Spirit Law
When someone speaks of "The Law" it is generally in reference to the Mosaic Law and indeed that is the law spoken of in Gal 2:16 where we are told very clearly that we are not saved by the works of the law but by faith in Yahshua the Messiah. It says no flesh can be justified by the law meaning the Mosaic Law. When Israel was attempting to keep that law they failed miserably over and over but even if they had kept it perfectly it was only intended to save them physically, to provide a way whereby sin could be easily recognized and that the penalty for it, death, could be overidden in some cases by particular sacrifices. The sacrifices of the Mosaic Law merely pointed toward the ultimate, perfect, only sacrifice that could atone for all sin that would be made by the Messiah for everyone who ever lived if they would only believe it. Everything that went before the advent of the Messiah was a shadow or type, evidence, of Who He is, to prove to a soul that He is the Saviour. He did fulfill all that evidence and types that went before so that we could know for a surety Who He was in that body, Yahweh come to save His creatures: Yahshua means Yahweh is salvation. Yahshua is still in bodies, those that have received Him, His Holy Spirit: His sons and daughters who were once under the influence of Satan to disobey Yahweh, with the comcommitant consequences of His Spirit Law, have been saved since Pentecost in the name of Yahshua. Because they believed in the Gospel they are saved from the coming wrath of Yahweh because they are no longer under the bondage of Satan.
So then what is Spirit Law? The Mosaic Law was a physical law but there is a Spirit Law, and that is the law that runs all things. It has always been in affect/effect and is the vehicle of the Holy Spirit's judgments. Spirit Law holds the universe together. It is literally the Power of Yahweh, His Law. Spirit Law is the operation of the Holy Spirit throughout the spiritual and physical creation. It has always been in operation (eternal) but since Pentecost can govern a human vessel permanently to abide by Yahweh's Will, a conversion of the person's soul. Obeying Spirit Law, Yahweh's Will, cannot be done without the Holy Spirit which performs a silent operation in the heart and mind of a person, saving him/her from eternal damnation upon the universal revelation of Yahshua the Messiah. Soon the physical creation will be destroyed in flaming fire (II Pet 3:10-14) because of the operation of Spirit Law according to Yahweh's purpose as per the prophecies He has given to us. Those that are alive and have the Holy Spirit which causes them to conform to Spirit Law, to be obedient to Yahweh, who are thusly in the Body of Yahshua the Messiah, will be translated into the spirit realm to be there forever with Him. Those who are not in the Body of Yahshua the Messiah will go on into spiritual damnation forever. Everyone and everything is ruled by Spirit Law whether they know it or not. The erroneous idea of reincarnation, multiple lives to get it right, has an idea called Karma. This idea of retribution, reaping what one sows, reciprocation, or "what goes round, comes around" all happens in one lifetime and that life will be judged at the Universal Revelation. There are no continuing lives to get it right, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" is what we are told (Heb 9:27).
There is a lot of confusion over the old Mosaic Law and Spirit Law. Here are some Scriptures that talk of the "law" with a revelation of which is being mentioned when it is not clearly stated if what is being referred to is Spirit Law which simply exists eternally and can be written in the heart and mind OR is the Mosaic law which was written down only for physical Israel to keep and came to an end when Yahshua the Messiah died on the cross (Col 2:14):
- Heb 10:1 - "For the law having a shadow of good things to come..." refers to the sacrificial law, the Law of Moses.
- Matt 5:17 - "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Yahshua is making clear that He is coming to complete, end, fulfill the Law of Moses which no one else was ever able to really truly keep.
- Matt 5:18 - "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Yahshua repeating that He will completely fulfill the Mosaic Law which He himself instituted. For more on this topic of fulfillment click here.
