Grace Revolution

You can either believe what the Apostle Paul says about the law, or you can choose to ignore it and entirely miss what Christianity/the New Covenant is all about. It's up to you.

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"What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, *UNTIL* the Seed should come to whom the promise was made..." (Gal 3:19)

2 Cor 3:7-11
7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones [What was written and engraved on stones? - The Ten Commandments], was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was *passing away,* 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit [The New Covenant] not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation [The Ten Commandments] had glory, the ministry of righteousness [The New Covenant] exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had *no glory* in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is *passing away* [the ministry of death and condemnation] was glorious, what remains [The New Covenant] is much more glorious.

"Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be *SHUT,* and all the world may become *GUILTY* before God." (Rom 3:19)

"For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to *BONDAGE,* which is Hagar..." (Gal 4:24)

"because the law brings about *WRATH;* for where there is no law there is no transgression." (Rom 4:15)

"For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be *JUDGED* by the law..." (Rom 2:12)

"And the Law came in that the transgression might *INCREASE;* but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more..." (Rom 5:20)

"The sting of death is sin, and the *POWER OF SIN* is the law..." (1 Cor 15:56)
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Remember it's not I who am saying these things, but the scriptures themselves. The above verses are a sample of the verses that tell us the reason the law was given, and what happened through the law. All of these verses show the reason why the law was "against us" and "contrary to us," and therefore had to be "wiped out," "taken out of the way" and "nailed to the cross."

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"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having *wiped out* the handwriting of requirements that was *against us,* which was *contrary to us.* And He has *taken it out of the way,* having *nailed it to the cross.*" (Col 2:13-14)
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And all of these verses show us why the law was "the enmity," and "the middle wall of separation" that had to be "broken down" and "abolished in His flesh" in order for Jews and Gentiles to be reconciled into one Body - one NEW man - through the cross:

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"For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having *ABOLISHED* in His flesh the *ENMITY,* that is, *THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS* contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity." (Eph 2:14-16)
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Again, these are not my words. They are the very words of scripture. They show us that the law had very specific purposes. For those of us who are in Christ, we don't live by the law. We instead live by the new ministry - the ministry of the Spirit - in which Christ Himself dwells in us. He Himself is our life and righteousness. We live through Him and in Him, and He in us, apart from law.