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SHOULD WE STILL KEEP THE LAW? Christians often say things like, "We're under grace, so we don't have to keep the law." While we are certainly under grace, it's not entirely true that we don't have to keep the law. First, the entire Old Testament does not fall under the written law of Moses. The fifty chapters of Genesis, the forty-two chapters of Job and the first nineteen chapters of Exodus are BEFORE the law of Moses. So some of the established laws from these scriptures stand true even today, since they were true even before the law of Moses. The death penalty for murder and the forbidding of blood drinking, for instance, were established laws clear back in Genesis 9, and they are still divine laws today (Acts 25:11; 15:29). They are not limited to the written law of Moses. Secondly, even within the written law of Moses itself it is the ceremonial and ritualistic ordinances that were abolished at Calvary (Col. 2:14), not the moral law. We no longer offer animal sacrifices and keep the various feast days, but we still believe in Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery, Thou Shalt Not Covet, etc. It is for this reason that Paul said, "the law is good" in I Timothy 1:8, and this is why he recommends half of the ten commandments in Romans 13:9. So, claiming that "we don't keep the law" is not wise and is very misleading. We don't keep the law in the strict dispensational sense that the Jews were told to keep it for over fourteen centuries, but we do keep the moral law of God, just as saints of God have done from the very beginning. We must rightly divide between the moral law of God, which is binding on everyone from Genesis through Revelation, and the ceremonial law which was in effect only during the Mosaic law dispensation that ran from Exodus 20 till John 19:30.