Why God Gave The Mosaic Law (MP 50)

Men’s hearts were evil from birth, the Lord saw;
Untaught, they were more apt to sin than not;
At Sinai, through Moses, God gave His Law,
Meant to reduce sins, not death to unblot!
The Law was schoolmaster of wrong and right,
Teaching men and women to live serene,
To guide them to be righteous in God’s sight,
And showing them what “sin” is when it’s seen!
No man or woman ever kept the Law;
It caused more sins, in fact, for they were weak,
Doing wrong when they should have seen the flaw,
Their sinful natures new thrills prone to seek!
The Law was meant to prepare men for grace,
Not for their condemnations to replace!

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Scripture Quoted (NIV) [Brackets added]
Exodus 19:5-6—“ ‘Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you shall be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you shall be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ “ [God, speaking to Moses about Israel]

Matthew 5:17—“ ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.’ “ [Jesus the Messiah, speaking to Israelites]

Romans 3:20—“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his [God’s] sight for obeying the law [Mosaic Law]; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.”

Commentary on: The Mosaic Law
You must keep in mind the plight of Man—the human race was condemned to hell since Adam’s sin; God has a plan to redeem men and women who believe in the Messiah, Jesus Christ, but He will not be born until about 2 B. C.. That is 1500 years in the future for these Israelites camped at Sinai. God chose the nation Israel and made a covenant with them, but He did not promise to redeem them from that condemnation unless they obeyed the Law (Leviticus 18:5). The covenant is conditional upon their obedience to God’s decrees, including the Laws that He gave them through Moses. The Mosaic Law became the heart of Judaism, the religion by which Hebrews have lived for 3500 years, until this day. When God came to them as He promised them He would do, Israel’s leaders and priests rejected Him and exhorted the Roman governor Pontius Pilate to crucify Him, and Pilate did. God arose from the dead after three days and is living today, but Israel still has not accepted Him or His gift of eternal life.

When Jesus (God) did come, He told them He fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, which He did. Many Israelites did believe in Jesus as the Messiah, and Christianity began in the first century as a joint sect of Judaism, but by mutual agreement of Judaism and followers of Christ they soon parted. God gave the Mosaic Law to Israel as a preparatory system that pointed to the gospel of salvation by grace through faith and not of keeping a set of laws and rules which had been perverted from their true meanings. The word “Gentiles” was coined by Judaism to refer to all human beings not born of an Israelite mother; the word “Jews” came into use by the world as referring to Israelites when the tribe of Judah was the primary remnant; therefore every human being can be said to be either a Jew or a Gentile. God is supreme over all people, and any man or woman who believes in Jesus as Lord or God will have all his or her sins forgiven, his condemnation revoked, and will become a member of the kingdom of God, without doing any works such as circumcision, baptism, sacrifice, or church membership.

Therefore Jews must be redeemed in exactly the same way that Gentiles are saved; that is, by faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible prophesies that when God returns to earth in power and glory, He will pour out His grace on the remaining Jews, and they will accept Him as the Messiah they rejected and crucified (See Zechariah 12:10).

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)