Then does He Who supplies you with His marvelous [Holy] Spirit and works powerfully and miraculously among you do so on [the grounds of your doing] what the Law demands, or because of your believing in and adhering to and trusting in and relying on the message that you heard? (Galatians 3:5)
This is the key to operate in the miracle power of God.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Galatians 3:13-14)
Apostle Paul applies to Jesus on the cross an enactment of the law of Moses, stated in Deuteronomy 21:23, according to which a person executed by hanging on a "tree" thereby came under the curse of God. Then he points to the resulting opposite: the blessing.
Jesus was made a curse that we might enter into the blessing. The curse that came upon Jesus is defined as "the curse of the law."
The curses listed in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 may be summed up as follows:
• Humiliation
• Barrenness, unfruitfulness
• Mental and physical sickness
• Family breakdown
• Poverty
• Defeat
• Oppression
• Failure
• God's disfavor
The curse of the law includes all diseases, every sickness, and every plague known throughout the history of the world.
Adam and Eve sold us into slavery to the devil and put us in bondage to his power, under his jurisdiction. But Christ has redeemed us. He has bought us back.
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. (Galatians 3:24-25)
The purpose of the Law was to bring us to Christ: The Greek word for tutor is paidagogos,
In the Greek and Roman civilization of Paul’s day, a wealthy father would have a senior trusted slave who would be charged with the initial education of the children. Before these children were old enough to go to school, the paidagogos would take them under his charge and train them in the basic principles of obedience, good behavior and right and wrong. Then, when they became old enough to go to the school with a formal teacher, he would accompany them to the school and deliver them to the teacher.
Generally, this senior slave would be rather strict and severe with the children—usually, more strict and severe than the father himself would have been. Paul says the Law was this senior slave to us. Its work was to teach us the basic principles of righteousness, of obedience, of right and wrong, and then to take us to the real teacher, who is Christ.
The scriptures clearly say that after we’ve put our faith in Jesus Christ, we don’t need the tutor of the law to instruct us anymore. The Holy Spirit inside us can do the job pretty well on His own - He doesn’t need the assistance of an external set of rules!
“The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it”. (Luke 16:16)
Again this verse implies that if we still preach law-based living we are not preaching the Kingdom, because we would be preaching things that ended with John the Baptist over 2000 years ago.