He said, when Christ frees you from the Mosaic covenant, He frees you from what has become your judge, your accuser. It was never meant to be your accuser. He will say in a moment or two, we’ll read it. It was meant to bring life.
The commandment was unto life!
And instead what? You sinned, sin corrupted you, and you sinned, and that law that God gave for life became your judge and said,
well then, the law’s bad. No, the law isn’t bad. The law is good. The problem doesn’t lie with the law. It lies with you. And if you are out of favor with God, he says, it’s because of the law. The law didn’t ask what you couldn’t give.
The law asked what you could have given and wouldn’t. Here’s Romans 7.
He says, therefore, brethren, you have become dead to the law through the body of Christ that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead. He died, you see, he was raised. ⁓ That we should bear fruit to God. We should have children and this happy marriage and all of that, see? For when we were in the flesh, that is when we were outside of Jesus Christ, when our relationship was with not to no one but the old man Adam.
When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, the corruption that was in us, the corruption that we permitted to enter, the corruption that we rather enjoyed and pursued, all of that, that corruption, where am I? Here we are. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were arised by the law, the law said, here, live this way, do what God wants, this that and the other. Like God says to Adam, don’t eat of that tree. If you do, you’ll die.
And you know what happened? We corrupted ourselves and now we had to eat of that tree that he told us not to eat of. The law was to give us life and the law then became, because we became corrupted, all it became was another opportunity to do evil. ⁓ And he said, but now we have, ⁓ and we bear fruit to death.
Our kids, we not only behave badly, we raise children and they behave badly. The whole thing, he said, outside of Jesus Christ, all we ever did, Jew and Gentile alike, of course, but here in particularly speaking to the Jews, he said, we did all of this, we did all the bad stuff. When we were outside of Christ and in the flesh, the covenants in our flesh, we are Abraham’s fleshly people, but when we were all of that and that was where we stood before God, we came up with nothing
but evil. And then he says, but now we have been delivered from the law having done. Now, why is that a good thing? Because the law is your accuser. Your law is what speaks against you now. Cannot speak in your favor. Cannot say they’re alive because we were dead as a nation. And for all those who know and have heard and will not have him, they’re dead
having died, but now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of spirit, not in the oldness of the letter. An ancient time, but prior to the Lord Jesus Christ, he said, you know what the law was? You know what the law was? It should have been in your heart, but it wasn’t. It should have been,
written in there, Jeremiah in the book of Deuteronomy, Moses said, have this written on your heart. He said it wasn’t there. Do know what it was? So to speak. It was an outside book. It was a law outside of yourselves. You never took it to heart. You never lived it that way. That was the way it was in old times. But now you’re in Jesus Christ and now you live not with something external to you
but that which you have embraced within, and it has become a part of you, no longer by the oldness of the letter but by the newness of the spirit.