Romans 7:4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,t the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 4:13 It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set yout free from the law of sin and death.3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,t God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.t And so he condemned sin in the flesh,4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 9:30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, righteousness that is by faith;31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.33 As it is written:
"See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame."t
Romans 10:2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
Romans 13:8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.9 The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet,"t and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."t10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Messianic Judaism is a syncretic [1] religious movement that arose in the 1960s and 70s.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] It blends evangelical Christian theology with elements of Jewish terminology and ritual.
Messianic Judaism states that Jesus is not merely a man, but the Jewish Messiah and "God the Son" (one person of the Trinity), and that salvation is only achieved through acceptance of Jesus as one's savior. Any Jewish laws or customs that are followed are cultural and do not contribute to attaining salvation. Belief in the messiahship and divinity of Jesus, which Messianic Judaism shares, is viewed by many Christian denominations[ and Jewish religious movements[ as being a defining distinction between Christianity and Judaism.
Galatians 4:4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.t6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out,"Abba ,t Father."7 So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
To this, I would say that Jesus was born under the law, and He was raised under the law. Jesus died under the law, so that His death might redeem those who were slaves to and under the law. Jesus’ death fulfilled the law, which means that the law is no more. To fulfill something means to complete it. Jesus’ death completed the law, which in turn freed man to not live under the law anymore. His resurrection brought about consecration, justification, and sanctification thru God’s grace, not by man’s law.
The original law, given by God to Moses, the 10 commandments, became so twisted and corrupted by man over the centuries that it was no longer the law of God, but of man. Jesus was questioned about which law was the greatest, and He stated two: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your spirit. The second was to love your neighbor as yourself. If we live by these two laws, and we follow them to the best of our ability, then the other 8 will take care of themselves. There will be no need for any other laws, or any misinterpretation of them.
Man began to find loopholes in the 10 commandments, and man decided that more laws needed to be written to cover the loopholes. More loopholes were exploited, and more laws written. Eventually, the whole Judaic law became corrupted by man for man, under the pretense that all these laws were God given laws. Jesus’ birth and subsequent death ended man’s corruption, and brought us out of the pressure of the Pharisee’s and the Sadducee’s thumb, severing the bond of an unjust and tyrannical slave master, and into an the family of God as an adopted son, receiving the full rights and privileges of a true son of God, i.e. Jesus.
Under the Judaeical laws, sanctification and salvation came only thru works by doing the prescriptions set down by the laws. What was forgotten was the promises made by God to Abram, Isaac and Jacob; those promises that did not come to them by fulfilling and upholding the law, but simply by their faith in God.
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