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Agreed, no-one can live up to the law. If a person believes they have to strive to obey the law to remain a Christian they will Biblically speaking end up a worse sinner
BUT and this is a huge but it is because the Christian knows in their heart they do not have to strive to uphold the written law to remain a Christian, it is because they know that they stand on faith in Christ their one and only righteousness for Heaven that the law is far better upheld in their life
Do we therefore nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! RATHER WE UPHOLD THE LAW
Rom 3:31
This does not mean we will be perfect in the flesh. But the true Gospel message of grace is that by not being under the law we far better uphold it and by grace and trusting in Christ and relying on the Holy Spirit to sanctify us we live far more as God would have us live and that is an integral part of rhe Gospel of grace
It is Christ's responsibility to change us, not our own if we put our faith in him to do it, and faith in Christ cannot be said to go unrewarded
But Christianity is a journey if you like. We come to God broken sinners, steeped in sin(I admit I did)
We are yet without strength, but by faith in Christ we become stronger and our feet are placed on firm ground by Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit
Then there comes a time when God inevitably wants us to go on with him, take up our individual cross and follow after his son. We are not expected immediately upon conversion to do this, but as we grow stronger, so more is expected. You woud not ask an infant to walk five miles, but you may once that infant has grown, matured and become stronger
And it is a fact that for some they do not want to then go on and do the work required of them and give God what he requires from their life from the heart.
For many of them(and I do not say all) they then fall back in their minds to grace without responsibility and this is what they preach, and that is not the truth of the Gospel of grace.
Grace that does not set people free and give them much victory over sin in their life is not the grace of the Bible
And it is not the truth of true grace that someone can become a Christian and not show any change for the better in their lives for year after year, biblically speaking that is impossible, and that is what people need to accept. Christ did not die for sinners so they would remain steeped in the sin they were in at conversion, he died to set them free. And if there is no change in an individual over a CONSIDERABLE LENGTRH OF TIME they are not living in grace.
That is not being said to condemn anyone, but a belief that there is power in the cross of Christ, and if that power is not seen to bring results then the individual is not living in true grace
BUT and this is a huge but it is because the Christian knows in their heart they do not have to strive to uphold the written law to remain a Christian, it is because they know that they stand on faith in Christ their one and only righteousness for Heaven that the law is far better upheld in their life
Do we therefore nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! RATHER WE UPHOLD THE LAW
Rom 3:31
This does not mean we will be perfect in the flesh. But the true Gospel message of grace is that by not being under the law we far better uphold it and by grace and trusting in Christ and relying on the Holy Spirit to sanctify us we live far more as God would have us live and that is an integral part of rhe Gospel of grace
It is Christ's responsibility to change us, not our own if we put our faith in him to do it, and faith in Christ cannot be said to go unrewarded
But Christianity is a journey if you like. We come to God broken sinners, steeped in sin(I admit I did)
We are yet without strength, but by faith in Christ we become stronger and our feet are placed on firm ground by Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit
Then there comes a time when God inevitably wants us to go on with him, take up our individual cross and follow after his son. We are not expected immediately upon conversion to do this, but as we grow stronger, so more is expected. You woud not ask an infant to walk five miles, but you may once that infant has grown, matured and become stronger
And it is a fact that for some they do not want to then go on and do the work required of them and give God what he requires from their life from the heart.
For many of them(and I do not say all) they then fall back in their minds to grace without responsibility and this is what they preach, and that is not the truth of the Gospel of grace.
Grace that does not set people free and give them much victory over sin in their life is not the grace of the Bible
And it is not the truth of true grace that someone can become a Christian and not show any change for the better in their lives for year after year, biblically speaking that is impossible, and that is what people need to accept. Christ did not die for sinners so they would remain steeped in the sin they were in at conversion, he died to set them free. And if there is no change in an individual over a CONSIDERABLE LENGTRH OF TIME they are not living in grace.
That is not being said to condemn anyone, but a belief that there is power in the cross of Christ, and if that power is not seen to bring results then the individual is not living in true grace
By no means what so ever am I suggesting that one must obey the law. However, what I am saying is that one learns to abide in Christ sin begins to lose it's hold.
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