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The good news is that by Jesus' mission, His life, death and resurrection, and His atonement for all the sins of both the literal Jews and the rest, all can attain salvation in Jesus Christ. Crucified with Christ, away from the law of the prince of this world, which is the law of the flesh. The promise was fulfilled in a more complete way from revolving around literal (Israel) to spiritual, antitypical (Israel). I write in parentheses because it is much more comprehensive than just revolving around Israel. The gospel is about salvation from sin and punishment for our transgressions and eternal death of all who come to Him. Who believe in Him, both His sacrifice, and choose His way, the way of the cross, and His teaching and law. In this way, everyone, regardless of race, nationality, gender, status, etc, from Adam to the last generation, can be saved. (Galatians chapter 3). "If you love me, you will keep my commandments," Jesus says in John 14:15.
His Law, His commandments are the 10 commandments, only summed up in two main commandments. Where the greatest is love for God (the Creator) - the first four summed up in 2. Love of our neighbor (the creation). The last six summarized. Matthew 22: 37-39.
So if we truly say that we love and believe in Jesus, then we would want to serve Him and receive His law. This law He has promised to write on our hearts and minds in the process of sanctification, by His holy spirit (empowering grace) through faith, if we choose Him and His way daily. This is the new law and covenant, the new, everlasting order, where Jesus Christ is high priest. Hence from an earthly temple and Levitical priesthood of men, to a heavenly temple and priesthood by Jesus who is God. Not by inheritance, but by a sanctified character, by obedience to God, which is according to the order of Melchizedek.
When the veil in the temple was torn at His death, it marked the transition to the mature law of the new, more complete covenant, from physical to spiritual. The old covenant, which is the immature, limited law in the letter, and the focus on the external, the apparant, the ceremonial, which were really meant to be types and figures that should point towards the completion of the law, in Jesus Christ. Among other things, from literal / typical lambs, to the antitypical, spiritual lamb. For the blood of beasts could not atone for human sin. Not even a human's blood could do that. God himself had to come down in the form of the son of God, Jesus Christ, as a human being (i.e God incarnated). Thus He showed that man can go through all trials and tests, if they are filled with the word of God and His spirit, and still triumph by justification. Victory through the blood of Jesus for all our transgressions of the law if we repent, and the power of triune God, through faith, to perform the process of sanctification. Jesus thus built a bridge that made it possible, but not easier than it was for the patriarchs to be saved. His blood covers the sins of all, if they turn away from their sins, and walk in the path of righteousness, from immaturity to maturity. From the old to the new. From darkness to light. This is the new birth. And finally towards victory. So it is by the new, more complete covenant, where Jesus is high priest, that we can all be saved. The law received by His spirit, grace, through faith.
Just as the Ten Commandments were placed in the Ark of the covenant, in the most holy place, Jesus will write his law in our most holy place, our inner sanctuary, that is, our hearts and minds. *A house, a temple, a kingdom are different terms that can be used interchangably in this sense. Basically we are to reject the kingdom/ house temple of this world and receive God and Christ’s kingdom/ house/ temple which is also His heart and mind, His moral character, which is also His law and spirit. This can only happen by the two-fold purpose of grace through faith. See seperate article for more on this. Christ demonstrated His own divine law of love on the cross when He sacrificed His life for the sake of mankind. If we believe in Him and His law, which was perfectly demonstrated by His self-sacrificing life, suffering and death, then as we become more filled with His heavenly law of love, we will also want to follow in His footsteps, sacrificing the spirit of this world, and the self / the law of the flesh. And in this sense realize that the way of the cross is still for the sake of our behalf and to the best of the entire Universe. Both out of love for the Creator and the creation, God and our neighbor. Hence is the law of Jesus, and thus, His kingdom, born in us, by his example, and by his spirit.
"In him you also, along with the others, are built up into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit." -Ephesians 2:22
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
1 Corinthians 3:16
"because through Christ Jesus *the law of the Spirit who gives life* has set you free from *the law of sin and death*.
-Romans 8: 1-2
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets! I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill."
Matthew 5: 17-20
"What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness."
Romans 6:15-18
"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 6:15-18, 22-23
"There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." - Romans 3:22-24
"Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."
- Romans 3:29-31
"and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord." - Hebrews 12,:14
See also Hebrews chapters 7-10. Galatians chapter 3-4. 2. Corinthians 2 and 3. Ephesians chapter 3, to name a few. Entire series: "Salvation/ Sanctification"
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