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Understanding Difficult Scriptures

any saints who have adopted the view that the Law continues as the guardian
Mand tutor to the saints today arrive at this view due to a misapprehension of
various Scriptures. Although their conviction may be sincere, error will always result
in undesirable consequences.
If you have patiently considered all the preceding material in this teaching
series, you have had presented to you the truth that the Law was not made for
spiritual men and women. The testimony of the apostles of Christ found in the
Scriptures is that those who are in Christ have died to the Law in order to be joined
to another. The Law with its shadows, its weakness, and its inability to make any man
perfect, has been replaced by that which is substantial, powerful and able to present
men perfect.
What then, are we to make of various Scriptures that are often cited by men to
advocate the continuance of the Law? Many of these Scriptures come from the life of
Christ. They are His own words.
It must be understood precisely where the Law was ended. The Law still retained
its authority when Christ was born.

Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a
woman, born under the law...

The covenant of the Law continued throughout the years of Christ’s ministry.
The Son of God declared that He came to fulfill the Law.

Matthew 5:17-20
“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come
to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass
away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and
teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever
does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For
I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Many saints do a cursory reading of this passage from Matthew’s gospel and
conclude that Christ said the Law will remain as long as the heavens and earth exist.
This is not what He said. Yahshua declared that the Law would not pass away “till all
is fulfilled.” Immediately before this He declared that He came to fulfill the Law.
The saint must answer the question, “Did Yahshua accomplish what He said He
came to do? Did He fulfill the Law?” The testimony of the Scriptures is a resounding
“Yes!”