Christ kept the Law of Moses, so....

Well, this completely tosses out the process of sanctification.

1 John 5:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Sure. It means "under the penalty of the law" (i.e. condemnation...death). It's like saying "the full weight of the law bears down on you."


Romans 5:13 [brackets mine]
(For [before] the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.


in fairness, no one can be accused of a crime if they weren't presented with the law to show their action is a crime. Unfortunately, as soon as we are told what NOT to do our flesh says "Meh, I want to do it that much more...I'm going to do it!", because of Adam.


Romans 7:7-8
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.


Sin did this. Not the law. This is why Paul said this earlier...


Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, for that all have sinned.


- Adam => sin...

- Sin => death (i.e. the penalty of the law; being "under the law")...

- death => sin (i.e. because we die we are compelled to sin; Adam's judged flesh is corrupt)

- Sin => death (i.e. the penalty of the law; being "under the law")...

- death => sin (i.e. because we die we are compelled to sin; Adam's judged flesh is corrupt)


Romans 5:20
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.


The law says no....our corrupt flesh says "then yes" and we sin...the law then requires our death. Over and over, "the law of sin and death; sin and death" as long as we live this cycle will repeat. So we must die. But death my faith doesn't mean we do not obey the law and continue to sin. If fact it means the complete opposite:


Romans 6:1-2
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?


We die to sin, satisfying the penalty with "our death with Christ".


Romans 6:3-4
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.


We walk in a new life by faith, not continue to walk in our old one that still sins. Christ didn't die for us so that we continue to live OUR lives. We died WITH Him and resurrect WITH Him in HIS new life. His life was lived in obedience, and His same power is ours to tap into.


Romans 6:5-7
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.


Sin = to break the law of God

We are free from the compunction to break the law of God


Romans 6:8-11
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.


Sin - the breaking of God's Law - no longer has any power over the new man. So let us not let sin reign (i.e. let's strive to obey).


Romans 6:12-14
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.


Putting everything Paul initially set up together, SIN has dominion over the person who is condemned/penalized (i.e. under the law). Meanwhile, the believer is no longer condemned/penalized, they are under grace's power (i.e. God's divine strength and instruction to live rightouesly [Titus 2:11]).


Romans 6:15-14 [brackets mine, following established context]
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, [penalty/condemnation] but under grace [divine strength & instruction]? God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.


Whomever you yield yourself to you will obey.

Yielding to sin we will break God's law.

Yielding to obedience we will not break God's law.

which covenant do we belong to as Christian’s ?

What about where Paul says all things are lawful?

The Law brought the awareness of sin. Sin was crucified on the cross with Him and that put an end to the Law. Christ rose from the dead. Now we follow Him in Spirit and Truth.[/QUOTE
1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
let the Bible speak, where is that Scripture?

Sincerity is no guarantee for Truth.

There are some who like to put themselves under the law for the feeling of self-righteousness…our righteousness was made unto us through Christ

The gospels (the law), was written for Israel …

Romans 1-8 is a doctrinal epistle written directly to us… the Church of God, and goes through what was made unto us by Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 6 is Paul criticizing believers who take each other to court with lawsuits (to be judged by the unrighteous based on THEIR law) instead of settling the matter internally. Again, lawsuits under secular law.

He then speaks to the issue at hand; why are they continuing to commit sin against each other and against God to even have lawsuits, saying the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of heaven (he then lists several major sins, particularly sexual sins). He tells them they have been washed from doing those things.

Paul then begins listing counter-statements that HIS READERS may say, while answered them (remember these are new gentile converts coming from a pagan background still committing sins).

- all things are lawful unto me (i.e. I am allowed to do anything), but all things arent beneficial

- all things are lawful for me, but I will not let it rule over me

- food is for the belly and the belly for food, but God will destroy both

Notice that these statements not only challenge what Paul just wrote, but also challenge the ruling the council gave to gentiles to avoid fornication, eating meat with blood, eating strangled meat, and avoiding idolatry. This is why Paul answered right back.

