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Originally Posted by UntoHim
The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, on the contrary, it makes us love it with all our hearts. This is one of the reasons I think our friend aron can speak to this so convincingly here on this thread - the Psalms are full of The Law. One could argue that one of the main themes of the Psalms is the saints love for the Law. (aron can correct me on this for sure!) It never ceases to amaze me how so many of the (successful) governments of the world are based on laws ..
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The best way for Christians to understand scripture is to see how Jesus and his disciples remarked on it. Jesus said, "These things (law, prophets, psalms) were written concerning me." See, Luke 24:44&c. Now, we don't then take this mechanically, as some allege we do. "His bishopric another take" was revealed in the NT as referring to the traitor Judas. And the repentant David of psalm 51 did not typify Christ.
But the question still remains about how a Christian expository ministry that so liberally saw "Christ" in the windows of Noah's ark and in the boards and silver sockets of Moses' ark of the covenant could not discern Christ in the expression of fealty to God's law. Psalm 1, according to Lee, was vain, because no one can keep the law. If this is true, then Christ died in vain because he was a sinner, like us. Yet the NT record unequivocally refutes that.
The psalmist wrote, "Oh, how I love Your law" and this could only be fulfilled by Jesus the Nazarene (Psalm 119:97). Jesus is the Christ, the singular Son of David who fulfils the promise. When James said that the Jerusalem cohort were zealous for the law, it was like saying that I'm writing in English - it's an artifact of circumstance. Their zeal could not save them any more than my not following the law abrogates my salvation. In all cases, repentance and faith unto confession equally apply, "to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.".
When I see psalm 119, I see Jesus. I hear his voice. "My sheep hear my voice." And I do, somewhat vicariously appreciate God's law thru Christ. But only thru Christ. And his law, to love one another, rules supreme. It doesn't overturn but fulfills all, subsumes all, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.