Thursday, July 8, 2010
"The Justified" - part 3
Okay then what happens to God's laws? Absolutely nothing: God's laws do not change, or in anyway diminish. As a matter of fact; if anything, they get more profound, and the contrast between God's and man's righteousness is drawn in a clearer Light. Say, How do you mean? Well; once Jesus died on the cross for the sins of mankind, those sins were not removed from all of mankind, but were placed upon Jesus; and those that choose to accept God's gift of forgiveness, can now be removed from the curse of their sin; and thus be viewed by God as if they had never sinned. But all the while, God's perfect law and the violation of His laws are still in place; because God does not change, but man's condition before God has changed. In other words; it is not God who has lowered His standard or regard for His righteousness and laws, but rather it is man who has been changed and transformed into the righteousness of His Son. This is the Wonderful Good News of the Gospel: Jesus has set us free from the bondage of sin!!! It is this bondage that has everyone not covered by the Blood of the Lamb more condemned by the law. Because once Jesus had established a way to be released from the bondage of sin, those that refuse to accept God's Gift, are now faced with a new judgement; not receiving His Gift of forgiveness. So, now God's righteousness and His right to judge man's sin, has just become more defined, because His mercy can not be denied. After all, how much more mercy could He have supplied, then to give His Son! Now, when it comes to our standing in regards to God's law, we are no longer under the law, but rather have been set free from the law and the bondage that it brings to try and fulfill it; however, we have now been established under a new law of Grace, wherein we are subject to the Love that we have been given. Now what judges us is not the law that condemns sin and unrighteousness; but it is the Love of God that will be our judge, and what we have done with His Love that we so freely have been given. Basically what that means is that we are now in bondage to His Love, and have been set free from the bondage of His law! "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. (Romans 7:4-6)
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