Daily Bread - Oct 13 2006
Col 2:15 - "Abolishing the law of commandments in ordinances so that in Himself He created of the two one new man, making peace."

Paul calls the law of commandments the "certificate of indebtedness" in Colossians 2:14. These ordinances were abolished and blotted out when Jesus spoiled principalities and powers. The Law of Commandments, which is another name for the Law of Moses, was given to reveal the domination of Sin and its evil effects over man. Now through the power of the blood and death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the power of sin and death has been destroyed.

The testimony of condemnation that is contained within the Law has also been destroyed (2 Corinthians 3:7, 9). When we understand that the Law of Moses was revealed to Paul to be both the Law of Condemnation and the Law of Death we are enabled to understand that it was the witness against man because of his sinful state. Therefore, when the power of sin that dominated man was destroyed, the witness of condemnation against that sin was also destroyed.

God no longer deals with His covenant people as the sons of Adam but rather as His own sons. We are no longer held under the Law of Condemnation but have been brought into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. The relationship is not based upon a man who rebelled and sinned and thus must be condemned but of those who have been made righteous, holy, and pure through Christ Jesus. God interacts with us as heirs and coinheritors with Christ. We have been born of the Spirit and have been joined unto the Lord as part of His family. There is no place for the testimony of condemnation against the new creation which is complete in Christ Jesus.

Blessings,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org