Is the Law of Moses in force today?

Is the Law of Moses in force today?

Obviously, Jesus himself nullified all of the laws of animal sacrifice (which could not forgive sins, only push them back until Jesus could atone for them) by being the sacrificial atonement for sin. In Acts, Peter was given the vision of unclean animals, a revelation that we believe took away the dietary laws of the old Law. Jesus, in the Book of Matthew, not only reinforced the validity of the Ten Commandments, but He also showed the error in believing oneself capable of keeping them.
Jesus did this to illustrate our need for a Savior; we need Him worse than we think we do. His defining of the Ten Commandments shows that before salvation, we are farther from God than we think we are. Israel looked at the Law as "a line in the sand," meaning that we should stay on God's side of the Law but when we break that Law, we are in sin. Jesus sums up the entire Law with "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mindî and ìLove your neighbor as yourself." This covers the whole law.
In short, we are not to look for what we can get away with; we are to simply look to Jesus. If we fix our eyes on Jesus and begin to see things and people through His eyes, we will fulfill His Law, which is the Law of Moses, wrapped in a smaller, more understandable package.

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