Hello everybody, it's MinisterTol23 back with another video. In this video I want to talk about the subject of being under the law.
Now the phrase under the law is used several times in the New Testament and it is something that is very commonly misused, which is very commonly twisted and preached wrong by people.
People will kind of just use this as an excuse to sin and to justify iniquity and say that there's no obligation to keep God's commandments in the New Testament.
They'll say, well we're not under the law, that means that you can't, or you don't have to obey the Old Testament commandments of God, etc.
Or that you don't have to obey any commandments of God, that we can just live however we want and there's no consequence for sin.
And this is how people will use the phrase under the law in this day and age.
There's this movement out there called the hyper-grace movement. It's attributed to people who also might be called antinomians, meaning people who are against the law.
And saying that, well because we're saved by grace that means that nothing you do has any repercussions at all and you can just live however you want in the New Testament and God just forgives every sin regardless of what you do.
Now, again when it comes to salvation, this is true. If you believe in Jesus Christ, you're going to heaven no matter what.
But believing in Jesus Christ is when you're born again. That's when you become a child of God, but in order to grow, in order to have a relationship with God, you have to actually obey his commandments.
And the New Testament clearly teaches that we should abstain from the lusts of the flesh and from wicked sins like fornication and idolatry and covetousness.
And I mean there's plenty of scriptures in the New Testament against these sort of things and yet people will try to use not being under the law but under grace as an excuse to just live however they want.
And teach that anything goes basically in the New Testament.
Now some of these people who teach this doctrine are false prophets.
In the book of Jude it talks about ungodly men who are crept and unaware as it says they turn the grace of God into lasciviousness. What is lasciviousness? It's the lusts of the flesh.
People who use grace as an excuse for the lusts of the flesh. The Bible says those men are ordained of old to condemnation and they deny the Lord God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
So there are many people who are pastors who preach this who say, well we're saved by grace so that means you can just live however you want, there's no consequences.
I believe those people are false prophets. But then there's also genuine Christians, people who are actually saved who fall into this heresy, who are deceived by these false prophets.
And one example is a brother in Christ, I believe he's a brother in Christ, who was coming to our church for a while. He actually got saved by listening to the gospel from a member of our church.
But very recently, in the last week, he started uploading videos on YouTube attacking our church and attacking the new IFB and accusing us of trying to bring people under the law because we preach against sin or because we say there's consequences for sin.
And so this YouTube channel, Graceful Messenger, I found his videos very recently and he's been attacking us and attacking our church. I tried correcting him on it and he just blocked me.
So this is something I already wanted to talk about on this channel because it's been a long time coming but it's very important to understand what being under the law means because very few people really understand what it means.
Now in a nutshell, in the beginning of this video, I will say being under the law has to do with the Old Testament versus the New Testament.
The fact that we're not under the law but under grace means that we are not under the Old Testament, the Old Covenant.
But we are in the New Covenant. And so it has nothing to do with what of God's commandments you should or shouldn't keep with the exception of the commandments which are specifically for the Old Testament for the children of Israel.
And I'll get to that in more detail, explain that later in this video.
So first of all, I want to explain that according to the Bible, the phrase law has several definitions.
You'll see the term law used in several different ways and people will kind of just assume that it always means God's commandments but I'm going to show you at the beginning that that is not the case.
First of all, there are several times in the New Testament where it uses the phrase law and it's actually referring to just the Old Testament scriptures.
So Genesis through Malachite, where it's talking about what we would call the law and the prophets and sometimes in the New Testament it shortens that to just the law.
Here's a few examples. John 10 34, Jesus answered them,
It is not written, or is it not written in your law, I said, hear God's.
Now this is not talking about the law of Moses, because that's a quote from the book of Psalms.
So I believe that this is a shortening of the phrase law and the prophets and we'll see this in Matthew chapter 5 also, verses 17 to 18.
Jesus said, Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets, I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.
For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Now this is not talking about the covenant and it's not talking about the commandments of God, it's talking about the actual writings of the Old Testament scriptures.
We know this because in verse 17 he says law and the prophets, he just switches this up and shortens this to law in verse 18.
