I always shutter when I read your posts ranting against God's holy law. Then you even bring God's words to say that God agrees with you, that God says His law is not for our blessings. We try and try to talk you out of posting things like this but you insist. And you do it with love for the Lord in your heart! That is bewildering. I am posting some of what God says about His law in Psalm 119
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
10 With my whole heart I seek you;let me not wander from your commandments!
11 I have stored up your word in my heart ,that I might not sin against you.
12 Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!
13 With my lips I declareall the rules of your mouth.
14 In the way of your testimonies I delightas much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
16 I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
The Law isn't for your blessing. Except in one way.
The Law is to bring you to Christ.
Christ is for your blessing. The Law describes what you can have, in Christ. In Christ Alone. Not by your works but by His Gift.
Galatians 3:10-11
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10 [/SUP]For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
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11 [/SUP]But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:
for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.There is a NEW TESTAMENT now. There is a NEW WAY now. The Lord Jesus Christ has given us this NEW WAY. Only in HIM are we blessed.
I suspect there were a few in the OT that knew of this New Way that was to come. I suspect they had faith in Christ looking forward, just as we have faith in Christ looking back to what He has already done.
If you read my posts you will see I am never against God's Law. I am only against people trying to work at it. That is NOT the Way that Christ has given us.
You don't realize how much I love God and Respect His Law. If I were able to come to Him by my perfect Law keeping I would be the biggest proponent for the Law you have ever seen. But He didn't bless me that way. He blessed me in spite of my failings at His Perfect Law. He blessed me because I came to Him and asked for His Help because I didn't keep His Law.
I originally came to this site to learn more of this New Way given to us by the Lord Jesus Christ that I had discovered. Imagine my surprise, as a babe in Christ, when so few even know that He Has Established a New Way and I felt compelled to teach the little bit that I actually know...
Thank God for Paul and the New Testament. Who better to show us that the Lord Jesus has established a New Way than an expert of the Old Way?
Christians all seem to know that they aren't saved by the Law. And yet most of them still work at the Law. I don't know if these men that have crept in unaware deliberately attempt to keep people under the law or if they just do it because they don't understand. I suppose most people, especially in churches, are more concerned with having a religion than knowing who Christ is and what He has done for us.
Do you find it strange that there are all these threads on the Old testament and how wonderful the law is and hardly any on who Christ is and what He has done for us? I interject Christ into the conversation and all the legalists are offended. Kind of strange for Christians to be more concerned with Law than Grace.
At some point we have to put the manual down and drive this thing around. Start to understand more about where the rubber meets the road. This is a life that is lived by the Spirit.
Otherwise you are ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.