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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: Moral, Ceremonial, and Civil law |
Bible Note: Joe, 4. Yes, Paul (and other NT writers) quote the OT. As I've said, the Law reflects the character of God. In Eph 6, children are not generally indwelt by Christ. They are born unregenerate, dead in trespasses and sin, and have no idea of what God's character is like. So they need the Law to show them what God is like and how sinful they are. How many kids do you know that walk in the Spirit? The Law was given to lead us to Christ. Unless you teach the Law to children and sinners, they will never see their need for a Savior. 5. What is the epidomy of His commandments? He tells us right there in 1 John 3:22-24. 'We keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.' Why? Hold that thought. What is His commandments? 'That we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another.' This is the heart of obedience. It is not what you do or don't do, it is belief in Jesus Christ. Now, if you do that, and He indwells you, we abide in Him and He in us. That is how we do the things that are pleasing in His sight. We abide in Christ. Are they're things that we do as we abide in Him and He in us. Yes. I have already tried to explain this to you, dear Joe, in another post which you seemed to dismiss as some sort of 'touchy-feely, let go and let God' doctrine. I tried to explain to you what Christ in you means and the fact that we are supposed to be in total reliance upon Christ in us. And in another post, after I listed all the scriptures to support that, as Christians, we done initiate anything, we respond to what God initiates, you posted an 'agreed!' although you argued the point with me earlier. The bottom line is that I am motivated to let Christ live out of me because He is in me and He and I are one spirit. Do I still sin? Yes. I don't always walk after the Spirit. I still have my old, legalistic flesh that abhors the thought that there is not one thing that I can do to make myself more 'in Christ' than what God has done. My soul, and, most definately, my body are not yet sanctified. My body contains my (limited brain) that I still have to deal with. But scripture also assures me that I have the mind of Christ in my spirit and that I have been made a partaker of His divine nature. I am no longer who I was. I am a new creature, indeed created to glorify God and do good works as I let Him live through me. So are you, dear brother. Blessings to you, Bill Mc |