Natural and spiritual laws cannot be broken without a punishment or payment for transgressions. You may think somebody can because you have heard it said, "so and so broke the law."
The idea of "breaking the Law" comes from Moses literally breaking the tablets of the Law of God. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and, as Moses and Joshua witnessed the open rebellion against God, Moses threw the two tablets of the Ten Commandments* and they broke against the rock of Mount Horeb. Moses' hot-blooded behavior also transgressed the Law because he was called to be the Chosen One to deliver God's people from Pharaoh, but he gave the wrong example of how to handle oneself when angered. God had Moses cut two new pieces of rock for the second pair of tablets, which was the way for Moses to humble Himself before God for breaking God's copy of the covenant conditions.+
This video clip is not entirely Biblical, but you get the point. :)
As I mentioned, we don't literally break the law, we transgress it, acting as though the law does not pertain to us. Mankind may form laws to serve them best, but it is only God Himself who determines ethics and morality. We choose to go outside the boundaries of moral and ethical laws which God developed for our welfare and suffer for having done so. If we choose to do things that transgress/disobey God's laws, we must understand there are many sorrows that will ensue -- as our lives (and the nightly news) have plainly, and painfully, displayed.
The Law, more specifically, the Ten Commandments and the Royal Laws of Love, are actually covenant conditions. The Ten Commandments were necessary when God liberated the Hebrews (Israelites) from cruel bondage in Egypt to give them a land of their own -- as He promised to Abraham approximately 430 (or so) years prior. The Israelites needed to understand what God considered to be moral and ethical behavior, so He wrote the simplification of the whole Law with His own finger on those two tablets.
Let's rewind history for a little bit longer. Abraham is called the "father of faith" because God formed a blood covenant with him even while he was a stranger in a strange land. As you read Genesis 15, you will discover the intimacy of God in His dealings with Abraham. You will notice that it wasn't Abraham who completed the covenant walk in the sacrificial blood, but it was God Himself who ratified the covenant with a walk between the carcasses. This covenant was brought to fulfillment in Moses' time and, interestingly enough (and very telling of the faithlessness of the people of Israel), Moses shattered the written Law upon discovering the enjoyment of debauchery as he and Joshua neared the camp! Clearly, Adam and Eve were not very long on the Earth when they broke the Oath Covenant as well.
This breaking-of-the-Law served as proof that this covenant between man and God would remain very fragile, so there would have to arise a Savior/Messiah who could and would forge a new kind of covenant -- an unbreakable bond in perfect, sinless blood. Knowing this, it could only be God Himself who had the ability to create such a covenant. Hallelujah that Jesus came about 2000 years ago to not only solve the sin problem, but to create that unbreakable Blood Covenant mankind so desperately needed to escape the Meal Covenant with Satan! That's why Jesus is nicknamed "The Lamb of God."
“The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
We have the glorious honor and privilege to become sons or daughters of God because of the spiritual marriage between each reborn, Spirit-filled Christian and Jesus. You may have thought, and been taught, that nonsense of "we're all children of God." Yes, we are all made (created) in the image of God, but since we are born into this sinful world because of the Meal Covenant with Satan, we are afflicted with the sin curse just like everybody else. That means we are born as children of the devil, as slaves of sin, not of God.
The way to become a child of God is to divorce yourself from the Meal Covenant with Satan and enter into the Blood Covenant in Jesus Christ. The Royal Laws of Love in our Messiah Jesus Christ is so very simple, yet so very impossible without the love of Jesus in our hearts. Breakthrough will occur when we will give and receive agape (Godly) love because we fulfill the love of Jesus when we love people the way He does, not phileo or eros love the way humans have done from the beginning of time.
We are called to be His representatives here on Earth. There is not a single person who does not require love -- especially when we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Prayer
Lord God, I appreciate all You have done for me. Glory to You, my Lord! Thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus, to create an unbreakable blood covenant from Your end. It's up to me to hold up my end of the covenant and I commit, today, to honor the covenant and Your Royal laws of Love all the days of my life. I acknowledge my deep need for all things Lord God Almighty and I ask You to reveal those transgressions I have not confessed so I can be right with You in all I do. Please lead me in the Way everlasting so I can be a source of glory here on Earth for You. In Jesus' name I pray, amen!
* There were two stone tablets with writing on front and back. That means Moses had both Israel's and God's tablets in his possession -- and broke them both!
+ What is God calling you to do for "breaking His Laws"?