Here is an amazingly simple teaching in the Bible that is rarely taught. It is concerning the law that was done away with through Yahshua's sacrifice. Here is also the true teaching which pertains to GRACE.

Hebrews 7:12-14 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

This 7th chapter of Hebrews pertain to Yahshua becoming the High Priest through him becoming the sacrifice, fulfilling what was prophecied of him as laid out in
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For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendence at the altar.
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

Yahshua came out of the tribe of Judah not out of the priest tribe of Levi.

Psalms 110 prophecied of this. But with the change of the priesthood also came a change of the laws which pertained to the Levitical priesthood. To put it plain, there were two set of laws in the Old Testament. The one set are the commandments of God and the other set is the laws that you was placed under (the JUDGEMENTS) for breaking the aforementioned commandments. Let's read the BIBLICAL definition of what sin is.

1 John 3:4-5 Whosoever committeth sin, transgresseth ALSO the LAW:

(WHY?)

for SIN IS the TRANSGRESSION of the LAW.
And ye know that he was manifested to TAKE AWAY our sins; and in him is no sin.

We see here that sin means "transgression of the law". Any act that is contrary to Yahweh's commandments is sin. Yahshua came to take away our sin because all men have sinned, and unless you become justified by the blood of Christ, you are still in your sins and you are subject to the judgements of those sins. Now in the Old Testament, there was various judgements for various sins that the Levitical priesthood presided over. When you transgressed a sin not unto death, then you had to offer up sin offerings through the Levitical priesthood. But a transgression that was a part of the 10 commandments usually meant that the sinner had to die...without mercy/GRACE.

In Exodus 20 We see the Ten Commandments. But let's read the very next chapter

Exodus 21:1,12,17,24 NOW, these are the JUDGEMENTS which thou shalt set before them...
...He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to DEATH.
...And he that CURSETH his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death...
...Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Here, we see just a portion of that second set of laws called the JUDGEMENTS. In the book of Leviticus you can read about the sins which required sin offerings/sacrifices. All of these JUDGEMENTS were what Yahshua's sacrifice delivered us from giving us GRACE.

Romans 6:12-16 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lust thereof.
Neither yield 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.

Paul is saying something here that goes completely UNNOTICED. He said to not let sin reign in your body and to yield it unto GOD as instruments of RIGHTEOUSNESS. You can't be an instrument of righteousness if you're not keeping the commandments of Yahweh.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE.

Paul is saying here that you are NOT under the death sentence that came from Adam. We will read about that later. We have recieved GRACE from the JUDGEMENTS that we were under according to the Old Covenant.
SIMPLE!
Now here's the thing. People misconstrue this to mean that we don't have to keep the commandments. No! You are NOT delivered from the laws of Yahweh. You were delivered from the laws/JUDGEMENTS you were under for BREAKING those laws. Look at what Paul says in the next verse.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not UNDER the law, but under grace? God forbid.

A prisoner receives parole from prison which is grace, NOT because he earned it, but because he had a powerful attorney/intercessor that delivered him from UNDER THE LAW. This prisoner sinned and he should have faced the JUDGEMENT but he was delivered. Upon his release, he asks his lawyer, shall I go back and commit the crime again now that I'm not under the law but under grace? The intercessor says, "God forbid!!"
Think about it

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?

Well???...

..Don't you know that?
Whatever actions you take whether you acknowledge it or not...if you keep Yah's commandments you are Yah's servant fulfilling the first AND greatest commandment. But if you follow after the rudiments of this world and the traditions of men, then you are a servant of ANOTHER god. Yep... Satan himself,...regardless of who name you call upon.

But God be thanked, that YE WERE SERVANTS of sin, but ye have OBEYED FROM THE HEART that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being then MADE FREE FROM SIN; YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

And it don't stop...

Galatians 3:10-13,19-24 For as many as are under the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth NOT in the things which are written in the book of law to do them.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God.

Why is no man justified in the sight of God?

Because we have all sinned that's why. No matter how much you keep the commandments you still have to be justified from the sins that you had commited in the past. For ALL have sinned.

it is evident:for, The just shall live by faith...
...Christ hath redeemed us from the CURSE OF THE LAW, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree:

Hanging was also a judgement that was a penalty for sin. Yahshua was penalized for OUR sins.

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was ADDED because of transgressions...

In the next passage we shall see that sin can't be imputed if there is no law. So with that being the case, there was another set of laws as we saw above which was added because of transgressions. And these laws were none other than the JUDGEMENT laws. We were under these judgements which were our schoolmaster until Christ came. Now, apply what you have learned to this next passage and watch how Paul's words flow.