But he also talks about the tittle and the jot, which in our English language we would say like crossing the t and dotting the i.
He's saying that nothing from the law, meaning the Old Testament scriptures, shall pass away till all be fulfilled.
Again we know that this isn't talking about the commandments because as the New Testament teaches there is a change in the law from the Old Testament to the New Testament.
There are certain commandments in the New Testament that we don't have to keep.
So this is talking about the actual writings of the Old Testament scriptures, he's teaching the preservation of God's word.
So here are two very clear examples where he uses the phrase law and he's talking about the Old Testament scriptures, Genesis through Malachi.
But then when it comes to being under the law, the Bible clearly teaches that this is talking about the covenant.
I'm going to read many scriptures on this because the phrase under the law does appear several times, like seven or eight times.
And every single time it's talking about being under the Old Testament or the Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments, which the Bible defines as the Old Covenant.
So in Romans 3.19 it says, Now we know that what thinks 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.
2 Corinthians 3 verse 6 to 9, pay attention to these words, Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
But if the ministration of death, written in a graven in stones, so notice how it defines this ministration of death as that which is written in a graven in stones, right?
Was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away.
How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
So we know what it's talking about because of the fact that he clearly says that which is written in a graven in stones and it references Moses' face shining and the children of Israel not being able to behold the glory shining on his face.
That's when Moses was given the Ten Commandments, the two tables of stones upon which the covenant was written.
And the Bible says three times that the old covenant, the conditions of the old covenant are the Ten Commandments.
It says in Exodus 34 verse 28,
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights, he did neither eat bread nor drink water, and he wrote upon the tables,
so again, these tables of stone, that which was written in a graven in stones, the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 4 verse 13,
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy 10 verse 4,
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them unto me.
So the Bible says three different times that this covenant, that which was written in stone, was the Ten Commandments.
So that which is given in Exodus chapter 20, and then repeated in Deuteronomy chapter 5.
That is the old covenant, the Old Testament.
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 3, which I read earlier, that that is what is the ministration of death.
That is what the ministration of condemnation is.
That which is written in a graven in stones, the old covenant.
Now it says in Hebrews 8 verse 13,
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.
So we know that in the New Testament, because there is a New Testament, a new covenant, that means that the old covenant is done away with.
So now that we're in the new covenant, that means the old covenant is what has vanished away.
Which is specifically talking about the Ten Commandments.
Now it says in Galatians chapter 3.
Galatians 3 and 4 is what gives us more information about what being under the law means.
You've got to pay attention to all these words here.
It says in Galatians 3 verse 21 to 25,
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid.
For if there had been a law, given which could have given life,
Verily righteousness should have been by the law.
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith, which should afterwards be revealed.
Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
So the Bible says, before we were under the law, under that schoolmaster, which was supposed to bring us to Christ,
and now that faith has come, we are no longer under the schoolmaster.
Meaning we're not under the law, which is also stated in Romans chapter 6, which I'll get to later.
But then it continues with more information in Galatians chapter 4.
It says in verse 1,
Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all,
but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, maid of a woman, maid under the law,
to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
And because of your sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of a son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Wherefore, thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
So the Bible teaches, again, that Jesus Christ came into this world to, one of the reasons was to redeem those that were under the law.
Right? So, again, under the schoolmaster, under the Old Testament.
Okay? Now, again, it defines what this means later in the chapter. Galatians 4, verse 21 to 25.
Tell me ye that desire to be under the law.
Do ye not hear the law?
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman was by promise.
Which things are an allegory? For these are the two covenants.
Okay? What is it talking about? It's talking about the covenants.
The one from the Mount Sinai which genderth the bondage, which is Agar.
So what is the bondage that was talked about in Galatians chapter 4?
Where it talks about that God sent his son to redeem them that were under the law.
Right? That we were under bondage under the elements of the world until Jesus Christ came.
What is it talking about when it's talking about this bondage?
It's talking about the covenant, the old covenant.
Okay? The Ten Commandments in particular, that which is written and engraven in stones.
Okay? It says in verse 25,
For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answerth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Okay? So, not being under the law means we're not under the old covenant.
