Gospel is new testament Law.
Pay close attention to what Paul teaches in Romans 8:2, it reads,
- there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit
- for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death
Paul is teaching of two laws here.
The law of the Spirit that frees from the law of sin and death.
First is the new testament law, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Second is the old law that cannot give life it only brings sin and death.
Paul talks about these two laws using very similar words in Galatians. Read Galatians 5:1,
- standfast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free
And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage
In these verses Paul is contrasting two laws.
The old testament law of Moses i.e. the law of sin and death.
The new testament law. It gives life, liberty, freedom in Christ.
In Romans 7-8:2, Paul said that the Law of God is good, that he wanted to do good, that he delighted in obeying it, and that he served it with his mind, but contrasted it with the law of sin, which was working within his members to cause him not to do that good that he wanted to do, which was waging war against the Law of His mind, which he served with his flesh, which held him captive, and which the Law of the Spirit has freed us from. Moreover, in Romans 8:4-7, Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh, who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Law of God, so the Law of God is not the law of sin and death, but rather they lead us in opposite directions.
In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God spoke to him without depart from it, so the the Law of Moses is the Law of God, which is why it is referred to as being the Law of God in verses like Nehemiah 8:1-8, Ezra 7:6-12, and Luke 2:22-23. The Spirit is God, so it doesn't even make sense to interpret that as saying that the Law of God has freed us from the Law of God.
In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Law of Moses was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom. Christ also set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Law of Moses and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked (1 John 2:6). So Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Law of Moses by word and by example and I see no justification for thinking that the Law of Christ is something other than or contrary to anything that Christ taught. In Luke 10:25-28, Jesus affirmed that the way to inherit the gift of eternal life is by obeying the greatest two commandments of the Law of Moses, so it is false that it does not give life.
If God freed the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt in order to put them under bondage to His law, then it would be for bondage that God sets us free, however, Galatians 5:1 says that it is for freedom that God sets us free. In Psalms 119:142, the Law of Moses is truth, and in John 8:31-36, it is the transgression of the Law of Moses that puts us into bondage while the truth sets us free.
The new testament law is who ALL are under today. Both the jew and the gentile.
The new law replaced the old.
This new testament law is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 6:2,
- bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ
1 Corinthians 9:21,
- to them that are without law as without law being not without law to God but under the law of Christ that I might gain them that are without law
Bearing one another's burdens is not doing anything that isn't in accordance with the Law of Moses. In 1 Corinthians 9:21, Paul used a parallel statement to equate the Law of God with the Law of Christ and the Law of Moses is the Law of God.
The gospel is the good news. But also the good news can be disobeyed.
The only way to disobey the gospel is if it contains commands.
Since the gospel contains commands it is therefore Gods new testament law.
2 Thessalonians 1:8,
- in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus is the law giver under the new covenant, the new testament, the new law, the gospel of Jesus.
Matthew 28:18-20,
- and Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth
- teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you...
The Law of Moses sums up all that Jesus commanded them.
The new testament gospel is the rule of judgement.
Romans 2:16,
- in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel
Paul also taught the Gospel of the Kingdom based on the Law of Moses (Acts 20:24-25, 28:23).
John 12:48,
- he that rejecteth Me and receiveth not My words hath one that judgeth him, the word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day
The gospel is not only the standard to salvation and godly living but also the standard by which God will judge all people both jew and gentile.
Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of the Law of Moses (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it. It is contradictory for someone to think that they need salvation from living in transgression of the Law of Moses while also thinking that they have no obligation to live in obedience to it.
Some have been misled to believe we are not under law but under grace.
While others believe there is one continuous covenant, therefore the law of Moses is still in effect.
Both of these beliefs are error. The Bible does not teach this.
If not under law then God does not charge us with sin. As there can be no accountability of sin if there is no law.
Romans 5:13,
- for until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law
The reason why Jesus established the New Covenant was not in order to nullify anything that he spent his ministry teaching or so that that we could be free to continue to have the same lawlessness that caused the New Covenant to be needed in the first place, but rather the New Covenant still involves following the Law of Moses (Jeremiah 31:33). Sin was in the world before the law was given, so there were no actions that became righteous or sinful when the law was given, but rather the law revealed what has always been and will always be the way to do that.
But what about grace? Doesn't law cancel grace?
Romans 6:14-15; 17
- for sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under law(old testament, old law of Moses) but under grace
Paul is not teaching we today are not under any law.
Paul is teaching we are freed from the old covenant law of Moses. It is no longer binding.
Keep reading chapter 6 and you will learn that obedience to the doctrine of Christ freed them.
That proves they are under law for they had to obey commandments.
Verse 17 of Romans chapter 6,
- but God be thanked that ye were servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you
- being made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness
While we are not under a system of law that saves by law keeping.
Grace does not give us freedom to sin.
Grace teaches us a new way of how to obey. That new way is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Law of Moses leads us to do what is holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12) while the law of sin leads us in the opposite direction by stirring up sinful passions in order to bear fruit unto death. In Romans 6:14, Paul described the law that we are not under as being a law where sin had dominion over us, which does not describe the Law of Moses, but rather it is the law of sin where sin had dominion over us. In Romans 6:15, being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin, so we are still under the Law of Moses. In the rest of Romans 6, Paul contrasted these two directions where we are slaves to the one that we obey, either the law of sin, which leads to death, or obedience to the Law of Moses, which leads to righteousness.
Titus 2:11-12,
- for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men
- teaching us that denying ungodlyness and worldly lusts we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world
The old law ended. No one could be saved by the old law. But Christs new law, His gospel can set men free from there sins. It is perfect while the old law is imperfect. Christs new law is perfect meaning complete because it can give all liberty from the bondage of sin.
In Titus 2:11-13 our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so dong those works in obedience to the Law of Moses has nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation as the result, but rather God graciously teaching us to be a doer of them is part of His gift of salvation. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith.
Galatians 5:4,
- Christ has become of no effect unto you, whosoever you are justified by the law(old testament law), ye have fallen from grace
All throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to the Law of Moses, and even Christ began his ministry with that Gospel message, so it would be absurd to interpret Galatians 5:4 as Paul warning us against doing that and saying that we will be cut off from Christ if we repent and believe the Gospel of Christ. It would also be absurd to interpret Psalms 119:29-30 as if he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him how to fall from grace.
James 1:25,
- but whose looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his work
The Law of Moses is perfect (Psalms 19:7), it is of liberty (Psalms 119:45), and it blesses those who obey it (Psalms 119:1-3), so James speaking about a perfect law of liberty that blesses those who obey it was not saying anything about the Law of Moses that wasn't already said in the Psalms.
Conclusion: I could give more evidence but this is sufficient.
The new testament gospel of Jesus Christ is also His new covenant and His new law.
Jesus said: John 13:34-35 = Leviticus 19:18 = but a higher standard than the old law, John 15:13.
- a new commandment(new law) I give unto you that ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another
- By this SHALL ALL MEN KNOW that ye are My disciples if ye have love one to another
The greatest two commandments of the Law of Moses are to love God and our neighbor, so love is not doing something other than what is in accordance with it.