There are no rules, laws or religion for the Christian. The call now is to live by faith in Christ and his Gospel. This is why Paul wrote, "The Just Shall Live By Faith" Romans 1:16. Trying to be good enough by living by rules, laws and religion will lead to your condemnation.
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh (Laws and religion) but after the Spirit" Romans 8:1.
To walk after the Spirit is to walk in the Gospel. In the Gospel we have been justified, sanctified and redeemed, 1 Corinthians 1:30. Because of the Gospel we are complete in Jesus Christ, Colossians 2:10. Living by rules, laws and religion is a denial of the Gospel and is anti-Gospel and anti-Christ.
Jesus and Jesus alone, is the one that fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law, Matthew 5:18 Jesus and Jesus alone is the one that atoned for our sins and the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2. Jesus and Jesus alone is the one that God accepted back into heaven, Hebrews 1:3. Jesus as our substitute and representative has offered to God the Father a life of perfect obedience according to his holy law. He did this for us, in our name and on our behalf. Because of Jesus God now sees us as perfect and complete in Christ.
"For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God" Colossians 3:3.
I say, If you are in Christ, then play your position or as Paul said, "mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleaness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry" Romans 3:5.
To be free from the law is to be free from sin and death, Romans 6:14 To be under the law is to be under condemnation and judgment. Where there is law there must be judgment, where there is judgment there is condemnation. This is why Paul said to the Galatians,
"Tell me that you desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?" Galatians 4:22.
The law will damn you to hell. The law is the very nature and character of God. To obey the law you would have to be Jesus Christ, who was the epitome of God's law, The law demands perfection, we don't have it to offer because our very best is still sin, Romans 3:10.
Living by laws, rules and religion will not make you a better Christian. What it will make you is a hypocrite. Paul said that the law made him sin.
"But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead" Romans 7:8.
Did you get that? "For without the law sin was dead" One reason there is so much immorality in the church today is because there is so much law preaching. They don't know what the Gospel is so they preach the law. The law is good because it convicts us of our need to be saved. Paul said that the law was our schoolmaster that brings us to Christ, Galatians 3:24. But after that faith is come and we are no longer under the schoolmaster (the law) Galatians 3:25. For we are all children of God by faith in Jesus Christ, Galatians 3:26.
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh (Laws and religion) but after the Spirit" Romans 8:1.
To walk after the Spirit is to walk in the Gospel. In the Gospel we have been justified, sanctified and redeemed, 1 Corinthians 1:30. Because of the Gospel we are complete in Jesus Christ, Colossians 2:10. Living by rules, laws and religion is a denial of the Gospel and is anti-Gospel and anti-Christ.
Jesus and Jesus alone, is the one that fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law, Matthew 5:18 Jesus and Jesus alone is the one that atoned for our sins and the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2. Jesus and Jesus alone is the one that God accepted back into heaven, Hebrews 1:3. Jesus as our substitute and representative has offered to God the Father a life of perfect obedience according to his holy law. He did this for us, in our name and on our behalf. Because of Jesus God now sees us as perfect and complete in Christ.
"For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God" Colossians 3:3.
I say, If you are in Christ, then play your position or as Paul said, "mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleaness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry" Romans 3:5.
To be free from the law is to be free from sin and death, Romans 6:14 To be under the law is to be under condemnation and judgment. Where there is law there must be judgment, where there is judgment there is condemnation. This is why Paul said to the Galatians,
"Tell me that you desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?" Galatians 4:22.
The law will damn you to hell. The law is the very nature and character of God. To obey the law you would have to be Jesus Christ, who was the epitome of God's law, The law demands perfection, we don't have it to offer because our very best is still sin, Romans 3:10.
Living by laws, rules and religion will not make you a better Christian. What it will make you is a hypocrite. Paul said that the law made him sin.
"But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead" Romans 7:8.
Did you get that? "For without the law sin was dead" One reason there is so much immorality in the church today is because there is so much law preaching. They don't know what the Gospel is so they preach the law. The law is good because it convicts us of our need to be saved. Paul said that the law was our schoolmaster that brings us to Christ, Galatians 3:24. But after that faith is come and we are no longer under the schoolmaster (the law) Galatians 3:25. For we are all children of God by faith in Jesus Christ, Galatians 3:26.
