3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” (from Gal. 3)
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (from James 2)
It's not about effort, Karraster, it's about reality. The Law requires 100% obedience 100% of the time. If you fail even 1%, you actually fail 100%. "If you keep the whole Law, yet offend in one point, you are guilty of all."
-JGIG
Have you ever studied the meaning of wormwood? We all can use a better understanding of God's Word, and wormwood seems to be a part of many an unkindness.
I don't rely on God's law for salvation. I study to do what God calls good.
Reality? Here's some:[SUP]
Deut2914 [/SUP]Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; [SUP]15 [/SUP]but with
him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God,
and also with him that is not here with us this day: [SUP]16 [/SUP](for ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; [SUP]17 [/SUP]and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which
were among them
[SUP]18 [/SUP]lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go
and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; [SUP]19 [/SUP]and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: [SUP]20 [/SUP]the Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
You can't escape God's Law by imagining a vain thing.. That's reality.