Kingdom Theology of Law In The Bible Part 2

Romans 3







Today we are walking in: Kingdom Theology Of Law







Exodus 4:12​




Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach H3384 thee what thou shalt say.








TEACH










Today we look to the word TEACH H3384 yarah--to direct, teach, instruct ; to point out, show











The Torah testifies...............






Leviticus 10:11





And that ye may teach H3384 the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.








The prophets proclaim..................




Isaiah 2:3




And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach H3384 us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.







So what does The Most High do? He loves man. So, to sustain man, He gives him instructions or laws, not only for man but for all of His creation. All of creation is created by Torah and sustained by Torah. But how is man reconciled back to The Most High if we all break those laws? How could man ever be redeemed? Well, not by the law. Why? Because law, instructions contained within the Word, was not designed to redeem man, but rather to create, sustain, and prosper man. When The Most High's instructions are obeyed, they separate and distinguish the obedient from the disobedient. The instructions in Exodus 19 separate The Most High's people as a peculiar treasure above all other people. In Deuteronomy 30, it prospers and causes long life to those who obey. In Deuteronomy 11, it blesses the obedient and curses the disobedient. All mankind was created by law, and blessed or cursed by it. Since commandments do not redeem man, The Most High had to redeem him another way. By grace! If man rejects grace, then he is by nature under the law. Lets read Romans 3:9-19 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way: for we have before proved both Hebrews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after The Most High. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of The Most High before their eyes. Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before The Most High. Many times I have heard these verses used to show the condition of Israel, as they are under the law and the church is under grace. But this series of verses begins by stating that all are under sin. All of these verses point to the condition of all of mankind, and that when the law speaks it speaks to every mouth, and that all the world is guilty before The Most High. The law tells us that we are all guilty before The Most High. The law in this verse, Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. The law teaches us what is right and wrong. We all are guilty of breaking the law, so we are all doomed unless The Most High provides another way to be redeemed. When we are placed under grace by faith, the law still teaches us what is right and wrong. That is its designed function and its lawful use when you look at 1 Timothy 1:8. To be under the law is to be without grace and therefore subject to the law, and therefore guilty. There is no teaching here that law was for Old Testament Hebrews or that they were redeemed by it. Remember that when Paul taught, the Bereans checked out everything he spoke by searching the Old Testament that these things were so. There was no New Testament to verify his words! Let’s look at Romans 6:14-16 For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? The Most High forbid. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. Verse 14 is probably quoted more often than not to explain the doctrine that Yahashua died to free the church from the Old Testament laws. This is absurd. This is where a working knowledge of Hebrew idioms are imperative to understanding the text. But even without that knowledge, you will begin to see that the focus of the next two chapters is the old man of Romans 6:6. Paul begins chapter 6 by telling his listeners that they are now dead to sin in verse 2. This was accomplished by identification with the baptism of Yahashua, which was the death of the sinful nature, the body of sin, also called the old man. Here, the body of sin was crucified, not the law. If you are not under grace, then you only have law which produces sin when disobeyed. You then become a servant to sin and under its dominion. Not because you obey it, but because you do not obey it. It becomes your only master. This old man is the old nature, the Adamic nature. This old man must serve the law because he has no other master, and therefore he is under the dominion of sin because he breaks the law. In other words, he is using the law for what it was not intended to be used. So the context here is the crucifying of the old man or the body of sin, and therefore being "dead to sin". In verses 11 through 13 Paul teaches us not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies anymore. Remember sin, in 1 John 3:4, is transgression of Old Testament. He also tells us that we are to yield our bodies as instruments of righteousness unto The Most High. When we get to verse 14 we see that being under the law is synonymous with being under the dominion of sin, not the Old Testament. Again, the Old Testament teaches us what sin is. Torah is not sin. To be under grace is to be a servant of that which is righteous and that you are now freed from sin Romans 6:18. We have the power to serve The Most High now rather than sin! In chapter 7, Paul begins by telling us that he is now addressing those who know the Old Testament. To these brethren, it would consist of written and oral law, which is a subject for another time. He says, "Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? He is going to relate this teaching now to those who understand the culture. He then begins by using a story common in Hebrew parables. For the woman who hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. The Old Testament teaches that a marriage contract is forever or until her husband dies. The law states that when she chooses to marry a man that she must stay married to whom she chose. The law also states that when he dies she is freed from him. Now who is the man? The law? NO! Paul just explained to us in chapter 6 that the old man is the body of sin. So, let's interpret the parable as understood by the ones who knew the law. The husband is the body of sin, under the law, which can never be pleased. According to the law, she must stay married to him. If she tries to marry another, grace, while still married to her first husband, the body of sin, she is an adulteress, for she cannot serve two masters. If she, according to the law, dies to sin, the old man dies, then she is free to marry another. The law, when disobeyed, is a curse and produces the body of sin, an old man which can never be pleased.