PURPOSE OF MOSAIC LAW
What Is The Mosaic Law?
The Mosaic Law is the Ten Commandments. The Law was given on Mt. Sanai, but the law entered the world through the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The book of Romans says that the Jews had the law. The Gentiles without the law were a law unto themselves with the law written on their hearts. The Jews and Gentiles are both guilty of breaking commandments. The book of Romans says that we are without excuse.
The Law of Moses was only the shadow of good Things to come (Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 10:1).
Jesus Christ fulfilled every word of the law (Matthew 5:17, 18; Luke 24:44).
The law through weakness could not:
1. bring about justification (Acts 13:39)
2. produce righteousness (Galatians 2:21)
3. produce life (Galatians 3:21)
4. bring about perfection (Hebrews 7:19)
5. free the conscience from a knowledge of sin (Hebrews 10:1-4)
Romans 8:3-8 says, 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: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Those that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Here are some scriptures that talk about the law being fulfilled in Christ. Jesus establishes righteousness through His obedience freeing all who believe by faith.
The law becomes powerless or inactive to judge believers:
The law is abolished (2 Corinthians 3:6-13; Ephesians 2:15)
Christ is the end of the law (Romans 10:4)
It was the ministration of death, done away (2 Corinthians 3:7)
Jesus took away the first that He might establish the second (Hebrews 10:5-9)
It was nailed to the cross (Colossians 2:14-16)
Those who had been under it had been delivered from it (Romans 7:6)
They were dead to it (Romans 7:4)
They were not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14)
They were no longer under the schoolmaster (Galatians 3:24,25)
They were not required to serve the law (Acts 15:1-24; Galatians 3:19)
The Christian who sought justification under the law had fallen from grace (Galatians 5:4)
The law is no longer active for believers, because Jesus satisfied the righteous requirements of the Law. We fulfill it requirements in Jesus. Those that seek to be justified by the law will be judged as lawbreakers under the law. The natural man is under the law and the born again believer in the Spirit is under grace.
What is the purpose of the Law of Moses?
1.) The law of sin and death from Adam to Moses
The law entered the world when Adam ate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The knowledge of good and evil is the law. Adam was guilty when the law entered the world by eating the tree. From Adam to Moses death reigned without the Law of Moses.
2.) The Law of Moses
The Law came to show us sin. The Law is the knowledge of sin. The Law of Moses was added because of transgressions until the seed would come (Galatians 3:19). Jesus is the SEED in Galatians 3:16. Galatians 3:17-18 says what I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.
For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.
