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Sadly many people think that the scripture in Jeremiah 31:31-34 ("I will write my laws in their hearts..."), and then Hebrew's quoting of it, is referring to the Ten Commandments / Law of Moses, when it doesn't say that at all. In fact, the law is called "the ministry of death" and "the ministry of condemnation" (2 Cor 3:7-9), and Paul says that the purpose of the law is to shut mouths and make people guilty (Rom 3:19). The passage says that God will remember their sins no more - which is the opposite of what happened through the law. Paul says the law is the strength of sin (1 Cor 15:56) and that the law entered so that sin might abound (Rom 5:20).
Because of all this - because the law was "against us" and "contrary to us" (Col 2:14) - Paul writes that the law was "wiped out," "taken out of the way" and "nailed to the cross" (also Col 2:14). He says in Ephesians 2:15 that the law of commandments was "abolished in His (Jesus') flesh." On top of all this, the very passage in Hebrews in which the passage from Jeremiah is quoted says that it was made obsolet3 (Heb 8:13), and it says that the New Covenant is "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers" (the Old Covenant law).
So the law written in our hearts is not the law of Moses / Ten Commandments. That would be God writing the ministry of death, condemnation, guilt and bondage in the hearts of people, and it would go against the entire New Covenant!
The "laws" that are not according to the Old Covenant are the "law of faith" (Rom 3:27) and the "law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus," which has "made me free from the law of sin and death" (Rom 8:2). In Christ we live "by faith" (Gal 2:20), and we know that the law of Moses is "not of faith" (Gal 3:12) and again we know that the law of sin and death (and guilt, bondage and condemnation) is the law of Moses.
So this is really is a new Covenant! It really is a "new and living way!" It's nothing like the Old. It doesn't derive anything from the Old. It's completely new, as in, "of a new kind, unprecedented." It's something that has never been before. By default and by definition it cannot be based upon the Law of Moses / the Ten Commandments. The Old has gone and the New has come!
From: Joel Brueseke (FB post 1-28-2022)
Freedom in Christ Movement
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The Greater Glory of the New Covenant
2Cor 3:7-9
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
9 If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!
Because of all this - because the law was "against us" and "contrary to us" (Col 2:14) - Paul writes that the law was "wiped out," "taken out of the way" and "nailed to the cross" (also Col 2:14). He says in Ephesians 2:15 that the law of commandments was "abolished in His (Jesus') flesh." On top of all this, the very passage in Hebrews in which the passage from Jeremiah is quoted says that it was made obsolet3 (Heb 8:13), and it says that the New Covenant is "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers" (the Old Covenant law).
So the law written in our hearts is not the law of Moses / Ten Commandments. That would be God writing the ministry of death, condemnation, guilt and bondage in the hearts of people, and it would go against the entire New Covenant!
The "laws" that are not according to the Old Covenant are the "law of faith" (Rom 3:27) and the "law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus," which has "made me free from the law of sin and death" (Rom 8:2). In Christ we live "by faith" (Gal 2:20), and we know that the law of Moses is "not of faith" (Gal 3:12) and again we know that the law of sin and death (and guilt, bondage and condemnation) is the law of Moses.
So this is really is a new Covenant! It really is a "new and living way!" It's nothing like the Old. It doesn't derive anything from the Old. It's completely new, as in, "of a new kind, unprecedented." It's something that has never been before. By default and by definition it cannot be based upon the Law of Moses / the Ten Commandments. The Old has gone and the New has come!
From: Joel Brueseke (FB post 1-28-2022)
Freedom in Christ Movement
=============================
The Greater Glory of the New Covenant
2Cor 3:7-9
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,
8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
9 If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!
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