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Which Law Are We Under?
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The Law of Moses was written for the Jews and was only to last until the time of Christ. In the Law of Moses, the blood of animals was required to atone for the sins of the people. These sacrifices were temporary. Now, we have the perfect sacrifice. God's only begotten son, being without sin, offered Himself as a sacrifice to forgive sins from the time of His death until His return. When Jesus died on the cross, the temporary Law of Moses was fulfilled and is no longer necessary. Now we are under the law of Christ (not the Ten Commandments), found in the New Testament. Christians were never under the Law of Moses.
| Exodus 34:27,28 |
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel [the Jews]. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. |
| Galatians 3:19,16 |
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, [only] till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; .... to thy seed, which is Christ. |
| Ephesians 2:14,15 |
He [Christ] is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; |
| Hebrews 8:13 |
A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. |
| Galatians 3:24,25 |
The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. |
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