Please keep this understanding in mind throughout the following as I now address the Hebrew Roots Movement which, among other difficulties, misunderstands the law and its application. So, on the one hand, when we are waving goodbye to the law with our left hand, at the same time we are extending our right hand to shake the hand of the law and saying with the psalmist, "Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day" (Psa. The law, therefore, is holy, just, and good (Rom. However, at the same time we are called to imitate Christ and to live as people who seek to please a holy God (Eph. Christians are not under the old covenant stipulations we are no longer under the curse of the law. In its third use, the law reveals to us what is pleasing to God. In general, its warnings, cautions, and threats restrain individuals from being as bad as they could be.
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In its second use, the law functions as a restraint against sin, especially when backed by a civil code that administers punishment for proven offenses (Deut. In this way, the law serves as a schoolmaster to drive us to Christ (Gal. Like a mirror, it reflects our own unrighteousness against God’s definitive standard of perfect holy righteousness. In its first use, the law reveals the character of God. As we study the law to learn what God would have us do "in Christ," we see there are essentially three uses of the law. The law has been written on our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Jer. So, though the civil and ceremonials laws are in one sense abrogated, we should still ask ourselves today, what are the moral principles that we can glean and apply from them? However, even the civil and ceremonial laws had a moral principle that God was applying to Israel. As believers in Jesus Christ, we don’t follow these laws because we understand that Israel as a theocracy no longer exists and that these laws pointed forward to Jesus and have been fulfilled. However, the civil and ceremonial laws were laws given to Israel when it was a theocracy. These are truths that should always be followed. We observe the moral law enshrined in such places as the Ten Commandments. While the entire law has been fulfilled in Christ, these distinctions help us in applying the law to our own lives today. Within Reformed circles we make a distinction between the civil, ceremonial, and moral laws of Moses.