"Your body is meant for the lord, not for sexual immorality"

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But let's consider for a moment whether Paul was making statements about himself. Would Paul cut into his criticism of them to say he's personally allowed to do all the things they were doing? Does that fit? Let's see...

"Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God...but all things are lawful for me to do just not beneficial."

It's lawful for Paul to have homosexual relations??

Why would Paul criticize them but then throw it in their face that he's exempt? It would create a situation where God is playing favorites, which is exactly what the pharisees would do.

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Next, let's address when Paul speaks about eating whatever is placed in front of you. Chapter 10 follows the same pattern: Paul criticizes, then he speaks for the reader (almost mockingly), only to answer it.

1 Cor 10:1-22 - Paul criticizes their idolatry.

1 Cor 10:23-24 - "all things are lawful/allowed...all things are lawful/allowed."

1 Cor 10:25-33 - Paul answers the challenge saying "no one should seek their own good but the good of others", and then gives examples.

1 Cor 10:27
If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you choose to go, eat what's placed in front of you if you dont know where it came from. Why? Because you don't want to put a stumbling block in front of someone you're trying to save. However, if it's revealed the food was offered to idols don't eat it because you can't commune with the lord and with devils.

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The law is maintained, but it is covered by mercy for the unbeliever and for the new convert who was a former pagan. We are saved first while we are yet sinners, and then begins the process of sanctification afterward, when we learn to walk righteously in obedience more and more.

Paul wasn't himself declaring all things are lawful to do.

The new covenant that Jesus estabished with His blood.

But what was the old and what is the new?

People are quick to agree that we are under the new covenant but there are many distorted ideas about what the old and new covenants are.

The agreement made by God and Israel at siani failed in the first week (golden calf), but the new didn't start until Jesus's death.

The fault was not in the laws that God established.
The fault was in the attitude of the people.

Exo 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

We will do it ourselves, we will save ourselves, we will do it. = the old covenant.

Rom 8:3 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.

Jesus did it for us and we can have the law fulfilled in us by letting Jesus walk in us.. Not by might but by the power of Christ within. = the new covenant.
Zec 4:6 ....saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.....
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:

1Cointhians 10: 27 are you saying you can eat unclean food?

Sure. It means "under the penalty of the law" (i.e. condemnation...death). It's like saying "the full weight of the law bears down on you."

What law did Christ fulfil?

The Law is the issue that has to be dealt with in order to bring us into a right relationship with God. "Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified"
(Galatians 2:16). Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
This passage reveals that the Law cannot justify or make righteous any man in God’s sight, which is why God sent His Son to completely fulfill the requirements of the Law for all those who would ever believe in Him.
Christ Jesus redeemed us from the curse that has been brought through the law by becoming a curse for us (Galatians 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:
. He substituted Himself in our place and upon the cross took the punishment that is justly ours so that we are no longer under the curse of the Law. In doing so, He fulfilled and upheld the requirements of the Law. This does not mean that Christians are to be lawless, as some advocate today—a teaching called antinomianism. Rather, it means that we are free from the Mosaic Law and instead under the law of Christ, which is to love God with all of our being and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.

Christ became the end of the Law by virtue of what He did on earth through His sinless life and His sacrifice on the cross. So, the Law no longer has any bearing over us because its demands have been fully met in the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in Christ who satisfied the righteous demands of the Law restores us into a pleasing relationship with God and keeps us there. No longer under the penalty of the Law, we now live under the law of grace in the love of God.

He fulfilled the law of Sacrifice, because he was the perfect sacrifice
Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Hebrews 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

If He didn't sin, didn't He keep the whole law?

Praise be to God....I believe that once you are saved and you walk with God, you do not try to keep the law for the one who fulfilled the law is inside you...from there it's faith and always seeking grace and mercy