We are not under the Law!

We are actually under the Law! And yet we are absolutely not under the Law!

It’s a paradox.

What it really means we are actually under the law and yet we are not under the law?

As far as the law which is the Ten Commandments Moses held in the two tablets of stones is concerned, we are not under to all of them. But as far as the law which Jesus had said, “You have heard of what it says of long ago… But now I tell you…” is concerned we are actually and we must be under to those commandments, which likely is all about the Ten Commandments.

The Law which Jesus had done to the law (He fulfill the law and he brought out its complete meaning) has a big difference than with the law of Moses he brought to the Israelites. In Moses time, it was literal but as what Jesus had brought, it was spiritual

Example: The 6th commandment says, “You shall not murder”. By any means and by any use of force or use of any deadly weapon, a person must not kill or murder someone. That is literal. But in Matt 5:21:22, Jesus equates anger the same as murder. You don’t have to use force or deadly weapon to murder just be angry to someone and you will be subject to the same judgment just like as in the case of murder. The Apostle Paul came to the full knowledge of the real intent of the ten commandments, he said, “The law is spiritual”.(Rom 7:14) That’s was Jesus exactly what he wants to us to understand about the law which he did not abolish. In fact, he established it by giving us the explanation and the real and exact intent of the law.

Therefore, the real meaning of the command that says, “You shall not murder” is “You shall not angry”. We are not under the law that states, “You shall not murder”. We are now under the law that says, “You shall not angry”. However, that is not exactly the law that we should be under. The exact law for us to obey, to keep and to fulfill about on that particular law (the 6th commandment) is “Love your enemies”, “Bless them, pray for them and don’t curse”, and “If they hungry give them food”.

We are not under the Law that “We heard of long ago”(ceremonial law, sabbath law and all kinds of law including the law which is the Ten Commandments written in the two tablet of stone). We are now under the Law that, Jesus said, “I tell you now…” which is written and must permanently be written in our heart.

The Law which Jesus said, “I tell you now..” is now what we called the Law of Christ which is also called the Law of Love. It was called the Law of Love because according to Christ, Love is the fulfillment of the Law.

Love brings no harm. But if a person lie, look with lust, steal, harbor bitterness and anger, and covet he breaks the Law of Christ and it brings harm to others as well as to himself. Much worst he might be in danger of the fire of hell.

Thus, we are still under the Law but this time not under the “Law of long ago”, we are under the Law of Christ “Now” which is the Law of Love.

All in all the Law of “long ago” (the Ten Commandments) and the Law “Now”, end up just the same.

We are still under the Law.