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terrified all who observed it, as did its ending.
Who could observe the judgment of the Law upon the Son of God and not be
shaken to their depths? The Law did not slay Christ for His sins, but for the sins of
mankind. Those who observed the crucifixion witnessed the Law’s righteous
judgment on man. We should all stand with trembling to understand that it should
have been us on the cross. Yahshua accepted the full judgment of the Law on our
behalf, and with this judgment the Law ended.

Galatians 2:19-20
For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been
crucified with Christ...

As long as the Adamic man lived, the Law had jurisdiction over him. The
covenant could only be ended by death. Those who are in Christ have died. When He
was crucified, they were crucified. When Yahshua died, they died. When the Messiah
rose again to newness of life, so too did all who are partakers of His life.

Romans 6:3-8
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Yahshua
were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through
baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been
united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the
likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with
Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer
be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died
with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him...

For Christ, the Law ended when He died. For the Christian, the Law ends the
moment they become a partaker of the life of Christ. It is with this understanding that
all the words of Christ must be discerned. The Son of God’s life serves as the
transition point from Law to Grace; from legal prohibition to liberty; from a written
code to life in the Spirit. On the cross the Law’s claim over mankind was satisfied.

Colossians 2:13-14
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.

Before the eyes of the Father stand the charges of the Law. With the blood of His
Son it is stamped “Paid in Full.” The Law condemned man and caused enmity to exist