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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: Why keep the Moral Law? |
Bible Note: Dear Joe, See my other post. We view through different lens, brother. You see works as proof of what you are. I see works as a result of what we are. The difference is not the works. The difference is the source. Your source is yourself. Christ was never His own source. Our source is to be Him in us, not ourselves. You see commands are something that we have to do. I see them as something things we get to participate in with Christ fulfilling them in us - Rom 8:4. Let me lock the barn door. I, too, believe that a genuine faith results in works. But that is the correct order. Works are the results of genuine faith in Christ to work through us, not the by product of us doing it apart from Him. "Apart from Me, you can do nothing." (I am not going to, for the sake of time, interpret all these verses for you. You don't require it, Joe. But to illustrate our different lens, consider the Rom 7:4 verse that talks about us bearing fruit. That is correct, as we abide in Him, as the branch abides in the vine, we will bear, support, display the fruit. But we do not produce it. He does. If you cut the branch from the vine, it bears no fruit. If you splice a live branch into a dead vine, it will still bear no fruit. The source is always the vine. The life flows up from the vine into the branch and produces the fruit. The branch can produce none by itself. That is my point. But most legalist would say, "See, there, brother, if you ain't producin' good fruit, then you shore ain't no Christian." The legalist's focus in on him and others, what we do for God. Our focus should be on Christ, the author and completer of our faith.) Blessings to you, Bill Mc |