Cast Out the Law

"Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman." (Galatians 4: 30)

The bondwoman is a picture of the law, of the Ten Commandments as well as the ceremonial law.

Critics will counter that we need the law to live godly lives.

The Bible tells us otherwise:

"19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3: 19-20)

and

"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" (Romans 5: 20)

Now, some people will contend that wit the New Covenant, God writes His laws in our hearts and minds.

Yet every man when he is born dead in trespasses already has the Ten Commandments written on their hearts:

"14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) " (Roman 2: 14-15)

The law does not help us, but rather shows us that we are helpless. It does not give us assistance to live life, but rather exposes that we are dead and need life.

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)

Notice that Jesus did not say "I have come to give you  a betters standard or example for living" or "I have come to make your life better", but "I have come that you might have life, and that more abundantly".

Once the law shows us that we are dead, then we are ready to receive Himself, Jesus our way, truth, and life.

Then the law must go:

"24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster." (Galatians 3: 24-25)

and

"In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8: 13)

We are no longer under law, Beloved, but under grace (Romans 6: 11-14), and this grace is the salvation which teaches us to live godly (Titus 2: 11-14)

Cast out the law, and keep receiving God's grace.