Subject: Raven, do you want ALL the Law? |
Bible Note: Joe, Actually, in the law of Christ, you're performance will surpass the moral code of the Mosaic Law and the 10 commandments, brother. Yes, love does fulfill the Law, but it also goes beyond it to exhibiting God's character. The Law says don't kill. The law of Christ leads you to love others unconditionally. The Law says don't commit adultery. The law of Christ says to love your wife as Christ does the church. The Law says not to steal. The law of Christ says to go to work with your hands so that you may give to those in need. So the love of Christ in us not only fulfills, but surpasses the moral code of the Law. The confusion lies in that people will look at the law of love being fulfilled in the believer and mistake it for the Law. From an external viewpoint, the performance looks much the same. But there is a fundamental difference. Under the Law System, man is always performing to achieve God's standard. Under the law of Christ, man has, in Christ, already achieved and therefore is free to perform. God has declared me to be holy, righteous, and blameless in His sight. By walking in the Spirit, I get to experience in the here and now what I have been declared. The commands of the Old Testament are a reflection of God's morality. But instead of looking at those demands as the things that stirs up sin in us, the Jews took them as rules to achieve. And they never could. The commands of the New Testament are reflection of what it looks like to live under the law of love, not goals to achieve. Will it look like we are under Law when we abide in Christ and walk in the Spirit? Yes, it will. But the motivation is now internal instead of external. Christ is us will still fulfill the royal law of love today as we abide in Him. God is pleased by faith in walking, not in the flesh(performance), but in walking in the Spirit and love. ChristLifer2001 |