Subject: Does being saved negate the Law? |
Bible Note: Searcher56: What is your take on Paul's writings to the Galations? In Galations 4: 19 -31 Paul explains that the systems of law and grace cannot co-exist. He speaks of the two covenants as represented by the bondwoman's son and the free woman. The wondwoman's son represented bondage in contrast the the freewoman's son promise. In Gal. 4:28 Paul writes "Now we brethren as Isaac was, are children of promise" and In v. 30 "Nevertheless, what sayeth the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman an her son for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. The problem with the Galations, their were some who were trying to bring those who were free in Christ back under the law. That is why the emphasis in Gal. 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not entangled with the yoke of bondage" Freedom in Christ brings responsibility. "For brethren , ye have been called to liberty; only use not liberty as an occassion to the flesh: but love serve one another. For the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" Gal. 5:13-14. The believer is not asked to wall after the law but "Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" V16 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. In other words those who walk in the Spirit will display the fruit of the Spirit and their lives through obedience to Christ will transcend the law. Peace in our Saviours Name Robert |