My friend, the wondrous things in God's law is the glory of God. In the time of children of Israel, God put them under the governance of the law that in looking upon it and contemplating its precepts they may behold the God that it points to. As the people thus kept the law blessings would ensue within their lives.
Today, we have the greater manifestation of God in Jesus Christ who is the fullness of the law manifested in the flesh. As we look unto Jesus we see the glory of God. The law still reveals the character of God, but in the Son of God is the fuller manifestation of the Father. Therefore, we are no longer under the governance of the law but under grace of Christ Jesus.
"But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." (Galatians 3:23-27).
The law was given as a schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, and all those who have accepted Christ as their Savior, are no longer under the law but under grace. We are no longer led by the law but are led by the Spirit of Christ.
Our problem with sin is that at the heart we are sinners, prone to sin. The law was given to govern the lives of the people and to reveal the glory of God, until the Son of God could be given. "For 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." (Romans 8:3, 4).
Therefore, today we are no longer under the governance of the law, but are under the Spirit of Christ which guides and keeps us. As we daily partake of Jesus, His life lives within us and enables us to keep the law of God. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1).
My friend, to be under the law is to be under the governance of the law. At the cross this system of governance has been superseded by the Spirit of Christ that is to live within us. As Christ lives within us our hearts we are transformed by the righteousness of Christ, thus fulfilling the promise in Ezekiel saying "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." (Ezekiel 36:27).
God bless,
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