Where In The Bible Will I Find:

The One We Should Follow, Moses or Jesus?

Moses was God's Servant, he walked in all the statutes of God, he delivered God's people out of the Egyptian bondage into sight of the promised land, he was with God in writing the ten commandments, and gave this law to the children of Israel a law that was to last throughout the Jewish state and end at the cross.

Moses, along with Elias, met with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration, Peter, James and John being witness. The voice of God, heard by all present, made it crystal clear who we are to hear and follow. In declaring His Son, He said "This is My beloved son in whom I am well pleased, hear Him" (Matt. 17:5). Not Moses, not Elias, but you are to hear Jesus. Jesus was born under the Jewish law, He was subject to it, He kept it perfectly, and commanded all at that time to keep it, for it would last until the cross when the Jewish dispensation would end and the Christian dispensation would be inaugurated. "He taketh away the first that He may establish the second" (Heb. I0:9).

No nation can be under two sets of laws at the same time. Our country, the United States, were, before 1879, under the law of the Articles of Confederation. This law was in effect until our present Constitution was enacted in 1789. The previous law ended, we were no longer subject to it. The same with the law of Moses, the old law had served its purpose.

Paul said, "...whereas the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ that we may be justified by faith, but after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster" (Gal. 3:24, 25). We are now under the "perfect law of liberty" (James 1:25). A law that will last until the end of time. Christ is our example, he kept the law of Moses perfectly, we must do our best to keep the law of Christ perfect. Moses was a faithful servant of God, but we are not to follow him nor his law for it ended at the. cross. We are under a new law, instituted by Jesus, and it is Jesus we must hear and follow.