HisWitness
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I really want to focus on this verse:
Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made. - Galatians 3:19 NASB
Paul asks a very good question. If the law couldn't save, and the gospel promise was made 430 years before hand, what was the purpose of the Law?
"It was added because of transgressions"! or it was added to define/ or make plain transgression/sin. Paul goes so far in Romans to say that the law came to INCREASE SIN! God wanted everyone to see that even His Elect nation, the nation He redeemed from the Egyptians, the nation that he had set His affection on and gave every advantage possible to, was UTTERLY INCAPABLE OF OBEDIENCE!
Now look at this: "It was ADDED.." The Law was new at Sinai! It was a new expression of the commands of God. It was not in place previously, but was ADDED at Sinai.
And look here: "until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made" It was added UNTIL the SEED came. That seed was Christ (Gal 3:16).
So the Law was ADDED UNTIL Christ came. In other words, the Mosaic Law (as a whole) was TEMPORARY! The Mosaic covenant is not the Covenant the church lives under as that Old Covenant has been abolish in the cross of Christ.
by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, - Ephesians 2:15 NASB
When He said, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear. - Hebrews 8:13 NASB
having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. - Colossians 2:14 NASB
all this talking and you stay far away from what the actual commandments that the Son of Yah said to keep---pls tell us what we are to keep according to his own words.
you have told us what your view is to what NOT to keep...NOW tell us what we are to keep if we love the Messiah ????????