PART 4:
If the Law is past, why does God repeatedly tell us to fulfil it?
Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled <in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
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PART 5:
If the Law is past, why is there a blessing for keeping it?
James 1:25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Romans 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
John 14:21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
1 John 2:7 Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
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PART 6:
If the Law is past, why is Jesus still using it to teach and bring light and understanding after His death and resurrection?
Luke 24:27 Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted for them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me.
Act 3:18 But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer
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PART 7:
Why does Paul say his teachings establish the law, if it is no longer applicable to Christians?
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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