1 Timothy 1:6-11
[SUP]6 [/SUP]From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
[SUP]7 [/SUP]Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
[SUP]10 [/SUP]For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
[SUP]11 [/SUP]According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
Romans 10:3-4
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
The law is good if a man use it lawfully. How is it used lawfully?
Galatians 3:23-26
[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.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
As a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. But after that faith is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Why? Why are we no longer under the law after we have come to Christ? Because we are under Grace and have been given the Holy Spirit which sheds the love of God abroad in our hearts. We don't need a law anymore that says don't harm your neighbor because the love of God is in our hearts. We don't need a law anymore that says love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and strength because He loved us first and gave us a new heart that could feel His Love, and love Him back.
We don't need a law to practice resting in the Strength of the Lord. Because the Holy Spirit has shown us that is our only chance and only Hope. The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:19-22
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
[SUP]21 [/SUP]But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
I wonder how it is that more Christians don't understand this. I wonder if its because they have had too much training by men and not enough by God.