Are you free? Acts 13-14

Acts 13:38-39
" Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses."

In the story of Acts we see how the gospel was presented to multitudes of hungry people.  They were hungry for the truth and Paul and Barnabas, in this section, were willing to give them the truth.   Most who listened to Paul, as in the above, were Jews, who were fully versed in the Old Testament and all things Moses.   Paul knew his audience.  He went from the known to the unknown with his message.    He quoted the O.T. and made sure he made a connection with what they currently believed to what they should believe.    Yet, there would have to be some change they would have to face.  What they believe, the Law of Moses, was only a shadow of what Christ was and what He would do for them.   As the writer of Hebrews tells us, the blood of bulls and goats could not permanently make us clean:

Hebrews 9:13-14
" For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

The Law was perfect, but we are sinful and we CAN'T do all that is in the law.   So, the obedience to it, will never cleanse us and make us clean.   We needed someone who would keep the law and who would fulfills its every demand, to represent us and fulfill it for us.   He would also take the payment for our sin, for our inability to pay it on our own.  We read in the above passage that Christ was able to provide for us forgiveness for our sins AND to free us from those things we could not be freed from by keeping the law.    Christ was the fulfillment of all things for us and the provided of all things to us.  He made it possible for us to be free from those sins that hold us and make us sinful before God.   But, Jesus Christ freed us.   That should be what we rejoice in and recognize as powerful in our lives.   Jesus sets us free from anger, lust, greed, pride, etc.    The Law could not do that because we are full of sin and can't keep the law.  Jesus can and did and gave that privilege and power.