If we are a citizen of a nation then we are under that nation’s legal jurisdiction. By two counts then the Law of Moses does not apply to Christians. Firstly, we are not part of the Old Covenant for which the law was made. This applies to both Jews and Gentiles today. No one today is under that covenant. It is finished.
Secondly, we are crucified with Christ and so are dead. If we are dead then the law no longer speaks to us. You cannot take a policeman to a cemetery to arrest a dead man. He is no longer within the legal jurisdiction of that nation. The law cannot condemn a dead man.
And also you cannot take a prostitute to the cemetery to tempt a dead man, not even a truck load of prostitutes. The dead man will not even “struggle”. We are dead by Christ’s death, which works in us by His faith.
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