We are called to:
#1 Love (Which includes following the law in the flesh [obedience] and being free whilst in the Spirit). (Matthew 22:36-40)
#2 Reach the lost with the Gospel-ALL of the Gospel to include the Old and New Testament. (Mark 16:15)
#3 Rebuke/ admonish, teach/ train & fellowship within the body of Christ (fellow believers).
We could say 'love the sinner, hate the sin' which does apply here; but as Rusty pointed out the original intent here is addressing believers who continue to be disobedient. They need to be rebuked and brought back under the umbrella blood of Christ in Spirit-not the pull of fleshly desires.
Those who are ignorant need to be taught the ways of the Lord; but once taught-they are responsible for complying.
People like to get the 'fire insurance' and use the false doctrine of being 'free from the law' If you read Paul's epistles-especially Romans; it becomes quite clear we are free from the law ONLY when we are walking in the Spirit 100%. Which is near impossible since we are still attached to the flesh.
Yes-we are most definitely responsible under the 'law'. Christ Himself said he did not come to abolish the law-but to fulfill it. (Matthew 5:17-18) When you fully dedicate every breath and moment in sacrifice to the LORD-then you are fulfilling the law in love which means you are sacrificing yourself just like Christ did. Which means you should be experiencing persecution form the world; and quite frankly, until you are martyred-you have not fulfilled the law.
As Christ said- there is no greater gift one can give but to lay down one's life for another. Salvation is free, all other blessings come from sacrifice and obedience.(John 15:13)
1 Corinthians 5 (KJV)
1:It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
People need a firm understanding of the distinction between: flesh, spirit (soul) and Spirit (Holy Spirit). Until these parts are recognized by the individual as existing within one physical body after salvation, the education process is hindered.
Our personal soul/ spirit and flesh do not make us Holy, only the acceptance and allowing the Holy Spirit to commune with us brings us closer to being Holy. Therefore, we need the 'law' to guide us. The 'law' was given to us to reveal the difference between sin and righteousness in our own flesh and spirit. (Galatians 5) If you are fully 100% living in the Holy Spirit-you have no need for the fleshly law. But since we are 2 parts 'physical' still tied to earth, we NEED the law for rebuke, correction, and edification. (2 Timothy 4:1-5, Ephesians 4)
The truth of the matter is this-even the saved reject many truths after salvation; because we don't want to have to change our habits and behavior. Don't 'make light' the Word of God and learn what it means to be Holy. Start with the 'law' then transcend to the Spirit in Faith. For your freedom comes from the only Source of Truth-Jesus Christ. (John 14:6) Abandon your flesh.
Matthew 22:
1:And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.