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NASB | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. |
Subject: Must Christians follow OT Law? |
Bible Note: Hi Doc, Thanks for responding and for presenting from the london Baptist Confession of Faith. You wrote: "but we are saved unto perfect compliance with the law (we are imputed with the righteousness of Christ)." I have no disagreement here and Scripture plainly teaches this. But to elaborate for others, "perfect" compliance with the Law is what we strive for, but nothing any of us have attained. I don't believe that your were saying we have attained it; as I go from memory; you are not one who agrees with the teaching or notion of "sinless perfection". Just as well, my understanding of having been imputed with the righteousness of Christ is an issue of my right standing with God; by being identified in Christ as one who has received through Grace the gift of salvation. I am justified in Jesus Christ. I relate this specifically to having been freed from the "penalty" of the Law. Phi 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: The issue of "perfect compliance" with the law, as I understand it, is an ongoing work of Grace. It is something God is working in us, and as we agree, something we can only understand in light of having kowledge of the Law. As Paul puts it: "Phi 3:10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Phi 3:11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Phi 3:12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. So being freed from the penalty of the Law (Justified) the Law no longer has command over us, we are freed from it. As you say, there has not been a change in direction, but rather the law serves a new purpose. Not to condemn, but to guide. Having been justified, and having God's will revealed, we cooperate in the power of His grace to strive for perfection. Phi 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, Phi 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Christ's Love, Jeff |