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Michael Goodman
The Ark of the Covenant contained the Covenant on tables of stone. That's the same Covenant New Testament believers are "not under" and that's also the Ten Commandments. I make this point because I've heard many a famous preacher say that the moral laws remain and that it was the "ceremonial laws" which were removed.
Because of the way we have been taught over the years our minds cannot grasp the idea of "not being under the Commandments" even though it is clearly written in Eph.2:15 that Jesus "abolished in His flesh the law of Commandments contained in ordinances". If we put this verse together with the one that says "Jesus came not to take away the law but to fulfill it", then we have to consider that Jesus once again became the law or "Word of God" just as He was, in the beginning, and relegated the "written" law or commandments to just being a description of "what is sin." This is why the bible tells us that the law was just a "shadow of things to come" with Jesus first and then the Holy Spirit being the substance.
To those who cannot understand how anyone can live while not being "under the law." This is God's plan for the New Testament believer. You confess Jesus as Lord and Savour and at that very moment you receive the Holy Spirit. From that moment your focus is on the Spirit who dwells within. The apostle Paul who's entire Christian experience came about because of the Holy Spirit, tells us first of all in Gal.4:20-29 that the entire covenant is "of the Spirit", and later tells us that you have to become spiritual to understand the "things of God."
He makes the point that we are to "walk and live in the Spirit" in order to be "right with God." Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh proves the point. Later he makes the point that the same righteousness which previously came from the law Jesus fulfilled and therefore replaced, is now imputed to the believer "who walks not after the flesh but to the one who walks after the Spirit." One cannot be "right with God unless on understands God's plan."
Marty Cline
Praise The Lord
Sarah Winn
In the song, This man by Jeremy Camp. In the bridge of the song, it states a part of the tabernacle. "The veil was torn so we could have eternal life..." This is the veil that separates the high priest from entering the Holy of holies once a year.