Okay? That the old covenant was given until the time of Christ, but then when Christ came,
the old covenant was done away with, as we read in Hebrews chapter 8,
that means that now that we're in the new covenant, that the old is ready to vanish away.
Okay? That's what it's talking about.
Okay? So when the Bible says we're not under the law, it means we're not under that which is written and engraven in stones.
We're not under the old covenant. We're not under that covenant which God made with Israel.
But does this mean that we have no obligation to follow God's commandments or to obey what he says, to obey his rules?
Okay? Does not being under the law mean that we should just live however we want, there's no consequences for sin? Absolutely not.
It's so funny that people will just repeat this phrase, under the law, under the law, under the law, we're not under the law, we're under grace.
But then they don't even read the scripture where it says that.
It says in Romans chapter 6, they don't even consider what it says.
Romans chapter 6 verse 14, for sin should not have dominion over you, for you're not under the law, but under grace.
That means that, you know, you can't quote the Old Testament.
That means you can't, you know, say that we have to keep God's commandments, that you can't say that we should live this way or that way.
That you shouldn't put rules on people. That's not what that means.
It says what then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid.
Okay? Now let me stop right there. Okay?
The Bible defines sin in 1 John 3 verse 4 as the transgression of the law.
Whosoever committh sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law.
So that is the definition of sin according to the Bible. Okay?
And then it also says in Romans 4.15, because the law worketh wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression. Right?
What is it saying? It's saying that if there is no law, then you can't transgress that law.
Okay? If no law existed, then how would you be able to transgress it?
Now the Bible says that sin is the transgression of the law.
But it also says in Romans 6, which we just read, shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid.
This would be a meaningless statement if there was no commandments for us to follow in the New Testament. Okay?
Because by definition, sin is the transgression of the law.
So what is it saying? Shall we transgress the law because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid. Okay?
What is Paul saying? Because Paul knows, you know, of course he was led by the Spirit, God, because it's the word of God.
God knows before time that there are people who are going to twist this phrase, under the law, to mean that we can't, or that we shouldn't follow God's commandments. Right?
But he specifically says, shall we transgress the law because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid.
Now the Bible says where there is no law, there is no transgression. So how are you going to transgress the law if there is no law? Right?
So not being under the law doesn't mean that there is no law. Not being under the law means that there are no rules.
Not being under the law means you're not under the old covenant. Okay? That you're in the new covenant. That's what it means by the law. Okay?
There's three definitions of law in the Bible. Okay? The Old Testament scriptures, I showed you that. The covenant, I showed you that from Galatians.
And the actual commandments of God. Okay? It says in Romans 3 verse 31, do we then make void the law through faith?
God forbid, yea we establish the law. Okay? Paul is saying we don't make void, meaningless, empty, destroy, you don't get rid of the law just because we're not justified by the law.
And that's where people have this error. They say, well we're not justified by the law, you know, we're not under the old covenant, so that just means that we can just live however we want and that there's no commandments or rules for us to follow.
That is false. The Bible says we do not make void the law through faith, we establish the law. That's what Paul says. Right after he said we're not justified by the law, he said we establish the law. Okay?
Romans 6, and it's also funny that even in the context of that statement, we are not under the law but under grace, there's several scriptures which clearly state that we should live a life of righteousness and holiness. Okay?
Romans chapter 6 verse 12, okay, so again just a few verses before he says we're not under the law but under grace. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lust thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
And then right after verse 15 where it says shall we sin because we're not under the law but under grace, God forbid, he continues, he says know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness.
But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh, for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now, yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
So it's so funny how people will just quote this phrase, we're not under the law but under grace, like a parrot, just like the people who say judge not, judge not, judge not, but then they don't read the five verses after that which show that they're interpreting that wrong.
But then people will quote, oh we're not under the law but under grace, but literally the whole context of the scripture says don't yield your members to uncleanness, don't yield yourself to iniquity, be righteous, be holy, yield yourself unto God, submit unto God, don't let sin reign in your body.
Now again, if there was no law there would be no transgression, so not being under the law doesn't mean there's no commandments, doesn't mean that we could just live however we want.
That just means that we're not under the old covenant.
So, yes there is a change from the old testament to the new testament because we're in a different covenant.
