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No Christian is trying to murder or steal when they say they are free from the law. But the point still remains that, when you are not under the Law, even if you do steal and murder, God does not impute that sin to you. God still sees you as sinless. Think of Abraham again and the incident in Genesis when he lied twice about Sarah being his sister, whose dream did God appear in?
That is the blessedness of non-imputation of sin. Unlike you, I have faith in the spirit that all reborn Christians have, that that realization will not make anyone of us goes, "Whoopee, now I can steal/lie/murder all I want!"
That is the blessedness of non-imputation of sin. Unlike you, I have faith in the spirit that all reborn Christians have, that that realization will not make anyone of us goes, "Whoopee, now I can steal/lie/murder all I want!"
The power of sin is the law 1Cor15:56 The legally enforceable law with the power to condemn for imperfections concerning it.
The law that is holy, just and good Rom7:12
God did not abolish what was holy just and good, he did not have to, to remove the power of sin from believers lives. He created a new covenant.
It is no longer an external law written on tablets of stone, but an internal law written on tablets of human hearts(2cor3:3), meaning in the believers heart they want to live as God desires them to live. God put what was holy, just and good in believers hearts. At the same time he did this, he gave believers a saviour from their sin/transgressions of the law. They have no righteousness of obeying the law. Believers cannot use this as a licence to sin, for they in their hearts want to live according to what is written in those commandments, for that is where the law has been placed.
With the penalty of sin being removed from the believer, the power of sin is also removed, what is left, is simply what is holy, just and good.
The born again christians heartfelt desire to obey(for that is where the law has been placed) can now come to fruition, for what opposes obedience(sin) was dealt a rushing blow by Christ dying to remove its true power from the believers life(righteousness of obeying the law, and so Paul states:
For sin shall no longer be your master, for you are not under law(righteousness of obeying the law) but under grace(through faith in Christ)
Hence
Do we make void the law through faith? God forbid. Yea, we establish the law Rom3:31
Great message Paul had isn't it