10. Laws of Israel Obsolete + PDF teaching notes

The Law of Moses, the Mosaic covenant, all Old Testament offerings and sacrifices are nothing but shadows (10:1). It could be said that the Bible is divided into two big parts: The Shadow Covenant and the Substantive Covenant. The things of the old covenant were designed to last only "until" the time of reformation (9:10); it had an expiration date. The old covenant is now "obsolete" (8:13). The law made nothing perfect (7:19). The former commandment has been "set aside" because of its "weakness" and "uselessness" (7:18). There has been a "change in law" (7:12).

Many level the charge that New Covenant theology is antinomian (against law) and therefore libertine. This is not true. While NCT clearly teaches that believers are not under the Law of Moses, it does stress that they are under the Law of Christ. NCT adherents would counter that those who hold to Covenant Theology may be legalists when CT insists that believers are in some areas obligated to obey the Law of Moses, such as tithing or Sabbath observance (legalism is requiring a person to keep laws that God does not require). Happy, neither NCT nor CT proponents are Judaizers (insisting that the Law of Moses must be kept in order to be saved ~ a false gospel).