Since we wrote the above essays it has come to our attention that some of the Messianic Jews are going back under the Law of Moses. This is not surprising. If the Jew is seeking for the Kingdom of God and His righteousness he is not going to find it in the current lawless-grace-rapture teaching that is found in many Christian churches.

The new covenant brings forth a new creation, not a modified old creation. God is making man in two stages. The first stage is the uncrucified adamic creation. The second stage is in two parts, which take place simultaneously. The first part is the birth and growth of Christ in the personality. The second part is the crucifixion of the adamic creation and its transformation unto life by being exposed to the Glory of Christ.

The end product of the two stages of development is a son of God and son of man, fit to be a brother of Christ.

The Law of Moses has jurisdiction only over the uncrucified adamic creation. Once the adamic creation is crucified the Law has no more jurisdiction over it. The believer, now having counted the adamic creation dead and having Christ born in it, is free to walk in the Spirit of God, looking always to Christ for righteousness instead of to the observance of the Law and statutes of Moses.

The Apostle Paul, an Orthodox Jew, was able to make the transition from the works of the Law of Moses to faith in Christ.

The Jew or Gentile who would return to the Law and statutes of Moses has chosen to live as an uncrucified adamic creation, as though he were a Jew under the old covenant. He is not walking in the Spirit of God because the Spirit of God will not lead him in the observance of feast days or dietary laws. He is not gaining his righteousness from faith in Christ but from his faithfulness in keeping the Law.

There are not differing obligations placed on the Christian Jew and the Christian Gentile. The first five chapters of the Book of Romans, the foundation of the theology of salvation through Divine grace, are addressed both to Jews and Gentiles, as an examination of the verses themselves will reveal clearly. Paul makes no difference as to religious obligations when speaking to Jews and Gentiles.

How could he? The two parts of the second stage in the development of man, which constitute salvation and the Kingdom of God, are free of race. The second-stage Jew and the second-stage Gentile are no longer recognizable as such. The racial identity persists only as long as the adamic nature is alive. When the adamic nature is crucified, racial identity as well as the Law of Moses have vanished for eternity.

The compassionate believer, when he or she is with someone who is observing the tenets of Judaism, will refrain from flaunting his or her freedom. The observances are entwined in the culture and faith of the Jew. The Scripture teaches clearly that we are not to place obstacles in the path of someone for whom Christ died.

But for him who can receive it, when we walk in the Spirit of God, looking steadfastly to Christ for our thoughts, our words, and our deeds, we no longer are bound by the tenets of Judaism. We are playing under the rules of a different game. The Law, the Torah, is being created in us.

Christ Himself is the full expression of the eternal moral law of God. Christ is the moral law of God made flesh, and He is being formed in us. Christ is not the expression of the statutes of the Law of Moses but of the eternal moral Torah of God, of which the Ten Commandments and all other commandments are a shadow.

How did Paul express it?

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. (Galatians 3:19)

The Seed, Christ, has come. Let us continue in the Spirit, looking always to the Lord Jesus. Then God will be pleased with us and impute to us the righteousness that would be ours if we had kept the Law of Moses perfectly.

That the righteousness of the law [of Moses] might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh [not living as uncrucified Adam], but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:4) (from Scripture or Myth?)