For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away. It is not in heaven, that you could say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us, and proclaim it to us, so that we may follow it?’ Nor is it beyond the sea, that you could say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and proclaim it to us, so that we may follow it?’ On the contrary, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may follow it. (vv. 11-14)

But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. (Romans 10:8-10)

Jesus Christ was blameless before the law while He was on the earth and stays blameless forever. But His righteousness is not from the perfect keeping of the law. I am repeating the same thing again and again. But the interpretation of the Bible, especially the two covenants by ministers and theologians has wronged so many people. We must ask this question to understand our righteousness – Can a slave free other slaves from bondage and change their status to princes and princesses? Use your common sense. The answer is no. A few years ago, I watched a film called “12 Years a Slave”. The main character in the film was not freed by another slave because a slave cannot save another slave. Theologians and ministers insist that Christ had to keep the law to impute righteousness to us. They say that Christ did not need to keep the law but did it anyway to give us righteousness. But the Bible says He freed us from slavery by His blood.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” (Romans 8:15)

Most of the Israelites in the wilderness did not receive the Spirit. The law was not in their hearts. Their righteousness depended on obedience to the law. It appears that they were given a choice.

See, I have placed before you today life and happiness, and death and adversity, in that I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it. (vv. 15-16)

But their failure tells us that there are only curses under the old covenant. Their disobedience teaches us why God put us under slavery in the first place. The law was only a shadow. Christ is the law expressed in God’s immeasurable love shown on the cross.

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD: “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34)

All the laws and prophecies were fulfilled by Jesus Christ by making us God’s children. We are His kingdom.

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave, although he is owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father. So we too, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons and daughters. Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. (Galatians 4:1-7)

Some misinterpret this passage and say that Christ was a slave because He was born under the law. But a slave cannot save another slave.

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; (Hebrews 10:11)

For this reason, Christ is the priest forever in the order of Melchizedek apart from the law.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses said nothing concerning priests. And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. For it is attested of Him, “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.” (Hebrews 7:14 -17)

The King came and paid for our sins and made us children of God. By believing in God and His work on the cross, we are justified. No one can confess this without the work of the Holy Spirit. Some false believers may appear to follow truth but they go astray because their hearts cannot understand truth.

Many false teachers try to enslave us again. On the outside, they talk about grace and faith. But they despise the cross of Christ. They say the cross of Christ is not enough to make us righteous. Stay alert.

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? (Galatians 3:1)