The agreement made between God and the children of Israel and the specific rules and ordinances that it gave to them, we are not to follow or we don't have to follow in the new testament.
As it says in Hebrews 7 verse 12, for the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Now again, he doesn't say the law is done away with, he doesn't say the law is abolished, he doesn't say that the law is gone, that there is no law, he says that there is a change of the law.
Now how can there be a change of the law if the law is just done away with?
And we already saw that the Bible says in Romans 3.31, yea we established the law, talking about the commandments now.
I know it's kind of confusing because the word law has several different definitions but you have to read the context and rightly divide the word of truth.
And then it also says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 15, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contain in ordinances for to make himself of quain one new man, so making peace.
So what are the things which are abolished in the new testament? The things which are contained in ordinances.
As it says again in the book of Hebrews, there is a change also in the law, it gives more detail in Hebrews chapter 9 where it says that the meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances were imposed on them until the time of reformation.
So the new testament specifically tells us what things we aren't supposed to follow or don't need to follow in the new testament.
It tells us circumcision, the sacrifices, the Levitical priesthood, it talks about the meats and the drinks, the dietary laws, the divers washings.
It talks about the Sabbaths and Colossians and the holy days and the new moons.
These are all the things which are specifically mentioned as not being binding in the new testament, as being part of the old covenant.
That's what Paul preaches against in the book of Galatians. That's where he says, he's having trouble with the Galatians who are eating as do the Jews, it talks about in Galatians chapter 2 and then Galatians chapter 5 of how they're trying to be circumcised.
That's the problem with the Galatians. The problem with the Galatians is not they're saying preach the gospel, live righteously, don't commit adultery, that's not what the problem is.
Paul teaches those things himself. He is criticizing them and he is preaching against the Galatians because of the fact that they're trying to bring people under the old covenant.
Galatians 4, the two covenants, Agar and Rebekah, the children of the bondwoman and the children of the free woman.
But now Rebekah, Sarah, sorry.
So, again, this has to do with the covenants, this doesn't have to do with the rules that we're to follow.
The old covenant had specific things in it, like the carnal ordinances, the circumcision, that sort of stuff.
The Bible teaches that in the new testament that stuff is gone, that stuff is done away with. We don't have to follow that stuff.
But that doesn't mean that there's no commandments for us to follow in the new testament.
Let me show you a ton of scriptures right now where Paul and other apostles clearly teach that we, as God's people, should live righteously and should obey God's commandments in the new testament.
Galatians chapter 5 is a perfect example. This Brandon guy who made these videos, who was attacking our church, he kept calling it the Galatians era.
You're bringing people under the law because you're saying that they should do this or do that or that there's consequences for sin.
Well, our church doesn't teach that you have to be circumcised and have to keep the Sabbath or anything like that, so that's not the Galatian era.
If you actually read the book of Galatians, which apparently he hasn't, he's probably read like two chapters of it, but hasn't read the rest of it.
If you actually read it, the bondage which Paul keeps bringing up is trying to get people circumcised.
Like in the beginning of Galatians chapter 5 where he says, stand in the liberty wherewith Christ hath called you and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage, I'm paraphrasing.
Then he says, behold, I Paul say unto you, if any of you be circumcised, you are deader to keep the whole law.
So the bondage that Paul is talking about is circumcision. The bondage that he's talking about is living as do the Jews, living as the old covenant.
The bondage is not saying, well, you know, don't commit fornication, don't drink, don't do this, don't do that.
But that's what these foolish hyper-gracers think that being under the law means, or not being under the law and being under grace.
There's no consequence for sinning, you could just live however you wanted. If you say that anything's wrong, then you're trying to bring people under the law.
Here's what Paul says in Galatians chapter 5 verse 19.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these.
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, miseditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like.
All of which I tell you before, as I've also told you in time path, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
If you know the context, he says if you walk in the Spirit, you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
So Paul is literally telling Galatians, walk in the Spirit, and he says, if you do that, you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
He lists the lust of the flesh, the works of the flesh, in verses 19 to 21 as all these wicked sins.
So, Paul preaching against the Galatians, trying to bring themself under the law, is not saying, well, adultery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variants, murders, all this kind of stuff is fine.
