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automatically kept by being a Christian as they are fulfilled by Christ within (Mat
5:17, Gal 5:14, Col 1:27). A Christian keeps the Law, not by obeying all of the
commandments thereof (plural), but by following and partaking of Him who has
fulfilled the Law. As Christians we fulfil the Law singular (Mat 5:17, Col 1:27).
Secondly, the commandments of Christ that apply to the Christian are, only, the
two great commandments (Mat 22:40, Rom 15:4). As for the commandments of
Christ as a whole including the two great commandments (John 14:15) they are
also fulfilled for the Christian (Deut 30:10, John 1:1, 14, Rom 10:4) but we are
exhorted to keep the two great commandments whilst in the flesh even as they are
fulfilled within us and in our perfect basic spirits (Rom 10:4, 1 John 3:9).

As regards such commandments as giving all your wealth to the poor, this too was
and is a further addition to the Law and therefore inapplicable to Christians but
valid to those under the Law (Mat 19:21).

Because a Christian fulfils the Law by being in Christ it is dishonourable to
weaken the Law i.e. pretend that it does not ‘work’ (Mat 5:19). It does ‘work’ but
it is futile to attempt it (Mat 5:18, Rom 3:19-20). It is valid but to be left alone as
it should have been by both the parabolical Adam and Eve and the evolved men
(Gen 2:17, 3:22, 5:1-2, Rom 3:20, 4:15, 7:7). The Law itself is not sin but being
under its influence is (Gen 1:31, Rom 4:15, 7:7, 7:12, 17, 18) which also inevitably
and sinfully means disobeying it which is sinful too (Rom 3:19-20). The Law was
given in essence (the Law-in-spirit) prior to the Fall (Gen 1:29, 2:17, 3:22, Rom
3:20, 4:15) by God as an indirect way of saving Mankind because just as it
condemned Man so it could be used to save Man by its being vicariously fulfilled
by Christ (by keeping it and then sacrificing Himself) and then appropriated as
fulfilled by Christians (Gal 5:18-26). Romans 4:15 should be understood in the
context of tense sense in that God knew the transgressions would come. The
evolved men have always been, by choice (Rom 3:10), under the Law-in-spirit-
and-flesh (Rom 1:20, 2:15, 3:19-20, 5:11-14, especially verse 14 showing how the
evolved men (re the generic Adam here - Gen 5:1-2) were sinning, (Rom 7:1, 8:22,
Jam 2:10, Rev 18:2). Incidentally, all three forms of the Law have always existed
in the person of Christ (1 Tim 2:5) as well as Christ being the escape from all three
in his being the fulfilled Law (Mat 5:17).

The Law, by itself, is good (Gen 1:31, Mat 5:18-19, Rom 7:7, 12, Gal 3:19).
Trying to keep it is not and never has been or will be the way forward (John 14:6).
Christ is and always has been (John 1:1, 14, 8:58, 14:6). The observance comes by
the fulfilment route of being a Christian, not the specific obedience to all the
precepts (Mat 5:17, Col 1:27). A Christian’s basic spirit fulfils the Law (Rom