FOUNDATIONS | WEEK 27

📖 Can the Law Be Abolished If Sin Still Exists?

Key Texts:

Hebrews 10

1 John 3:4

Jeremiah 31:31–33

Hebrews 8:10

Many discussions about the New Covenant begin with assumptions rather than Scripture's own definitions.

So let's begin where the Bible begins.

What is sin?

John answers plainly:

> "Sin is the transgression of the law."

> (1 John 3:4, KJV)

If Scripture defines sin as transgression of the Law, then the Law provides the standard by which sin is recognized. To abolish Law is to abolish sin. Yet, Revelation continues to speak of keeping His commandments and of sin in the very Last Days. Thus, neither pass away especially since Yahusha said the Law would not (Matt. 5:17-20). Such strange new doctrine put words in His mouth which were and are not there.

Next, what changed at the cross?

Hebrews 10 does not say that Yahusha abolished righteousness or removed the definition of sin.

Instead, it teaches that His sacrifice was offered ONCE AND FOR ALL, accomplishing what the repeated animal sacrifices could never accomplish. He fulfilled them which definition is also misconstrued as fulfilled means He executed and continues to do so.

The sacrifice changed.

The priesthood changed.

The perfect atonement arrived.

But the New Covenant promise itself is:

> "I will put My laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts."

> (Hebrews 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33)

Notice what Scripture says is new.

The location of the Law changes—from tablets of stone to hearts.

The sacrifice changes—from repeated offerings to Messiah's perfect offering.

The High Priest changes—from the Levitical priesthood to our eternal High Priest (Melchizedek).

Yet the Law itself is not described as disappearing. Rather, it is written within those who belong to the New Covenant.

Grace does not redefine sin. It never has.

Grace provides forgiveness for sin and empowers us to walk in covenant with Yahuah. Such grace unto Salvation did not change either as Moses, Abraham and the Patriarchs were also saved by the same grace of Yahusha as He is present since the beginning even before His coming in the flesh (1 John 1).

The New Covenant is not the absence of His instruction.

It is His instruction written upon transformed hearts. A deepening of the same Law that opposes and defines sin.

A changing of medium is not a change of the Law.

Yah Bless.

Question for Discussion:

If the New Covenant promises to write Yahuah's Law on our hearts, what exactly is being written there if the Law no longer exists?

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