So you do believe that after a Christian is saved by grace through faith, which is the gift of God, he will be leading a life prepared by God within God's law, which is the law of Christ, of the gospel of the Kingdom of God.
Do you believe the law of Christ, of the gospel of the Kingdom of God, is summed up as follows:
Luke 10 (ESV)
25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
26 He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?"
27 And he answered, "
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."
28 And he said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live."
If not, what do you believe is the "law of Christ", as Christ and God is one?
I’m summed up ? Sure . When your saying “ by grave through faith “ that’s also a summary . A summary needs the understanding or it’s an empty phrase .
what I mean is
by grace through faith doesn’t actually have any meaning until you define what is Gods Grace ? What is the grace we are warned would be brought into the church?
and then you would have to define what Gods word says of faith , what it is and where it comes from ect summaries are great we’re all saved by grace just like Noah was saved by grace genesis 6:8 and we’re saved by faith just like Noah was saved by faith and the work it produces because he
believed what God had said.
“But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
And
God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
( god gives the instructions how Noah can be saved from what he just said )
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.”
Genesis 6:8, 13-14, 22
do you know what ?
That’s faith and it was still hundreds of years before Moses law was added .
“
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
by the which he condemned the world, and
became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”
Hebrews 11:7 KJV
that has nothing to do with the law Noah believed Gods warning of what Noah couldn’t see coming , because he believed when God told him what to do to be saved
, he didn’t argue and declare “grace means unwarranted favor there’s nothing to do I don’t need to listen and obey your word of my salvation lord “
Noah had faith in Gods word , so he obeyed it believing he would be saved from the coming wrath of God upon the world. The law had nothing to do with Noah’s faith it hadn’t been given
then Abraham the descendant of Noah still 400 years before the law was given he had faith in Gods word apart from Moses law God told him he was choosing and blessing him and then gave him a word to obey.
Abraham believed Gods promise and so he went out not even knowing where he was going walking by faith was Abraham Who believes God so he did what God said to do
“
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and
he went out,
not knowing whither he went. By faith
he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the
heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”
Hebrews 11:8-10 KJV
Again Moses law is not of faith
“But that
no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident:
for,
The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
That
the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ;
that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”
Galatians 3:11-14 KJV
the law is a curse since Christ was crucified to remove it, to hold on to an old law doesn’t allow for one to see through the veil Christ removed in the gospel
“And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that
the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
But
their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
which
veil is done away in Christ.
But even
unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless
when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.”
2 Corinthians 3:13-16 KJV
The law and prophets are good for learning about Christ , they aren’t meant to be the account of Christians because Christians have died through baptism to the law remitting thier sins through his death and being delivered into his kingdom together as one people with Israel
in the Old Testament Moses law was the judge his words , Christ fulfilled that for every baptized believer in his death and gave us a word of life to believe and be saved .
You can’t obey Christ’s word and Moses one example is marriage Jesus taught things from before the law was given , Moses taught “ of your not happy when you choose a wife , divorce her and both may re marry “
Jesus taught something different he taught “ the only reason for divorce is fornication , and anyone who divorces Aren’t allowed to re Marry or they are committing adultery “
that’s different is my point of we obey Moses we will be transgressing the new testament the gospel Jesus taught . If we obey Jesus , Moses law doesn’t apply because obeying Christ keeps one from adultery and divorce without ever even hearing Moses words we won’t be offending God in any way of we do this
“All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:27-30 KJV
that’s Gods Grace brother that last section of verses from Matthew
grace And truth teaches us about repentance and righteousness according to the true God while assuring us of his ability to deliver on his promise of salvation if we will accept and believe the gospel being baptized because we believe the message of repentance and remission of sins in Jesus name being separate from Moses law contrary in many ways like marriage the one example of many that oppose so that both cannot be observed
there’s a new covenant with new words from A new mediator is what I believe the Bible says , we belong to kesus and his doctrine Moses was the mediator of Israel in the desert but they chose death instead of life God sent salvation and they Rejected Jesus doctrine and crucified the messiah that God had delivered to them that law became a curse upon the earth long ago in fact it came because of sin
“Wherefore then serveth
the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”
Galatians 3:19 KJV
That seed is Christ until he came was the law few notice in scripture but it was
ordained of angels given into Moses hands and the gospel came by God swearing but his own self that he would bring forth the savior of the world .
the law is not faith Hearing the word of God through Christ is faith and we walk by faith
“So then
faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17 KJV
Jesus said a lot let them with ears hear my words and believe