- Matt 11:13 - "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John." Here the reference is the Mosaic law which was given to make physical sin apparent (Rom 5:13), to put it under a spotlight and point it out clearly to the nation of Israel. Thus when Yahshua the Messiah, Who is the Holy Spirit, came to fulfill all of that law and provide by His death the perfect sacrifice for sin, of which He never committed even one, for all Mankind that ever lived, there was proof of Who that was Who died on the cross. This proof allows one to receive Yahweh's Holy Spirit by enabling one to come to a knowledge of Yahweh's Purpose (Eph 1:9&10) and by so doing become free from Satan's control. The Law of the Spirit pertains to everything physical or spiritual and is all encompassing, it is that which is powered by the Holy Spirit. The Mosaic Law was merely a physical shadow of Spirit Law in order to allow Israel to fully understand what sin was and to realize that they could not overcome Satan but needed a Saviour who kept the Mosaic Law perfectly and thus provided an atonement for all sin, for all people in all time so that they could be kept safe from Satan through Spirit Law in their souls. Yahshua is Yahweh Elohim in a body and as such is the Holy Spirit Himself, that which keeps all the universe in control and adhering to His plan of providing salvation for His creatures.
- Rom 2:26 - "Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?" This clearly points out that the Mosaic Law provision about circumcision is outweighed by another law which counts as though one is circumcised. Such a better law is the one spoken of in Jeremiah 31:31-34, that Law of the Spirit which can be written only in the hearts and minds of Mankind who have faith in the gospel by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and, furthermore, is required to not be a slave to Satan. Israel, while trying to keep the Mosaic Law, succeeded little because that law was not sufficient to overcome Satan which requires that the Law of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit or Yahshua, must be in our hearts and minds.
- Rom 3:20 - "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight..." refers again to the Law of Moses and makes clear this law does not cause a person to be justified in Yahweh's sight so something else is needed for that.
- Rom 3.27 - "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith." This clearly speaks of another law than the one of physical works (Mosaic Law) and that better law is the eternal Spirit Law.
- Rom 3:28 - "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." Meaning that doing physical works as per the Mosaic Law is not what is required to be justified in one's soul but rather to have Spirit Law in our souls which comes by faith only (Heb 11:6, 1).
- Rom 3:31 - "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law" would be more clearly read: Do we then make void the Mosaic Law through faith? God forbid: yea, rather we acknowledge the Spirit Law (which is much broader and reaching into all creation of which the Mosaic Law was a physical type only.)
- Rom 6:14 & 15 - Speaks of sin no longer having dominion over a soul because of Spirit Law by grace given to believers (receiving the Holy Spirit) and this freedom from sin is not accomplished by the "law", meaning the Mosaic Law, but by the active power of Spirit Law, the Holy Spirit, given by the grace of Yahweh to those who believe on Yahshua.
- Romans 7 - This chapter speaks in a parable about marriage: that the death of the husband leaves the woman free to remarry. It also speaks about the fact that the Mosaic Law did not free a person from sin even if he/she could keep it perfectly although no one but the Messiah ever did that. The point is that the old law, the Mosaic Law, is now dead because it was fulfilled (Luke 24:24:44; Mat 3:15, 5:17 {KJ}) and set aside (Col 2:14) by the death of the Messiah, to be replaced by another law, Spirit Law, which was always in operation even when Abram lied to the king telling him that Sarai was a sister rather than a wife causing Yahweh to send a dream to the king who knew adultery was wrong even though no such law had been given at that time (Gen 12:18).
It is important to know which law is being referred to when you read "the law" in the New testament because by the time that was written the old Mosaic Law had been set aside (Col 2:14) since Yahshua gave His life as a sacrifice to end all sacrifices for those who believe what He did. There are references to the old Mosaic Law and it is important to understand it in order to see the evidence of Who Yahshua was in that specially prepared body: Yahweh in a body. BUT, we are not to keep that old physical Moseic Law any more and instead are governed by Spirit Law through the power of the Holy Spirit in us which is the power of the Law of Yahweh governing the pnysical universe and the spiritual realm.
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