Law of Moses Dissected: Extracting the Moral Law
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What is the Law of Christ? My simple answer: Grow in Grace and knowledge.
Where your heart is...........If we are studying bible doctrine and Growing in grace and knowledge, learning the principles of the Christian way of life, our minds are occupied with Christ and less occupied with this world. So we are occupied with Christ and not our flesh............morality through spirituality. We don't have time to sin because we are occupied with Christ.
Where your heart is.................if we are studying morality and sin...........we are occupied with sin, we know where that leads if we don't have the mind of Christ. Even the most adherent moralist or sin occupied person will eventually cave one way or another. Go into some sin(Immoral degeneracy) or try for perfection(moral degeneracy.) We will ALL fail at this approach.
Where your heart is...........If we are studying bible doctrine and Growing in grace and knowledge, learning the principles of the Christian way of life, our minds are occupied with Christ and less occupied with this world. So we are occupied with Christ and not our flesh............morality through spirituality. We don't have time to sin because we are occupied with Christ.
Where your heart is.................if we are studying morality and sin...........we are occupied with sin, we know where that leads if we don't have the mind of Christ. Even the most adherent moralist or sin occupied person will eventually cave one way or another. Go into some sin(Immoral degeneracy) or try for perfection(moral degeneracy.) We will ALL fail at this approach.
I like that, nice distinction. Our identity is found in Christ, and in Him, we are the righteousness of God. Our sin doesn't define us, Christ does. We were sinners saved by grace, but we are now saints. We still sin, but such sin is not tied to who we now are, but is a result of our mortal bodies (the flesh). We need to renew our minds to the spiritual truths of God's word so that it may alter our natural surroundings. There is an identity crisis due to ignorance, but as we mature in Christ we learn who we are in Him and who He is to us. This happening, our conduct is sanctified towards righteousness.
Morning eternally-gratefull! Yet another title said differently for same issue. This continuing issue of coming at salvation by grace through faith vs. works, reminds me of Balak trying to get Balaam to curse the Israelites. Come over here and view them from east and curse them. No? Ok, look at them from the west and curse them from here. No? Ok, let's go over here and view them from the north, then maybe you can curse them from there. The comparison being that, if we can call it by another title maybe we can get people to believe in it. If not, we'll just keep trying new titles for the same thing. Oye Vey!
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