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1 | Must we observe the law of God? | Bible general Archive 2 | kalos | 125873 | ||
Grace doesn't permit what law prohibits 'Obedience: Love or Legalism? ____________________ '...grace does not permit what the law prohibits. "Grace" never signifies the lowering of God's moral demands.' ____________________ 'The phrase "under the law" occurs at least ten times in Paul's epistles, so we know it is a crucial concept in his theology. In Galatians 3:23, for example, He writes, "Before faith came, we were kept under the law" (Gal. 3:23). Now, however, he says as Christians we are "not under the law" (Gal. 5:18). 'I often hear Christians recite the phrase "not under the law, but under grace" as if it meant no standard of law whatsoever is ever binding on believers. Grace is seen as a grand permissiveness, contrasting with the uncompromising moral standard of the law. 'One man wrote, '"According to Paul, I am not under law. That has radical practical consequences for my Christian life. It means I do not have to look over my shoulder at the law and judge my life by it. The law was a negative standard. It was filled with prohibitions and punishments. Grace is the opposite. It is filled with positive inducements and promises. Which would you rather have as a rule of life? I live under grace, not law. And that means whenever the law brings its negative message—when it says, "thou shalt not"—it does not apply to me." 'The notion that no law is binding on the Christian is a classic form of antinomianism. This type of thinking sets grace against law, as if the two were antithetical. It has some dire theological consequences. 'It is crucial to understand that in terms of moral standards, grace does not permit what the law prohibits. "Grace" never signifies the lowering of God's moral demands. The word grace in scripture signifies a lot of things, but licentiousness is not one of them. In fact, those who turn the grace of God into promiscuity are expressly condemned as false teachers (Jude 4). (...) 'So the moral standard set by the law does not change under grace. Indeed, it could not; it is a reflection of God's character. But divine grace actually empowers us to fulfill the moral demands of the law in a way that the law alone could never do.' ____________________ Excerpted from "Obedience: Love or Legalism? by John MacArthur". To read the entire article, go to: (http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/obedience.htm) matt517 |
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2 | Must we observe the law of God? | Bible general Archive 2 | Love Is The Answer | 126063 | ||
How can you obey the law? If you follow the law you are judged by the law. James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. The moral law does not consider us as weak human beings at all, it takes no account of our heredity and infirmities, it demands that we be absolutely moral. The moral law never alters, either for the noblest or for the weakest, it is eternally and abidingly the same. The moral law ordained by God does not make itself weak to the weak, it does not palliate our shortcomings, it remains absolute for all time and eternity. If we do not realize this, it is because we are less than alive; immediately we are alive, life becomes a tragedy. "I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." When we realize this, then the Spirit of God convicts us of sin. Until a man gets there and sees that there is no hope, the Cross of Jesus Christ is a farce to him. Conviction of sin always brings a fearful binding sense of the law, it makes a man hopeless - "sold under sin." I, a guilty sinner, can never get right with God, it is impossible. There is only one way in which I can get right with God, and that is by the Death of Jesus Christ. I must get rid of the lurking idea that I can ever be right with God because of my obedience - which of us could ever obey God to absolute perfection! We only realize the power of the moral law when it comes with an "if." God never coerces us. In one mood we wish He would make us do the thing, and in another mood we wish He would leave us alone. Whenever God's will is in the ascendant, all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty power. |
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3 | Must we observe the law of God? | Bible general Archive 2 | Love Is The Answer | 126064 | ||
Also consider this. Galatians 3:1-29 Justification by Faith 1:O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2:This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3:Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4:Have you suffered so many things in vain if indeed it was in vain? 5:Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6:just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 7:Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8:And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed." 9:So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. The Law Brings a Curse 10:For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." 11:But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith." 12:Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them." 13:Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree" , 14:that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. The Changeless Promise 15:Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. 16:Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ. 17:And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. 18:For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Purpose of the Law 19:What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20:Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. 21:Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22:But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23:But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24:Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25:But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. |
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4 | Must we observe the law of God? | Bible general Archive 2 | Love Is The Answer | 126067 | ||
It boils down to one simple word "LOVE" If I love God will I; Have any gods before him, worship false idols, take the Lords name in vain, or not keep the sabath holy? If I love my neighbour will I; murdrer him, sleep with his wife, steal his paper, bear a false witness against him, covet my his house, covet my his wife, covet his male servant, covet his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is my neighbour's? If I love my neighbour will I; Not honor my father and mother? Of course I wont. If I love I will not do anything out of love. How can I love and do any of the things that the "law" tells me not to do? It is a no brainer. LOVE LOVE LOVE and you will not be able to break the law. The only law that matters. The law of Jesus the Christ. |
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