The character of every Kingdom is expressed in its law. If the Kingdom of God has no law, it would not be a kingdom.
For those blind, ignorant, naive "Christians" who claim we have no law to obey, you have made yourselves lawless in your disobedience. Repent!
In the Instruction on the Mount (Matt. 5-7), we see a contrast between two mountains and the attendant circumstances of two givings of Yahweh's law to a people on Earth. At Mount Sinai, there were awesome sights and sounds; the mountain burning with fire and quaking at the presence of God, the pealing of the trumpet long, and loud, and above all that terrifying "voice of words" that caused the people to shrink back in fright and to entreat that the word should not be spoken to them any more. On this mountain, the same Divine Lawgiver, now in lowly human guise, sits quietly down and the multitudes gather willingly to His feet to drink in His words; and they being voluntarily gathered around Him, "He opened His mouth and taught them, saying--."
The Instruction on the Mount demonstrates irrefutably that there is a law for the Christian to obey. We do not, however, obey it in order to earn or receive anything from God (because that is impossible), but we do so because we love Him and His law is "spiritual" and "holy and righteous and good."
The "Christian" who attempts to teach that Paul taught against such a law is a liar, a deceiver, and a fraud, teaching others to be lawless and disobedient as they themselves are. These people are illiterate and ignorant of Scripture and of Paul's words, engaging in proof text methodology, eisegesis, and Scripture twisting to make Paul say things that he never said.
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. "For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished." Matthew 5:17-18
Have Heaven and Earth passed away yet? Peter is extremely clear on such an event: "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up" (2 Peter 3:10). This has not happened yet. But it will. Ergo, the Law, that Yahweh gave to us in love, for our benefit, is still in effect, still accomplishing its purpose. "He "under law" means to be in the servitude or "dominion" of sin, and hence liable to the penalty of sin; for the law could do nothing with or for the sinner but to consign him to the penalty righteously due him. Hence sin has dominion over those who are "under the law." But "under grace" a remedy for sin has been provided through Christ Jesus; and they who are under grace can and should keep the commandments of Yahweh "from the heart.""
"The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached" (Luke 16:16).
"For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17).
"God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son" (Heb. 1:1-2).
Dispensationalists, such as that heretic C. I. Scofield, claim that the Instruction on the Mount is Law and that it belongs to the Old Covenant. The above words refute that ridiculous nonsense. The Instruction on the Mount is filled with grace through and through.
Every kingdom has its law. It is not a kingdom without a law. Do we honestly believe Jesus' Kingdom to be lawless? One needs only read the New Covenant to see all the commands given to believers. In fact, that book that supposedly says Christians are free from any law, Romans 12:1 through 15:7 are "commandments of the Lord" for those who are in His Kingdom. Anyone who thinks the Christian has no law to obey is illiterate and delusional, obviously having never read the Scriptures! In 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22, there are over a dozen commands given to the Christian believer. Anyone who teaches that the Christian is without a law, above the law, or in any other way lawless is a false teacher belonging to a dangerous sect/cult.
If Christians are free from any law, how can Paul say "Love is the fulfilling of the law"? If the Law no longer existed or was no longer applicable, then how could love fulfill it? If we love our neighbour, then we will do nothing that hinders or harms him, which fulfills the last six of the Ten Commandments. How could Romans 8:4 say that "the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit"? If Christians are free from any law, how can Jesus require us "to do and teach" His commandments to those we make disciples of?
The Instruction on the Mount is an expansion of the Law. Jesus took the flat balloon of the Law, inflated it, and gave it greater scope, exposing its spiritual element. He said, "You've heard it said, do not murder." then He expanded upon it and told us not to hate anybody or be unrighteously angry with anyone either. Does that sound like having no law to obey? How could Jesus accuse people of being lawless if there was no longer a law to obey? If the Christian has no law that they are supposed to keep, then how do we explain Jesus' words, "If you love Me, you will obey my commandments"? This was repeated by Him and the apostles numerous times.
Yahweh gave the Law because He loves us. If the law is "spiritual," "holy and righteous and good," then how can we turn around and claim it is evil and that Yahweh got rid of something that was for our good? That reflects His character? Such is false teaching, derived by proof text methodology, eisegesis, and Scripture twisting. Have we never read the Scriptures? Or the Psalms? Yahweh's Law is constantly praised. The spiritual mind loves the Law of Yahweh. We must remember that Paul is not the author of Christianity; Jesus is. Paul was not given revelation superior to that of Jesus. Paul taught what He learned of Jesus, not something completely different. Hebrews 1:1-2 has made it clear: "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son." Yahweh has spoken to us in this era BY HIS SON. Not by the apostles! What the apostles had to teach is precisely what Jesus taught them. His is the last and only message to us!
Yahweh demands that faith shall be real, and the proof of real faith is obedience; loyal loving submission to the revealed will of God. As John Owen has said, "Obedient faith is that which saves." We see this all through the New Covenant. Anyone who denies it is willfully blind. Jesus said in the Instruction on the Mount, "Whosoever shall do and teach [these commandments], the same shall be called 'great' in the Kingdom of Heaven." So Jesus, King of the Universe, made statements like this, but we are to believe that supposedly Paul received revelation that was "superior" to this and that the Christian has "no law" to obey? If that is what you believe, then you are a member of a dangerous sect and/or cult.
How could the whole of Scripture, including Paul, talk so wonderfully about the Law of Yahweh, and yet in the same breath we attempt to demonize and vilify the Law? Clearly we do not understand the Law or Scripture if we have such an outlook. Theologians misunderstand Paul because they ignore Jesus. They know nothing, impose their ignorance upon the Scriptures, and because they are not entering the Kingdom they prevent those who are entering from entering. The same problems we see Jesus confronting with the Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees are the same problems we have with preachers, theologians and "scholars" ("experts").