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1 | How does God say to keep his law? | Gal 3:3 | andreat | 153958 | ||
How does God say to keep his law? | ||||||
2 | How does God say to keep his law? | Gal 3:3 | Lionstrong | 153959 | ||
Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? You are right Andrea, We are to keep God's law. The question is how. Let me give you the answer and then explain it. God says that we are to keep his law by Grace through Faith in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Law is holy, righteous and good. (Rom 7:12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.) It teaches us what sin is. (Rom 3:20 ... for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.) It also teaches us the good works God requires of us. (Rom 7:19, 22 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.... For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man...) The Law leads us to Christ. (Gal 3:24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.) But we both know that keeping the law cannot save us from the wrath of God nor give us eternal life. (Gal 3:21 Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.) The Law has its place, but its place is not to save us. Only God can do that. Only God can make us just. (Rom 8:3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did... Rom 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.) If we try to keep God's Law apart from Christ, then we are under the Law's condemnation. (Rom 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.) Only by faith in Christ alone are we no longer under the Law's condemnation. (Rom 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.) When we believe in Christ, He gives us God the Holy Spirit. (Rom 5:1,5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,.... and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.) So, it is only by the Grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit that we are to keep God's Law. Eph 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works..." |
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