Law

Matthew 22:37-40 “Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”(NKJV)
The Ten Commandments summarize the Mosaic Law (Ex. 20:1-17). The two great commandments to love God and love your neighbor distill those commandments even further: love God with heart and soul and mind (commandments 1-4), love your neighbor as yourself (commandments 4-10). 1 Timothy 1:5 says, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,”(NKJV) Gal. 3:24-25 describes the law as a tutor to bring us to Christ. Galatians also clearly teaches that we are not under law nor justified by the works of the law, but under grace through Jesus Christ. Romans 3:31 asks “Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.”(NKJV) On upcoming Wednesday nights as we study Galatians, I invite you to search the scriptures and be ready to discuss this important question: how does the law relate to the Christian life?