What is the law of Christ? Is there a law of Christ? Many people do not differentiate the law of Christ and other Biblical laws.
The law of Christ is the grace; the New covenant (New Testaments). This law is so much different from all other laws in the Bible. There are only three major laws in the Bible. These are;
- The God laws (the Ten Commandments)
- The Mosaic law and
- The law of Christ.
In the law, I have talked intensively about the first two laws; the Ten Commandments and the Mosaic Law. I have defined what the word law means in the bible and as you have seen the Old Testament is entirely the law. It also contains both the Ten Commandments and the Mosaic Laws.
From the book of Genesis, God is moving to save man from her/his fallen state. He started by giving man His commands (the ten commandments) and then giving Moses the laws referred to as the Mosaic Law. After this two laws then comes the ultimate salvation of man by Jesus Christ on the cross bringing what is referred to as the law of Christ.
New covenant is the Law of Christ
God promised in the book of Jeremiah that He will make a new covenant with the children of Israel and entire world. Realize that when He was saying this He had already given the old covenant which is the law.
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah- not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more (Jeremiah 31:31-34).
It was the Almighty God who stated that He would be giving Israel a new covenant that was not like the old one. In particular, He stated that the old covenant that would be replaced was the one He gave to Israel when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
The old covenant, the law, is grievous and only leading to damnation not salvation. See effects of the law. So there was need for God to change this old covenant and bring a new one. Jesus Christ was and is the author of the new covenant while the old covenant (the law) came through Moses. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (John 1:17).
All laws of the Old Testament including the Ten Commandments come by Moses. The old laws were all abolished on the cross in bringing in the new law, and in and with Jesus Christ the old law (old covenant) is dead and still nailed on the cross. The old had to and has to die for new to be brought out, the purpose of Jesus death. This is exactly what happened on the cross.
Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another–to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful (Romans 7:1-13).
The new Law was delivered to us, not through a man, but by the Son of God Himself. He authored and signed it on the cross with His blood. This is the blood of God which made the seal of the new covenant.
The law Jesus brought was greater than what Moses brought. But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises (Hebrews 8:6).
Because it was brought to us and authored by Jesus, it is then referred to as the law of Christ. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2). In other words, the law of Christ is the New Testament, New covenant, the grace (God’s Riches At Christ Expense). It is this law that Christians live in and under. Not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ (I Corinthians 9:21).
Without Jesus there is no grace, salvation and life. Make a wise decision, repent and accept Him today.
God bless you.
