The Law:
During the latter years of Moses� life, during which the children of Israel wandered in the Sinai Wilderness, explicit instructions regarding the Promised Land were given. These instructions are found primarily in the Book of Deuteronomy. The wise student of Scripture should carefully underscore the fact that the Israelites chose (Exodus 19:5-8; 24:3-8) to come under the �conditional covenant� of law at Mt. Sinai in the third month following the exodus from Egypt. Grace had brought them out of Egypt and through the Red Sea. Now, they were moving from sovereign grace and trust in Yahweh to a condition of obedience under law. Under this conditional covenant of law, their performance (obedience) mandated to insure blessings and prosperity.
Israel�s entry into the Promised Land under the �conditional covenant of law� also made their sojourn in the land �conditional.� They would remain in the land as long as they remained obedient to the terms of the covenant, that is, in terms of their performance of the commandments, statutes, and judgments of Yahweh. Recall that the Promised Land was given to Abraham and his seed by covenant in perpetuity forever. When the Israelites entered this land under the �covenant of law,� their sojourn was conditional; based upon their performance of obedience to the law.
�And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers.� (Deuteronomy 6:18)
At the very outset of His ministry, Jesus emphasized the importance of keeping the Law of the Lord in constant remembrance and giving unqualified assent to its unending application. He spoke in specific terms in relation to this vital matter: �Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy (the law), but to fulfill (prophecy). For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all (prophecy) be fulfilled.� (Matthew 5:17-18; Luke 16:17)
Then our Lord declared emphatically: �Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, that except your righteousness (your keeping of the law) shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.� (Matthew 5:19-20)
�Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so THEIR ROOT (children) SHALL BE AS ROTTENNESS, AND THEIR BLOSSOM SHALL GO UP AS DUST: BECAUSE THEY HAVE CAST AWAY THE LAW OF THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND DESPISED THE WORD OF THE HOLY ONE� OF ISRAEL.� (Isaiah 5:24)
�Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.� (Matthew 7:12)
�(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)� (Luke 2:23)
�And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.� (Luke 24:44)
Luke 16:17: �And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.� KJV
Luke 16:16‑17: �It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.� NIV
Luke 16:17: �And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.� NKJV
Luke 16:17: �But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.� NASU
Luke 16:17: �Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to fail and become void.� AMP
Luke 16:17: �But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall. � ASV
Luke 16:16‑17: �But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.� NAS
Luke 16:17: �But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void.� RSV
Luke 16:16‑17: �But that doesn't mean that the Law has lost its force in even the smallest point. It is as strong and unshakable as heaven and earth.� TLB
�Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day? Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.� (John 7:19-24)
�Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.� (1 John 3:4)
�Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.� (Romans 3:31)
�He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.� (John 14:21)
�What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.� (Romans 7:7)
�Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.� (Romans 7:12)
�I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.� (Romans 7:25)
�Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.� (Numbers 15:31)
�For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.� (Matthew 5:18-19)
�But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.� (Psalm 1:2)
�He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.� (Proverbs 28:9)
�Haran was forty‑two years old when he begat Sarai, which was in the tenth year of the life of Abram; and in those days Abram and his mother and nurse went out from the cave, as the king and his subjects had forgotten the affair of Abram. And when Abram came out from the cave, he went to Noah and his son Shem, and he remained with them to learn the instruction of the Lord and his ways, and no man knew where Abram was, and Abram served Noahand Shem his son for a long time. And Abram was in Noah's house thirty‑nine years, and Abram knew the Lord from three years old, and he went in the ways of the Lord until the day of his death, as Noah and his son Shem had taught him; and all the sons of the earth in those days greatly transgressed against the Lord, and they rebelled against him and they served other gods, and they forgot the Lord who had created them in the earth; and the inhabitants of the earth made unto themselves, at that time, every man his god; gods of wood and stone which could neither speak, hear, nor deliver, and the sons of men served them and they became their gods.� (Jasher 9:4-6)
2 Timothy 1:15
15: This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Revelation 2:1‑2
1: Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
2:
�I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: