What does it mean to be "freed from the Law"?

Would you be surprised to know that the Bible doesn't actually ever state this?

Certainly there are sections of Scripture that discuss Law and the ways we now relate to it under the New Covenant in Jesus Christ. And, certainly, those sections do reflect a difference in HOW we relate to that same Law. But nowhere in Scripture does it say that we are FREED from obedience or rules or that God has no expectation of us as Christians.

So what DOES the Bible say?

When thinking about this, we have to ask ourselves - what do we even MEAN by this question?

I can't imagine finding ANY Christian who would state that we're freed from the Law meaning we are now free to sin at will. Most often, I see people interpreting these passages about Law as meaning we are freed from CERTAIN laws that seem outdated or overtly Jewish in nature.

Is THIS what the Bible means?

Next, we have to ask ourselves: what does the Bible mean by Law?

This might seem like an obvious question but.. it really isn't. Did Paul mean that Jesus had eased off the burden of Roman law in Israel? Did he mean the 10 commandments are no longer valid? What about the Oral vs. Written Law?

In this episode we take a look at what the Bible ACTUALLY says about Law because.. these sections can get really complicated.

Legalists will often accuse mainstream Christians of anti-nomianism (being against the Law). Other Christians even HEAR the word Law and accuse someone of being legalistic.

This episode seeks to take the Bible at its word, reject extremist viewpoints, and make sense of some confusing concepts in the Bible. When we do this we should be able to ease ourselves of cognitive dissonance.

Christians live as if there are moral standards that God, in His goodness, legislates, but to hear the word Law sounds too restrictive to many people.

Let's ease that tension.

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In the Gospels, we get an account of Jesus overturning tables and driving out the money changers. He calls them a den of thieves which, to most readers, tells us that the thing He's angry about is their dishonest business dealings.

They must be taking advantage of the poor, buying and selling unfairly, and extorting those who can't help but fall prey to them. Right?

Kind of.

Jesus isn't just arbitrarily calling them a den of thieves, and He doesn't arbitrarily decide to state that the temple was meant to be a house of prayer for all peoples.

These are verses from Jeremiah and Isaiah, respectively, that we can read for ourselves to understand the context with which Jesus is speaking.

In both sections of Jeremiah and Isaiah, God is displeased with Israel's treatment of the foreigner and stranger who is attempting to draw near to God.

In the Gospels, it helps us to know that Jesus is overturning the tables OUTSIDE OF the Court of the Gentiles.

Who is being extorted? Who is being cheated to make a profit? The same people that Israel has always mistreated - those to whom they were supposed to be bringing the light of God as a model nation - the Gentiles.

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In the book of Isaiah we get to read an amazing prophecy about the coming Messiah. When we line this prophecy up with the events of Jesus's life they fit to a point of precision that should amaze us and YET, it would have been so obscure to reader's in Isaiah's (or even Jesus's time) that to believe the events of Jesus's life were fabricated to REPLICATE this prophecy also doesn't seem very likely.

As awesome as it is that this prophecy stands as a cool proof text for Jesus as Messiah, something literarily occurs in this chapter that really stood out to me - the tense changes mid prophecy.

Instead of Isaiah saying, "He WILL come," he speaks as if He HAS come. Instead of Isaiah saying, He SHALL bear our sins," he speaks as if he HAS borne them already. At a certain point, he does switch to future tense. Why?

What can we learn from this interesting little piece of information? Why would Isaiah write a prophecy about the Messiah that actually reads BETTER for someone living during our time than someone living in his own?

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