THE GENTILES WERE NOT GIVEN A LAW

THE GENTILES WERE NOT GIVEN A LAW
Tuesday, 22nd June 2021
Pastor Victor

Romans 3:30‭-‬31 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.‬‬

It is sad to see Gentile Christians advocating for the keeping of the law of Moses. How do you keep something that was not given to you? According to the scriptures, the law was given to the Jews on Mount Sinai. And it was a covenant that God made with only Israel and not with the rest of the world. The trouble with most believers is that, when we read the Bible, we don’t know what was written to who – we just combine everything – we are not able to rightly divide the truth.

So, for the rest of the world, there was no covenant hence there is nothing to keep. We are admonished to learn from the law and not to live by it. There are a lot of vital revelations to learn from the law. Jesus is concealed in the law. As you study it, see Jesus in every page. See Him as the lamb for the sacrifices, see Him as the Rock that followed them and was smitten and brought life to men.

When the scripture says, Christ has redeemed us from the law (Galatians 3:13), who was God referring to? It couldn’t be the Gentiles. How could they be redeemed from something that was not given to them? The Gentiles were never under the law hence they did not need deliverance from the law. Those who needed deliverance from the curse of the law were Israel. This is radical.

And scripture is clear that the law, which is the Ten Commandments, have been abolished by the death of Jesus. Hebrews 7:18 says, “For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.” This means the law was completely cancelled and totally abolished – it was emptied of its power over men.

Never allow any preacher to put you under the law. Scripture says, curse is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the law. And James said, if you break one, you have broken all of them (James 2:10). This makes all men guilty because no one who can keep all of God’s law. But through faith in Jesus, we are justified from all things.

Today, both Jews and Gentiles are not under any law. What we have been given is a life of faith. The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Now that faith has come, we no longer need the law to live, for the just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). There is nowhere in scripture that God tells us to keep the law under the New Testament. The life of the new creation is a life of faith.

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