When we view the law correctly, we will fulfill the righteous requirements of the law. When we've been born again by grace through faith and walk in newness of life, we will obey all of the law and prophets through this new life in Christ.
Maybe not perfectly, but we will walk in righteousness.
Romans 8:4 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
We can all be assured that if we've been born again, we'll be walking according to the Spirit.
What does that mean? The Spirit can't sin and is God so as we submit our lives to Him, we'll walk in righteousness.
As we continue to die to our flesh and live for God, as we continue to walk in step with the Spirit, we'll walk in righteousness and not in a sinful lifestyle like we once did.
The righteous requirements of the law will be fulfilled in us. Loving God and loving our neighbor fulfills each and every law and prophecy. If we walk in love we'll do no harm to our neighbor.
God's law is now written our our hearts to always be within us and the Holy Spirit continues to lead and guide us into the truth that's been written on our hearts. No more is the law of Christ written on tablets of stone, but He inscribed His law into our inner most being and because it's written there, it doesn't condemn and it doesn't place us in bondage, but the law frees us up to obey it's righteous requirements through the power we have in Christ.
And if we are in need of correction, through the loving hand of God, He chastises us because we're His child. A loving father disciplines and corrects His child so he doesn't veer off the straight and narrow path that leads to everlasting life.
We're a work in progress because our old man wants to reign, but we must put off the old man and put on the new.
We've been set free from the condemnation and bondage of the law that can only kill to live in the grace and mercy and kindness of Christ that brings life within us to obey.
We must be led of the Spirit, walk in the Spirit ........... speak and walk to the glory of God. So let's be encouraged to not fulfill the deeds of the flesh, but instead produce the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We're producers now and produce life, exude life, live life because we're in the Life-Giver.
Before we produced death and lived death, but now we're alive if it's true that God's Spirit lives in us.
That's kind of the proof of the pudding so to speak. We will produce life or we'll produce death. It will show which spirit we're of. We can't live both.
The person producing life will live in righteousness and part of that new life is the sanctification process where we're learning and growing in the Lord. We'll make an oops, but God is faithful and just to forgive us an cleanse us when we go before Him to confess our sins.
What a mighty, loving and kind Father we have. I don't think that we quite realize all that the Lord has done for us, in us and through us. As we continue in Him, we want to live to please Him, we want to obey Him, we want to serve Him, we even want to die for Him. We die each and every day to our desires and to live for Him.
Within that intimate relationship with the Lord, the Spirit of life sets us free from the power of sin and death. We continue to see where we fail or fall short.
As God used the prophet Nathan, God through His Spirit convicts us so that we'll repent and get cleansed daily. He draws us to Him like a magnet because we're now a part of Him and He is holy, righteous and good and now, that's now new nature in Him.
And our wanter has been changed. Before we didn't want to love God or please God or obey God. Our thoughts were totally opposed to anything to do with God and was totally on ourselves. What we wanted, what we desired and yearned for. What pleased our flesh without much thought to anyone else.
But now that our wanter is changed, our desires are for Him, for what He wants, for what He desires and as we walk in the Spirit, we live to please Him in everything and we begin to each day walk closer with Him and sin less and less.
What a glorious life we now live! I would never exchange it for anything this world has to offer. I can't wait to run into the arms of Jesus and we see Him face to face. I can't imagine what eternity will be like, but we're getting a taste of it when we're walking in newness of life in Him!
did you enjoy your work day, I know you where looking forward to working today just couldn't wait to start. lol