There's really only two main laws and in reality there is really only one we are to live by which means so much more than people realize. .
God wrote the Ten Commandments and many people get confused by the word "covenant" with the "law"
A covenant is an agreement. The law of God is what He claims them to be as "His" which He did clearly from the Ten Commandments Exo20:6 spoken from the mouth of God, written by the Holy Spirit and in this unit that God wrote on stone, He added no more Deut5:22 why only the Ten Commandments was inside His ark Exo40:20.
The first 4 commandments show how to love God and the last 6 how we love our neighbor Rom13:9. They cover so much more than people realize
Psa 119:96 just as Jesus taught from this same unit
Mat 5:19-30
Why God's name is in each of these commandments, not Moses, not anyone else.
Exo 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [
a]bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before
Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness
of anything that
is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor [
b]serve them.
For I, the Lord your God,
am a jealous God, visiting[
c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate
Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
Me and keep
My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of
the Lord your God in vain, for
the Lord will not hold
him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates.
11 For
in six days
the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore
the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Moses wrote all the other laws that were added because of sin for breaking God's holy Law, written by the Holy Spirit. These laws contained everything else the ceremonial ordinances, animal sacrifices, curses and blessings for keeping God's Law the Ten Commandments.
Deut 31:24 After
Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, 25 he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord: 26 “
Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.
These are not the same Laws or agreement and we see clear distinctions such as:
2Chro 33:8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers—only if they are careful to do all that
I have commanded them, according to the whole law (so there is a whole law that God commanded AND, which means in addition) and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.”
The New Covenant is God's Laws going from written on stone to being written in the heart. Heb8:10 What changed in the New Covenant is the Promises Heb8:6 not the Laws Heb8:10 The law of God written by the Holy Spirit of Truth was never the issue, it is perfect Psa19:7, holy, just and good Rom7:12 the issue is mans heart. So the new covenant is based on what God will do, if we cooperate with Him John14:15-18 sadly many don't Rom8:7-8
2 Cor3:3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us,
written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God,
The laws written on scrolls with ink was everything except the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments was written by the Spirit of the living God.
They were written by the finger of God Exo31:18 which is the Spirit of God
Math 12:28 But if I cast out demons by
the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you
Luke 11: 20 But if I cast out demons with
the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you
not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
The only laws written on tablets of stone was the Ten Commandments
Deut 4:13 So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and
He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
And where did these laws of God go written by the Holy Spirit- into
tablets of the heart.
The location changed, not the Laws, God keeping His promise
not to alter the words of His covenant Psa89:34 not a jot or tittle Mat5:18-19, why the NC is
established on better promises Heb8:6 and still has God's Laws, just written on a better surface, our hearts Heb8:10
The allegory of Paul of the law would have to know the story of Sarah and Hagar. Sarah took it into her own hands to bear the promise of God that Abraham's bloodline would be many nations and used a slave to conceive a child instead of waiting on what God would do. Isaac came by promise of what God will do and it relates perfectly to the Old and New Covenant. The Old Covenant- the Ten Commandments written on stone was based on the people doing Exo19:8 the New Covenant God wrote His laws, the Ten Commandments in the heart and is established on the better promise Heb8:6 what He will do Heb8:10 John14:15-18 if we cooperate with Him.
