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END OF THE LAW?
I realize that if I were to ask most any Christian if they are under the Law, they would immediately respond, absolutely not. I’m living under Grace.
However, many of said Believers are actually, really living under Law. They undoubtedly do not realize this or have no understanding of what has actually transpired, to bring them into this position of trusting the Law instead of trusting what was accomplished on our behalf by Jesus Christ.
Nevertheless, when you come right down to what they are placing their trust in, many times you will find they are trusting in something they are doing. Or in some cases, in what they are not doing (example: I’m going to Church, I’m paying my tithes, I don’t swear or take the Lords name in vain, I’m very careful not to lie, I don’t steal or cheat, I honor my Mother and Father, etc.).
Why are we redeemed; from the Law?
God has given us a new nature. We are his workmanship (def: The quality put into something in the process of making it), created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
There is now no need for such a person to be under the Law because his new nature is not inclined toward sin. As a matter of fact the new nature within us hates sin. (does not mean the sin nature is gone, [which I believe is left within us to help keep us from spiritual pride], but that we now have the nature of Christ also, thereby having no need to follow after SIN, which is EMPOWERED BY THE LAW [1 Cor.).
For as many as are of the Works of the Law are under the curse (Gal.3:10).
If we try to live by the Law, we are actually giving place to the Devil, because by the Law is the knowledge of sin. In other words, when we live by the Law; the life we are then living is an acknowledgment that we are still sinning. Simply because no man can do the Law (Christ being the exception, because he was also God).No Righteousness has ever come by the Law. (Even the slightest effort toward living by Law produces in the believer an, “awful uneasiness;” because the Holy Spirit is grieved terribly with such a persons spiritual adultery. Yes, spiritual adultery is what it is when you are married to Christ and are serving the Law (Rom. 7:1-6).
Unfortunately, there are many who are living by the Law to such a degree that they do not even notice much spiritual uneasiness. This is because they are not at all walking after the Spirit and haven’t felt the presence of the Holy Spirit only on rare occasions. Most of these people do not even realize they are not walking in the will of God. They are trying the best they can but have not been taught the error of walking after the Law, i. e., works or flesh.
Righteousness comes by the Faith of Jesus Christ (Gal.2:16).
Romans 10:4, tells us that there is an end of the Law. This end took place because Christ accomplished the entirety of the Law and paid the price to give us that finished work.
For CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW for Righteousness to everyone who believes.
Romans 4:15, Because the Law works wrath: for where no Law is, there is no transgression
16. Therefore it is of Faith, that it might be by Grace.
Romans 6:4, Wherefore, my Brethren, you also are become DEAD TO THE LAW by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to Him Who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Because we are married to another, even Jesus Christ, Who is raised from the dead, we have also become dead to the Law in the process. Now we can bring forth fruit unto God.
In other words, if you have not become DEAD TO THE LAW by the body of Christ; you cannot bring forth fruit unto God.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN
This happened when we were baptized into the death of Jesus Christ. That like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Rom. 6:3-4).
As part of the Body of Christ; when he hung on that Cross and died, we died with Him. When they took His body down and place it in that tomb, we as part of the Body of Christ, were buried with him. When He rose from the grave, every believer, as a part of the Body of Christ, rose with him in newness of life.
This is where the sin problem was taken care of, this is where the obligation of the Law was taken care of, and this is where death was defeated.
We are no longer bound by the Law of Sin and Death. We have now been set free by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:2)
