The Spirit of the Law

Law of G-d is as it always has been holy, just, good, and spiritual (Rom. 7:12-14)
The underlying idea of Law, as it is used in the Bible, is that of teaching and instruction. Law is G-d’s revelation of Himself to mankind.
The underlying idea of Law is that of teaching and instruction. Law is G-d instructing His people that they may know how to live in a moral and ethical way, pleasing unto Him, and at peace with our fellow man.
Both Y’Shua and Paul taught that believers should be guided by the Spirit of G-d to9 fulfill the Law through faith and love. Although Y’Shua fulfilled the ceremonial or sacrificial part of the Law by dying on the cross, we still see the principles of the Law, such as the priesthood and the atonement, evidence today in the ministry of the church. In short, the manifestation has changed, but the spirit of the Law that exposes sin and produces light and life is the center of N. T. teaching.
All the letters of Paul’s were addressed to predominantly Gentile congregations, the Hebrews understood what Paul was saying but the Gentiles were coming out of occults and confused to what it all meant.
Y’Shua as a Jew was faithful to the Law! Paul’s letters were written to straighten out problems of his Gentile converts, who were not familiar with the ways or Laws of G-d, to the casual reader they sometimes give the appearance that he was against he Law of G-d.
Actually, Paul only directs his seemingly negative comments concerning the Law towards two groups:
1. Those non-Jews who thought needed to keep the Law for salvation.
2. Some fundamentalist Jews who tried to make it a prerequisite that non-Jews who tried to make it a prerequisite that non-Jews must keep the Law for salvation.
Which Law makes you feel uncomfortable? The Laws or instructions only condemns Law- breakers.
To Paul the Law was the Word of G-d, he was a Pharisee and he certainly did not intend to start a new religion that opposed Scripture. Paul’s heated arguments that appear to be directed against the Law by those who were putting his Gentile congregations in bondage by teach that the Law was for salvation. The teaching that that the Law of G-d was superseded by or in opposition to the grace of G-d did not originate with Paul, for he himself followed all of the Law.
Lk. 16:16 “Did not the NT say that the Law and the prophets were only until John?” What it was saying is simply stating that the Law and the prophets until John was all the Scripture there was at that time.
Often Y’Shua went beyond the letter of the Law and instructed His disciples in the spirit of the Law. What was Paul’s intent when he taught that the letter of the Law kills? It is obvious that he did not mean the Law of G-d is bad and will put one in bondage, as is suggested by these words today. Paul kept the Law and encouraged Jews everywhere to do the same (1 Cor. 7:18). Remember this statement was written to the Gentiles at Corinth, never to Jewish believers (2 Cor. 3:6).
The purpose being that the very intent of the Law is to expose and define sin. For the Gentile converts to try to keep a Jewish lifestyle without the godly disciplined background, it would become a bondage that was neither necessary nor proper. In this text Paul said the letter of the Law kills, but he went on to point out that the spirit of the Law gives life. (Rom. 8:2-4).
The highest service to which a man may attain on earth is to preach the Law of G-d!
The most significant tribute to G-d’s Law comes from the Saviour when He said, whosoever does and teaches the Law will be great in the Kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 5:19).
Even in the last days:
Isa. 2:6 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the L-RD, to the house of the G-d of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the L-RD from Jerusalem.
Mic. 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the L-RD, and to the house of the G-d of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the L-RD from Jerusalem.
Rom. 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before G-d, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Rom. 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou G-d?
G-d being a perfect G-d, had to give a perfect Law, and the Law was given not to save men, but to measure them.
1 Tim. 1:8 the misunderstood phrase The curse of the Law as well as similar terms such as the bondage of the Law, works of the Law, and under the Law could better be understood as the curse of the Word of G-d that comes to those who violate G-d’s Law. There is no curse of the Law on anyone, except as Paul said, those who misuse it. Remember, the phrases under the Law and works of the Law were only used by Paul when addressing Gentile congregations. Paul clearly taught that the Law properly understood was ‘holy, just, and good in Rom. 7:12. Paul’s statements referred to those who were in subjection to the system that perverted the Law into legalism.
The Hebrew did not recognize Paul as an apostle for he did not meet the requirements; Paul himself calls himself an ‘apostle to the Gentiles.’ Later he uses the turn New Covenant to describe his gentile converts, adding that they too were the Israel of G-d in Gal. 6:16.
In the fight as to how much of the 613 Oral Laws were these Gentile converts were to keep, came up the 7 Noachide Laws, plus the 10 written Laws, with the Oral laws comes out to 613. The covenant with the Jews was for them to keep the Law of Moses as a lifestyle of the godly to set them apart from the other nations. The Noachide Laws were taken from the moral and spiritual principles derived basically from Gen. 9:4-7, among other text, that gave instructions to avoid pagan practices and serve the true G-d, they were to be recognized as G-d fearers. All the 613 Laws can be found in the Torah; it is quite an enlighten study and shows how all churches and Hebrew places have put fences around the original Laws.
Christian writers had begun to teach that the Law had been fulfilled by the coming of the Messiah. By misusing the word ‘fulfilled’ they defined this to mean it was abolished or cancelled, which was exactly opposite the teaching of Y’Shua in Matt. 5:18-19. The word ‘fulfill’ meant to keep the Law and correctly interpret its teachings. Paul said in Gal. 6:2; Rom. 13:10 ‘fulfill the Law meant one should fulfill the Law through love and doing for others – which is the spirit of the Law.
Peter says Paul wrote some things which are hard to understand and when in the hands of those unlearned in the Scripture and unstable are often twisted to their own destruction. (2 Pet. 3:15-16). Those unlearned were unaware of the Jewishness of the Scriptures and culture in which Paul wrote.
To often we just take what a preacher says, believing he was taught truth, but many times they too have not see the whole Bible as a Jewish book, through the eyes and culture of the Hebrews. 2 Tim. 2:15 says to study to show thyself approve –
Don’t even take my word for it - look it up for yourself.
Matt. 5:18-19 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.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Isa. 5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the L-RD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Matt. 25:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Bottom line: If you only had the Torah and the Gospels you have it all – everything else is commentary.

My college prophesier wrote a hand book on the Spirit of the Law, I have taken from there and paraphrased it, just pulling out some of the golden nuggets. His name was by PHD Ron Moseley