Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Does the Law Condemn Us or Bless Us?

There is so much confusion about the Law of God, arguing abounds. One side says we have to obey the Law to be born again and the other extreme says we don't need the Law any more and can sin all we want.

The truth is the Law never goes away, either for convicting the unsaved or blessing the saved.

There is a difference in the way the Law is applied before salvation than after salvation. Before salvation the Law was there to convict us of our sin to lead us to Christ and repentance.

After salvation the Law Giver lives in us, we don't have to "follow" the Law, it abides in us as a very real part of our being, we love it.

Before we had to try to obey and could not, even with fear in our hearts. After salvation we don't have to try to follow it, we enjoy obeying it, we don't want to violate God's Laws.

After we become born again, the Law in us convicts others who are not born again.

Before salvation we feared the Law and its' condemnation, after salvation we are grateful for where it brought us.

Romans 8:3 "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,"

Psalm 119:97 "If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well."

James 2:8 "If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well."

Seems impossible that someone would dwell on God's Law day and night and still defy it. The more time we spend contemplating His Principles, the less we will violate them. We terry a long time on the things we love, whether it be the world or the things of God.

1 Timothy 4:15 "Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all."

Want to know God intimately, read His word often, remember His principles and speak them to others, let Him permeate our being in every thing all the time.

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