[h=3]Frustrating grace with law[/h] [h=3][/h] [h=3]Romans 10:4[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For Christ
is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
[h=3]Galatians 3:23-25[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]23 [/SUP]But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. [SUP]24 [/SUP]Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [SUP]25 [/SUP]But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
[h=3]Ephesians 2:15[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]15 [/SUP]having abolished in his flesh the enmity,
even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man,
so making peace;
[h=3]Galatians 2:21[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]21 [/SUP]I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness
come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
[h=3]Galatians 6:2[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
[h=3]Matthew 22:37-39[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]37 [/SUP]Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [SUP]38 [/SUP]This is the first and great commandment. [SUP]39 [/SUP]And the second
is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[h=3]Matthew 22:40[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]40 [/SUP]On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Now, this does not mean the Old Testament law is irrelevant today. Many of the commands in the Old Testament law fall into the categories of “loving God” and “loving your neighbor.” The Old Testament law can be a good guidepost for knowing how to love God and knowing what goes into loving your neighbor. At the same time, to say that the Old Testament law applies to Christians today is incorrect. The Old Testament law is a unit (James 2:10). Either all of it applies, or none of it applies. If Christ fulfilled some of it, such as the sacrificial system, He fulfilled all of it.
“This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome”
[h=3]James 2:10[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]10 [/SUP]For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
[h=3]1 John 5:3[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
The Ten Commandments were essentially a summary of the entire Old Testament law. Nine of the Ten Commandments are clearly repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God, we will not be worshipping false gods or bowing down before idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we will not be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. The purpose of the Old Testament law is to convict people of our inability to keep the law and point us to our need for Jesus Christ as Savior
[h=3]Romans 7:7-9[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay
, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. [SUP]8 [/SUP]
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. [SUP]9 [/SUP]
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
[h=3]Galatians 3:24[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]24 [/SUP]Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
The Old Testament law was never intended by God to be the universal law for all people for all of time. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we obey those two commands faithfully, we will be upholding all that God requires of us.
1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
Now if we endeavor to find the depth of this love of God to us, might we not love back just as deep as we see the Love of God?
[h=3]Ephesians 3:16-18[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; [SUP]17 [/SUP]that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [SUP]18 [/SUP]
may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
So you all, let us not frustrate this amazing grace and take advantage or get caught up in trying to obey it of our own flesh, that we walk away from it, being impossible to do from a flesh stand point, frustrated in wanting to obey and just can’t.
The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy through either getting us to take God’s love for granted; with I am forgiven so I can harm others, because I am forgiven.
Now that one sees not to take it for granted here comes the next twist to keep one from rest in our savior, Jesus Christ. You have to be perfect now through obeying Law.
See the straight betwixt? On one side God is taken for granted, and Forgiveness is used as an excuse for the flesh to sin, Christ being one’s escape goat.
On the other hand, Forgiveness is appreciated and not taken for granted, and one has become aware of their sin. Then one tries to stop sin in and of themselves and in everyone else around them. Frustrated this way and the other not, one is taking advantage and the other is killing you.
So how many of us have given up?
Frustrated and how many of us hate to be frustrated?
[h=3]Galatians 2:21[/h] Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]21 [/SUP]I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Okay, have we got a picture of the mystery yet?
Are we seeing the deception from the enemy to subvert the Christ and his finished work for you personally?
Did he die for the sins of the whole world, are we by Christ forgiven or not?
1 John 2:2
and he is the
propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for
the sins of the whole world.
Romans 3:25
whom God hath set forth
to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son
to be the
propitiation for our sins.
Romans 4:7
saying, Blessed
are they whose iniquities are
forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Ephesians 1:7
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 4:32
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath
forgiven you.
Colossians 1:14
in whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the
forgiveness of sins:
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having
forgiven you all trespasses;
1 John 2:12
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are
forgiven you for his name’s sake.
You see this we are forgiven past tense, it is done for you and the entire world back at the cross? Is where the final sacrifice and shedding of blood has taken place, it is done, past tense, see it or not, love you no matter what is what God is saying waiting for us to appreciate this and receive this type of love and give it out a gift to all.
So what to do with this? Take it for granted and not really care or care enough to strive in the energy of our own flesh and be frustrated to death? And then walk away in total disgust over it? Or wake up in God’s finished work fro you and rejoice from the mountain top as Martin Luther did and my Brother John Schultz the third, when he told us, That God just loved him, and believe this he worked hard to enter God’s rest and did by seeing that God just loved him and all peoples.
Wake up I pray, we see by the grace of God we are made perfect and not of self by God through Son Jesus Christ and ask God for the new life in Spirit that God came to give, for now one might see how the enemy is still out to steal, kill and destroy through putting one under law or putting one under taking this Mercy from God through Christ for granted
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have
it more
abundantly.
What do you think this life more abundantly is in flesh or Spirit of God?
Love you and all, by God. God does just love you, working on that as the basis, God shows you the light and you decide when you see this amazing light from God as to believe God or not?
Homwardbound, Love to all