We are not Under the Law Part 2

We are not under the Law just because on one simple reason. The “law that was heard of long ago” (the Ten Commandments heard by the Israelites from Moses) could literally be obey by any person just to be seen by men. And that kind of obedience to the law is what the bible called as hypocrisy. That’s why man cannot attain salvation by the works of the law.

As far as obedience to the law is concerned, the Pharisees and the Sadducees are the most highly regarded “good person” in the time of Jesus. They strictly follow the law of Moses and the Prophets religiously perfect. In fact Saul that become Paul being a Jew then, as of keeping the law he is Pharisee and more zealous to God beyond in all good and religious people in his nation. He was greater than the Pharisees and expert of the law because he was a well-trained and top graduated student of Gamaliel (Acts 22:3). But when he met Jesus on the way to the Damascus road he became a new man. He realized all “good works” are all hypocrisy that he then counts everything as nothing and rubbish (Phil 3:8). Christ now is everything for him. He came to the full understanding of the law in a way different from he already known before.

This can we know, that how much sincere a man of doing all “good works” and even how so strict and religious in obeying the law, unless he was regenerated and unless he come to know the real intent of the law, all of his works will be count short as hypocritical- all ends up as nothing and rubbish. All seems good works to man is not good enough for him to enter heaven. In the sight of God, all good works of man are as filthy rags (Isa 64:6). Man needs Christ. He is more than enough which man can be save through only him. Not by works or obeying the law but by the grace of God and through faith man can receive such salvation, which offered as a gift to anyone.

Now concerning the law, which Jesus told, “I tell you now…” is now a law, which directly points toward the inner man. It deals the whole being of a man of how, when, where and what he act, speak and most importantly is the way he think. It reveals what he really is, not only his outward appearances but also more on the inside.

Jesus sharply rebukes the Pharisees and the Doctor of the Law (the Ph.D., the Doctor of Divinity, the Doctor of Theology, and others, etc.) because of their hypocrisy. They outwardly obey the Law of Moses (including the Ten Commandments) but inwardly they are like as sepulcher full of dead bones.

In light of the Law Jesus had told “Now”, we have a law that serves as a guiding light, a measuring rod and a perfect set of standards for us of how can we as what Jesus said, we must surpass the righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees. (Mat 5:20)

We can have a righteousness that will surpass their righteousness (Pharisees righteousness based on their traditions and rituals) by surpassing the Law they have heard of long ago.

We must undertake the Law, the Law that Jesus told “Now”.

This mean to say, that we are not under the Law, which is in the literal form (written in the two tablets of stone). We are under the Law which Paul said, “The Law is spiritual”, that are (must be) written in the hearts (and in the mind).