is the law of Moses, that was We are truly under grace and follow the law of God which is eternal and is fulfilled by love, Rom 7:25 Rom 13:8 Gal 5:14, not the law of God given to Moses which was temporary.


Rico, these two passages are for you.

Heb 9:18-21 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

Exo 24:3-8 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.




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. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

We don't live by the letter of the Law but the spirit of the Law. Rom 7:6, 2 Cor 3:6