Romans 5:18-21 Therefore as by the offence of one JUDGEMENT came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the FREE GIFT came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many were MADE SINNERS, so by the OBEDIENCE of one shall many be made righteous.
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might GRACE reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now theologians/pastors/laymen read this passage and think that Christ's death, which was a FREE GIFT/GRACE, means that we are not under the commandments.
NO!!
You are not under the JUDGEMENT which was the condemnation of death. Ok,...so I would have to ask that now that you have partook of the free gift/GRACE, shall you continue in sin or must you start living a new way? Paul asks this same question in the next chapter.

Romans 6:1-7,12-18 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that GRACE may abound?

Paul's answer:

GOD FORBID. How shall we, that are DEAD to sin, live any longer therein?

How can you, or anyone else that is dead to sin, live any longer in sin, which as we read, was the transgression of the law.
How can you come under Christ blood and still not keep the sabbath?
...and STILL eat pig and other abominations?
....and STILL talk about "Jesus was born on Decemeber 25?......and STILL put a tree/idol up in your living room?
Let's continue this chapter

Know ye not that so many of us were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should WALK in the newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, WE SHALL ALSO BE IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION:
Knowing this, that our old man is CRUCIFIED with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin...

That adulterous, lying, idolotrous, pig-eating, Sunday morning-keeping, etc., etc., man/woman is DEAD! If he is dead then you are henceforth not serving sin. No ifs, and, or buts about it!

For he that is dead is freed from sin....
...;Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that alive from the dead, AND YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO GOD.

This is something that YOU have to do! Bust that rhetoric that those holier-than-thou people be talking about saying, "The holy spirit keeps me walking in God." Yea...I'm like, "Show that to me in the book!" But at anyrate, this letter of Paul's is FLOWING! Let's look at a portion of the letter Paul wrote to the Colossians who were newly delivered from sin and the pagan lifestyle of their people.

Colossians 2:6-16 As ye have therefore recieved Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Beware lest any man spoil you through PHILOSOPHY and VAIN DECEIT, after the TRADITION OF MEN, after the RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, and not after Christ.

Who were the philosophers in Paul's day? The Gentiles (Greeks and Romans) that's who. Their culture as them being the world rulers predicated what the traditions of men and the rudiments of the world were, just as present-day Christianity IS filled with traditions that came out of these Gentile idolatrous cultures.

For in HIM dwelleth ALL the fullness of the God head bodily.

He's telling these Greeks, that not in Zeus, Apollo, Mithra, Easter (heh) and Diana does the Godhead exist, neither are they gods, but in the God of Israel are these Greeks saved. Yes, this is a deep letter but it's very clear when you read it in context.

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of ALL

(ALL, absolutely ALL...including Nero, Caligula, and all the other Gentile rulers of the day.)

PRINCIPALITY AND POWER:...
...And YOU being dead in your SINS AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH, hath he quickened together with him, having FORGIVEN YOU ALL TRESPASSES;
(GRACE!)
Blotting out the ordinances that was AGAINST US, which was CONTRARY to us,

Which ordinance was against us and contrary to us? He just told you that he had forgiven you all trespass or else you would have been subject to that ordinance that was against us. Can you guess what that ordinance was?

and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
And having spoiled principalities and powers,he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath DAYS:

(Cuz they have been done away with?... NO-O-O! Because

Which are a shadow of things TO COME; but the body is of Christ.

Paul is telling these newly-converted Greeks to not let any man, and especially people of their own race which were the rulers, philosophers, and idolators, to judge them because they have took hold of the covenant of the God of Israel which includes all those things that they would be judged by. Now,let's look at the ordinance that was against us.

Hebrews 10:26-28 For if we sin wilffully after that we have recieved the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth NO MORE sacrifice for sins ,
But a certain fearful looking for of JUDGEMENT and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
He that despised Moses' law DIED WITHOUT MERCY under two or three witnesses.

HERE is that law which was against us and contrary to us.
The JUDGEMENT laws.
We had to die and unless Christ was made a sacrifice for the world, the Gentiles which were idolators among other things, could have never ever became a part of the "commonwealth of Israel".

Finally, let's look at one more passage. This is when they brought an adulterer to Yahshua.

John 8:1-11 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives
And early in the morning he came again into the temple,and all the people came unto him;and he sat down and taught them.
And the scribes and the Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, the very act.
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
This they said tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

Keep in mind here that had that woman not committed adultery, she would not have at this point,been put UNDER THE LAW...she needs some GRACE real quick or she will die.

And they which heard it, being CONVICTED by their OWN conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

Yahshua had just made intercession for this woman even before he BECAME the intercessor. Also note that had this woman given the option to sacrifice a bull or a goat as a JUDGEMENT for her sin, she would have happily done it. The sacrifices were not the ordinance that was contrary to us. Death was. {:o)

When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: GO, and SIN NO MORE.

Right there, Yahshua not only showed you which law was abolished, but he also showed you that you cannot continue in sin so that grace may abound. I'm sure that adulteress understood that perfectly! And...I hope you do too!

Grace & Peace in Yahshua