Page 47 - Laying Down the Law

In these words Yahshua reveals that keeping the letter of the Law will not make
any man perfect. Man must go beyond the shadow of God’s righteousness contained
in the Law, and enter into the fulness to be realized as we become partakers of the
divine nature.
You who want to be under the Law, do you not perceive that the Law is an
imperfect revelation of our heavenly Father? If it is the Law which guides you, you
will fall short of attaining to the perfection found only in Christ.
Not only is the Law weak and deficient in revealing the righteousness of God, it
is also inadequate to reveal the WILL of God for His people. The Law speaks in
generalities, but the Spirit guides men with great specificity. The Law could not reveal
to Christ that the Father would have Him begin His ministry by fasting for forty days
in the wilderness, but the Spirit was quite adequate to do so. The Law could not
disclose to Yahshua the twelve men who were to be His closest disciples, yet the
Father had in mind specific individuals.

John 17:6-7
“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the
world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.”

Christ did not choose men of His own initiative to be His disciples. He looked
to the Father to know who were the ones the Father had selected. Yahweh is the
source and originator of all things. Christ’s head is God (I Corinthians 11). Yahshua
was always careful to do that which He saw His Father doing.
The Law is inadequate as a guide to reveal to the saints the will of Yahweh. The
Law was given as an imperfect, yet necessary, guide to men until the Spirit of God
should be given to indwell them. Since that time all those who are “in Christ” have
been called to be led of the Spirit to discover the will of the Father for them.

Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Those Christians who have adopted the Law, or some moral code specific to their
church or denomination, as their guide for living will fail to look to the Spirit to guide
their steps. The reality of life among the majority of Christians today is that they are
guided by the moral code they have adopted. It is an exceptional event for them to be
guided by the Spirit. Consequently, the body of Christ remains immature, fleshly, and
nothing is brought to perfection.