The Scriptures
The Law
Jesus Christ did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfil it [10]. He fulfilled the requirements of the Law through His perfect life and His expiatory death in order to achieve the righteousness of these requirements in us, through the spirit of God [11].
Any person, justified or not, is under obligation to observe the universal law of obedience given to Adam and specified by the Ten Commandments and moral rules given to Moses [12]; Christ far from nullifying the law, upheld it forcefully [13].
The requirements of the moral law on men’s consciences [14] as well as the providence of God refrain them from fully yielding to wrongdoings [15]. Non regenerated and sinful men are thus under the Law and under His guard [16]. In the present time, this kind of justice is necessary for men to be kept in the society [17].
Through the Law, man becomes conscious of his sinfulness, his inability to desire or to do good, his guilt and in the end his perdition [18]. The law, thus acting, was put in charge to lead us to Christ and to His grace for salvation and justice [19]. Its strictness, even after regeneration, remains as a sting to take back the sinner to the Saviour’s grace in the fear of the Lord [20].
Believers are no longer under the law [21] as a covenant on the basis of works to be justified or condemned by the Law, since Christ freed them from the curse [22] and that the law is carried out in their hearts through Christ’s love [23] being the perfect achievement of it [24]. Nevertheless, the Law is very useful to them since it is an unceasing reminder of God’s will through: What is good, pleasant and perfect in order to observe them in loving kindness [25]. This is obedience coming from faith [26] which is through the power of the spirit [27], with thankfulness [28], having his source in Christ and in His grace [29]. Such behaviour is not legalistic [30] but in the conformity of the perfect law of love and freedom, the Law of Christ [31].