That's not what he's saying. He's not saying that you can just do whatever you want. There's no consequences. He's saying, don't get circumcised because Christ will profit you nothing.
He's saying, don't live as do the Jews because we're not under the old covenant. That's what the book of Galatians is actually about.
The same thing has to do with all of God's commandments. It's just a complete lie.
What about in Galatians chapter 6, where he says, be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth through his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth through the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
So the Bible teaches very clearly that if you sow to your flesh, you're going to reap corruption.
Don't walk in the flesh. Don't fulfill the lust of the flesh. This is what Paul is saying. He's not saying you can just do whatever you want with no consequences.
Galatians chapter 3 verse 5, another commandment from the Apostle Paul.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry, for which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience,
in which also ye walked some time when ye lived in them, but now ye also put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Titus 2 verse 11, for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world,
looking for that blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God the Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
So again, the Bible clearly teaches that because of the fact that we have the grace of God, because of the fact that we're under Christ, it doesn't mean that we should just live an unrighteous life.
He says the grace of God teaches you that you should live unrighteous, I'm sorry, not live unrighteously, but that you should deny unrighteousness, you should deny worldly lust, but you should live soberly, righteously, and godly.
So that's what we're saying, and that's what a Christian should teach, to live soberly, righteously, and godly, because that's what the grace of God teaches us, and Jesus didn't just die for us just to save us, but the Bible also says he died for us to purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
So we as Christians should be zealous of good works. Here's another scripture, where Jesus said in Matthew 5 verse 19,
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
So if somebody is teaching against the commandments of God, and complaining about, oh you're bringing us under bondage by saying there's all these rules we have to follow,
according to the Bible, if that's you, if you break those commandments that Jesus has given, like the commandments he gave on the Sermon on the Mount, which is what he's specifically referring to,
and if you teach men to break those commandments, you'll be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
That doesn't mean that you're not saved, because you're still in the kingdom of heaven, but I mean, if I were you, I would obey God, because I want rewards in heaven, right?
So that's the thing about these people, that they don't understand that there's more to life than just being saved.
Once you're saved, there's other stuff that God wants you to do, and if you obey him, and you serve, and you keep his commandments, not only will you be blessed in this life, but you will receive rewards in the kingdom of heaven.
Another scripture, John 14 verse 15, if you love me, keep my commandments. John 15 verse 10, if you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.
First John 2, 4, he that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
So you don't know God if you don't keep his commandments, according to the Bible.
Again, that doesn't mean that you're not saved, but let the Bible define itself.
God knows you if you're saved, but according to the Bible, if you don't keep his commandments, you don't know God.
You are ignorant of the things of God.
First John chapter 5 verse 2 to 3, by this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.
Second John verse 6, and this is love that we walk after his commandments.
This is the commandment that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
So, a ton of scriptures where the Bible says, do God's commandments.
If you love God, keep his commandments. If you know God, keep his commandments.
So by somebody saying, well there's no rules for us to follow because we're not under the law.
They misinterpret and misrepresent what that means.
They're basically saying they don't love God and they don't know God.
That's what it sounds like to me because the Bible says if you don't keep God's commandments, you're a liar.
If you say that you know God and you love God.
The person who loves God is the person who does what he says.
The person who loves Jesus Christ is the person who does what he says.
And those who, yes they might be saved, but they are living in sin and excusing sin and saying that we don't have to follow the law.
Those people are wicked people and I believe we should stay away from them.
As Paul warns in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 to have no company with a brother who is a fornicator, a railer, extortion or idolatry, etc.
And also in 2 Thessalonians 3 where he said to have no company with a man who is disorderly and refuses to work.
And also in Romans chapter 16 where he says to mark and avoid somebody who makes offenses contrary to the doctrine which he has learned.
So according to the Bible we should stay away from these people who are teaching these false doctrines and excusing sin.
And like I said at the beginning, many of these people who teach this stuff are just false prophets, ungodly men, crept in unawares.
Who just really just hate God and who just love unrighteousness and so they just use the grace of God as an excuse.
Now again, somebody who believes in Jesus Christ, if they believe they have the grace of God.
