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In “Divine Law: A New Covenant Perspective,” Fred G. Zaspel argues that “divine law continues, but not in its Mosaic formulation. Christ supersedes Moses.” While “Moses is ‘fulfilled'” in Jesus, the “new Lawgiver,” whose “authority is supreme, and His law is obligatory,” the “Mosaic code as a whole and in all its parts has passed away.” Nonetheless, believers are “not ‘without law,'” but rather “under the law of Christ.” Jesus’ teaching “brings about that for which Moses’ law was ultimately intended,” taking “morals a step higher, above Moses.” The Sabbath, for example, “anticipated a ‘rest’ which is realized in Christ,” finding “its significance in Christ.” This “Christocentric focus” establishes a “theology of lordship.”