I disagree with you that because we are saved by grace, not law, we are not asked to keep the law. Keeping the law never results in our salvation, but a saved person who has been freed of sin through grace is asked not to go back to that sin.
The fact is that we, being made of flesh, sin even though we do not want to sin as Paul tells us, but that fact has no bearing at all on that we are asked to repent of all sin.
Matt. 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
1 John 2:3
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
Hello Blik,
Well ... you ae not disagreeing with me, but with the word of God.
As we continue from faith to faith, we are being transformed into the image of Christ by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. It is not done by keeping the Law.
His commandments are to believe in the One whom He sent, Jesus Christ.
Believers in Christ are not under the old covenant of the Law. I know of what I speak. Read all of the following and then make your conclusion. Anyone who is trying to keep the law as requirement for salvation is failing. Am I saying that believers have free reign to sin? No! Whatever we fail at as believers, we confess and He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. One of the reasons that Jesus appeared as a human being was to meet the righteous requirements of the Law on behalf of all believers. Attempting to keep the law as a means of righteousness is what caused and is causing Israel to stumble. Read and comprehend
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Acts 13:38-39
Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses.
Acts 15:5-11
Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the Law of Moses.”
The apostles and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith, Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
Romans 3:19-24
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and
are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:27-28
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.
Romans 4:4-5
Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
Romans 4:13-15
It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. For if those who live by law are heirs, faith has no value and the promise is worthless, because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.
Ergo (The best way to not break the law is to have no law to break.)
Romans 7:1-6
Do you not know, brothers -- for I am speaking to men who know the law -- that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man. So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Romans 9:30-32
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is
by faith, but Israel, who pursued a
law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were
by works. They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”
Romans 10:4
Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
Romans 14:5-6
One man considers one day more sacred than another; and another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. He, who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Galatians 2:15-16
We who are Jews by birth and not ‘Gentile sinners’ know
that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law,
because by observing the law no one will be justified.
(Continued)