Is The Law Dead?

By Jeffrey David Dean (Sr.)

There is an inate difference between talking about serving
YHWH and actually serving YHWH. This is a truth that all
recognize. Israel as a people talked the walk, but didn't
walk the walk. They heaped to themselves leaders, who
became Pharisees, hypocrites, and created their own laws
based on the holy commandments of love, they didn't really
keep YHWH's laws, so instead they created new ones
based on those laws, new ordinances of pure fleshly
observances, and kept them, and urged others to do the
same, and called this "obedience." It was a counterfeit. This
is the world into which Messiah first came. It is indeed the
same state of affairs at his second coming as well.
The Pharisees talked the walk, but they didn't walk the
walk.
Yet, how many realize that in the end times, the times in
which we now live, there would be millions of people who
follow after the manner of the Pharisees, and more
importantly, of Judas, who claimed to follow Messiah, but
had a secret covenant with the Pharisees to betray Messiah
to them. The scriptures call this group "the great falling
away" and "the revealing of the son of perdition." Judas
was the son of perdition according to Messiah, and all who
follow after his example, likewise become the "son of
perdition," while those who follow in Messiah's example
become "the son of God (See my book "That Man of Sin")
In Thessalonians, the son of perdition is depicted as "the
man of sin," and in other places, "the lawless one." Who is
more lawless than he who says "the law is dead," and "the
law has been nailed to a cross?" I say unto you all, warning
and exhorting, that the law is not made dead by our faith in
Messiah, but no, the law is made more alive, by being
placed in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit. What
was made dead by the crucifixion of Messiah was actually
already "dead" when he came, that is, empty observances
of ordinances with no Spirit behind those actions. It was
the motivations of the heart that were lacking in many of
those who observed Moses from the very beginning. Their
obedience was half hearted, did not make them "perfect,"
and they could not "fulfill" the law, for they attempted to
do so in the flesh, rather than in the Spirit. It was this mis-
handling of the law that was crucified with Messiah.
The foundation of the "new covenant" or the "marriage
covenant" between Messiah and his Bride was that Messiah
came "not to destroy the law and the prophets," he finished
by saying "I come to fulfill;" Yet, that which is "fulfilled"
is not dead, but indeed is preserved forever in them that
fulfill. Likewise, we who follow Messiah's example do
also "fulfill" the law, thus, the law is perpetual in Messiah
and in us, being fulfilled over and over and over again.
How say some that the law is dead? Is Messiah not the
"living word?" Did he not rise from the dead? Does he not
live forever? If the "law" is the "word" and Messiah is the
"word" and Messiah lives forever; Therefore, the law is not
dead but lives forever, in Messiah, and Messiah lives in us,
therefore the "word" which is the "law" lives in us!
All who follow in Messiah's example do not kill the law
nor destroy it, they "fulfill" the requirements of the law
through love, by the power of the Holy Spirit and in so
doing make the letter of the law no longer necessary (while
the Spirit of the Law is preserved forever in us). Herein,
according to John, are the "children of God," (the son of
God) manifested, and the "children of the devil," (the son
of perdition). This is the separating of the sheep and the
goats, of the wheat and the tares predicted by Messiah.
Most people have a false image in their minds of
everything pertaining to scripture. For example, they see
the "writing of the laws into our hearts and minds" by the
power of the Holy Spirit as some "magical, mystical
event," and indeed they see the Holy Spirit as some
"entity," a holy personage. In one way, they are correct but
it is only when this Holy Spirit is manifested through the
life of the believer that the Holy Spirit becomes a "living
person" for that Holy Spirit (which is love) gives birth to a
"son of God." When it says "the law is written in their
hearts and minds," it's talking about the Spirit of love, not
an entity. That Spirit gives birth to good deeds and those
good deeds make the letter of the law irrelevant, for where
one is obeying out of love the commandments of God, the
written law is no longer necessary, for it is now a living law
written in our hearts and minds.
The truth really is that simple. When we give our bodies
over to this Spirit of love and let it command our every
word and deed, we become "living Epistles" and we are
above the law, for the law is written, not for those who are
living testimonies of the law, it is written for the
transgressor.
No wonder the son of perdition is called "that man of
lawlessness." Who is more lawless than he who "crucifies
the law" (in order to avoid keeping it)? Who is a man of
sin but one who teaches for doctrines the commandments
of men instead of the law of God and begins to smite his
fellow servants? Who is a son of perdition but one who
disobeys Yahweh at every turn, all the while claiming to
serve YHWH 24/7.
The man of sin is a liar, claiming to keep God's Sabbath
holy every single day (and not just one day per week) but
then denies that this Sabbath keeping is even necessary or
required! I tell you now, he who says the law is dead
cannot possibly be keeping the Sabbath even one day,
much less keeping it 24/7, for they are law breakers, and
have crucified the master afresh. They have undone the
ministry of the Holy Spirit which has come to put the law
into you, into your minds and hearts. Actually, it can be
said that they have re-crucified Messiah for it was to send
us the Holy Spirit that Messiah died They nullify the law,
saying it is dead, while they yet live in sin, and indeed
claim that they can do nothing else but live in sin! They
have indeed nullified the very purpose of the crucifixion,
which was to send love into us and, thereby, fulfill the law
in us! It is interesting to note that scripture states clearly as
long as sin is alive the written law is alive (for the strength
of the law is sin).
