Why did Jesus say I am the Law of Moses?

In Moses' time, the Jewish tribe could not have comprehended the law of Love that Jesus taught—

The law of Moses gradually prepared the people to be able to receive the Messiah's greater spiritual truths. 

Jesus himself said to his trained twelve that he had yet much to say to them, which they could not bear then.

We cannot find a race in the world that has not had in one way or another its revelations. The nature and extent of these revelations depend always upon the peculiarities and the development of the race of people to whom they come.

And every revelation has the same tendency to uplift and develop the spirit toward its natural and divine heirship. 

The ignorant heathen, worshipping his wooden gods obeys a perception, however dim, of his dependence upon a power without himself whose mysteries he cannot hope to define. 

And a channel of thought once opened up is like a furrow ploughed from the sea to irrigate the soil—the waters widen and deepen the rut through which they run until in time that rut becomes the mighty river.

We must not forget that God never hurries—His patience is never exhausted—His duration of time never gives out. All is accomplished slowly by the processes of law, of development. All is perfect harmony—perfect unity is the purpose and law of the family of God.

It takes years on years in the world to develop the minds of humanity up to the comprehension of a new revelation. 

As soon as any great number of human minds are fitted to receive, the revelation is always given.

God is more merciful than any human mind can comprehend—

He has given the human soul eternity if he needs it in which to work out his own salvation.

Suppose God had made man perfect in the beginning and avoided for him all this effort and stumbling—

He would have simply been such a thing as God made him—nothing more—no virtue in himself—no possibility of ever becoming greater than the thing, which he was at first created.

But God endowed man a living soul—endowed him the offspring of His own undying Spirit!—endowed him too with all the possibilities necessary to develop to a comprehension of himself. 

Made him spiritually in his own image in that He gave him personal freedom and free will and the inherent power of evolution outwardly from His own individual life-germ.

He shows all the merciful tenderness of a watchful and loving parent in the revelations—the continual light that He sheds downward through every grade of spiritual life to help him onward. 

The higher spirits develop toward God the more they turn backwards to shed the light, which they have received.

Christ's injunctions of love one to another were in accordance with this law. 

Christ came to the world, not to appease any wrath of an unmerciful God—not as atonement for a sinful world—not to save any man from the inevitable result of his own sin—He did come to save him from the dread and horror of the grave—to reveal to him a purer and better existence beyond that grave—to reveal to him all he could comprehend of God's love and mercy—to reveal in his own spiritual body, a living, tangible witness of the spiritual future of which he taught.

He came to bring tidings of great joy in that God's blessed spirit is everywhere, waiting to guide and uplift the weak and trembling spirit that is ready to receive its impressions. 

He came to teach of the law also—to tell the inevitable result of reaping as he sows. 

It was necessary that He should suffer and die—not for atonement, but for revealment—to make a strong impression on men's minds and to reveal himself to them afterwards and clinch the fact of spiritual existence in the minds of his followers.

Through prayer, strength of spirit is given to overcome our lower natures by the will of the higher.

Just what we are determines the spiritual plane upon which we stand in any state of existence—everything in our development depends upon our own efforts—God is ready and anxious to give us all we are capable of receiving of spiritual aid and impelling us toward our salvation.

There is no such possible thing as a soul being totally lost. It may be at a standstill for ages, but there is always eternity ahead.

There is no entire misery, nor unalloyed happiness for any soul in its progression, but the degree of either depends upon how much of a comprehension of God's justice and mercy the individual has arrived at.