And the Bible says where sin did abound, grace did much more abound.
So thank God for the grace of God, but the Bible says, shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid.
How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer than rain?
So if you think that God's grace means that you should just live in sin.
If you think that God's grace means that you should just live a worldly life and just do whatever you want and there's no consequences, then you're deceiving yourself.
The Bible says the grace of God teaches us that denying ungodliness worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteous and ungodly in this present world.
That's the New Testament.
So, in conclusion, in summary, what does it mean that we're not under the law?
It's very simple.
Because, I mean, Galatians explains it.
It means, in the Old Testament, there was a covenant that God made with the children of Israel.
In the New Testament, there was a covenant which God makes with all believers.
The Old Covenant is the bondage.
The Old Covenant is what's called the law, which is specifically that Ten Commandments, which is written in graven and stones.
That was the condition that God said, if you do these things, in Exodus chapter 19, then you will be a peculiar people, you will be my people.
But, according to the Bible, that's administration of death.
And so in the New Testament, which is in Christ's blood, the Old Covenant is done away with.
It's abolished. So we're not under that same covenant that the children of Israel were under.
But does that mean that we should just not obey God's rules?
Does that mean that God has no rules?
No. Because there's many references in the New Testament to the commandments, as I just read.
There's many references in the New Testament to obeying the Lord and to not fulfill the lust of the flesh
and to abstain from things like adultery, fornication, drunkenness, lasciviousness, hatred, idolatry, railing, extortion, covetousness, all these things.
God is still against all these things.
And somebody who says, well you're trying to bring us under the law because you say you can't do X, Y, and Z,
that person is either just an extremely wicked person or they're ignorant of the Bible.
Now, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to this man who I called out on my channel previously,
previously in this video it is,
I'm getting the benefit of the doubt that he isn't wicked, well maybe he is wicked because he's just railing against us and lying,
but that he's just ignorant of the Bible.
Because anybody who reads the book of Galatians can come to this conclusion.
If you read Galatians chapter 1 to 4, you can understand what not being under the law means
because it specifically says that it's the two covenants.
That the children of the bond woman, the bondage is the old covenant.
The Mount Sinai, right?
That's what it's talking about.
It's not talking about what Jesus said, go and preach the gospel to every creature,
so if you say that you should go soul-ending that means that you're bringing us under the law.
That was never even part of the law.
God commanding that, that happened after Jesus rose from the dead.
According to, I'm going off on kind of a tangent here, but according to the book of Hebrews,
when Jesus Christ died on the cross, that's when the New Testament began.
So when Jesus rose from the dead, we were under the New Testament.
And that's when Jesus said, go ye into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature.
So how is that bringing people under the law?
By saying you should obey a commandment which is in the New Testament.
It's just foolishness.
And literally in the book of Galatians, the last two chapters, Paul says,
don't walk in the flesh, walk in the spirit.
And if you walk in the flesh, you're going to reap corruption.
He warns against sin.
And so many other scriptures in the New Testament teach that we should obey God's commandments,
live a righteous and live a holy life.
Yet these wicked people and these liars will attack us for teaching the commandments of God
and teaching that we should live righteously.
So, hopefully this video has made sense.
You know, it's kind of all over the place, but hopefully it made sense.
Just understand, not being under the law means we're not under the old covenant.
It has nothing to do with whether we should obey God's commandments.
According to the New Testament, we should obey God's commandments.
And if you sin willfully, after that you've received the knowledge of truth,
there are nayeth no more sacrifices of sins,
of judgment and fire and indignation which shall devour the adversaries.
Don't be surprised if you're born again when God judges your life
and punishes you and chastises you if you commit sin.
You say, well, I'm not under the law, so I can just do whatever I want.
No, no, that's not what that means.
It means you don't have to get circumcised and you don't have to keep the Sabbath
and do all these Jewish customs,
but that doesn't mean that you can just commit adultery and fornication
and drink and smoke and just do whatever
and just refuse to read the Bible and refuse to go soul winning
and just refuse to go to church and all these kind of things.
Those things are New Testament commandments.
So thank you everybody for watching.
God bless you and goodbye.