This is a great mystery to the world, only because they
refuse to look at the truth, for doing so would require they
abandon their life of sin. Which is why, when speaking of
the son of perdition, the Apostle says, "therefore shall God
send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,"
that they all might perish who believed not the truth but
trusted in unrighteousness. Religion is that strong delusion.
The notion of the law now being dead and that we no
longer have to obey YHWH is also a delusion. To say that
you cannot "cease from sin," is a part of that same delusion.
They are calling Messiah and his followers liars, who urged
us to become "just like Messiah," and Messiah never once
sinned in his entire life! How can you say you are like
Messiah if you can't cease from sin? That should be
common sense; Yet, the wicked gnash their teeth when you
suggest such a thing and they even seek to destroy you for
suggesting it. They will spout their religious doctrines,
which are actually their blinders. They flash their blinders
at you and urge you to place those blinders on so that
"awful wicked light that comes to eradicate sin in your
flesh will no longer plague you."
There is coming a day when the light will pierce even
through those blinders and in that day it will be far too late
for all who wear them, because the day of salvation will be
upon them. They, like the foolish virgins, will have no
"oil" or "annointing" and will be cast aside as hypocrites.
Then they shall approach Messiah and say, "didn't we do
this or that in your name?" To which he will respond,
"depart from me you doers of iniquity (sin) for I never
knew you."
They state that the blood of Messiah "covers your sins"
from God's eyes and that God will "not remember" your
sins. (Interesting to note that Revelation states of the Great
Whore that "God has remembered her iniquities.") Isiaiah
wrote and stated "woe unto them who's works are in the
dark and they say "who sees us, who knows us." Religion's
delusion would have you believe that God is blind to your
sin (because of the crucifixion of Messiah) yet Scripture
does NOT bear this out. I assure you God sees your sins
and there is no provision on earth or in Heaven that can
hide your evil deeds from the Creator of the universe! I'm
reminded of a cartoon I once saw in "The Last Days News
Letter" which used to be published by the late Keith Green.
In the illustration a man was hiding behind a portrait of
Jesus, drinking a beer and giggling to himself and God was
looking down from heaven. All God could see was the
image of Jesus Christ! This truly is the obsenity created by
those who mishandle the Gospel and the message of the
Blood!
I have had some write me, calling ME the Pharisee because
I urge obedience of the law through the Spirit of love. On
the one hand they claim that they are "keeping the
Sabbath;" Yet, they then tell me the "law is dead, being
nailed to a "cross." They cannot see how contradictory
these two statements are. They claim to obey the law;
However, they also say I'm a Pharisee for urging obedience
to the law because, they reason, "the law is dead." There is
only one way to describe this sort of thinking. It's pure
madness.
One does not say "I keep the law" and then "the law is no
more." If they truly keep the law then the law is alive and
well in them 24/7. Their first statement "I keep the law," is
nullified and cancelled by their second statement "the law
is dead," for they claim the law is now alive, in them, (by
keeping the law) and yet they turn right around and say the
law is dead. Both cannot be true. Either the law is dead or
it is alive and well, in you. He that keeps the law becomes
"a law unto himself," according to scripture. If we keep the
law we now ARE the law! By fulfilling the law, we have
literally become the law. We are the example by which
others should live, even as Messiah is the example by
which the Apostles urged us to live for he indeed kept the
law.
The madness of this thinking goes very deep in that, while
they claim to obey the law, they also teach that we do not
have to observe the seventh day. They claim to observe the
seventh day on the FIRST day; Yet, common sense dictates
that the seventh day cannot be observed on the first day
which is why it is called the "seventh" day.
Those who fall into this admit that Messiah only observed
the seventh day until after his death, at which time he
abolished it. Those who teach this madness cannot
understand how ridiculous is their thinking. Why would
Messiah observe the seventh day in his life time if his
intention was to abolish the seventh day? Furthermore, if
Messiah kept the sabbath 24/7 and that is fulfillment (for
us) of the fourth commandment, (as some maintain), he
would not therefore acknowledge the seventh day by
observing it but would instead carry on with his normal
activities. You wouldn't be able to tell the seventh day
from the first day when observing his life.
The very fact that Messiah, a perfect man, observed
seventh day in his lifetime, is all the evidence we need that
we should likewise observe the seventh day. I we truly are
followers of him we are to watch him, observe his every
move, and emulate him! How can we do so and ignore the
seventh day seeing that he himself did not ignore the
seventh day? He would not have observed the seventh day
it if it was to be abolished. The first thing he would have
done is make it clear that we no longer had to observe it.
He would make it clear that the reason for the non
observance was that he keeps Sabbath 24/7. Thus he would
be setting the proper example for us to follow.
Some, therefore, paint a picture of an unstable Messiah,
who was not a good example for us, seeing that Messiah
kept seventh day observances, and fully intended for his
Apostles to not keep seventh day. They show us a Messiah
who was a poor teacher who did not properly demonstrate
obedient living for, according to these muddled thinkers, he
who obeys Father 24/7 no longer observes seventh day; Yet
Messiah himself observed seventh day. They do not
perceive that seventh day observance is commanded in the
law!
If the "law is dead" and we no longer have to obey it, then
we no longer have to keep the other part of the law that
says "cease from your own works and doings, and do only
the Father's works." The rest of the law, "don't commit
adultery, don't murder, don't lie" likewise is abolished.
Nothing is, therefore, sacred and no one is safe!
 If the whole law is dead then "doing the Father's works"
also are dead. You can't say that the law is dead then turn
right around and say, "but you must still cease from your
own works, and do the Father's will" for it is the law that
commands this and you have said the law is dead.