As believers in Jesus Christ, who are saved by grace through faith, the question inevitably arises, “what do we do with Moses and the Ten Commandments?” One of the major themes running throughout the New Testament is the thorny relationship between a Christian under the new covenant and the law of Moses which lies at the heart of the old covenant. Not only is this a prominent theme in the ministry of Jesus–as for example, Luke 24:44, where Jesus states that “that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled”–but this is a major theme in the letters of Paul. In Romans 10:4, Paul writes that “for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” What do we as Christians do with those ceremonies, feasts, and practices associated with the covenant God made with Moses at Mount Sinai, after Christ has come and has declared all of these things are fulfilled in him?

We now treat two articles which deal with themes related to the work of Christ as our high priest and the sole mediator of the covenant of grace. These two articles (Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six) follow the discussion of faith, justification, and sanctification (articles Twenty-Two through Twenty-Four) because how we understand the covenant God made with Moses and Jesus Christ’s present mediation on our behalf (the subject of article Twenty-Six) will impact considerably our conception of the Christian life and the nature of those good works which we now do because we are justified on the basis of the merits of Jesus Christ which we have received through the means of faith.

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