...Dead, Not alive...
...God wants you dead to the law, not alive to it...Galatians struggled with this...
...the Colossians were having difficulty with this doctrine as well:
...imagine God’s frustration when believers who are “free from the law”
(Rom. 8:2) elect to subject themselves to the bondage of the law.
Especially since the law was supposed to “perish with the using”:
...What did Paul mean when he says that the ordinances of the law were
to perish with the using? Well, the only other place that talks about using
the law says that a man must “use it lawfully” (I Tim. 1:8).
As he went on to explain, “the law is not made for a righteous man” (v. 9),
to help the believer to be good. It is made “for the lawless,” that is, for
unbelievers (vv. 9,10), to show them their need of a Savior...
...Aren’t you glad The LORD Jesus Christ kept it perfectly, and then died a
sacrificial death for your sins, setting you free from the law? Aren’t you
glad that God was “satisfied” with His sacrifice * (Isa. 53:11)?
Don’t you think you should be? Rather than subjecting yourself to the law,
“as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus The LORD, so walk ye in Him”
(Col. 2:6), walking by Grace through faith instead...
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(R Kurth)
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* God's ALL-Sufficient BLOOD
GRACE And Peace...
...God wants you dead to the law, not alive to it...Galatians struggled with this...
...the Colossians were having difficulty with this doctrine as well:
“Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments
of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye
subject to ordinances” (Col. 2:20)...
...imagine God’s frustration when believers who are “free from the law”
(Rom. 8:2) elect to subject themselves to the bondage of the law.
Especially since the law was supposed to “perish with the using”:
“Which all are to perish with the using; after the
commandments and doctrines of men” (Col. 2:22)...
...What did Paul mean when he says that the ordinances of the law were
to perish with the using? Well, the only other place that talks about using
the law says that a man must “use it lawfully” (I Tim. 1:8).
As he went on to explain, “the law is not made for a righteous man” (v. 9),
to help the believer to be good. It is made “for the lawless,” that is, for
unbelievers (vv. 9,10), to show them their need of a Savior...
...Aren’t you glad The LORD Jesus Christ kept it perfectly, and then died a
sacrificial death for your sins, setting you free from the law? Aren’t you
glad that God was “satisfied” with His sacrifice * (Isa. 53:11)?
Don’t you think you should be? Rather than subjecting yourself to the law,
“as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus The LORD, so walk ye in Him”
(Col. 2:6), walking by Grace through faith instead...
"
(R Kurth)
link
* God's ALL-Sufficient BLOOD
GRACE And Peace...
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