The question is to understand how the new covenant the law, how and in what form it still valid is whether it still had a meaning, is not rare in Reformed circles.
The Reformation brought the one hand, a return to the Word of God (which itself often is 'law' geannnt) as the only source of knowledge of God's nature and will.
other hand, emphasized the Reformers - Martin Luther probably the most prominent - that the gospel brings freedom from the law and the way the law is not the Who's salvation.
Since the Reformation, the struggle for a proper understanding of the law not ceased and has always found new proponents on both sides.
"The law has no meaning," get some. "The law applies to such . Before ", the other
Actually, the confusion would not be so large that they would only listen to the legislature, promise and fulfillment of the law is - Christ
His most important opinion on the law and its importance in the New Covenant. we find in the Sermon
The Sermon on the Mount did Jesus, to -. first - to describe the nature of the Christians (from 5.1 to 16 Mt), then to show what life will look like the Christian, while the importance of the law added (Mt 5:17 ff)
The connection between these two parts and also the start to the second part of the statement makes 5.17. "Does not that I have come to the law and the prophets dissolve. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill "
Below It then shows as interpreted the law and fulfilled as it must be understood against should he take those who had the most severe form of statutory interpretation... - . the Pharisees
And he says that our Gerechtikgeit - our understanding and living out of the law -.. must be better than that of the Pharisees
Then he sets an example of passages of the law not as the Pharisees and probably the vast majority of his contemporaries . according to the letter, according to the external understanding Rather, he teaches how the law according to the Spirit - that is, as it always be understood should, since it was given - understood and lived.
By Jesus says that He came to fulfill the law, He says two things.
Christ fulfilled the law prophetic and moral.
Prophetic words, He was announced by the law and has now come.
called Moral: He kept the law to the smallest detail, and lived out - in thought, word and deed. So
He also meets in our place as our substitute.
God requires of every man perfect justice, perfect fulfillment of His holy law. Those who do not meet can not have fellowship with God, his sin makes him unable to, it has to be in breach of the just and holy God.
But to whom Christ is the delegate count, that believes the one who stands before God, as he would have kept everything. Christ is held in place and that Christ's perfect righteousness is imputed to him.
If so, the law is fulfilled in the life of this man still in another form. Namely, when Christ fulfilled it constantly in it - by giving him the power and the ability to live it.
The law has in the life of Christians is not the function, for example, the Pharisees and Judaizers, or the Roman Church had been thought, namely that there is a is to make people comfortable with God and that he could earn by keeping the commandments of God as perfect kindness or even his adoption.
But this function, the law was never, not even in the Old Covenant.
The law has three basic functions: mirrors, bars, usually .
mirror means that it points to the sin and drives the sinner to Christ, who saved him from the curse of the law and helps him to live in his mind.
bolt means: it forbids the wrong and keeps out the wrong way.
usually means: It shows the Redeemed, how can he live to the glory of God. That this is already the original intent of the law was particularly evident in the preamble of the commandments (Ex 20.1: "I am the Lord your God who brought you out from slavery ...").
The Duch Christ redeemed the law is not slavishly and keep to the letter, thinking that he is viewed favorably by God, if it is sufficiently good at it.
But he will keep his mind from the relationship with the Father and the power of the Holy Spirit.
But he will keep it.
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